By Matt Egan, CNN Business Former President Donald Trump’s planned return to Wall Street is setting off a frenzy. Shares of the shell company that Trump’s new media company plans to merge with surged as much as 284% on Friday, prompting a series of trading halts for volatility. The company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., finished
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By Jean Casarez, CNN Convicted killer Robert Durst, who was the subject of the HBO docuseries “The Jinx,” has been charged with the murder of his former wife, according to the Westchester District Attorney’s office. The complaint was filed in Lewisboro Town Court in New York on October 19, district attorney spokeswoman Jess Vecchiarelli said.
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Una caravana migrante denominada “caravana madre” saldrá este sábado desde Tapachula, Chiapas, con destino a Ciudad de México, y la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México (CNDH) pidió medidas para proteger los derechos y la seguridad de las personas que la integrarán. En declaraciones a Radio Fórmula,
Continue Reading By Jeremy Harlan, CNN For about twenty minutes, Alex Barbosa had his full menu on display — written in permanent marker on peach-colored butcher paper — before he had to start taking parts of it down. “Sorry, ma’am. We’re already out of the burnt ends,” Barbosa, owner of the mobile barbecue trailer Barbosa’s Barbeque, tells
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia’s Serb police have held an “anti-terrorist” drill just outside the capital Sarajevo, in a move seen by many as another provocation by the country’s separatist leadership. The exercise was held in the ski resort at Mt. Jahorina, the general area from where the Bosnian Serb military relentlessly shelled and sniped
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By The Associated Press Ride-hailing company Lyft says more than 1,800 sexual assaults were reported by riders in 2019, and the number of incidents has been rising sharply in recent years. Lyft posted the numbers in a new safety report. The San Francisco-based company says more than 99% of rides occur without any safety issues
Continue Reading By Megan Marples, CNN A dinosaur fossil footprint found about 50 years ago is from a plant-eating dinosaur — not a huge meat-eating dinosaur as previously thought, according to a new study. The footprint, which dates back to the Triassic Period about 220 million years ago, was initially thought to have come from a large
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks edged higher in morning trading on Wall Street Friday and are on track for their third straight week of gains. The S&P 500, which notched a record high a day earlier, rose 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%. Every major
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks edged higher in morning trading on Wall Street Friday and are on track for their third straight week of gains. The S&P 500, which notched a record high a day earlier, rose 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%. Every major
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California is finally getting drenched this week. But experts say the rain won’t be enough to end the drought plaguing the western United States. California’s climate is hotter and drier now and that means the rain and snow that does fall is likely to evaporate
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Friday declared six prominent Palestinian human rights groups to be terrorist organizations, saying they were secretly linked to a left-wing militant movement. It was not immediately clear what the distinction would mean for the groups, most of which also protest rights violations by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. Both Israel and
Continue Reading By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Islamists have launched their “long march” from the eastern city of Lahore toward Pakistan’s capital to demand the release of their leader, who has been detained since last year. Saad Rizvi, the head of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan party, was arrested last year amid
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Congress’ top two Democrats were strategizing Friday morning to discuss how to give fresh impetus to their giant domestic legislation. Biden was having breakfast at the White House with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck
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By Shannon Carpenter, CNN The debate over US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg taking two months off to care for his twin newborns has reached the point of absurdity. Fox News personality Tucker Carlson suggested that Buttigieg was “Trying to figure out how to breastfeed.” Conservative political commentator Matt Walsh proclaimed on Twitter that there isn’t
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — Millones de rusos se enfrentan a partir de esta semana a nuevas y estrictas restricciones por el covid-19, después de que una lenta campaña de vacunación, un sistema sanitario desbordado y la desconfianza generalizada en el gobierno se combinaron para sumir al país en su peor momento sanitario desde el inicio
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON Associated Press A bust of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Percy Newton is scheduled to be unveiled in Oakland, California, on Sunday, the first permanent public art piece honoring the party in the city of its founding. Newton remains a divisive figure. Many people still dismiss him as the leader of a
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s unemployment rate for September has dropped slightly to 4%. Iowa Workforce Development reported Friday that the rate declined from 4.1% in August as the total number of unemployed Iowans dropped by nearly 2,000 to 66,100 people. Iowa’s rate left it tied with two other states for the nation’s 17th
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers Millions more Americans are now eligible for COVID-19 boosters, and they can get a different vaccine than their first shots. A number of factors, including the vaccine you started with and when your last dose was, help determine when you qualify, according to recommendations issued Thursday
Continue Reading By Nick Krupke Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — In this Senior Spotlight, FOX 12 highlights a set of twin sisters who star for the Grant High School soccer team. Elle and Liv Frazier have been one in the same since birth. Elle is the oldest, but only by one
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged in suburban New York City with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982. A state police investigator filed a criminal complaint Tuesday at a town court in Lewisboro, New York, that accuses
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