By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business DoorDash customers can now get national shipping from Carbone, Katz’s Deli and other restaurants across the country. Here’s how it works: DoorDash and Caviar users will see a “Nationwide Shipping” carousel in their apps. Once they click through, they can select what they want from participating restaurants. They can then
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world. While Europe shares values with the U.S., none of the big tech companies that dominate online
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world. While Europe shares values with the U.S., none of the big tech companies that dominate online
Continue ReadingCNN By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Facebook said Tuesday it plans to stop using facial-recognition software that could automatically recognize people in photos and videos posted on the social network, marking a massive shift both for the tech industry and for a company known for collecting vast amounts of data about its billions of users.
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Kylie Jenner took to social media Sunday to comment on the tragedy at her partner Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival in Houston. At least eight people died and 300 more were left injured after a crowd surge during Scott’s performance at the festival on Friday. “Travis and I are broken and devastated.
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A trial is underway for a Kansas City, Missouri, police officer accused of involuntary manslaughter in a 2019 shooting — the first time that a white officer from the city has been criminally accused of killing a Black man. Officer Eric J. DeValkenaere also is charged with armed criminal action
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former San Diego Padres manager Jayce Tingler has been hired as bench coach of the Minnesota Twins. David Popkins will also be Minnesota’s new hitting coach. The 40-year-old Tingler went 116-106 over two seasons with the Padres. They made the playoffs in 2020. They collapsed down the stretch this year, resulting in
Continue Reading By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Eight years after he shot dead his girlfriend, Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is up for parole, but first he must meet with her parents. A parole hearing for Oscar Pistorius was scheduled for last month and then canceled. The cancelation was partly because a
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Tens of thousands have rallied in Azerbaijan’s capital to mark the one year anniversary of the country’s victory in the six-week battle over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev declared Nov. 8 as Victory Day to mark the capture of the strategic city of Shusha by Azerbaijani forces. The city’s capture forced Armenia
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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Eight years after he shot dead his girlfriend, Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is up for parole, but first he must meet with her parents. A parole hearing for Oscar Pistorius was scheduled for last month and then canceled. The cancelation was partly because a
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Chris Isidore and Jill Disis, CNN Business Elon Musk sold roughly $5 billion worth of Tesla shares this week — his first such sale since 2016 — just days after conducting a Twitter poll asking his fans if he should dispose of 10% of his stake in the electric carmaker. According to
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Se espera que esta semana Pfizer solicite la autorización de uso de emergencia de un refuerzo de su vacuna de contra el covid-19 ante la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés), dijo este lunes un funcionario de la administración Biden. Si bien
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Randal Quarles announced Monday that he will resign from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors at the end of the year after completing a four-year term as the central bank’s top bank regulator, opening up another vacancy on the Fed’s influential board for President Joe Biden
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Randal Quarles announced Monday that he will resign from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors at the end of the year after completing a four-year term as the central bank’s top bank regulator, opening up another vacancy on the Fed’s influential board for President Joe Biden
Continue Reading By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A witness at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial says he confronted a rifle-toting Rittenhouse with a gun of his own to try to stop the bloodshed. When asked what was going through his mind as he neared Rittenhouse, 27-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz testified,
Continue Reading ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Some banners were burned at a temporary memorial honoring the 49 victims who died in a massacre at a Florida gay nightclub five years ago. The foundation that runs it is seeking the public’s help in catching the vandal. The onePulse Foundation over the weekend released security video on its Facebook
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Hockey Federation says Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has been given until Nov. 16 to respond to an allegation of doping dating back to 2013. RHF executive director Dmitry Kurbatov tells Russian news agencies that the World Anti-Doping Agency has raised questions about a sample given by Nichushkin in 2013
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — Una abuela con siete nietos que emigró de Sri Lanka es la persona de mayor edad en obtener un máster en la Universidad de York, en Canadá, donde convirtió su pasión por la paz y el aprendizaje en un título de ciencias políticas. Varatha Shanmuganathan tiene 87 años, pero su alma
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s prime minister says that preliminary talks with the International Monetary Fund are moving forward as the small nation works to pull itself out of one of the worst economic crises in more than a century. Najib Mikati said during an economic conference Monday that an amended financial recovery plan by the
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Las compañías aéreas de toda Europa informan que sus vuelos están llenos o casi llenos en el primer día de reapertura de Estados Unidos a los viajeros internacionales vacunados. El grupo Lufthansa declaró a CNN que sus compañías operan hoy 31 vuelos a Estados Unidos, todos ellos con reservas completas.
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