By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge says U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham must testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta. The panel is investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies broke any laws while trying to overturn his 2020 general election loss in the state. Fulton County District Attorney
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. futures are falling ahead of a week of quarterly financial reports from retailers as well as government data that may shed light on how American shoppers and businesses are weathering stubborn, four-decade-high inflation. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials slipped 0.5% as did futures for the S&P 500. Oil prices
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German officials are expressing mounting anger at the slow flow of information from Poland about a polluted border river as experts race to discover what killed tens of thousands of fish. Germany’s environment minister on Monday demanded a transparent and full investigation into the cause for the massive fish die-off in the
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By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner have filed an appeal of her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported Monday, amid talks between the U.S. and Russia that could lead to a high-profile prisoner swap. Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the
Continue Reading By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner filed an appeal Monday of her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported, in a case denounced by the United States that could lead to a high-profile prisoner swap. Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the
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Opinion by Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. for CNN Business Perspectives As restaurants, malls and movie theaters fill back up with people, the workplace has remained nearly empty. This is partly driven by how engrained remote work has become in society. People have invested in creating workspaces in their homes, relocated to smaller towns and even
Continue Reading By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Police in Moldova’s capital Chisinau are investigating a string of bomb threats at locations including at the country’s supreme court and its international airport. Police said that the nine bomb threats also targeted shopping centers, hospitals and medical facilities. Monday’s threats follow more
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By Idris Mukhtar, Alex Stambaugh, Mike Saenz and Nimi Princewill, CNN At least 50 people have died and “many” displaced after recent torrential rains caused flooding in northern Nigeria, Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) for Jigawa State said. “When you go around [Jigawa State], we lost about 50 people
Continue Reading LANCASTER, Texas (AP) — The brother of retired NFL cornerback Aqib Talib has been identified by police as a suspect in the shooting death of a coach at a youth football game in Texas. Yaqub Salik Talib is suspected in the Saturday night shooting that killed a man, police in the Dallas-area city of Lancaster
Continue ReadingBy Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new study is offering a dire prediction for the U.S. state of California, where scientists say catastrophic flooding could become twice as likely in the future due to the effects of climate change. Researchers from UCLA and
Continue ReadingBy Mitchell Consky, CTVNews.ca Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new study suggests that Antarctica’s ice shelves may be melting faster than previously believed, which is causing sea levels to rise at a more rapid pace and accelerating the dangers of climate change. The study, published in the
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will visit the U.K. next month for the first time since they returned for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. A spokesperson for the couple said they will “visit with several charities close to their hearts” in the U.K. and Germany. Harry
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germans are facing a new tax on natural gas use that could cost the average household several hundred euros a year and is aimed at rescuing importers slammed by Russian cutbacks tied to the war in Ukraine. An association of gas pipeline operators set the level at 2.4 euro cents per kilowatt
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The most powerful business lobby in the United States is not a fan of the landmark heath care and climate package President Joe Biden is expected to shortly sign into law. “Business Roundtable opposes the ‘Inflation Reduction Act,’ which, among other things, includes tax provisions that would undermine American economic
Continue Reading ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — FIFA has handed out four-year doping bans to two players who tested positive for banned substances during qualifying for this year’s World Cup. FIFA says El Salvador forward Erick Alejandro Rivera tested positive for the steroid clostebol after a 3-0 loss to Canada on Sept. 8 and Sabri Ali Mohamed of
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El famoso escritor Salman Rushdie se está recuperando en un hospital después de ser apuñalado repetidamente en el escenario frente a una audiencia de Nueva York en un ataque el viernes pasado que lo dejó con múltiples heridas graves, dijo su familia. La familia del autor de 75 años —que
Continue Reading GURNEE, Ill. (AP) — Three people were injured in a shooting outside a Chicago-area amusement park’s entrance that sent visitors scrambling for safety and prompted the park to close early, authorities said. Officers responded about 7:50 p.m. Sunday after 911 calls reporting shots fired at Six Flags Great America, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north
Continue Reading By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — British drug regulators have become the first in the world to authorize an updated version of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine that includes protection against the omicron variant, which the government said would now be offered to people aged 50 and over in the fall. In a statement
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi, Alex Stambaugh and Kara Fox, CNN Iran denied any link to the stabbing of Salman Rushdie and cast the blame on the author and his supporters for the attack that left him with life-changing injuries. “Regarding the attack on Salman Rushdie, we do not consider anyone other than [Rushdie] and his supporters
Continue Reading By Kara Fox, CNN The United Kingdom has become the first country to approve an updated version of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine booster that targets two coronavirus variants: the Omicron strain and the original virus from 2020. “An updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna that targets two coronavirus variants (known as a “bivalent”
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