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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The company planning to bring President Donald Trump’s new media venture to the stock market soared even further on Friday, as day traders keep piling in. Digital World Acquisition Corp. nearly tripled in the first minute of trading before trading in it was temporarily halted.
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By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN More than 130 Chicago municipal workers filed a lawsuit on Thursday, claiming the city and state’s vaccine mandates are unconstitutional. The workers, mostly from the fire, water and transportation departments, are challenging an executive order by Gov. J.B. Pritzker which requires state employees to be vaccinated for Covid-19. The mandate “far
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Italy’s new national airline, ITA Airways, took to the skies last week, but all is not well on the ground of Italian aviation. Former Alitalia flight attendants protested this week against job losses and pay cuts in a particularly Italian way — by taking their clothes off. At the Campidoglio — the
Continue ReadingCNN By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business If you’ve already started your online holiday shopping this year, you may be seeing a lot more of those three dreaded words every shopper hates: “out of stock.” There were more than 2 billion instances of a product being out of stock online across 18 categories tracked in October
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business President Joe Biden’s vaccine order will force employers to lay off thousands of workers, making the supply-chain crisis much worse, a major business group warned the White House this week. The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, an influential trade group that represents an industry with nearly 6 million workers, is pleading
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business Former President Donald Trump’s planned return to Wall Street is setting off a frenzy. Shares of the shell company that Trump’s new media company plans to merge with surged as much as 284% on Friday, prompting a series of trading halts for volatility. The company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., finished
Continue Reading By Jean Casarez, CNN Convicted killer Robert Durst, who was the subject of the HBO docuseries “The Jinx,” has been charged with the murder of his former wife, according to the Westchester District Attorney’s office. The complaint was filed in Lewisboro Town Court in New York on October 19, district attorney spokeswoman Jess Vecchiarelli said.
Continue ReadingCNN By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Chipotle’s smoked brisket was always intended to be a limited-time menu item. But it’s been so popular that the offering is ending earlier than planned. The company revealed in Thursday’s earnings call that the brisket promotion will end in November, meaning it will just be on sale for partial
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Harlan, CNN For about twenty minutes, Alex Barbosa had his full menu on display — written in permanent marker on peach-colored butcher paper — before he had to start taking parts of it down. “Sorry, ma’am. We’re already out of the burnt ends,” Barbosa, owner of the mobile barbecue trailer Barbosa’s Barbeque, tells
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia’s Serb police have held an “anti-terrorist” drill just outside the capital Sarajevo in a move seen by many as another provocation by the country’s separatist leadership. The exercise was held in the ski resort at Mt. Jahorina, the general area from where the Bosnian Serb military relentlessly shelled and sniped
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Ride-hailing company Lyft says more than 1,800 sexual assaults were reported by riders in 2019, and the number of incidents has been rising sharply in recent years. Lyft posted the numbers in a new safety report. The San Francisco-based company says more than 99% of rides occur without any safety issues
Continue Reading PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s president says she has ordered the expulsion of two Russian diplomats for allegedly “endangering national security and the constitutional order.” President Vjosa Osmani said in a statement Friday that she had asked her country’s foreign ministry “to declare two officials of the Liaison Office of the Russian Federation in Kosovo
Continue Reading By Megan Marples, CNN A dinosaur fossil footprint found about 50 years ago is from a plant-eating dinosaur — not a huge meat-eating dinosaur as previously thought, according to a new study. The footprint, which dates back to the Triassic Period about 220 million years ago, was initially thought to have come from a large
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks edged higher in morning trading on Wall Street Friday and are on track for their third straight week of gains. The S&P 500, which notched a record high a day earlier, rose 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%. Every major
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks edged higher in morning trading on Wall Street Friday and are on track for their third straight week of gains. The S&P 500, which notched a record high a day earlier, rose 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% and the Nasdaq fell 0.3%. Every major
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California is finally getting drenched this week. But experts say the rain won’t be enough to end the drought plaguing the western United States. California’s climate is hotter and drier now and that means the rain and snow that does fall is likely to evaporate
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California is finally getting drenched this week. But experts say the rain won’t be enough to end the drought plaguing the western United States. California’s climate is hotter and drier now and that means the rain and snow that does fall is likely to evaporate
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Friday declared six prominent Palestinian human rights groups to be terrorist organizations, saying they were secretly linked to a left-wing militant movement. It was not immediately clear what the distinction would mean for the groups, most of which also protest rights violations by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. Both Israel and
Continue Reading By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Islamists have launched their “long march” from the eastern city of Lahore toward Pakistan’s capital to demand the release of their leader, who has been detained since last year. Saad Rizvi, the head of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan party, was arrested last year amid
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business The question of who will regulate cutting-edge driving technologies appears to be answered. For years, the US government hasn’t regulated driver-assist systems like Tesla’s Autopilot and GM’s SuperCruise. Automakers can do as they please because there are no standards for these systems. But President Joe Biden’s administration appears to want
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