By Megan Marples, CNN You may have a slim chance of traveling to outer space, but at least your name can go. NASA is collecting names to be put on a flash drive and sent into space on the Orion spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch later this year. The initiative is part of the
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business The West is already crushing Russia’s economy. Now a bipartisan group of lawmakers want to limit Vladimir Putin’s access to Russia’s mountain of gold. A bipartisan bill introduced this week aims to ramp up the financial pressure another notch by making it harder for Moscow to use gold to prop
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TONIGHT As snow leaves, clouds will thin this afternoon, bringing some hope for sunshine Friday. Friday night, skies begin to clear, allowing temperatures to plummet into the low teens by Saturday morning. Expect wind chills near zero to start the day. SATURDAY Arctic high pressure early Saturday will keep winds relatively calm, but they will
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By Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya, Julia Hollingsworth, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton, Jeevan Ravindran and Jason Kurtz, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business American consumers are getting pummeled from all sides: Supply chain constraints and high demand mean delays for products and rising costs. Now gas prices are soaring on the back of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, creating an even more bitter cocktail. An early look at how Americans are feeling about the economy
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Instagram is bringing back a version of its news feed that sorts posts in reverse chronological order rather than ranked according to the platform’s algorithms. However, the company said it will leave its algorithm ranking method on by default. The new option, which rolls out to users globally on
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Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business As technology continues to revolutionize the way people live, work and spend, central banks around the globe have kicked off efforts to reinvent their local currencies for the digital era. Now, the United States is the latest to signal “urgency” in researching a potential digital version of its dollar via a
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A ship was found after 107 years underwater, a box of love letters was returned to its rightful family, and a teen trying to rescue a cat from a tree ends up needing rescuing himself. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Submerged for a century Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship,
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A ship was found after 107 years underwater, a box of love letters was returned to its rightful family, and a teen trying to rescue a cat from a tree ends up needing rescuing himself. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Submerged for a century Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship,
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A ship was found after 107 years underwater, a box of love letters was returned to its rightful family, and a teen trying to rescue a cat from a tree ends up needing rescuing himself. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Submerged for a century Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship,
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A ship was found after 107 years underwater, a box of love letters was returned to its rightful family, and a teen trying to rescue a cat from a tree ends up needing rescuing himself. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Submerged for a century Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship,
Continue Reading By Julia Hollingsworth, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton, Jeevan Ravindran, Sara Spary and Ed Upright, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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Nicole Trilivas, CNN Small, intimate and well-placed, a good boutique hotel offers far more than just a place to lay your head. The best, especially those in the charm-filled cities of Europe, exhibit local flavor, distinctive character and a strong connection to the community. While the pandemic may have put paid to many travel plans
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THURSDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Snowfall amounts with this morning’s last-minute data is coming in a little higher. The highest amounts will still be expected in our northwestern counties, but more of us look to end up closer to 2-4″. Most of our accumulation will come with the wave expected tonight. WEDNESDAY EVENING UPDATE: As the storm
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FRIDAY Snow is still falling this morning and will be with us until about midday. Highs will only top out in the low 30’s this afternoon under mostly cloudy skies. TONIGHT Skies will clear up overnight. That, along with fresh snowfall, will send temperatures into the low double-digits by sunrise. Any slight breeze will drop
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By Tim Lister, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Paul Murphy and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Russian forces launched multiple missile attacks on a wide range of targets across Ukraine in the early hours of Friday, striking airfields in the far west of the country and, for the first time, hitting the central city of Dnipro, to which Ukrainians from
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By Jen Christensen, CNN A month after the US Food and Drug Administration delayed key steps toward authorizing Covid-19 vaccines for children under 5, many parents are more eager for the shots than ever. Dr. Daniel Leonard, a pediatric hospitalist who is working on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial for these kids, said people are driving
Continue ReadingBy Jasmine Wright and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden marked the one-year anniversary of signing the American Rescue Plan into law with a trip to Philadelphia, where he celebrated the pandemic recovery plan’s passage with Democratic members of Congress and touted the law’s educational funding at a local elementary school. During his keynote speech
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN America, the “land of the free,” is getting quite costly. Prices for gas, food and housing — which are all necessary expenses — are spiking across the country. Gas prices have risen 38% over the past year, and rising prices in pandemic-related sectors, such as travel and dining, are also expected
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN America, the “land of the free,” is getting quite costly. Prices for gas, food and housing — which are all necessary expenses — are spiking across the country. Gas prices have risen 38% over the past year, and rising prices in pandemic-related sectors, such as travel and dining, are also expected
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