By Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — New research has revealed five childhood risk factors that can increase the likelihood of experiencing stroke and heart attacks as an adult, in what researchers say is the world’s largest study of its type. The study, published in the New
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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Brussels has given the green light to Bulgaria’s European Union-funded recovery and sustainability plan. The Balkan country is among the last EU members to get formal approval from Brussels for its plan under the bloc’s €800 billion post-pandemic rescue fund, due to months
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remain without electricity after a fire at a main power plant caused an island-wide blackout that forced the U.S. territory to cancel classes and shutter government offices in the biggest outage yet this year. Wednesday night’s
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business For years, billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been sitting on a mountain of cash. But with stocks at record highs, he struggled to find deals that caught his eye. Now, with many other investors in selling mode, he’s going shopping. What’s happening: Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway just disclosed that it bought
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Nancy Crampton-Brophy wrote steamy romance novels with muscular, often shirtless, men on their covers and titles like “The Wrong Husband.” Some carried a tagline that said, “wrong never felt so right.” But for Crampton-Brophy, life with her husband of almost two decades appeared anything but wrong. She and Daniel Brophy lived
Continue Reading By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press A report from Facebook owner Meta finds a big jump this year in disinformation and propaganda linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The company, which also owns Instagram, says its review also has found an increase in domestic disinformation and propaganda in countries around the world, suggesting that the tactics
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By Donie O’Sullivan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Facebook parent company Meta detailed Thursday an array of shady cyber tactics that it says groups linked to Russia and Belarus are using to target Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. The tactics the groups are using, according to Meta, include posing as journalists and independent news outlets online
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Facebook parent company Meta detailed Thursday an array of shady cyber tactics that it says groups linked to Russia and Belarus are using to target Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. The tactics the groups are using, according to Meta, include posing as journalists and independent news outlets online
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people to their homes. People in China’s business capital have grown frustrated over the government’s effort to contain a spreading outbreak, complaining that
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Europe’s ready to ban Russian coal imports. It’s a big step because it’s the first time the 27-member European Union has shown willingness to touch energy supplies from Russia. And it will cost Russia some 4 billion euros a year. But that pales in comparison to the money Russia gets from
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Air Force delayed its hypersonic missile program by up to a year after “recent flight test anomalies” pushed back the schedule for the weapon’s completion, according to a statement from the Air Force. The AGM-183 Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) was supposed to reach early operational capability, an important milestone
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By Melissa Alonso and Jason Hanna, CNN Electric service restoration efforts were still underway Thursday evening in Puerto Rico, a utility company said, a day after the start of an island-wide outage that left many people in the dark overnight and prompted school cancellations and other interruptions across the US territory. Most customers on the
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business The UK government wants to dramatically ramp up production of nuclear power and wind energy, while also drilling for more oil and gas, in a bid to reduce imports and bring down eye-watering prices. Unveiling its new Energy Security Strategy on Wednesday, the government set out plans to generate 95%
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By Holmes Lybrand and Evan Perez, CNN The FBI arrested two men in Washington, DC, Wednesday for allegedly impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years, giving expensive gifts to federal agents in DC, providing them apartments and offering to purchase a weapon for a Secret Service agent assigned to first lady
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un tribunal turco dictaminó este jueves que el juicio en ausencia de 26 sospechosos acusados de asesinar al periodista saudí Jamal Khashoggi puede ser trasladado a Arabia Saudita, en una medida que podría terminar efectivamente el caso. El asesinato de Khashoggi en el consulado saudí en Estambul en 2018 provocó
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By Megan Marples, CNN Dozens of megalithic jars have been unearthed in Assam, India, at four previously unknown sites, according to a study published in the journal Asian Archaeology. The stone jars range from 1 to 3 meters (about 3.2 to 9.8 feet) tall, according to study coauthor Nicholas Skopal, doctoral candidate at Australia National
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By Issy Ronald and Ben Morse, CNN Tiger Woods teed off in the first round of the Masters on Thursday as he embarked on a remarkable comeback following a car crash in February 2021 in which he sustained serious leg injuries. Five-time Masters champion Woods played in Group 14, alongside South African Louis Oosthuizen and
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By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday in a historic vote that paves the way for her to become the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the nation. The tally was 53-47, with Republican Sens.
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate is on track to confirm President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday in a historic vote that will pave the way for her to become the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the nation. The nomination
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says more government regulation is needed to police the proliferation of cryptocurrency and other digital assets and to ward off fraudulent and illicit transactions. One result would be that users would get documentation of their crypto dealings for use in filing their taxes.
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