$5M lawsuit filed against association of collapsed Florida building
CNN’s Tom Foreman reports on the possible reasons for the collapse of the 40-year-old building in Florida and the lawsuit filed against the owners.
Continue ReadingCNN’s Tom Foreman reports on the possible reasons for the collapse of the 40-year-old building in Florida and the lawsuit filed against the owners.
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN The four Cuban migrants stepped off the US Coast Guard cutter blinking and looking dazed under the blazing Caribbean sun. They risked their lives to cross the Florida Straits to go to the United States, only to be stopped at sea and returned to Cuba. A team of Cuban officials met
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones, Pedram Javaheri, Hannah Gard and Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologists Widespread drought conditions, long summer days and an intense heat dome will force temperatures to soar to monthly and possibly all-time record high temperatures across the Northwest in the coming days. “This event will likely be one of the most extreme and
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Britain’s beleaguered Health Secretary Matt Hancock has apologized for breaching Covid regulations after being pictured in an embrace with his adviser, with whom British tabloid The Sun alleges he is having an extramarital affair. CNN’s Bianca Nobilo reports.
Continue ReadingBy Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business More companies are bringing workers back into the office — and some employers want to know about vaccination status. Morgan Stanley told employees who work at its Manhattan headquarters that they have to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before returning to the office. The bank also said in a memo to
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A Boy Scout troop searches for shelter, Conan O’Brien smokes weed on air and Tom Brady raps “Hamilton.” Here are the must-watch videos of the week. An explosive examination An explosion detonated around 100 miles off Florida’s coast registered as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake by the US Geological Survey. The blast
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN The Queen has a whopping £369 million ($514 million) budget to refurbish her London pad — a figure that may seem excessive when she spends most of her time at Windsor Castle these days. This week, the Queen’s royal accounts for the past financial year were published, revealing
Continue ReadingOpinion by Bill Carter for CNN Business Perspectives People are making summer travel plans; cheering fans are going to games; and late-night hosts are returning to their studios with live audiences. So is all right with the world? Maybe it’s getting there. Jimmy Fallon is back at 30 Rockefeller Center with a full live audience.
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Britain’s beleaguered Health Secretary Matt Hancock has apologized for breaching Covid regulations after being pictured in an embrace with his adviser, with whom British tabloid The Sun alleges he is having an extramarital affair. Hancock is under fire after The Sun published a story with photographs that appear to show him
Continue ReadingBy Keith Allen and Josh Campbell, CNN With Hawaii close to hitting key vaccination milestones, Gov. David Ige announced Thursday the state will soon begin to relax some of the travel restrictions currently in place. As of July 8, fully vaccinated travelers from the mainland US will be able to bypass quarantine and pre-travel testing
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By Anna Bahney, CNN Business What do homebuyers have to do to get a house in this cutthroat real estate market? Offer sellers a Caribbean vacation? Bid $1 million over the asking price? Pay a competing bidder hundreds of thousands of dollars to walk away? What about buying two homes just to live in one?
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN With federal agencies trying to crack down on passengers who are violently acting out on commercial flights, officials now say travelers are attacking — and even biting — those staffing airport security checkpoints. In new details shared first with CNN, the Transportation Security Administration laid out two attacks on Transportation Security
Continue ReadingFerrari’s latest hybrid supercar, the 296 GTB, can only travel up to 15 miles on its electric motor, but can hit top speeds above 205 mph.
Continue ReadingPeter Valdes-Dapena for CNN Business Ferrari’s newest supercar will be an 818-horsepower plug-in hybrid with a V6 engine that can go from zero to 60 miles an hour in under three seconds. But, even with all that power and speed, Ferrari says this car is mostly about fun. When it goes into production early next
Continue ReadingWedding celebrations were put on hold for most of 2020. That, coupled with plans for this year, is creating a back-log as couples look to book their special day. CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich reports.
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich for CNN Business In his West Hollywood studio, wedding planner Jason Rhee is working around the clock — planning dream weddings for his clients. But up until two months ago, Rhee had no business. Last year, he didn’t plan a single wedding after the pandemic shut down gatherings and events. “My business
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business and Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration extended the federal ban on evictions that was set to expire at the end of June by a month. This is intended to be the final extension of the eviction moratorium, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which issued
Continue ReadingOpinion by Bill Carter for CNN Business Perspectives For the first time since 1993 (aside from a brief period in 2010), Conan O’Brien will not have a late-night television show. The last edition of “Conan” rolls out on TBS Thursday night. He does have something new planned for TV — a series on WarnerMedia’s HBO
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By John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN An unprecedented heat wave worsened drought conditions in Northwest, according to the US Drought Monitor. Record-breaking temperatures in Oregon and Washington dried soil and vegetation further, leading to an expansion of moderate and severe drought in that region. Vast swaths of the West remain in a historic and
Continue ReadingOpinion by Khalid Usman and Bruce Spear for CNN Business Perspectives Probably nothing speaks more to the post-pandemic economic recovery in the United States than the dramatic rise in demand for leisure air travel over the past several months. Since the number of passengers began steadily increasing in March, US airlines have found themselves besieged
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