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Month: March 2024

EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products. The final rule marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled regulations governing tens of thousands

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Gangs unleash new attacks on upscale areas in Haiti’s capital, with at least a dozen killed nearby

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and ODELYN JOSEPH Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs have attacked two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas. Gunmen looted homes in the communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise on Monday. They forced residents to flee as

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Global ocean heat has hit a new record every single day for the last year

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oceans have now experienced an entire year of unprecedented heat, with a new temperature record broken every day, new data shows. Global ocean surface temperatures started breaking daily records in mid-March last year, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, fueling

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Croatia’s top court rules that the president can’t run in the parliamentary election unless he quits

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that President Zoran Milanović can’t run for prime minister or take part in the parliamentary election activities of an opposition party unless he resigns immediately from his current post. He denounced Monday’s court’s decision. Milanović on Friday called a parliamentary election for April 17. But he

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Crafts retailer Joann files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as consumers cut back on pandemic-era hobbies

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fabric and crafts retailer Joann has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as consumers continue to cut back on discretionary spending and pandemic-era hobbies. The Hudson, Ohio-based company said that it expected to emerge from bankruptcy as early as the end of next month. Following

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Trump advierte de un “baño de sangre” para la industria automotriz y el país si pierde las elecciones

urielblanco (CNN) — El expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump advirtió este sábado que, si perdiera las elecciones de 2024, sería un “baño de sangre” para la industria automotriz estadounidense y el país. El comentario se produjo mientras Trump prometía un “arancel del 100%” sobre los automóviles fabricados fuera de Estados Unidos, argumentando que la

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Philadelphia man incarcerated as a teen is freed after more than a dozen years in prison

By Jake Tapper, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — C.J. Rice is a free man, and as of Monday morning the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania officially considers him legally innocent of the crime he was convicted of in 2013. This morning, Judge James Eisenhower, in room 805 in the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, granted the motion offered by District Attorney Larry Krasner

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