By Brian Fung, CNN Business Florida has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether states may force social media companies to host content they would rather remove — setting up a potential landmark battle over digital speech rights and content moderation that could reshape the country’s relationship with the First Amendment. In a petition
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Andy Rose, CNN Preliminary murder charges have been filed against a man arrested in the death of a 2-year-old boy whose body was found in a stolen SUV Tuesday just hours after the child’s father was shot to death, Houston police announced in a news release. The suspect, identified as 38-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business In its efforts to bring down historic inflation and cool the economy, the Federal Reserve has used multiple euphemisms to describe the potential impact on Americans’ jobs, from economic “pain” to “unfortunate costs” and a “softening labor market.” Data, however, doesn’t mince words. The Fed’s latest economic projections, released Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN The US will provide another $2.9 billion in additional funding to combat global food insecurity, President Joe Biden announced at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. World hunger is expected to rise this year, in part because Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further disrupted supply chains and increased food prices
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business In its continued bid to quash high inflation, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised the overnight bank lending rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%. It is the fifth increase by the US central bank in six months and its third consecutive 75- basis-point hike, which will put upward
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed An intricately detailed, 200-plus page civil lawsuit lays out New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case that former President Donald Trump, three of his children, his companies and his business executives defrauded lenders, insurers and other entities. “This conduct cannot be brushed aside and dismissed as some sort of good-faith mistake,” James
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed An intricately detailed, 200-plus page civil lawsuit lays out New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case that former President Donald Trump, three of his children, his companies and his business executives defrauded lenders, insurers and other entities. “This conduct cannot be brushed aside and dismissed as some sort of good-faith mistake,” James
Continue ReadingBy David Goldman, CNN Business US stocks fell sharply in Friday trading as investors continued to worry about even more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve that could land the US economy in a recession. The Dow closed 483 points, or 1.6%, lower in Friday trading, marking its lowest level since November 2020. The S&P
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Prospective home buyers are getting hit by a double whammy of bad news: Prices remain prohibitively high for many consumers, largely due to low supply. Mortgage rates have also skyrocketed to their highest level in 14 years. That is weighing on demand for both new home construction as
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court is allowing the Justice Department to continue looking at documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort. The emergency intervention upends a trial judge’s order over those documents that had blocked federal investigators’ work on the
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TODAY: Wednesday is a mixed bag; we’ll start there. A cold front moves in today, and splits the region in half from north to south by mid-afternoon. This alone will have a big impact on temperatures, with mid-80s likely near Macon, and temperatures once again in the high 90s near I-44. An extra complicating factor
Continue ReadingBy Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, CNN It was not yet 5 p.m. on a Thursday, but the 818 Club restaurant was already packed as Rep. Marcy Kaptur walked around, greeting locals and introducing herself. For a congresswoman in office for nearly 40 years, you would think she would know more patrons in this popular
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The Missouri NAACP has partnered with the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs to hold voter registration events Tuesday, on National Voter Registration day and ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz and Anna Cooban, CNN Business The US dollar climbed to a new two-decade high on Wednesday after Russia said it was mobilizing 300,000 military reserves in an escalation of the war in Ukraine. In a televised national address Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin announced an immediate partial mobilization of Russian citizens and threatened
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN When Rajagopal Raghunathan told family and friends he would be running his first marathon, he didn’t anticipate the twinge he felt in his foot while training a couple months later. Raghunathan pushed through the pain, continuing to run to prove that he was physically and mentally strong. He later learned he
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business Hong Kong stocks hit their lowest level in more than a decade Thursday and other Asian markets also fell after the US Federal Reserve raised rates by 75 basis points and forecast even more hikes ahead, fueling concerns about a recession. The Hang Seng Index fell as much as 2.6%,
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards and Kara Fox, CNN US President Joe Biden said he believes the Covid-19 pandemic is “over,” even as the country continues to see around 400 deaths a day. In a Sunday interview on CBS’ “60 minutes,” the President acknowledged the US still has a “problem” with the virus — which has killed
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Right now, you’re using at least one of your five human senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch, or taste. Animals, of course, have senses too — including a bunch that we don’t have. The senses that exist in the animal kingdom are often a mystery to us, so if you’ve ever wondered
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Right now, you’re using at least one of your five human senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch, or taste. Animals, of course, have senses too — including a bunch that we don’t have. The senses that exist in the animal kingdom are often a mystery to us, so if you’ve ever wondered
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Right now, you’re using at least one of your five human senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch, or taste. Animals, of course, have senses too — including a bunch that we don’t have. The senses that exist in the animal kingdom are often a mystery to us, so if you’ve ever wondered
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