By Alaa Elassar and Holly Yan, CNN At 56, Vicky White was on the brink of retiring from an illustrious career as a corrections officer. “She was a model employee,” said Rick Singleton, the sheriff in Lauderdale County, Alabama, where Vicky White worked for nearly two decades. “All of her co-workers, all the employees in
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Holly Yan, CNN At 56, Vicky White was on the brink of retiring from an illustrious career as a corrections officer. “She was a model employee,” said Rick Singleton, the sheriff in Lauderdale County, Alabama, where Vicky White worked for nearly two decades. “All of her co-workers, all the employees in
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Bad news for guacamole lovers, especially on Cinco de Mayo -— avocado prices are through the roof. Last week, prices for a carton of 48 Hass avocados hit a high of about $78.75 on average, according to ProduceIQ, a digital marketplace for produce buyers and growers, which uses USDA data.
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By Hafsa Khalil, CNN A Virgin Atlantic flight heading to New York’s JFK Airport turned back to London Heathrow after it emerged the first officer hadn’t completed the airline’s final flying test. Flight VS3 was around 40 minutes into the journey on Monday when a “rostering error” emerged, leading to the flight returning to London,
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By Camilo Rocha and Karol Suarez, CNN Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has lashed out at Leonardo DiCaprio, saying it would better for the actor to “keep his mouth shut” after he spoke out about the environmental importance of the Amazon. The rainforest has sustained severe deforestation since Bolsonaro took office and weakened its environmental protections.
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Words by Ivana Kottasová, CNN Video by Sofia Couceiro and Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Pranaiya Oulapathorn used to say her superpower was sleeping. “She would lie down and get ready for bed, and she’d be asleep within a minute,” her husband, Hamish Magoffin, said. Sleep took a big hit when baby Arthur was born in March
Continue Reading Words by Ivana Kottasová, CNN Video by Sofia Couceiro and Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Pranaiya Oulapathorn used to say her superpower was sleeping. “She would lie down and get ready for bed, and she’d be asleep within a minute,” her husband, Hamish Magoffin, said. Sleep took a big hit when baby Arthur was born in March
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By Manveena Suri and Lilit Marcus, CNN Indian low-cost airline SpiceJet is under government scrutiny following an incident in which a plane’s autopilot malfunctioned, causing severe turbulence and multiple onboard injuries. The country’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is looking into what happened on SpiceJet flight 945, which was traveling from Mumbai to Durgapur,
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By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lowered the Covid-19 travel risk for one of the most popular destinations in the Western Hemisphere on Monday. Mexico was moved down a level on the CDC’s scale from “high” risk to “moderate” risk on May 2, along with four
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By Anna Bahney, CNN Business There is no shortcut for saving money for retirement. But some people have found ways to do the hard work faster. Rather than planning to retire in their 60’s, they turbo-charge savings, pare down spending and optimize investments to become financially independent and retire early — a process known as
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By Martin Goillandeau and Luke McGee, CNN A Member of Parliament in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson‘s Conservative Party, Neil Parish, said Saturday he will resign after admitting twice watching pornography in the House of Commons. Parish told the BBC the first time he viewed the explicit material was an accident after searching online for
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Restaurants of all sizes have had a difficult few years — but chains are coming out on top. Several new challenges have made running restaurants and (working in them) even harder than usual, including pandemic restrictions, staffing challenges, supply chain disruptions and increasing costs. About 90,000 US restaurants have temporarily
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By Jason Hanna, Michelle Watson and Andi Babineau, CNN Ottawa police said they arrested at least one person in the downtown area Saturday on the second day of a biker rally in the Canadian capital — bringing the number of arrests associated with the event to at least eight since Friday. Canadian news media, including
Continue ReadingBy Wesli Jones, CNN A mid-air “plane swap” ended with a crash landing, divers captured a jaw-dropping view inside a shark’s mouth and late-night comedians couldn’t wait to joke about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Skydiving 2.0 The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mid-air stunt that ended with a plane crashing in the Arizona desert
Continue ReadingBy Wesli Jones, CNN A mid-air “plane swap” ended with a crash landing, divers captured a jaw-dropping view inside a shark’s mouth and late-night comedians couldn’t wait to joke about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Skydiving 2.0 The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mid-air stunt that ended with a plane crashing in the Arizona desert
Continue ReadingBy Wesli Jones, CNN A mid-air “plane swap” ended with a crash landing, divers captured a jaw-dropping view inside a shark’s mouth and late-night comedians couldn’t wait to joke about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Skydiving 2.0 The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mid-air stunt that ended with a plane crashing in the Arizona desert
Continue ReadingBy Wesli Jones, CNN A mid-air “plane swap” ended with a crash landing, divers captured a jaw-dropping view inside a shark’s mouth and late-night comedians couldn’t wait to joke about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Skydiving 2.0 The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mid-air stunt that ended with a plane crashing in the Arizona desert
Continue ReadingBy Wesli Jones, CNN A mid-air “plane swap” ended with a crash landing, divers captured a jaw-dropping view inside a shark’s mouth and late-night comedians couldn’t wait to joke about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Skydiving 2.0 The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mid-air stunt that ended with a plane crashing in the Arizona desert
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business McDonald’s exit from Russia is costing it a lot of money — and food. The company announced last month that it would temporarily close its restaurants in Russia because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. It also closed restaurants in Ukraine. Those shutdowns cost McDonald’s $127 million last quarter. McDonald’s
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Oscar Holland, CNN “Queer Eye” star Tan France has opened up about bleaching his skin when he was 9 years old, saying that he wanted to appear “as non-Asian as possible.” Discussing his childhood for a new documentary, the fashion guru detailed how he stole bleaching cream from his cousin before applying it in secret.
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