By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Macy’s is warning of a spike in customers who are failing to make credit card payments, adding to the evidence of mounting financial stress on consumers. The iconic department store had anticipated delinquencies would climb following a post-Covid lull. But Macy’s management has been caught off guard
Continue ReadingBy WBZ Staff Click here for updates on this story BEDFORD (WBZ) — Several people were hurt, including one with serious injuries, after a wall collapsed Wednesday morning at a home under construction in Bedford. It happened just after 7:30 a.m. on Dunster Road. Firefighters said one person was critically hurt, another in serious condition,
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Call it a happy accident. According to Rumer Willis, her new daughter’s name was the result of a typo during a text exchange with the baby’s father, Derek Richard Thomas. “We were thinking about the name Loretta, and it was a typo. Her dad and I were texting,
Continue Reading By Hafsa Khalil, CNN London (CNN) — If you’re looking for a rock ‘n’ roll end to the summer, then the Rolling Stones may have you covered. The British rock legends appear to have teased a new album through a fake ad for a glass-repair business placed in a local London newspaper. The cryptic ad,
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — US job growth during much of the past year was weaker than previously projected by a little more than 300,000 jobs, according to new federal data released Wednesday. As part of the agency’s annual benchmark review of payroll data, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised down March 2023’s
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Jaimie Henderson had a single wish throughout childhood: for his father to be able to speak with him. Now a scientist and neurosurgeon at Stanford Medicine, Henderson and his colleagues are developing brain implants that might be able to make similar wishes come true for other people with
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A new study finds the number of gender-affirming surgeries in the United States nearly tripled from 2016 to 2019. That’s a timespan when insurance coverage was expanding. Breast surgeries were the most common type, followed by genital surgeries. The study was published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Network
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to South East Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be able to photosynthesize, with big potential consequences for the world’s forests, according to a new study. Leaves’ ability to photosynthesize – the process by which they make energy
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The number of gender-affirming surgeries done in the United States nearly tripled between 2016 and 2019, a new study shows. The increase is probably due in part to changes in state and federal laws that require insurance to cover such care, in addition to some growing social acceptance of
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Signs have returned to the Tennessee Capitol complex after a judge agreed to temporarily block a new rule advanced by House Republicans that had largely banned them. Wednesday’s ruling came in a lawsuit that was filed after state troopers removed three people from
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have asked that the newest Democratic-backed justice on the state Supreme Court recuse herself from lawsuits seeking to overturn GOP-drawn electoral maps, arguing that she has prejudged the cases. Republicans argue in their motions filed Tuesday with the Wisconsin Supreme
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Colombia llevará a cabo elecciones regionales en octubre para votar por una serie de cargos públicos. Los tarjetones para las elecciones ya están listos, según anunció la Registraduría Nacional. En las elecciones del 29 de octubre se elegirá alcaldías, gobernaciones, asambleas departamentales, concejos y juntas administradoras locales. Los nuevos
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Police in southwest Switzerland are warning that a heat wave has increased the risk of falling rock and ice in the Alpine region, where it’s been particularly deadly this year for mountaineers and hikers. Most of the victims have been foreigners. Valais regional police say a spike
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Ghosn, the former rock star businessman who fell from grace and fled authorities smuggled in a music instrument box, is getting what his dramatic story deserves — a multi-part Apple TV+ documentary series. “Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn” is the juicy real tale
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — “Ahsoka” le da vida torpemente al personaje animado de esta serie, pero acierta tanto en el aspecto y la acción de “Star Wars” que sus defectos –una rigidez general desacelerada por pausas largas y cargadas de contenido– se sienten más pronunciados. Todavía hay esperanza para esta serie que presenta a Rosario Dawson
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Injured North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum plans to have a walk-through of the Republican presidential debate stage and then assess with his campaign if he can do the debate. Burgum hurt his Achilles tendon playing basketball. A campaign spokesman says it’s unclear if Burgum “will be able to stand at
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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani has surrendered to authorities in Georgia to face an indictment alleging he acted as former President Donald Trump’s chief co-conspirator in a plot to subvert the 2020 election. The former New York City mayor is charged with Trump and 17 other people under Georgia’s Racketeer
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s newly all-male Supreme Court reversed course on abortion Wednesday, upholding a law banning most such procedures except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy. The continued erosion of legal abortion access across the U.S. South comes after Republican state lawmakers replaced the lone
Continue Reading By Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — New home sales rose in July from the month before, beating estimates and reaching a 17-month high, as buyers continue to look to new construction as an option in the face of a historically low supply of existing homes. Sales of newly constructed homes were up 4.4%
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is in hospital in Sao Paulo undergoing what a close aide describes as routine health examinations. Bolsonaro has been in and out of hospitals since he was stabbed in his abdomen at a campaign event before Brazil’s 2018 presidential election. The conservative leader
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