By Andrew Torgan, CNN Get ready for the Christmas crush! New projections say holiday travel is about to roar back with a vengeance. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily.
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan, CNN Get ready for the Christmas crush! New projections say holiday travel is about to roar back with a vengeance. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily.
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By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN The case against Ghislaine Maxwell primarily relied on the testimony of four women who said they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein when they were under 18 — and that Maxwell facilitated and sometimes participated in that abuse, too. Maxwell, 60, had pleaded not guilty to six
Continue Reading By Maeve Reston, CNN As the 14 commissioners of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission drew the state’s new congressional districts over the past week, they pored over maps on Zoom sessions that often stretched late into the night, scooping up census tracts as building blocks to create districts of roughly equal size with a keen
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Target is heading into the final stretch of the holiday season with lots of momentum. CEO Brian Cornell reports that holiday sales have continued to stay strong even amid worries about the new omicron variant. Like its big box rivals, Target has been able to
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Kraft is using its cream cheese shortage as a marketing opportunity. For just a few days this holiday season, a limited number of people will be able to spend $20 on dessert and charge it to Kraft, owner of Philadelphia Cream Cheese. The premise: People who can’t bake cheesecakes because
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By ARITZ PARRA and BARRY HATTON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Residents on the Spanish island of La Palma are daring to hope that a volcanic eruption is over after almost three months. Islanders have endured unnerving daily explosions, earthquakes, rivers of molten rock and a huge ash plume containing toxic gases. The Cumbre Vieja
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin court has ruled that a Russian convicted of killing a Chechen man in Germany capital two years ago acted at the behest of Russian authorities. The Berlin regional court said Wednesday that Russian security services provided 56-year-old Vadim Krasikov with a false identity, fake passport
Continue Reading By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers seeking government-subsidized health insurance for next year have through Wednesday to sign up if they want their new plan to start Jan. 1. It’s the first of two deadlines for HealthCare.gov coverage, with increased financial assistance available through President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief legislation. The last
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has tested a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Mideast. The test Tuesday saw the USS Portland test-fire its Laser Weapon System Demonstrator at the target in the Gulf of Aden, the body of water separating East Africa
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s data privacy watchdog fined gay dating app Grindr $7.16 million for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users’ consent. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority said Wednesday that it imposed its highest fine to date because the
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s data privacy watchdog fined gay dating app Grindr $7.16 million for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users’ consent. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority said Wednesday that it imposed its highest fine to date because the
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business Talk of stagflation has been brewing for months. Now that toxic combination of stagnant economic growth and high inflation appears to have arrived in the United Kingdom. UK consumer price inflation surged to 5.1% in November, its highest level in more than a decade, according to the Office for National
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin court has convicted a Russian man of a killing in Germany’s capital two years ago that prosecutors say was ordered by Russia. The 2019 slaying of a 40-year-old Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity sparked outrage in Germany and inflamed diplomatic tensions between Berlin and Moscow.
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — La variante ómicron del nuevo coronavirus se convertirá en la variante dominante en Europa a mediados de enero, dijo el miércoles la jefa de la Comisión Europea Ursula von der Leyen. Durante un debate parlamentario en Bruselas, Von der Leyen dijo que el bloque se enfrenta actualmente a un “doble desafío” debido
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By Laura He, CNN Business China’s economy is still struggling with real estate woes and fallout from sporadic Covid-19 lockdowns. Throw the global spread of the Omicron variant into the mix and it could be looking at a sharp slowdown next year. Government data released Wednesday showed trouble spots for the world’s second largest economy
Continue Reading Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The State Department says a journalist accompanying U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a trip to Britain and Southeast Asia has tested positive for COVID-19. Spokesman Ned Price said one of the 12 members of the traveling press corps on Blinken’s trip tested positive for coronavirus on
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China has reported its economy slowed in November, buffeted by coronavirus outbreaks, weak demand and supply chain disruptions. Retail sales were weaker than in October and inflationary pressures are complicating efforts to boost growth. The spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics, Fu Linghui, said the global environment was becoming “more complex
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China has reported its economy slowed in November, buffeted by coronavirus outbreaks, weak demand and supply chain disruptions. Retail sales were weaker than in October and inflationary pressures are complicating efforts to boost growth. The spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics, Fu Linghui, said the global environment was becoming “more complex
Continue Reading Associated Press IDI, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has handed down prison sentences for five men accused of being involved in killing a Sumatran elephant and illegally trading its ivory, as local conservation authorities look to protect the endangered species. The court in Aceh on Wednesday sentenced the men for violating Indonesian laws protecting
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