By Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — As extreme weather events such as forest fires and floods become more severe and common thanks to the effects of climate change, experts say that could result in more expensive home insurance in the long term. Morgan Roberts,
Continue ReadingBy Deena Zaidi, CTVNews.ca Data Journalist Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A global helium shortage that began last year continues today and could continue well into next year and disrupt various helium-reliant industries in different ways, from predicting the weather to making semiconductors and detecting gas leaks in
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese soccer club Famalicão has suspended the coach of its women’s team after a leading newspaper in Portugal published accusations of verbal sexual harassment by him of his players at a previous club. Famalicão said that “in view” of the report published by Público newspaper that it was suspending coach Miguel
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Martha C. White for CNN Business After hitting an alarming 40-year high in June, the Federal Reserve’s preferred benchmark for consumer inflation is once again flashing a warning sign about the persistence of high prices. The Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index for August rose by 6.2% from a
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By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Just days ahead of Brazil’s national elections on Sunday, soccer star Neymar Jr. has appeared in a campaign video endorsing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The Paris Saint-Germain forward and Brazil captain appeared on a TikTok video singing Bolsonaro’s campaign jingle in which he lip synchs, “Vote, vote, and press ‘confirm’ for
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Han Xu scored 19 points and Huang Sijing hit two free throws with 3.4 seconds left to lift China to the gold-medal game of the women’s World Cup with a 61-59 win over host Australia. China will play the U.S. for a gold medal on Saturday.
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By JON GAMBRELL and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a Kremlin ceremony Friday to start the process of absorbing parts of Ukraine into Russia by saying he would sign laws to annex them despite international condemnation and protect the newly incorporated regions using “all available means.” The
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a veteran emergency medical worker with New York City’s fire department, police said Friday. Peter Zisopoulos, 34, was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the fatal attack on EMS Lt. Alison Russo-Elling, police said in a news
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street pointed toward small gains before the open early Friday after investors got more ominous inflation data from Europe as they waited for a U.S. government report on consumer spending. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were 0.1% higher and futures for the S&P
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Significantly improving upon the 1994 film, “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire” does more than just add the late author’s name to the title, ambitiously updating the story, introducing a racial component and serving up plenty of sex and gore. Desperate to replace “The Walking Dead,” AMC might have completed
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says it will seek $800 million more in aid from the international community to help Pakistan’s flood survivors. The upward revision comes weeks after the U.N. issued a flash appeal for $160 million in emergency funding for 33 million people affected by the unprecedented floods that have hit Pakistan
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing a senior German lawmaker who called him a “sewer rat,” his lawyer said Friday. Mustafa Kaplan confirmed a report by German weekly Der Spiegel that he had filed a criminal complaint for slander and libel against lawmaker Wolfgang Kubicki on behalf of his client. Kubicki,
Continue Reading By George Ramsay, CNN An investigation is set to be launched in the wake of cheating allegations made by world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, FIDE — the sport’s global governing body — announced on Thursday. On Monday, Carlsen accused fellow grandmaster Hans Niemann of cheating, saying that his rival’s “over the board progress has been
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Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Breanna Stewart scored 17 points and the United States raced out to an early lead to put away Canada 83-43, advancing to the gold-medal game of the World Cup for the fourth consecutive tournament. The Americans will face China, which edged Australia 61-59. The U.S. (7-0),
Continue Reading By Rachel Metz, CNN Business If you’ve ever wanted to use artificial intelligence to quickly design a hybrid between a duck and a corgi, now is your time to shine. On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that anyone can now use the most recent version of its AI-powered DALL-E tool to generate a seemingly limitless range of
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By Katherine Dillinger, CNN The US government is awarding more than $266 million from the American Rescue Plan to expand the nation’s community and public health work force, officials will announce Friday. The plan’s overall investment in community health, outreach and health education workers — totaling more than $1.1 billion — is one of its
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Han Xu scored 19 points and Huang Sijing hit two free throws with 3.4 seconds left to lift China to the gold medal game of the women’s World Cup with a 61-59 win over host Australia. China will play the U.S. for a gold medal on
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, Gregory Wallace and Marnie Hunter, CNN Hurricane Ian is dealing another blow to air travel as it moves up the East Coast. Charleston, South Carolina’s airport has closed, while many airports in Florida are reopening on Friday. The airfield at Charleston International Airport has closed due to high winds from Hurricane Ian,
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