By Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — Macollvie Neel, editor of the Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home on Monday when her doorbell rang. What she thought might be a delivery turned out to be more than a half-dozen police officers. “I looked and there were police cruisers outside my house,”
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Kate, Princesa de Gales, ha celebrado su primer compromiso desde que reveló que ha completado su tratamiento de quimioterapia. Kate, de 42 años, casada con el heredero al trono británico, el príncipe William, reanudó su trabajo organizando una reunión en el Castillo de Windsor este martes. Kate proporcionó la actualización de
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — FIFA has teamed up with the World Health Organization for a campaign to educate the soccer industry about the risks of concussion injuries. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says “concussion is a public health issue of concern.” FIFA is sending a toolkit to all 211 national federations. It’s to help teach at
Continue ReadingKRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk has been released after being briefly detained at Krakow airport in Poland. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says “I was disappointed by this attitude towards our citizen and champion.” Airport border guards said Wednesday that Usyk was protesting after an airline declined to take his traveling companion
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s head office is warning that devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken. EU Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarcic told lawmakers that “we could not return
Continue Reading By Wayne Chang, Eric Cheung, Nectar Gan, Balint Bardi and Kara Fox, CNN New Taipei City and Budapest (CNN) — A Taiwanese electronics manufacturer has said that a tiny European company made the pagers linked to the deadly attack targeting Hezbollah members in Lebanon on Tuesday, as a fresh wave of walkie-talkie explosions rocked parts
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN London (CNN) — Catherine, Princess of Wales has held her first engagement since revealing that she has completed her chemotherapy treatment. Kate, 42 – who is married to the heir to the British throne, Prince William – resumed work by hosting a meeting at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Hadley Duvall says in voiceover that she’s never slept a full night in her life — her
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Wednesday is National Cheeseburger Day, with some of the biggest chains offering some much-needed discounts amid consumer complaints about rising prices. McDonald’s, the biggest company, is selling 50-cent double cheeseburgers when they’re ordered in its app – about 45 cents more than what the chain’s original hamburger cost in
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates aggressively Wednesday, announcing the first rate cut since March 2020. The half-point move paves the way for lower borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to credit cards. It marks a crucial milestone for the central bank’s historic inflation fight, which kept rates at a bruising 23-year high for more than
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By Gregory Krieg and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — A hollowed-out state party apparatus. An off-kilter campaign by the governor. A botched redistricting plan that squeezed out incumbent House members. New York Democrats offered a wide array of excuses for their disastrous 2022 midterms, when Republicans flipped four seats outside New York City on their
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TODAY: We’re partly cloudy, and in the upper 80s today. TONIGHT: We’ll be mostly clear again overnight, with temperatures falling into the low 60s. EXTENDED: Some showers may drift into western counties Thursday morning, but then fizzle to allow for a mostly sunny and dry day. After 6 p.m. storms may redevelop, especially in the
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, Dalia Faheid and Emma Tucker, CNN New York (CNN) — Sean “Diddy” Combs will remain in federal custody ahead of his trial on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges after his lawyers failed Wednesday to appeal a judge’s decision to deny him bail. Prosecutors had argued he was at risk of obstructing
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Tupperware, conocida en todo el mundo por sus contenedores de plástico para almacenar alimentos, se declaró en bancarrota tras años de caída de popularidad y problemas financieros. “En los últimos años, la posición financiera de la empresa se ha visto gravemente afectada por el difícil entorno macroeconómico”, dijo Laurie Ann Goldman,
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This presidential election season has already been marred by political violence.
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Officials say a 10-year-old student attending a Japanese school in southern China has been attacked and a suspect is in custody. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the student was stabbed by a man about 200 meters (220 yards) from the gate of the Shenzhen Japanese School. The motive for the attack
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf and Olesya Dmitracova, CNN New York/London (CNN) — Tupperware, known the world over for its plastic food storage containers, has filed for bankruptcy after years of falling popularity and financial troubles. “Over the last several years, the company’s financial position has been severely impacted by the challenging macroeconomic environment,” Laurie Ann Goldman,
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Google has won a court challenge against a 1.49 billion euro European Union antitrust fine imposed five years ago that targeted its online advertising business. The EU’s General Court said Wednesday it was throwing out the 2019 penalty imposed by the European Commission, which is the 27-nation bloc’s top
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Over the past couple of years, the US economy has wrung out inflation like dirty mop water from just about every sector — except for the housing market, which remains paralyzed by high prices and chronically low supply. But the action that could help solve America’s
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — La semana pasada, las fuerzas armadas rusas iniciaron maniobras en todo el mundo, consideradas como una demostración de fuerza contra Estados Unidos, y el presidente Vladimir Putin dejó claro cuál país considera que está al lado de Moscú. En un discurso inaugural por video, Putin dijo que 15 naciones “amigas” observarían
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