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By CAMERON ROGERS Edmunds Volkswagen’s redesigned 2022 Golf GTI will be arriving at dealerships this fall. It’s the latest generation of the car that pioneered the hot hatch segment when it launched in the U.S. for the 1983 model year. Nearly four decades later, the GTI still stands as a benchmark for sporty performance and
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By CAMERON ROGERS Edmunds Volkswagen’s redesigned 2022 Golf GTI will be arriving at dealerships this fall. It’s the latest generation of the car that pioneered the hot hatch segment when it launched in the U.S. for the 1983 model year. Nearly four decades later, the GTI still stands as a benchmark for sporty performance and
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces. Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces. Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also
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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom beat back a recall election that could have cost him his job, his fellow Democrats in the state Legislature said Wednesday that they will push for changes to make it more difficult to challenge a sitting governor. That could include
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom beat back a recall election that could have cost him his job, his fellow Democrats in the state Legislature said Wednesday that they will push for changes to make it more difficult to challenge a sitting governor. That could include
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN Business One of the world’s top gambling hubs may be staring at a dramatic overhaul — and investors are worried. On Tuesday, Macao announced a 45-day public consultation that observers fear will lead to tighter regulations on the lucrative gambling industry in an extension of the recent crackdown on private business
Continue Reading By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Infections following monsoon rains have led to a fever outbreak in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, killing at least 114 people in the past three weeks, health officials said Wednesday. The state’s Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh told The Associated Press that most cases were caused
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Mariana Toro (CNN) — Estados Unidos ha alcanzado otro hito sombrío en su lucha contra la devastadora pandemia de covid-19: 1 de cada 500 estadounidenses ha muerto de coronavirus desde la primera infección reportada en el país. Hasta el martes por la noche, 663.913 personas en EE.UU. habían muerto de covid-19, según datos de la
Continue ReadingBy Charles Riley, CNN Business Instagram says it’s looking at new ways to discourage users from focusing on their physical appearance after The Wall Street Journal revealed that Facebook researchers have repeatedly found that the photo-sharing platform is toxic for teen girls. The newspaper reported on Tuesday that researchers at Facebook, which purchased Instagram in
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN Business UK inflation rose at the fastest rate in at least 24 years in August as the price of transportation, restaurant meals and used cars spiked dramatically. The annual rate of inflation rose by 3.2% in August, up from 2% in the 12 months to July, Britain’s Office for National Statistics
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran Wednesday resumed commercial flights to Afghanistan that had been halted after the Taliban assumed power, news agencies reported. The semiofficial Fars news agency reported that a charter return flight transported passengers from Tehran to Kabul. It said a second flight from northeastern city of Mashhad left for Kabul, too. The
Continue Reading By GEORGIA ROSE of NerdWallet A rise in freelancing, coupled with an increasing interest in flexible employment from millennial and Gen Z workers, could signal a change in how Americans build and calculate life insurance plans. For example, the group life insurance policies offered by employers are not available to self-employed workers, forcing freelancers to
Continue Reading By GEORGIA ROSE of NerdWallet A rise in freelancing, coupled with an increasing interest in flexible employment from millennial and Gen Z workers, could signal a change in how Americans build and calculate life insurance plans. For example, the group life insurance policies offered by employers are not available to self-employed workers, forcing freelancers to
Continue Reading ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian authorities arrested a prominent journalist and a Berber linguist this week as part of what appears to be a growing crackdown on dissent in the Kabylie region. Both are accused of belonging to the Kabyle Autonomy Movement, a group supporting the Kabyle minority that the Algerian government considers a terrorist
Continue Reading By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia kicked off a new national holiday on Wednesday with a display of military power and calls for all ethnic Serbs in the Balkans to unite under one flag, triggering unease among its neighbors decades after similar calls led to the bloody wars of the 1990s.
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Immigration is a side issue in this year’s German election campaign, but that hasn’t stopped the country’s biggest far-right party from trying to play it up. “Cologne, Kassel or Konstanz can’t cope with more Kabul,” Alternative for Germany declared on one of its posters ahead of the
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Migration is a side issue in this year’s German election campaign, but that hasn’t stopped the country’s biggest far-right party from trying to play it up. “Cologne, Kassel or Konstanz can’t cope with more Kabul,” Alternative for Germany declared on one of its election posters — a
Continue Reading olivertapia Seúl, Corea del Sur (CNN) — Tanto Corea del Norte como Corea del Sur probaron misiles balísticos el miércoles, aumentando las tensiones exponencialmente en lo que ya era una de las regiones más volátiles del planeta. Pyongyang disparó los primeros misiles el miércoles, enviando dos de ellos a las aguas de la costa este
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s most powerful politician says the country’s future is in the European Union and that there will be “no Polexit,” but that Poland at the same time wishes to remain a “sovereign” country. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is the head of the governing conservative Law and Justice
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