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NEW YORK (AP) — Locked-out Major League Baseball players are starting a $1 million fund to support workers impacted by canceled games. The players’ association says the fund will be administered by the union and the AFL-CIO. It will be distributed to stadium workers and others caused financial hardship by baseball’s ninth work stoppage, which
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By The Associated Press Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its 12th day following what Ukrainian authorities described as increased shelling of encircled cities and another failed attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged port of Mariupol. Russian and Ukrainian forces had agreed to an 11-hour cease-fire Sunday, but Ukrainian officials said Russian attacks quickly closed
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing which led to the deaths of three spectators and a police officer, reversing a lower court decision. The ruling was 6-3 along conservative-liberal
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is ending the week with scattered rain and snow after two dry months that left the state’s snowpack far below normal. The return of winter weather has prompted forecasters to advise people planning mountain travel to be prepared for snowy roads Friday and Saturday in the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is ending the week with scattered rain and snow after two dry months that left the state’s snowpack far below normal. The return of winter weather has prompted forecasters to advise people planning mountain travel to be prepared for snowy roads Friday and Saturday in the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades
Continue ReadingBy Abbas Al Lawati and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN The Middle East found itself dragged into coverage of the conflict in Ukraine over the past week as journalists descended on the country to cover the biggest European war in decades. Western war reporters, more used to being deployed in Middle East conflict zones, were quick to
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business US gas prices are surging at pace drivers haven’t seen since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The national average price for a gallon of regular gas stood at $3.84 a gallon Friday, according to AAA. That is the highest price since September 2012 and 11 cents higher than Thursday. Gas prices
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN Russian troops have occupied Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, after fierce fighting near the Ukrainian facility that drew international condemnation and sparked fears of a potential nuclear incident. Those concerns were quickly downplayed by experts, who warned against comparisons with the plant at Chernobyl, where the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks around the world are tumbling Friday, as even a gangbusters report on the U.S. jobs market couldn’t pull Wall Street’s focus off its worries about the war in Ukraine. The S&P 500 was 0.9% lower in early trading, following up on sharper losses in
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An industry group says American whiskey exports have started rebounding, but distillers have yet to fully recover. Spirits exports have been battered by tariffs and the pandemic. Exports of bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey rose 15% last year to reach $975 million. That’s according to
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Microsoft has closed on its approximately $16 billion acquisition of speech recognition company Nuance. The deal, which was announced last year, helps Microsoft Corp. get more entrenched into hospitals and the health care industry through Nuance’s widely used medical dictation and transcription tools. Mark Benjamin will continue to serve
Continue ReadingCNN, HLN By Toyin Owoseje, CNN “Proud Ukrainian” Mila Kunis and her husband, Ashton Kutcher, have pledged to match up to $3 million in donations to help refugees fleeing her native country amid the conflict with Russia. The Hollywood couple launched a “Stand With Ukraine” GoFundMe campaign on Thursday with the goal of raising $30
Continue Reading By DENNIS PASSA AP Sports Writer Australian cricket great Shane Warne has died. He was 52. Warne was considered to be the greatest bowler in cricket history and helped Australia win the World Cup in 1999. He was also part of five Ashes-winning teams during his career. Fox Sports television quoted a family statement as
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Colin Farrell is back in a big way. He appears in two movies released on Friday, “The Batman” and “After Yang.” Farrell plays Penguin in “The Batman.” He’s unrecognizable as a gangster who crosses paths with Robert Pattinson’s Batman. In “After Yang,” he plays a father tending to his family’s broken robot,
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By Stella Chan, CNN Stanford University star soccer player Katie Meyer died by suicide, her mother told NBC’s “Today” show during an emotional interview Friday. Meyer, a senior who helped secure the 2019 NCAA championship title for the Cardinal, was found dead in her dorm room on Tuesday, according to the university. “The last couple
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say one person was killed and six others were wounded in a shooting at an apartment complex. Police Lt. Jason Johansson said Friday that the events leading up to the shooting started with a neighbor dispute around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Two of those who were wounded suffered injuries
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is opening lower as a strong jobs reports wasn’t nearly enough to quell the market’s worries about Russia’s continued pounding of Ukraine. Stock indexes opened lower, investors continued to shovel money into low-risk U.S. government bonds, and crude oil prices spiked higher again. European markets were down even more
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Melissa Alonso, CNN When she was found after a three-week search in 2016, a Northern California woman told police she had been abducted and branded by two women who kept her chained in a closet. She gave an elaborate story of her kidnapping and treatment at the hands of the supposed
Continue Reading By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Outraged by the invasion of Ukraine, lawmakers in New Jersey’s largest city lashed out at one of the closest symbols of Russia they could find — a pair of Lukoil gas stations. The Newark City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to suspend the service stations’ operating licenses,
Continue Reading KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) — Canadian skier Cameron Alexander shared victory with Swiss rival Niels Hintermann in a men’s World Cup downhill after the pair upset the top contenders for the season title. Alexander was a late starter with bib No. 39 and took advantage of the sunny conditions on the Olympiabakken course as several lower-ranked
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