By Martin Savidge and Angela Barajas, CNN A former district attorney in Georgia has been charged after allegedly interfering with the arrest of a man involved in the 2020 shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Former Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson has been indicted on charges of violating her oath as a public officer and
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By ROSALIE MURPHY of NerdWallet Freelancing or consulting can grow into full-time self-employment. But to successfully make that leap, it’s important to begin treating your side gig as a business, including opening a separate bank account, disentangling your personal and business finances and formalizing the business structure. Bookkeeping, which lays out your revenue and expenses
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By ROSALIE MURPHY of NerdWallet Freelancing or consulting can grow into full-time self-employment. But to successfully make that leap, it’s important to begin treating your side gig as a business, including opening a separate bank account, disentangling your personal and business finances and formalizing the business structure. Bookkeeping, which lays out your revenue and expenses
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By Gregory McNamee, CNN Gear up for the latest spacewalk on September 12 with an out-of-this world playlist. Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agency will venture into space to mount a support bracket on the International Space Station for the third new solar array,
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By Keith Allen and Dave Alsup, CNN Authorities are investigating the deaths of four nursing home patients in Louisiana after they were evacuated to a temporary facility on August 27 ahead of Hurricane Ida, in a situation officials described as deteriorating and overwhelmed. “I would not have wanted my mother or grandmother to be in
Continue Reading By Keith Allen, Dave Alsup and Rebekah Riess, CNN Louisiana’s attorney general on Friday announced the state’s justice department is launching a full investigation into the deaths of four nursing home residents who were transferred to a warehouse in the town of Independence on August 27 ahead of Hurricane Ida. Following Ida’s landfall on August
Continue Reading By Keith Allen and Dave Alsup, CNN Four nursing home patients in Louisiana died after being evacuated to a temporary facility on August 27 ahead of Hurricane Ida, officials said, in a situation they described as deteriorating and overwhelmed. “I would not have wanted my mother or grandmother to be in those conditions,” Independence Police
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN An abortion fund that helps hundreds of women in the southernmost region of Texas each year has stopped answering its hotline after one of the strictest bans in the nation went into effect this week. “Our very existence is a risk. The fact that we exist as an organization puts us
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN An abortion fund that helps hundreds of women in the southernmost region of Texas each year has stopped answering its hotline after one of the strictest bans in the nation went into effect this week. “Our very existence is a risk. The fact that we exist as an organization puts us
Continue Reading By MIKE CATALINI, WAYNE PARRY and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Police are going door to door and drawing up lists of the missing as the death toll edges higher from the catastrophic flooding set off in the Northeast by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. At least 49 people in five
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German automaker Daimler has dismissed a “cease and desist” demand from two environmental groups to commit to ending the sale of combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Lawyers for Greenpeace and the group Deutsche Umwelthilfe have threatened to sue Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen unless they sign a legal pledge not to put new
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German automaker Daimler has dismissed a “cease and desist” demand from two environmental groups to commit to ending the sale of combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Lawyers for Greenpeace and the group Deutsche Umwelthilfe have threatened to sue Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen unless they sign a legal pledge not to put new
Continue Reading By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A second child of an Afghan family evacuated from Kabul to Poland has died after eating soup containing death cap mushrooms, which the family had unknowingly gathered in a Polish forest outside their quarantine center. The 6-year-old boy had received an emergency liver transplant but doctors
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says the world and especially urban areas experienced a brief and sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year. It happened during lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic. The World Meteorological Organization released its first
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says the world and especially urban areas experienced a brief and sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year. It happened during lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic. The World Meteorological Organization released its first
Continue Reading By DANIEL COLE, SYLVIE CORBET and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron opened a global summit on biodiversity calling for better protection of the high seas, which largely don’t fall under any national jurisdiction but are threatened by fishing and other human activities. Speaking Friday at the summit in
Continue Reading By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press SANGEH, Indonesia (AP) — Deprived of their preferred food source — the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus — hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers’ homes in their search for something
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca say they reached a deal to end a damaging legal battle over the slow pace of deliveries of the company’s COVID-19 vaccines. The European Commission said Friday that AstraZeneca made a “firm commitment” to deliver a total of 300 million vaccine
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca say they reached a deal to end a damaging legal battle over the slow pace of deliveries of the company’s COVID-19 vaccines. The European Commission said Friday that AstraZeneca made a “firm commitment” to deliver a total of 300 million vaccine
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By Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN A former nurse pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting an intellectually disabled woman in an Arizona long-term health care facility. Nathan Sutherland also pleaded guilty to abusing a vulnerable adult, court records show, at the Hacienda HealthCare facility in Phoenix, where the victim had been living for years.
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