By Eric Cheung, CNN At least 46 people died and dozens were injured after a major fire broke out in a building in southern Taiwan on Thursday, authorities said. The blaze started in the 13-story commercial and residential building at 2:54 a.m. local time (2:54 p.m. ET) in Kaohsiung city’s Yancheng district, according to Taiwan’s
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By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two politically conservative state legislators have become the go-to team of lawyers in Connecticut for groups seeking to sue the state over hot-button issues amid the coronavirus pandemic. Reps. Doug Dubitsky and Craig Fishbein have filed about a half dozen lawsuits over the school mask mandate
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities say that a building fire in southern Taiwan that blazed out of control for hours overnight has killed at least 46 people. Officials said Thursday that at least 41 people were also injured in the fire that engulfed the 13-story building in the major
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Mientras que la tasa de infecciones por covid-19 en todo el país está disminuyendo, los sistemas de salud en algunas partes del país están luchando con las alas de los hospitales todavía llenas de pacientes. En Montana, el estado se enfrenta a nuevos máximos de hospitalizaciones por coronavirus esta semana,
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Story and video by John General The van rumbled through the desert in central California. Scorched Earth from controlled burns lined one side of dirt road we were traveling along. Surely, this van needed new shocks. The 105-degree heat bore down on us as we rounded some brush and came across a barren airstrip. One
Continue Reading By Rob McLean and Chris Isidore, CNN Business The auto industry continues its rush to build factories for production of the massive batteries needed to power electric vehicles. Automaker Stellantis, formed by last year’s merger of Fiat Chrysler and French automaker PSA Group, and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution announced Monday they are
Continue Reading By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Buy now, pay later services are everywhere now, and they’re not just for shopping. You can split travel costs, and even rent, into a series of smaller payments. While BNPL makes it possible to manage a large purchase, it can also make getting into debt that much easier. Like credit
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By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Buy now, pay later services are everywhere now, and they’re not just for shopping. You can split travel costs, and even rent, into a series of smaller payments. While BNPL makes it possible to manage a large purchase, it can also make getting into debt that much easier. Like credit
Continue Reading MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP) — UnitedHealth’s third-quarter performance topped Wall Street’s view, bolstered by the improving performance of its Optum segment. The country’s biggest U.S. health insurer also raised its full-year adjusted earnings forecast again. For the three months ended Sept. 30, UnitedHealth earned $4.09 billion, or $4.28 per share. A year earlier the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Justice Stephen Breyer is not giving up on the Supreme Court. In a wide-ranging interview with CNN on Wednesday, the senior liberal justice expressed caution about some of the ideas raised before the presidential commission studying the Supreme Court, asserted the importance of people accepting
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El juego de la gallina de Steve Bannon, aliado de Trump, con la comisión de la Cámara de Representantes que investiga los disturbios del 6 de enero en el Capitolio está a punto de entrar en una nueva y crítica fase este jueves, ya que se enfrenta a su última
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By CNN Sports staff EA Sports will remove former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden from Madden NFL 22, the video game company announced Wednesday. Gruden resigned as head coach of the Raiders following reports of homophobic, racist and misogynistic emails uncovered as part of an NFL investigation into workplace misconduct at the Washington
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — A trash bin installed next to a bus stop in Jerusalem thanks people for not littering. Drop a piece of trash in, and sensors powered by a solar panel trigger a voice recording. It’s part of an initiative by local residents supported by the municipality. Jerusalem is known for its world-famous religious
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China and Russia are holding joint naval drills off the Russian Far East in the latest sign of their growing political and military alignment. The exercises Joint Sea 2021 kicked off with a ceremony on Thursday in Russia’s Peter the Great Gulf and will run through Sunday. Chinese state media say the
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By Laura He, CNN Business The cost of goods leaving China’s factories is surging by the highest rate on record, stoking fears about stagflation in the world’s second largest economy at a time when it is already grappling with an extreme power crunch and deepening debt woes. The producer price index — which measures the
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The consortium of journalists behind the Pegasus Project investigation into malware from Israel-based NSO Group that provided further evidence that it was used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents has won the top European Union journalism prize. The European Parliament said Thursday that the “unprecedented leak of more
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The consortium of journalists behind the Pegasus Project investigation into malware from Israel-based NSO Group that provided further evidence that it was used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents has won the top European Union journalism prize. The European Parliament said Thursday that the “unprecedented leak of more
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry has warned against what it calls possible “political manipulation” of a renewed probe by the World Health Organization into the origins of the coronavirus. A spokesperson for the foreign ministry said Thursday Beijing would support the U.N. health agency’s efforts but it would “firmly oppose any forms of political
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Al menos cinco personas murieron y 30 resultaron heridas cuando estalló un fuerte tiroteo en una manifestación en Beirut que pedía la destitución de un juez que dirigía una investigación sobre la mortal explosión del puerto de agosto de 2020. La cifra fue confirmada por la Cruz Roja. Además, el ministro del
Continue Reading By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok, an app best known for dancing videos with 1 billion users worldwide, has also become a shopping phenomenon. National chains, hoping to get TikTok’s mostly young users into its stores, are setting up TikTok sections, reminiscent of “As Seen On TV” stores that sold
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