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Month: November 2022

Consumers continue to lack confidence in the US economy ahead of holiday shopping season

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Heading into the all-important holiday shopping season, American consumers still aren’t feeling very confident about the state of the US economy. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index landed at 56.8 in November, up from the preliminary reading of 54.7 measured earlier this month but lower than the 59.9 recorded

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Chicken prices are finally starting to fall. You can thank busy roosters

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Over the past year, as some meat prices have fallen, chicken prices have remained stubbornly high. Strong demand, supply issues and even breeding problems with under-performing roosters kept the pressure on. The supply shortage even had some restaurants, like Wingstop, experimenting with less popular items like thighs. But now conditions

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A neighbor’s call to police on a little Black girl while she sprayed lanternflies exposes a deeper problem, mom says

By Jalen Brown and Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A little girl’s fascination with spotted lanternflies has forced a North New Jersey community to grapple with perceptions of racism and what happens when police are called on Black children. Nearly a month after a neighbor called police to report 9-year-old Bobbi Wilson, her mother Monique Joseph hopes

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US diplomat highlights CNN’s report on ‘unspeakable’ rapes of Iranian activists in detention

By Tamara Qiblawi, Nima Elbagir and Barbara Arvanitidis America’s top diplomat for Iran has highlighted CNN’s investigation into sexual violence that revealed sexual assaults on male and female activists, describing the reports as “unspeakable.” Robert Malley, the US special envoy for Iran, said the the regime would not succeed in its efforts to crush protests

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US diplomat highlights CNN’s report on ‘unspeakable’ rapes of Iranian activists in detention

By Tamara Qiblawi, Nima Elbagir and Barbara Arvanitidis America’s top diplomat for Iran has highlighted CNN’s investigation into sexual violence that revealed sexual assaults on male and female activists, describing the reports as “unspeakable.” Robert Malley, the US special envoy for Iran, said the the regime would not succeed in its efforts to crush protests

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