By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With prices surging worldwide for heating oil, natural gas and other fuels, the U.S. government said Wednesday it expects households to see their heating bills jump as much as 54% compared to last winter. Nearly half the homes in the U.S. use natural gas for
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Wendy’s highly anticipated new french fries are officially on sale — and they’re coming with a guarantee. If you’re not happy with the fries, which have been reformulated to be extra hot and crispy, Wendy’s will replace them with no questions asked. Unsatisfied customers just have to bring them back
Continue ReadingBy Allegra Goodwin, Vasco Cotovio, Sharon Braithwaite and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Relatives of Covid-19 victims have hit out at “deeply upsetting” images of Boris Johnson seen painting while on vacation — just one day after his government was slated for its handling of the pandemic. The photographs appear to show the British Prime Minister painting
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MADRID (AP) — France defender Lucas Hernández is facing prison time in Spain for violating a restraining order. The Bayern Munich player has been told to appear in court on Tuesday so he can be given an order to voluntarily turn himself in to start serving a six-month prison sentence. He will have 10 days
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A former member of the Carson City Planning Commission is appealing the panel’s approval last month of a special use permit for construction of a slaughterhouse along U.S. Highway 50 near the Carson City Airport. The Nevada Appeal reports Maxine Nietz filed the formal challenge on Friday with the Carson
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin has “constructive” relations with the Biden administration and has voiced hope that mutual interests would eventually help normalize U.S.-Russia ties. Putin addressed an array of topics while speaking during a panel discussion at an international energy conference in Moscow on
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin has “constructive” relations with the Biden administration and has voiced hope that mutual interests would eventually help normalize U.S.-Russia ties. Putin addressed an array of topics while speaking during a panel discussion at an international energy conference in Moscow on
Continue Reading MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — More than 10,000 Deere & Co. workers appear ready to go on strike if negotiators can’t deliver a new agreement by the end of the day. The United Auto Workers union has said its members would walk off the job if no deal has been reached by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. The
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN Iron Age Europeans enjoyed foods that are still part of our diet today — like blue cheese and beer — new research studying ancient poop has shown. As a rule, human fecal matter doesn’t tend to last for thousands of years, except in a few specific places such as dry caves,
Continue Reading By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Postal workers are back on the job at a sorting facility in Tennessee, hours after a co-worker turned it into a crime scene. Colleagues say a letter carrier fatally shot a supervisor and manager before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot. Authorities have not described a motive
Continue Reading By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Families of COVID-19 patients are asking hospitals to rethink visitor policies a year and a half into the pandemic that has killed 700,000 people in the U.S. The relatives say they’re being denied the right to be with loved ones at a crucial time. Doctors also
Continue Reading WATFORD, England (AP) — Claudio Ranieri is fully aware of the precariousness of his latest job in the Premier League after becoming Watford’s 15th full-time manager in the last 10 years. He says that is especially the case because he is an Italian and Serie A clubs have a reputation for changing coaches. That doesn’t
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday said President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposals would help alleviate issues in global supply chains that have slowed the global economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. “We are relying on supply chains that were built generations ago. It’s one of the reasons why this entire year we
Continue ReadingCNN, UPS, WALMART, NASA TV By Kate Sullivan, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday said President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposals would help alleviate issues in global supply chains that have slowed the global economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. “We are relying on supply chains that were built generations ago. It’s one of the
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN As congressional Democrats negotiate the size and scope of a budget bill that could significantly remake the social safety net in the United States, a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds 75% of the party’s rank-and-file prefer a bill that goes further to expand the social safety
Continue Reading By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The embattled head of the International Monetary Fund is pledging renewed efforts to bolster data integrity while focusing on the main job of helping countries recover from a devastating global pandemic. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva successfully fought to keep her job following a data-manipulation scandal.
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Dylann Roof’s chances for a new appellate hearing continue to dwindle. Roof is challenging his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday refused to reconsider recusing itself from his appeal.
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is wrestling with how to decide on booster doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Other manufacturers want to offer boosters six months after primary vaccination. But J&J proposed a range of times, from two months to
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is wrestling with how to decide on booster doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Other manufacturers want to offer boosters six months after primary vaccination. But J&J proposed a range of times, from two months to
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Delta Air Lines took the unusual step of publicly disputing a viral rumor spread by an anti-vax podcast, which claimed one of Delta’s pilots recently died mid-flight days after getting a vaccine. Delta said no such thing happened. Mid-flight deaths are rare and airlines are legally required to report them
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