By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s annual investment forum has drawn over a thousand participants, with big-name U.S. financiers and business leaders back on the stage three years after many stayed away following international outcry over the killing of a government critic in a Saudi consulate. In the years
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business The framework on President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion economic and climate agenda calls for paying for the ambitious agenda in part by imposing a surcharge on corporate stock buybacks. The outline for the spending bill, announced by the White House on Thursday, promises that the Build Back Better framework is
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By RIZWAN ALI AP Sports Writer ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan legspinner Rashid Khan is hoping to give the people back home something to remember with a match against Pakistan looming at the T20 World Cup. Rashid didn’t get along well with his country’s cricket administrators after the Taliban took over and the hierarchy of the
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — La fluvoxamina podría reducir, en casi un tercio, el riesgo de enfermedad grave por covid-19 en personas con alto riesgo. Así concluye un estudio publicado en The Lancet Global Health. Un antidepresivo económico conocido como fluvoxamina podría reducir en casi un tercio la enfermedad grave por covid-19, según estudio ¿Qué
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric says nearly all of the 851,000 electrical customers who lost power during the powerful atmospheric river storm that hit California this week have had their service restored. A PG&E statement says more than 99% of customers had power back on by 7 p.m. Wednesday and the remainder
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business When members of the cannabis industry descended upon Las Vegas last week for the biggest trade show in the business, there was something stirring in the air. It wasn’t the aroma of a freshly lit joint, but rather a sense that everything seems to be coming up roses for the
Continue ReadingCNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business When members of the cannabis industry descended upon Las Vegas last week for the biggest trade show in the business, there was something stirring in the air. It wasn’t the aroma of a freshly lit joint, but rather a sense that everything seems to be coming up roses for
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German security officials are warning far-right groups not to carry out vigilante patrols along the country’s eastern border with Poland, amid a rise in the number of migrants crossing the frontier illegally in recent weeks. Extremists groups include the far-right “Third Way” and “Free Saxons” party have been using social media to
Continue ReadingBy Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story WATERFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — An arrested drunk driver ended up breaking glass in a state police cruiser. State police said they saw 31-year-old Angela Negron from Columbia driving erratically on Interstate 395 in Montville. A trooper initiated a traffic stop around 8:50 p.m. on Wednesday.
Continue Reading LEEDS, England (AP) — English cricket team Yorkshire will take no disciplinary action against any of its employees, players or executives despite a report that found one of its former captains was the victim of racial harassment and bullying. Former England under-19 captain Azeem Rafiq said in interviews last year that as a Muslim he
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is debating whether to try to fix a jammed solar panel on its newly launched Lucy spacecraft, en route to explore asteroids. The problem cropped up shortly after the Oct. 16 liftoff from Florida. Officials said this week that one of Lucy’s two
Continue ReadingBy Blake Summers Click here for updates on this story HAZARD COUNTY, Kentucky (WSMV) — A school district superintendent is working to investigate an incident after photos were posted to a school athletic page of students dancing inappropriately with school staff. According to Sondra Combs, the superintendent for Hazard County Schools, she was made aware
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — Police in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos have made one of Asia’s biggest-ever drug busts, seizing more than 55.6 million methamphetamine pills in a single raid. The Vientiane Times newspaper says the drugs were found in sacks in a house in the northern province of Bokeo. It says police searched the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Schott Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — Activists traveled to Lansing on Wednesday to lead a mock funeral procession on the steps of the Capitol building. Mid-Michigan residents who attended the rally hope to prevent construction of an Ajax Materials Corporation’s asphalt plant by demanding the State deny
Continue ReadingBy CBS 58 Newsroom Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — More than five Milwaukee children have accidentally shot themselves from May to October in 2021. Milwaukee police say a 9-year-old boy is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself Tuesday, Oct. 26. Officials say the victim obtained a firearm in
Continue Reading EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — A 19-year-old Northern California man has pleaded guilty to three murders under a plea agreement calling for a sentence of 150 years in prison. Mauricio Eduardo Sanchez-Johnson entered the pleas in Humboldt County Superior Court on Tuesday. The Times-Standard reports that Johnson also admitted three special allegations for use of a
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By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s justice minister says the European Union member should not pay any of the total $1.8 million daily fines the EU’s top court has imposed for Warsaw’s ignoring its injunctions regarding changes to the judiciary and a lignite mine. Zbigniew Ziobro on Thursday called the European
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s justice minister says the European Union member should not pay any of the total $1.8 million daily fines the EU’s top court has imposed for Warsaw’s ignoring its injunctions regarding changes to the judiciary and a lignite mine. Zbigniew Ziobro on Thursday called the European Court of Justice injunctions lawless.
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Gaouette, CNN The Chinese government on Thursday reiterated its long-standing opposition to any official and military contact between the United States and Taiwan in response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s comments that US troops help train the island’s military. Speaking with CNN in an exclusive interview Tuesday, Tsai became the first Taiwanese leader
Continue ReadingCNN By Nicole Gaouette, CNN The Chinese government on Thursday reiterated its long-standing opposition to any official and military contact between the United States and Taiwan in response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s comments that US troops help train the island’s military. Speaking with CNN in an exclusive interview Tuesday, Tsai became the first Taiwanese
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