By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street appeared poised for a rebound Thursday during a week of mixed corporate earnings and continued anxiety over inflation. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials rose 0.6%, and the S&P 500 gained 0.7%. Stocks pulled back Wednesday despite comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
Continue Reading By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The next big thing in nuclear power could be tiny — little reactors that are far smaller and far cheaper than the traditional massive nuclear plants topped by giant concrete cooling towers. These new devices generate small but meaningful amounts of electricity that can be enough to power a small
Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal charges accusing him of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart. Patrick Crusius changed his plea Wednesday, weeks after federal prosecutors said they wouldn’t seek the
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El agente de la estrella del fútbol ghanés Christian Atsu dijo este jueves que aún se desconoce el paradero del jugador, desmintiendo la información de días atrás cuando le dijo a CNN que el extremo del Hatayspor había sido rescatado de los escombros de un edificio derrumbado tras el terremoto que
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN CVS is buying a primary care doctor’s network, moving the pharmacy deeper into providing physician services for patients. The company announced Wednesday that it plans to pay $10.6 billion to acquire Oak Street Health, a primary care provider mainly for adults on Medicare Advantage. Oak Street has 160 health care clinics
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN CVS is buying a primary care doctor’s network, moving the pharmacy deeper into providing physician services for patients. The company announced Wednesday that it plans to pay $10.6 billion to acquire Oak Street Health, a primary care provider mainly for adults on Medicare Advantage. Oak Street has 160 health care clinics
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that “a Ukraine that is winning” should become a European Union member, arguing the bloc wouldn’t be whole without his country being an integral part of the EU. Zelenskky made his comments during an address to the European Parliament
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WORCESTER, England (AP) — The Worcester Warriors rugby team is no more. The English club was placed in compulsory liquidation and therefore automatically relegated from the Premiership last year while being pursued for unpaid tax. It was set a deadline of Feb. 14 to provide evidence that it met conditions to compete in the second-tier
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Artificial intelligence is the latest tech flavor of the month. Industry giants Google, Microsoft and China’s Baidu have all had big AI announcements in recent days, as ChatGPT bot mania is taking the corporate world by storm. All of this AI news has helped boost shares of Baidu, Microsoft
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By Angus Watson and Wayne Chang, CNN Australia’s defense ministry will remove Chinese-made cameras from its offices over spying concerns, the country’s Minister for Defence Richard Marles has said. The concerns were raised by Senator James Paterson of the opposition Liberal Party, who said Wednesday that he had conducted an “audit” of Chinese-made security devices
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Nearly 5 million bottles of Fabuloso multi-purpose cleaner have been recalled because there’s a “risk of bacterial growth,” the company said. The company said a preservative “was not added at the intended levels during manufacturing,” which resulted in the growth of Pseudomonas species, a bacteria found widely in soil and water.
Continue Reading By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant’s time in Brooklyn ended early Thursday when the Nets agreed to trade him to the Phoenix Suns, a person with knowledge of the details said. The Suns will send Cam Johnson, Mikal Bridges, Jae Crowder, four first-round picks and additional draft compensation to
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Bed Bath & Beyond has revealed the locations of the 149 stores it’s closing. The new list of closures comes just a week after it announced it was shuttering 87 other stores. Over the past several months, it has closed or in the process of closing about 400 locations, which
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Wall Street is baffled by this economy. The labor market is thriving. US unemployment is at its lowest level since 1969. GDP and retail sales indicate that the economy is still expanding. Yet US manufacturing has likely already contracted into a recession, housing sales have plummeted, tech layoffs keep coming and
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Hong Kong (CNN) — Para China, el nuevo campo de batalla de las superpotencias se sitúa entre 19 y 97 kilómetros (12 y 60 millas) por encima de la superficie de la Tierra, en una fina capa de la atmósfera que denomina “espacio cercano”. Situado por encima de las trayectorias de vuelo
Continue Reading COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Canadian skier James Crawford has edged Aleksander Aamodt Kilde by one-hundredth of a second to win the men’s super-G at the world championships. Alexis Pinturault finished 0.26 seconds behind to take bronze. The Frenchman won the combined race in his hometown two days ago. Crawford trailed the Norwegian Kilde halfway through
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russia has been stripped of hosting the 2025 swimming world championships and Singapore has been awarded the event by the governing body of the sport. Russia had originally been chosen in 2019 to host the event in Kazan. The International Olympic Committee has asked the governing bodies of sports not to
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By Jalen Brown, CNN Black college students have lower six-year completion rates for any type of degree or certificate program than any other racial or ethnic group because of racial discrimination, the high cost of higher education and a multitude of external responsibilities, according to a new Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2023 State of Higher Education study.
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By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN The world of Harry Potter is getting new life. Hogwarts Legacy — the new open-world video game by Avalanche and Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, will be released Friday, to much anticipation. The single-player game has been five years in the making — experts put its budget at $150 million.
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For federal prosecutors, Sam Bankman-Fried could be the gift that keeps on giving. After the November collapse of FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2019, Bankman-Fried unexpectedly gave a series of interviews intended to present his version of events. He was indicted in December
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