CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business You would think the combination of high inflation, a worker shortage and a talent war would be a winning trifecta for any employee who would like to take home a bigger paycheck next year. And many companies are also reporting strong earnings, if not record ones. “Employees are
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks rose broadly in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday, but remain on track for weekly losses. Technology and communications companies led the modest gains. The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5% and the Nasdaq rose 0.9%. Every major index is on track
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks rose broadly in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday, but remain on track for weekly losses. Technology and communications companies led the modest gains. The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5% and the Nasdaq rose 0.9%. Every major index is on track
Continue ReadingBy Kara Fox, Anna Chernova, Katharina Krebs and Matthew Chance, CNN Russia and Belarus flexed their military might for a third time this week near the Poland-Belarus border, where thousands of people are stranded in deplorable conditions, trapped at the center of an intensifying humanitarian and geopolitical crisis. On Friday, Russia and Belarus held joint
Continue ReadingCNN By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN With the Duchess of Sussex’s photograph plastered across many UK newspapers this week, you’d have been forgiven for thinking you’d somehow time-traveled back to 2019. Reminiscent of the peak media frenzy that engulfed Meghan, this week saw the latest bout in her two-year legal battle against the
Continue ReadingCNN, DIANA By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN With the Duchess of Sussex’s photograph plastered across many UK newspapers this week, you’d have been forgiven for thinking you’d somehow time-traveled back to 2019. Reminiscent of the peak media frenzy that engulfed Meghan, this week saw the latest bout in her two-year legal battle against
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN With the Duchess of Sussex’s photograph plastered across many UK newspapers this week, you’d have been forgiven for thinking you’d somehow time-traveled back to 2019. Reminiscent of the peak media frenzy that engulfed Meghan, this week saw the latest bout in her two-year legal battle against the publisher
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN The upcoming Netflix comedy series “Uncoupled,” starring Neil Patrick Harris, will no longer feature a Latina housekeeper character after an actor publicly criticized the role for being stereotypical and flat. Ada Maris, known for her roles in TV series such as “Mayans MC” and “Nurses” and the 1986 film “About Last
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold another chunk of his stock Thursday after pledging on Twitter to liquidate 10% of his holdings in the electric car maker. Musk sold about 640,000 shares for roughly $687.3 million, according to two filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The sales will help Musk pay
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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold another chunk of his stock Thursday after pledging on Twitter to liquidate 10% of his holdings in the electric car maker. Musk sold about 640,000 shares for roughly $687.3 million, according to two filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The sales will help Musk pay
Continue Reading By RASHID YAHYA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of people from Middle Eastern nations devastated by conflict have been trying to slip into the European Union since summer. They are using a backdoor opened by Belarus earlier this year. Some made it through, sneaking across the EU’s eastern border with
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Soon after Missouri Rep. Cori Bush accused Sen. Joe Manchin of espousing an “anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman and anti-immigrant” position, another House progressive was on national TV with a sharply different message. Manchin, in fact, is not a racist, California Rep. Ro Khanna asserted. The next day, Texas Rep.
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By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Lewis Hamilton had the fastest lap at Friday’s practice session of the Brazilian Grand Prix after his team decided to give him a new engine. The seven-time champion received a five-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race due to the change, making it even harder to
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CNNEE Nota del editor: Claudio Fantini es politólogo y periodista; profesor en las carreras Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Siglo 21; columnista de análisis político en diarios, revistas, radios y canales de televisión de Argentina y Uruguay. Autor de los libros “Crónicas de fin de siglo, “Dioses de la guerra”, “Infalible y
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will hold their much-anticipated virtual summit on Monday evening. The leaders are looking to dial back tensions after a rough start to the U.S.-China relationship since Biden took office earlier this year. The White House is
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper says law enforcement officers shot and wounded a man who allegedly used a pickup truck to ram marked patrol cars at Red Rock Canyon National Recreation Area. Trooper Travis Smaka told reporters the man was hospitalized in stable condition after the shooting a little after 7
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers could be playing football again less than two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19 while unvaccinated. Whether the off-field consequences of this situation on the reigning MVP’s public persona have a similarly short shelf life remains uncertain. Rodgers
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers could be playing football again less than two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19 while unvaccinated. Whether the off-field consequences of this situation on the reigning MVP’s public persona have a similarly short shelf life remains uncertain. Rodgers
Continue Reading MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced $20.2 million in investments in dairy business innovation efforts, including in the Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center in Vermont, that it says will help small dairy farms as they recover from the pandemic. The USDA says a total of $18.4 million is being shared
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Waylon Smithers Jr, the loyal assistant to cantankerous billionaire Montgomery Burns, will finally find love in a landmark episode of “The Simpsons.” The character, who came out in a 2016 episode of the animated Fox series, will be at the center of a gay romance storyline in an episode set to
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