By Lisa Respers France, CNN You give aging a good name, Jon Bon Jovi. The rocker and philanthropist turns 60 on Wednesday and the rest of us can keep the faith that we can age as well. His band, Bon Jovi, formed in 1983 and has had hits with songs including “Livin’ On a Prayer”
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN You give aging a good name, Jon Bon Jovi. The rocker and philanthropist turns 60 on Wednesday and the rest of us can keep the faith that we can age as well. His band, Bon Jovi, formed in 1983 and has had hits with songs including “Livin’ On a Prayer”
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s companies added 475,000 jobs last month, the ADP employment report said on Wednesday. That was nearly 90,000 more positions than economists had expected and a sharp reversal from January, when ADP initially posted a surprise drop in jobs. But the better-than-expected February numbers took a backseat to some significant
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had been making himself very clear: To fight inflation, the US central bank would begin rolling back crisis-era support for the economy very soon. But following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Wall Street isn’t convinced the Fed will have the same resolve to aggressively push ahead.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect in the fatal shooting of a North Carolina bus driver has been arrested in Kansas. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police announced Tuesday that detectives found 21-year-old Darian Dru Thavychith through a collaboration with federal and state authorities. Police in Kansas say Thavychith was arrested without incident at a Shawnee gas
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A second Kansas City worker has died from injuries after a trash truck crashed and caught fire. The crash happened Tuesday morning on Interstate 435 in northeast Kansas City. Police say the driver of the truck lost control while trying to exit onto Front Street, and the truck then overturned
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las empresas estadounidenses crearon 475.000 puestos de trabajo en febrero, dijo este miércoles el informe de empleo de ADP. La cifra representa casi 90.000 puestos más de lo que esperaban los economistas y una fuerte reversión desde enero, cuando ADP inicialmente registró una sorpresiva caída en los puestos de trabajo.
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By Betsy Klein and Devan Cole, CNN The White House on Wednesday appeared to downplay its openness to sanctioning Russian oil as a means of punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin. The administration declined to rule it out entirely but said doing so was not in US strategic interests, citing disruptions to the global oil supply
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell said he supports a traditional quarter-point increase in the Federal Reserve’s benchmark short-term interest rate when the Fed meets later this month, rather than a larger increase that some of its policymakers have proposed. But Powell did open the door to a bigger
Continue Reading By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s biggest oil driller says it will commit $250 million to help fund a proposed pipeline that would gather carbon dioxide produced by ethanol plants across the Midwest and pump it underground for permanent storage. Billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources said Wednesday it’s
Continue Reading By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s companies added 475,000 jobs last month, the ADP employment report said on Wednesday. That was nearly 90,000 more positions than economists had expected and a sharp reversal from January, when ADP initially posted a surprise drop in jobs. But the better-than-expected February numbers took a backseat to some significant
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis Click here for updates on this story Poland (CTV Network) — More than half a million people have fled west from Ukraine, their lives turned upside-down in an instant when Russia launched its invasion of the country. Reporting from the main square in Krakow, Poland, CTV News Chief Anchor and Senior Editor
Continue Reading LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman won a narrow victory over her counterpart in England in the traditional Pancake Day race. Whitney Hay of Liberal, Kansas, ran the 415-yard course in 1 minute, 7 seconds on Tuesday. That beat Katie Godof of Olney, England, who ran her race in 1 minute, 10 seconds. The
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Ukraine has reported the use of a thermobaric weapon by Russia during its invasion of the country. “They used the vacuum bomb today,” Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. said Monday. “The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Jack Sweeney, a Florida teen who tracks Elon Musk’s private jet online has a new aviation-themed target: Russian oligarchs and billionaires. The 19-year-old, who rejected Musk’s $5,000 offer to delete his Twitter account, recently launched two new automated Twitter handles — @RUOligarchJets and @Putinjet — following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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By Wayne Sterling, CNN Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to participate as neutrals at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on Wednesday. The decision, which comes as the sporting world continues to impose sanctions on Russia and Belarus following the former’s invasion of Ukraine, means athletes
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KRASNODAR, Russia (AP) — Former Norwich manager Daniel Farke has quit his job as coach of Russian club FC Krasnodar. The decision comes a week after Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine. Krasnodar says the club and Farke “reached a deal to end the contract by mutual agreement” and that the German’s three assistant coaches would leave
Continue Reading By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s biggest oil driller says it will commit $250 million to help fund a proposed pipeline that would gather carbon dioxide produced by ethanol plants across the Midwest and pump it underground for permanent storage. Billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources said Wednesday it’s
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By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin on March 21, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday, with Democratic leaders setting a goal of reaching a final Senate vote by April 8. “There’s no reason to wait on this,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois
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By Betsy Klein and Devan Cole, CNN The White House on Wednesday appeared to downplay its openness to sanctioning Russian oil as a means of punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin. The administration declined to rule it out entirely but said doing so was not in US strategic interests, citing disruptions to the global oil supply
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