CNNEE Nota del editor: Wendy Guerra es escritora cubanofrancesa y colaboradora de CNN en Español. Sus artículos han aparecido en medios de todo el mundo, como El País, The New York Times, el Miami Herald, El Mundo y La Vanguardia. Entre sus obras literarias más destacadas se encuentran “Ropa interior” (2007), “Nunca fui primera dama”
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Nikki Haley quiere ser presidente de Estados Unidos. La exembajadora de EE.UU. ante las Naciones Unidas público un video en redes sociales resaltando sus raíces en Carolina del Sur, donde fue gobernadora por 7 años. Argumentando que es tiempo para una nueva generación de lideres en el partido republicano, Haley
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Ford has announced plans to axe 3,800 jobs across Europe, citing difficult economic conditions and its major push toward electric vehicles. The US carmaker said Tuesday that it would cut about 2,300 jobs in Germany, 1,300 in the United Kingdom and 200 across the rest of Europe over the next three
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business When Microsoft President Brad Smith announced in February 2021 that the tech giant had purchased a 90-acre plot of land in Atlanta’s westside, he laid out a bold vision: The company, he said, would invest in the community and put it “on the path toward becoming one of Microsoft’s largest
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar plans to send 10,000 cabins and caravans from last year’s World Cup to provide shelter for survivors of the Turkish earthquakes. The gas-rich Gulf nation says it had always planned to donate the mobile homes. They were needed to help house some of the 1.4 million fans who
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An appeals court has prohibited the Netherlands’ military police from using racial profiling as a way of selecting people for identity checks at borders. Tuesday’s ruling is a victory for two citizens and rights groups who sued the government. The Hague Court of Appeal overturned
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hackers say they have taken down the websites of Bahrain’s international airport, state news agency and chamber of commerce to mark the 12-year anniversary of an Arab Spring uprising in the small Gulf country. A statement posted online by a group calling itself Al-Toufan, or “The Flood” in Arabic,
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, announced her candidacy for president on Tuesday, becoming the first major challenger to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. The announcement, delivered in a tweeted video, marks an about-face for the ex-Trump
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By Jen Christensen, CNN Avian flu has infected a record number of birds and some mammals across the United States, and scientists are keeping close watch. World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday that the risk to humans remains low but added, “we cannot assume that will remain the case.” As with
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By Kate Sullivan, Terence Burlij and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley announced Tuesday in a video that she will run for president in 2024, becoming the first major rival to challenge former President Donald Trump for the GOP nomination. “The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine is again appealing to Western countries for fighter jets. But the United States and its NATO allies and partners are more concerned about Kyiv’s needs for large amounts of ammunition as the war approaches its one-year anniversary. Ahead of the meeting of the Ukraine contact group
Continue Reading By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen stormed a hospital in north Syria where a baby girl is receiving care after being born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home, a hospital official said Tuesday, adding that the attackers beat the clinic’s director. The official denied reports on social media claiming that
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Like many Americans, the federal government is shelling out a lot more money to cover interest payments on its debt after a series of Federal Reserve rate hikes over the past year. The Treasury Department paid a record $213 billion in interest payments on the national debt in the last quarter
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Amazon’s Zoox driverless transportation company has started testing its robotaxi on open public roads — with employees on board, for now. The company said Monday that it conducted an initial run of its shuttle service for workers at its headquarters in Foster City, California on February 11, a key step in
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El audio es a veces confuso, pero las emociones son inconfundibles. “Me llevan para fusilarme. He perdido a mucha gente allí. Recuerden esto: no envíen más gente aquí. Ya es suficiente, quieren matarnos a todos”. Es el último mensaje que enviaría Viktor Sevalnev. Un convicto, que había estado en la cárcel
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Tuesday angrily rejected the Moldovan president’s claims about an alleged plot by Moscow to overthrow her government and accused Moldovan authorities of trying to distract public attention away from the country’s own domestic problems. Moldova’s President Maia Sandu said Monday that the purported Russian plot envisioned attacks on government buildings,
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By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart will return to full-time competition this season — as an NHRA drag racer. The three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion will run a Top Alcohol Dragster for McPhillips Racing for the full 2023 NHRA season. Stewart will be sponsored by longtime partner Mobil
Continue Reading By Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes and Tierney Sneed, CNN Former Vice President Mike Pence is expected to fight a recent subpoena from the special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump’s post-2020 election activities based on the grounds that he was president of the Senate at the time and therefore shielded from the order, sources familiar
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN A Valentine’s Day surprise doesn’t usually include egg and gas prices, but the heart wants what the heart wants, and Wall Street is entranced by January’s Consumer Price Index. What’s happening: Investors will get some market direction clarity on Tuesday morning with the release of key inflation data. And though consumer
Continue Reading By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe they came from China. Maybe from somewhere farther away. A lot farther away. The downing of four aerial devices by U.S. warplanes has touched off rampant misinformation about the objects, their origin and their purpose, showing how complicated world events and a lack of information can
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