By Laura He, CNN Business Global markets fell on Tuesday as investors feared US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan could severely escalate tensions with China. US and European equities followed Asian indexes down as investors weighed the market implications of the trip. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 2.4%, and mainland China’s Shanghai
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business Global markets fell on Tuesday as investors feared US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan could severely escalate tensions with China. US and European equities followed Asian indexes down as investors weighed the market implications of the trip. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 2.4%, and mainland China’s Shanghai
Continue ReadingBy Tara John and Angela Dewan, CNN As the Razoni left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday with the first shipment of grain since the early days of Russia’s war in Ukraine, there were sighs of relief from Somalia to Turkey, Indonesia and China, given how reliant these countries have been on Ukrainian grain
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN A glimmer of relief is emerging at the checkout aisle: the return of discounts. Major retailers — including Walmart, Best Buy and Target — stocked up on merchandise months ago to prepare for supply chain shortages. But now, with extra goods sitting on their shelves, many stores are increasing promotions and
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN A glimmer of relief is emerging at the checkout aisle: the return of discounts. Major retailers — including Walmart, Best Buy and Target — stocked up on merchandise months ago to prepare for supply chain shortages. But now, with extra goods sitting on their shelves, many stores are increasing promotions and
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN A glimmer of relief is emerging at the checkout aisle: the return of discounts. Major retailers — including Walmart, Best Buy and Target — stocked up on merchandise months ago to prepare for supply chain shortages. But now, with extra goods sitting on their shelves, many stores are increasing promotions and
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN A glimmer of relief is emerging at the checkout aisle: the return of discounts. Major retailers — including Walmart, Best Buy and Target — stocked up on merchandise months ago to prepare for supply chain shortages. But now, with extra goods sitting on their shelves, many stores are increasing promotions and
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Congressional Democrats’ climate and health care package is getting a boost from a group of top economists, who wrote in a new letter that the so-called Inflation Reduction Act will lower prices for American consumers amid high inflation. “This historic legislation makes crucial investments in energy, health care, and in shoring
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente and Jacob Lev, CNN Six-time major champion Phil Mickelson and 10 other golfers on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday to challenge their suspensions by the PGA Tour. Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones, who are three of the 11 golfers listed on the
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Kansas on Tuesday will become the first state in the nation to let voters weigh in on abortion since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The closely watched vote offers the first popular look at voter sentiment in the wake of the decision striking down Roe, which eliminated a
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN Many children are returning to schools while coronavirus case numbers are high in most of the United States. Parents and caregivers have a lot of questions about what precautions they should take for their children. Do their kids need to wear masks again? How often should they test their kids? Do
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, CNN As a massive wildfire continues to cut a path of destruction through a Northern California forest, residents are left to contend with lost homes and treasured family items. The McKinney Fire, the largest in California so far this year, broke out Friday afternoon in the Klamath National Forest near the California-Oregon
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Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera and Jamiel Lynch, CNN The co-pilot who fell to his death after getting off an aircraft mid-flight in North Carolina may have been sick and was described as “visibly upset” prior to exiting the plane without a parachute, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation and Safety Board. Two people
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN It was mid-afternoon on a sweltering Saturday when Raj, a laborer from northwest India, started feeling dizzy as he hauled heavy bags of concrete mix and sand on a construction site in downtown Singapore. Temperatures had reached 34 degrees Celsius (94 degrees Fahrenheit), but Raj carried on despite the heat and
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death at the hands of a US drone strike brings an end to his “trail of murder and violence against American citizens,” President Joe Biden said Monday evening. Zawahiri, 71, was a key architect behind multiple assaults on the US, and was “deeply involved” in the
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung, Kylie Atwood, Alex Rogers and Kevin Liptak, CNN US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan as part of her tour of Asia, according to a senior Taiwanese government official and a US official, despite warnings from Biden administration officials, who are worried about China’s response to such a high-profile
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High inflation and energy prices are affecting how much the city of Columbia spends on electricity. The Columbia City Council will vote Monday night, on increasing the 2022 energy budget by millions of dollars.
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN A retired Washington, DC, police officer who was part of Donald Trump’s motorcade on January 6, 2021, told CNN’s Don Lemon on Monday night that the then-President was adamant about going to the US Capitol as the riot unfolded. The comments by Mark Robinson, who has testified to the January 6
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Before he gave the order to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri, President Joe Biden wanted to intimately understand where the al Qaeda leader was hiding. The US drone strike that killed Zawahiri on his balcony in downtown Kabul was the product of months of highly secret planning by Biden and a tight circle
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