BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is prolonging economic sanctions against Russia for six months for failing to live up to its commitments to the peace agreement in Ukraine. The move comes amid concern that Moscow may be preparing to invade its former Soviet neighbor, but is not linked to the tensions. The measures target
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official news agency says the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard force last week launched a solid-fuel satellite carrier rocket into space. Thursday’s report by the IRNA news agency quoted chief of the Guard’s aerospace unit as saying the test was successful. The general says the satellite carrier was made of a
Continue Reading
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Inflation has vaulted to the top of CEOs’ worry list. More than half (55%) of global CEOs fear pricing pressures will stay elevated until mid-2023 — or beyond, according to a survey released Thursday by the Conference Board. Inflation is now viewed by executives as the No. 2 external threat
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Two U.S. science agencies say 2021 was the sixth hottest year on record globally, part of a long-term warming trend. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday released measurements showing how hot last year was. It wasn’t record hot, but the year’s 58.5 degree average is not
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. The problem is that production is not yet at full
Continue Reading
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a young girl died and two adults were critically injured in a Kansas City house fire. The Kansas City Fire Department said in a news release that crews responded early Thursday to the scene. They found a man and woman outside the home suffering from burns. Inside firefighters
Continue Reading
By Katie Hunt, CNN A breeding colony of 60 million fish has been discovered in Antarctica’s ice-covered Weddell Sea — a unique and previously unknown ecosystem that covers an area the size of Malta. The fascinating find shows how little is known about the ocean depths. The vast colony, believed to be the world’s largest,
Continue Reading
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. The problem is that production is not yet at full
Continue Reading
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers may have found a moon that’s completely different from anything in our solar system. It’s only the second space object discovered that may be an exomoon, or a moon outside of our solar system. The giant moon was found orbiting a Jupiter-size planet called Kepler 1708b, located 5,500 light-years from
Continue Reading
By Chris Isidore and Allison Morrow, CNN Business Inflation isn’t just an economic headache — it’s become a political blame game that will almost certainly define this year’s midterm election campaigns. But the cause of inflation doesn’t lie with any single government action or lack of action. And fixing it — that is, bringing current
Continue Reading
By Jason Hanna and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The spread of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant is forcing some US schools to halt in-person learning because of high case rates and teacher absences. The vast majority of schools are operating as normal. But at least 2,141 schools were not offering in-person learning as of Thursday,
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The spread of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant is forcing some US schools to halt in-person learning because of high case rates and teacher absences. The vast majority of schools are operating as normal. But at least 2,141 schools were not offering in-person learning as of Thursday,
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s domestic intelligence service has warned lawmakers that a London-based lawyer has tried to “covertly interfere in U.K. politics” on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle on Thursday sent legislators an alert from the MI5 spy agency alleging
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat has refused to rule out a Russian military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States over Ukraine and NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe mount. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in televised remarks on Thursday that
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Los respiradores N95, el estándar de oro de las mascarillas de filtración, vuelven a ser el centro de atención de la pandemia debido a la variante ómicron de covid-19, altamente contagiosa. A diferencia de lo que ocurría al principio de la pandemia, las mascarillas N95 están ahora ampliamente disponibles, pero el principal
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in morning trading Thursday on Wall Street as investors gauged the latest data on inflation and company earnings. The S&P 500 fell 0.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3% and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%. Industrial companies made solid gains and
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in morning trading Thursday on Wall Street as investors gauged the latest data on inflation and company earnings. The S&P 500 fell 0.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3% and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%. Industrial companies made solid gains and
Continue Reading BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Peace Prize, has issued a very rare admonition to the 2019 winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, over the war and humanitarian crisis in his country’s Tigray region. Abiy partly won the prize for making peace with
Continue ReadingBy Steve Large Click here for updates on this story VALLEJO, California (KOVR) — Pothole problems in one Solano County city are so bad a group of residents is banding together to fill the “tire-busters” all by themselves. They carry shovels and asphalt, and wear safety vests. And now this group of regular guys is
Continue Reading NEW DELHI (AP) — At least five people have died and more than 45 were injured when a train derailed in India’s West Bengal state. Twelve coaches of the train went off the rails and three capsized. Images from the scene show passengers stuck in twisted metal and debris as rescuers rushed to pull them
Continue Reading