By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Prices keep rising, and Americans are growing concerned that Washington’s policies won’t do much about them. An early look at consumer sentiment in February shows just that. Sentiment dropped more than economists expected between the first two months of the year, reaching the worst level in a decade at 61.7
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By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Late Monday night, some Peloton staffers noticed they were unable to access work productivity apps like Slack and Okta, which they used regularly on the job. Peloton’s employees had been told about a scheduled maintenance window that might cause service outages, according to one employee, but that didn’t stop
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN The BA.2 virus — a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant — isn’t just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting some of the key weapons we have against Covid-19, new research suggests. New lab experiments from Japan show that
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Newly released testimony from US military survivors of the August 26 attack at Kabul airport has cast doubt on the findings of the Pentagon’s investigation into the incident, which concluded that nobody was hit
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Inventing Anna” transforms a juicy real-life drama about a con artist among the influencer crowd into a fairly inert limited series, in part by giving almost equal weight to the reporter who broke the story. Shonda Rhimes caught lightning in a bottle for Netflix with “Bridgerton,” but her latest creation
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FRIDAY Rain will be off and on throughout the morning. The more consistent showery activity will favor areas closer to the Mississippi River. Temperatures will start out mild and reach the low 50’s early this afternoon. As those showers thin out in coverage, by 3-4 PM, winds will pick up and temperatures will start to
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By Joe Sutton, CNN Actor and comedian Bob Saget had Covid-19 but died as a result of “blunt head trauma,” according to the autopsy report released today by the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office. “It is in my opinion that the death of Robert Saget, a 65-year-old white male found unresponsive in a hotel room,
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Get ready for some California love. Five of hip hop’s biggest names are hitting the stage Sunday for the Super Bowl halftime show. Who is performing Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will headline what is sure to be a rousing rendition of their greatest hits.
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By Brandon Griggs, CNN From Joe Burrow and Matthew Stafford to Eminem and Mary J. Blige, Sunday’s Super Bowl in Los Angeles will feature plenty of famous faces. But the event’s biggest star might be the stadium itself. The NFL’s newest glittering shrine, SoFi Stadium has lured the Super Bowl back to greater Los Angeles
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By Paul P. Murphy and Paula Newton, CNN Online crowd fundraising site GiveSendGo said on Twitter it will not follow a Canadian court order mandating it stop distributing funds to convoy protesters. “Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo,” the company wrote on Twitter. “All funds for EVERY
Continue ReadingOpinion by Tim Calkins for CNN Business Perspectives The Super Bowl is the biggest single advertising event of the year. Companies line up to spend millions of dollars buying commercial time during the game, and they spend months working on the ads, surveying consumers and testing different creative ideas. But unlike most advertising these days,
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Super Bowl commercials are more expensive than ever. But for advertisers, they’re a better deal than ever. NBC — which is broadcasting this year’s game — announced last week that it is sold out of Super Bowl ads, with multiple 30 second spots having sold for a record $7 million
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By Joseph Ataman, CNN Business France has announced plans to build up to 14 new nuclear reactors in a move that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide a buffer against volatile energy prices. President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France would construct six nuclear reactors, and study the possibility of commissioning a further
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By Coy Wire, Dan Moriarty, Bex Wright, Hannah Ritchie and Jack Bantock, CNN Newly-crowned Olympic champion Nathan Chen has told CNN that he still hopes to stand on the podium to celebrate Team USA’s figure skating silver in Beijing. Chen and his US teammates missed the opportunity to collect their medals from the figure skating
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Orr, Pamela Brown and Paula Reid, CNN Worried that a trove of White House records that had been brought to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate contained classified material, a top official in the former President’s orbit warned his aides last fall: Do not touch those boxes. The senior official in Trump’s inner circle did
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By Lizzy Yee and Ben Church, CNN A drugs test controversy that has overshadowed Beijing 2022 is set to rumble on after the Winter Olympics finishes. For now, teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva has won a temporary reprieve — the 15-year-old gets to compete in the women’s single skating competition on Tuesday. But, if she
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By Paula Newton, CNN For two weeks now, Freedom Convoy protesters in Canada have managed to frustrate both law enforcement and political leaders with their unyielding protests against Covid-19 restrictions. Police forces across the country have expressed their reluctance to move in swiftly, saying they prefer to avoid confrontation. The ‘Freedom Convoy’ started as a
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN A man who was told to wear a mask at a well-known Chicago hot dog restaurant threw snow at an employee and shattered the business’ glass door, authorities said Thursday. The Wieners Circle in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood tweeted a surveillance video showing a man standing without a mask in the
Continue ReadingBy Rob McLean, CNN Business CNN anchor Anderson Cooper announced the birth of his second son on Thursday’s “AC360” broadcast. Cooper said his newborn son’s name is Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper. “He was 6.8 pounds at birth, and he is healthy and happy. Even his occasional hiccups are, to me, adorable,” Cooper said during the broadcast.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ.) Last Friday, Daniel Boone Regional Library’s (DBRL) management of Board and Trustees discovered that many employees and representatives of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) took part in union-organized activities. According to the National Labor Relations Board, everyone has the right to form, join, or assist a union.
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