By ADRIANA MORGA The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Whether you want to pay off debt, start a rainy day fund or save for a family trip, budgeting is the first step toward reaching your financial goals. Colleen McCreary of Credit Karma says creating a budget is a lot like trying to eat better
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Iraq’s influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are rallying in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone amid a monthslong political crisis. The protesters on Tuesday demonstrated outside the Supreme Judicial Council and parliament buildings, demanding the dissolution of parliament and early elections. Al-Sadr and his political
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By Laura He, CNN Business China is mining and importing more coal as its worst heatwave and drought in six decades hits hydroelectricity, the nation’s second biggest source of power. The country’s crucial Yangtze River has dried up in parts because of extreme heat and scant rainfall. The drought has impacted six provinces along the
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN It’s a summer White House tradition: As soon as the president is wheels up for the beach or countryside, construction equipment begins rolling toward the building. Summertime renovations timed around a president’s vacation are a regular occurrence in the executive mansion. This year, long-sought upgrades to the basement Situation Room, repaving
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TODAY: Another calm and clear start will drop some into the 50s, with more potential for patchy fog this morning. Later today, partly cloudy skies will develop again today with more cumulus clouds by late morning. Overall, it’s a very similar day to Monday, with highs in the mid-80s. TONIGHT: Overnight, clouds will deteriorate, and
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani government is stepping up pressure on former Prime Minister Imran Khan who has been rallying across the country, seeking to return to office. An Islamabad court is ready to launch contempt proceedings over Khan’s verbal threats to a judge at a weekend rally, which could
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El Gobierno de EE.UU. llamó a los estadounidenses en Ucrania a que abandonen el país de inmediato, advirtiendo que Rusia está intensificando sus esfuerzos para lanzar ataques contra la infraestructura civil y las instalaciones gubernamentales en los próximos días. “La embajada de EE.UU. insta a los ciudadanos estadounidenses a salir de Ucrania
Continue Reading By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On the eve of Ukraine’s independence day and the half-year mark of Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, there was increasing unease in the country on Tuesday that Moscow could be focusing on specific government and civilian targets during the holiday. The United States reinforced those concerns
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Gov. Mike Parson has proposed a major tax cut as Missouri is riding high on a record budget surplus.
Continue Reading By EILEEN NG Associated Press PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak lost his final appeal on Tuesday in a graft case linked to the looting of the 1MDB state fund, with the top court unanimously upholding his conviction and 12-year prison sentence. The loss means Najib will have to begin serving his
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By CNN Sport staff “Missed you guys.” Tom Brady returned to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ training camp on Monday following an 11-day leave of absence. It is uncommon for players to leave during preseason training camp and head coach Todd Bowles said at the time that Brady was granted leave to “deal with personal things.”
Continue Reading By ALEXANDRE NHAMPOSSA and TOM GOULD Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — A new offensive by Mozambique’s Islamic extremist rebels in the embattled northern province of Cabo Delgado has increased the number of displaced by 80,000 and undermines the government’s claims of containing the insurgency. The rebels’ drive began on June 5 following a
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The publisher of a controversial new textbook in Poland says it is removing a passage on human fertility that many interpreted as being about in vitro fertilization and which caused widespread offense. The publishing house, Bialy Kruk, said Monday that that it disagreed with the criticism and the “wrong interpretation” of
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By Tara Subramaniam, Masoud Popalzai and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Flash flooding has killed at least 95 people, injured hundreds of others and swept away thousands of homes in Afghanistan, authorities in the crisis-hit country said Tuesday. The deaths occurred across 10 provinces over the past 10 days, authorities said, as the country reels from an
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers river vessel will be named in honor of a civil engineer who worked in the Memphis division before he died of cancer last year, officials said. Corps officials plan to christen the Survey Vessel Chasteen in a ceremony Tuesday on the Mississippi River, the Corps
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — With China’s biggest freshwater lake reduced to just 25% of its usual size by a severe drought, work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to one of the country’s key rice-growing regions. The dramatic decline of Poyang Lake in the landlocked southeastern province of Jiangxi had otherwise cut off irrigation
Continue Reading MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A tropical storm has lashed the northern Philippines with strong wind and rain, injured at least two people and prompted the president to close schools and government offices in the capital and outlying provinces. The closures come just one day after schools across the Philippines held their first face-to-face classes in
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Another significant section of the devastated Beirut Port silos collapsed on Tuesday morning in a cloud of dust. No injuries were reported — the area had been long evacuated — but the collapse was another painful reminder of the horrific August 2020 explosion. The collapse left the
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Dominguez and Raja Razek, CNN Dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago have been revealed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas due to severe drought conditions that dried up a river, the park said Monday in a statement. “Most tracks that have recently been uncovered and discovered at different parts of
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, CNN An Oklahoma County sheriff’s deputy was killed and another was seriously injured after being shot while serving a court order at a residence, officials said. Sgt. Bobby Swartz died from his injuries, and the other deputy is in stable condition after being rushed to the hospital, the sheriff’s office wrote on
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