COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A jury has been selected in the trial of a Missouri man charged with killing his Chinese wife. Joseph Elledge, of Columbia, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Mengqi Ji. Elledge reported his wife missing in October 2019, prompting numerous searches before her body was found in
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid cautious trading ahead of a Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting. Benchmarks in Japan, Australia and China fell, while shares rose in South Korea. Investors were also watching for any action from the Reserve Bank of Australia, which kept its key
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid cautious trading ahead of a Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting. Benchmarks in Japan, Australia and China fell, while shares rose in South Korea. Investors were also watching for any action from the Reserve Bank of Australia, which kept its key
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. is gearing up to provide smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare for new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from U.S. sanctions. In the southern city of Guangzhou, the company teamed up with a Chinese hospital to equip it
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. is gearing up to provide smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare for new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from U.S. sanctions. In the southern city of Guangzhou, the company teamed up with a Chinese hospital to equip it
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Durante el cierre de las escuelas, los educadores hicieron todo lo posible por recrear el aprendizaje en clase a través de internet. Pero, ¿qué pasa con el tipo de aprendizaje que se produce en los pasillos entre clases, o en el patio durante el recreo y después de la escuela? Esas
Continue Reading By Shawna Mizelle, CNN The Senate voted on Monday to confirm Beth Robinson to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, making her the first out LGBTQ woman to serve on any federal circuit court, according to the White House. Robinson, who has served as an associate justice on the Vermont Supreme Court since 2011,
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Business) — Una criptomoneda basada en la popular serie de Netflix “El juego del calamar” se está cotizando a US$ 0 luego de que sus creadores cobraran en efectivo las acciones, robando un estimado de US$ 2,1 millones a los inversores. La moneda digital, llamada SQUID (por el nombre de la serie
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By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. “The entire nation is watching” the Virginia governor’s race, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin told an audience in Richmond on Monday as he urged voters to help him defeat Democrat Terry
Continue Reading By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. “The entire nation is watching” the Virginia governor’s race, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin told an audience in Richmond on Monday as he urged voters to help him defeat Democrat Terry
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN) — El proyecto de ley sobre economía y clima de los demócratas, que tiene un valor de US$ 1,75 billones, podría terminar suponiendo un recorte de las impuestos al 5% de los estadounidenses más ricos, según un nuevo análisis. El marco ‘Build Back Better’ que publicó la Casa Blanca la semana pasada
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By Steve Almasy, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The University of Florida now says three professors who initially weren’t allowed to testify as paid expert witnesses against the state can testify, if they aren’t paid. The university had denied the professors’ requests to testify for the plaintiffs in a voting rights lawsuit. The case
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined a conservative Republican lawmaker’s campaign to investigate books that cover race, gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools. State Rep. Matt Krause of Fort Worth, who chairs the House General Investigating Committee, has written to the state education agency and local school officials to
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — Sí, de acuerdo a la estadística, las camisas que tienes en tu guardarropa han viajado, hasta llegar allí, más de lo que viajarás tú durante toda tu vida. Así lo explica a CNN en Español el Dr. Josué Velázquez, del Centro de Transporte y Logística del MIT, para quien este
Continue Reading By Kyung Lah and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, who was instrumental in arranging the state’s sham election “audit,” announced Monday evening that she won’t seek reelection and will retire from the state legislature in January 2023. “It has been a privilege to advocate on behalf of Arizona citizens in my twelve
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La principal organización científica y profesional de psicología del país, la Asociación Estadounidense de Psicología (APA, por sus siglas en inglés) publicó una disculpa formal a las comunidades de color por haberlas perjudicado al contribuir al racismo sistémico. “La Asociación Estadounidense de Psicología fracasó en su papel de liderar la disciplina
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson has replaced a member of a state commission who was embroiled in a controversy in 2019 over laws governing sexual assault on college campuses. Audrey McIntosh served in a judicial post on the Administrative Hearing Commission. Two years ago, McIntosh’s husband, lobbyist Richard McIntosh, worked to change
Continue Reading By Jean Casarez, CNN Robert Durst, the notorious subject of the HBO docuseries “The Jinx” and now a convicted murderer, was indicted Monday by a Westchester County, New York, grand jury for a separate murder charge in connection with his late wife’s death. Durst was charged last month with one count of murder in the
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The Supreme Court was more than two hours into arguments over a Texas abortion law when Justice Elena Kagan ignited the tension that had been slowly building in the courtroom. “The actual provisions in this law have prevented every woman in Texas from exercising a
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN A US nuclear-powered submarine that struck an underwater object in early October had hit an uncharted underwater mountain, an investigation found, forcing it to head from the South China Sea to Guam for repairs. The USS Connecticut had been operating in the contested waterway when it struck the object on October
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