By ANNE D’iNNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Target will hire fewer seasonal workers this year and will instead offer more hours to current employees. The move, announced Thursday, is in response to its permanent workers wanting more hours, the company said. About 100,000 seasonal workers will be hired nationwide, the company said
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN, MATTHEW LEE, DANICA COTO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press U.S. officials say the Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti has resigned, protesting large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland as it is wracked by civil strife and natural disaster. Daniel Foote was appointed to the position only in July, following the
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, got a hawk’s-eye view of New York City with a visit to the rebuilt World Trade Center’s signature tower. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio posed for photos
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week for a second straight week to 351,000, a sign that the delta variant of the coronavirus may be disrupting the job market’s recovery, at least temporarily. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week for a second straight week to 351,000, a sign that the delta variant of the coronavirus may be disrupting the job market’s recovery, at least temporarily. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has unexpectedly cut the main interest rate by one percentage point, bowing to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for lower borrowing rates to boost growth. The bank’s monetary committee on Thursday cut the policy rate from 19% to 18% despite an annual inflation rate of 19.25%. Economists generally view
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has unexpectedly cut the main interest rate by one percentage point, bowing to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for lower borrowing rates to boost growth. The bank’s monetary committee on Thursday cut the policy rate from 19% to 18% despite an annual inflation rate of 19.25%. Economists generally view
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN David Robinson has been in Arizona for the last three months searching for his 24-year-old son Daniel Robinson who went missing after leaving a work site in the desert in his Jeep Renegade on June 23. Robinson, who lives in South Carolina, hired an independent investigator and assembled a volunteer
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN David Robinson has been in Arizona for the last three months searching for his 24-year-old son, Daniel Robinson, who went missing after leaving a work site in the desert in his Jeep Renegade on June 23. Robinson, who lives in South Carolina, hired an independent investigator and assembled a volunteer
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN In the months before Mary Johnson disappeared, her sister said she wasn’t herself. Johnson and her husband, who had been living in the home of her sister Gerry Davis in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, abruptly left and moved to Marysville about 40 miles away, Davis said. She rarely answered her phone when Davis
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Personal Birth date: October 7, 1952 Birth place: Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia Birth name: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Father: Vladimir Putin, factory foreman Mother: Maria Putina Marriage: Lyudmila (Shkrebneva) Putina (July 28, 1983-2014, divorced) Children: Yekaterina and Maria Education: Leningrad State
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police have identified a man killed in an overnight shooting this week on a Kansas City street. Police say in a news release that 63-year-old Ernest Gibson died in the shooting that was reported around 12:45 p.m. Wednesday in a residential area several blocks west of the Kansas City Zoo.
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The spectacular run for a once-hot investment has fizzled so much that many have been relegated to the bargain bin. These special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are often called “blank-check companies” because they have no real business other than to hunt for privately owned businesses
Continue Reading By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press STILLWATER, N.Y. (AP) — Veterans are helping with an archaeological dig at the Saratoga National Historical Park that is uncovering evidence from the tide-turning Second Battle of Saratoga. But the vets are getting something out of it, too. Some of them are dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and physical injuries.
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A woman with Down syndrome has lost a court challenge against the British government over a law allowing the abortion up until birth of a fetus with the condition. Heidi Crowter, 26, and two others argued that part of the Abortion Act is discriminatory. Abortions in England,
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is unveiling plans that would require smartphone makers to adopt a single charging method for mobile devices. The EU Commission proposed legislation Thursday that would mandate USB-C cables for charging, technology that many device makers have already adopted. The main holdout is Apple,
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is unveiling plans that would require smartphone makers to adopt a single charging method for mobile devices. The EU Commission proposed legislation Thursday that would mandate USB-C cables for charging, technology that many device makers have already adopted. The main holdout is Apple,
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — An Australian economist arrested when Myanmar’s military seized power in February has made a court appearance in the capital where he will be tried for violating the official secrets law. Sean Turnell had been serving as an advisor to the country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was also arrested when her
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England kept its main interest rate at the record low of 0.1% but warned that inflation is set to be double its target rate by the end of this year largely as a result of a sharp spike in energy prices. The decision Thursday
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England kept its main interest rate at the record low of 0.1% but warned that inflation is set to be double its target rate by the end of this year largely as a result of a sharp spike in energy prices. The decision Thursday
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