When Jerry Callahan had his first bite of a Sumo Citrus fruit about nine years ago, he knew he’d tried something special. “This is going to go crazy,” he thought. As the group vice president of produce and floral at the grocery store chain Albertsons, Callahan is essentially a produce trend-spotter by trade — and
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New York City police said Wednesday morning they made an arrest in the case of a 65-year-old Asian woman who was attacked Monday in Midtown Manhattan. The individual “was arrested and charged with Felony Assault as a Hate Crime,” the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force said in a tweet. Police previously said the woman was
Continue Reading In his first on-camera interview, Lionel Dyck, the head of Dyck Advisory Group (DAG), told CNN that insurgents in northern Mozambique effectively hold the strategic town of Palma after they staged a complex attack last week. “As I sit here, Palma is lost. Unless something happens, they have lost Palma,” he said, “we continue to
Continue Reading Few would envy Britain’s embattled National Health Service (NHS) workers over the past year. One of the world’s worst Covid-19 tolls has meant grueling shifts, danger, and workplaces full of grief and trauma. But Charles Oti would swap places with them in a heartbeat. A microbiologist by training, Nigerian by birth, Oti has spent four
Continue ReadingTwo “SpongeBob SquarePants” episodes are no longer available on Paramount+ and Amazon because of inappropriate content. One episode, “Kwarantined Crab,” from the show’s 12th season, centers on a virus storyline. “We have decided to not air it due to sensitivities surrounding the global, real-world pandemic,” a spokesperson for Nickelodeon told CNN Business. In the episode,
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is speaking out in defense of voting rights in the wake of Georgia’s restrictive voting law and as other battleground states consider similar actions. The company’s “employees span the United States and as state capitals debate election laws, we believe voting must be accessible and equitable,” Dimon said in a
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President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan is no joke. The huge — more than $2 trillion — proposal he will unveil Wednesday covers an expansive and vital policy area that became a Washington punch line in the Trump administration and resulted in painful dashed hopes for previous presidents. For Biden, infrastructure is about far more than
Continue Reading(CNN Español) — Una parte del alto mando de la Policía de Colombia se desplazó este martes a Florencia, en Caquetá, para investigar el homicidio del exgobernador Germán Medina Triviño, según informó el jefe de la Oficina de Planeación de la Dirección General de la Policía, Ramiro Riveros. Medina Triviño ocupó el puesto de gobernador
Continue Reading French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to tighten coronavirus restrictions on Wednesday as case numbers and admissions to intensive care units soar across France, where the government has been resisting a third nationwide lockdown. Macron will address the nation at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. ET) as he faces growing criticism over his approach to the
Continue ReadingTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the justices got it wrong in 2016 when they upheld the University of Texas’ affirmative action practices, as state officials are now backing a lawsuit against Harvard’s use of race in admissions. “Abigail Fisher was right,” Paxton wrote in a provocative “friend of
Continue ReadingMichigan is emerging as the latest battleground in Republicans’ nationwide push to restrict voting rights, with GOP officials planning to end-run Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s all-but-certain veto of proposed restrictions and progressives beginning to mobilize to stop them. The GOP attempt to circumvent Whitmer relies on a quirk of Michigan law: If Republicans gather 340,000
Continue ReadingMore than two months into his term, President Joe Biden has yet to name a single ambassador to send overseas, putting him behind the pace set by his most recent predecessors and leading to early frustrations among some career State Department officials and big-time Democratic donors. Though Biden has been presented with the names of
Continue ReadingThe British Broadcasting Corporation has moved its China correspondent to Taiwan from Beijing as the news organization comes under increasing pressure over its reporting in the country. BBC News announced John Sudworth’s relocation on Twitter on Wednesday. While the BBC did not elaborate on the exact reason for the move, it said that “John’s work
Continue Reading(CNN) — Demi Lovato está compartiendo revelaciones y no solo en su nueva serie documental, «Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil«. En una entrevista reciente con EW, la cantante y actriz habló sobre cómo terminar su compromiso con el actor Max Ehrich la ayudó a comprender que es «demasiado ‘queer’ (persona que no es heterosexual
Continue Reading(CNN) — Una peligrosa variante del coronavirus ya está causando estragos en otras partes del mundo y un experto advierte que es fundamental que Estados Unidos se adhiera a las medidas de seguridad durante los próximos meses para poder vencer otro repunte de casos y mantener a las personas a salvo. La variante B.1,1.7, detectada
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court will take up a case that could reshape college sports on Wednesday, pitting the NCAA and 11 conferences against a class of student athletes seeking compensation. It comes as college sports raise billions of dollars from ticket sales, television contracts and merchandise and supporters of the students say they are being exploited
Continue ReadingPlayers and staff of NBA team Utah Jazz were left “shaken, but unharmed” after a bird strike forced the plane they were on to make an emergency landing on Tuesday. The travel party had been heading to the team’s next game against the Memphis Grizzlies on a chartered flight but, just minutes into the journey,
Continue ReadingNueva York (CNN) — Donald Trump vuelve a estar en línea. El expresidente y la ex primera dama, Melania Trump, estrenaron un sitio web para atender sus oficinas personales. El sitio web, 45office.com, surge después de que se le prohibiera a Trump entrar a sus redes sociales luego de la insurrección del Capitolio de enero.
Continue ReadingDeliveroo shares fell as much as 30% in the company’s highly anticipated London IPO on Wednesday, wiping out roughly £2.3 billion ($3.2 billion) in market value and dealing a blow to the city’s renewed efforts to attract tech company listings. The stock was last trading at around £3.13 ($4.30), about 20% below the price at
Continue ReadingWith a mix of relief and caution, older adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are moving out into the world and resuming activities put on hold during the pandemic. Many are making plans to see adult children and hug grandchildren they haven’t visited for months — or longer. Others are getting together with friends indoors, for
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