By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer Former pro hockey player Akim Aliu has a graphic novel in the works that tells his story and how he overcame racism and poverty. The 32-year-old Aliu was born in Nigeria to mixed-race parents and then lived in Ukraine before the family moved to Canada. Aliu’s allegations three years
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LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas police officer accused of shooting a man to death five years ago while on duty will face a new trial next month after his first trial ended in mistrial. Prosecutors tell the Kansas City Star that Matthew Harrington’s new trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge will begin June
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the push to get U.S. boardrooms to look more like companies’ customers and employees, advocates are finally seeing just how steep the task will be. Boards of directors at publicly traded U.S. companies are much more white and much less diverse than the overall
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL and CARA ANNA Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Heavy fighting raged Thursday at the shattered steel plant in Mariupol as Russian forces sought to finish off the city’s last-ditch defenders and complete the capture of the strategically vital Ukrainian port. The bloody battle came amid growing speculation that President Vladimir Putin
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — War-ravaged Ukraine has received pledges for $6.5 billion more in humanitarian aid at an international donor’s conference in Warsaw. The goal was to get Ukrainians urgent help now while still planning for the country’s post-war reconstruction in the future. Poland’s prime minister announced the donations from
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Alrededor de 14,9 millones de personas en todo el mundo murieron como resultado directo o indirecto de covid-19 en el perÃodo comprendido entre el 1 de enero de 2020 y el 31 de diciembre de 2021, según las nuevas estimaciones de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, casi tres veces
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By Rachel Metz, CNN Business On a recent April afternoon I tossed a few things into a basket at Target — cereal, graham crackers, kids’ sunglasses — then sat down at the end of an aisle filled with beauty items, placed a hand into a box-like machine, and let a robot paint my fingernails. Made
Continue Reading PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has again raised its key interest rate, to the highest level in 23 years, to continue its fight against soaring inflation. Thursday’s hike of three-quarters of a point to 5.75% is the eighth straight increase since June. The bank, which considers high consumer prices a major threat,
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week but the total number of people collecting jobless aid is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. Jobless claims in the U.S. rose by 19,000 to 200,000 for the week ending April 30, the Labor Department
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is poised to give back some of the previous day’s gains when markets open Thursday, one day after the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by half a percentage point as it attempts to tamp down the worst inflation in 40 years. Futures for the Dow industrials lost
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Billionaire Elon Musk has strengthened the equity stake of his offer to buy Twitter with commitments of more than $7 billion from a range of investors, including Silicon Valley heavy hitters like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The Thursday filing also said that Musk is in ongoing talks with other
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN There’s chocolate, and then there’s gianduiotto chocolate. An ancestor of Nutella, the melt-in-the-mouth treat is as rare as it is delicious. Like most renowned Italian artisan chocolate, gianduiotto originates from Piedmont, Italy, where it’s considered the “king of Italian chocolate.” Made of a rich paste consisting of fine cocoa mixed with the
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business When the Federal Reserve decides it’s necessary to pursue the biggest interest rate hike since 2000, you wouldn’t expect a moment of celebration on Wall Street. But that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday. The S&P 500 jumped 3%, logging its best day in almost two years. The Dow rose 2.8%,
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN Amber Heard took the stand again on Thursday, with at times emotional and graphic testimony in her defense against a defamation claim brought by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. In her second day of testimony, Heard described alleged physical abuse by Depp that she said escalated into the couple mistreating each other.
Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is highlighting its support for proposals to route an international rail line through its Santa Teresa border crossing, capitalizing on Mexico’s unease with disruptions along the Texas portion of the U.S. border. Mexico had considered a route through Texas, but in recent days
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid had little reason to hope it could pull off another comeback as the game entered the final minute with Manchester City on the brink of consecutive Champions League finals. But once again faith trumped reason at the Santiago Bernabéu. Rodrygo delivered two goals in
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries decided Thursday to gradually increase the flows they send to the world, even as Europe’s plan to sanction Russian oil threatens to yank millions of barrels off a global market already thirsty for crude. The cautious approach from the OPEC+ alliance — which includes non-member Russia —
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By Carma Hassan, CNN About 14.9 million people around the world died as a direct or indirect result of Covid-19 in the period between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization — nearly three times more deaths than were officially reported. There were 5.4 million Covid-19
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business To buy Twitter, Elon Musk just sold a ton of stock and made a boatload of money on the sale. But because of a US tax law quirk, Musk’s stock sale could give him an enormous tax break. Musk last month sold $8.5 billion worth of Tesla shares for more
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The days of millions of job gains per month are behind us and the US labor market recovery has moved into a new phase, complete with new challenges: It’s not that companies don’t want to hire, it’s that there were nearly two available positions for every unemployed person as of
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