By Michelle Toh and CNN’s Bejiing bureau Chinese food delivery service Meituan has sent almost 1,000 extra workers to Shanghai to help supply groceries to millions of residents struggling with life under a strict Covid lockdown. The company announced Thursday that it had rolled out a host of new measures in China’s financial hub, where
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc was fastest in the second practice session for the Australian Grand Prix and Formula One champion Max Verstappen was right behind in second. Leclerc had a time of 1 minute, 18.978 seconds on the revamped Albert Park layout. Verstappen was .245 seconds behind in his Red Bull
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The succession of Ketanji Brown Jackson, age 51, for Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, will add a shot of youthfulness to the Supreme Court and may present an opportunity for a reset at an institution whose reputation has slipped. Five of the nine justices will be
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By Jeremy Herb, Ellie Kaufman and Barbara Starr, CNN The top US military general this week endorsed creating permanent US bases in Eastern Europe as a response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, saying that American bases on NATO’s eastern flank would act as a deterrent to Moscow. The comments from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
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BANGKOK (AP) — Foreign business groups in Myanmar are raising concerns about new rules requiring businesses and individuals to convert all foreign currency holdings into the local currency. A statement issued Friday by the American Chamber of Commerce and other similar groups says the new regulations issued by the central bank earlier this week “effectively
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN Emperor penguins releasing millions of micro-bubbles from their feathers, children’s dresses hanging on a laundry line on a porch in Puerto Rico, and students standing among fountains in Kyiv are all works by National Geographic photographers that are on sale to support Ukraine. The flash print sale, which will run until
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed sanctions on two adult daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a new package of measures targeting Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, according to two EU officials. The EU included Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova in
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv Las protestas en Perú muestran el amplio impacto de la guerra de Putin. Ketanji Brown Jackson será la primera mujer negra en la Corte Suprema de Justicia de EE.UU. Rusia cambió de curso. ¿Cuál es el plan de Putin para el este de Ucrania? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el
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Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) — La pandemia de coronavirus llevó a muchos a hacer balance de sus vidas y Laura Pausini no fue la excepción. Al comienzo del encierro obligatorio por un virus que no ha dado tregua desde marzo de 2020, Pausini escribió una historia: ¿en quién se hubiese convertido si no hubiese
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History was made Thursday when Ketanji Brown Jackson became the country’s first Black woman to be a Supreme Court justice.
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FRIDAY Showers and even a few snowflakes mixing in will stubbornly stay with us this morning. We’ll switch over to all rain after midday but they’ll be off and on until this evening. Temperatures will only reach the low to mid 40’s this afternoon. TONIGHT Clouds will take off as winds settle down. Temperatures
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By Laura He, CNN Business China’s unwavering commitment to stamping out Covid by locking down big cities such as Shanghai threatens to deal a hefty shock to its vast economy, place more strain on global supply chains and further fuel inflation. Shanghai — home to China’s leading financial center and some of its largest sea
Continue Reading MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc led the second practice session for Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix with defending series champion and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen second-fastest. Leclerc had a time of 1 minute, 18.978 seconds on the revamped Albert Park layout with Verstappen .245 seconds behind. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who led after the
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By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing bureau A pet dog was beaten to death by a health worker in Shanghai in an incident that sparked fury online, offering a glimpse into the growing frustrations of locked-down residents in China’s Covid-19 hotspot. A video of the beating at a residential compound in the Pudong district of
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mostly higher as investors eye the war in Ukraine and what the world’s central banks might do to keep inflation in check. Benchmarks fell in morning trading but rose later in the afternoon in Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney. In China, shares fell in
Continue Reading By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer The 18th edition of the Green Grand Prix is Friday at Watkins Glen International, and for the first time drivers are scheduled to run the famed Boot section. The Green Grand Prix is a celebration of sustainable transportation that promotes awareness of environmentally friendly vehicles. Billed as the only
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Nobody knows for certain where the NBA will be in 25 years, when it’ll be celebrating its 100th anniversary. The only safe bet is that things will be very, very different. A play-in tournament was added in recent years. An in-season tournament is probably coming in the next couple
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Of all the 6,576 shots that were officially struck at Augusta National on Day 1 of the Masters, only one truly mattered. It didn’t go in the hole. It wasn’t down the center of the fairway. Nothing special about it at all, really. Except for
Continue Reading By AMANDA SEITZ, MIKE CATALINI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” TV star, a Paralympic swimmer and a self-described “brand king” were among the Instagram and TikTok influencers who were paid by Chinese officials for a discreet campaign that promoted the Beijing Winter Olympics, new Justice Department
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