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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer JetBlue is going hostile in its bid for Spirit Airlines and asking Spirit shareholders to reject a proposed $2.9 billion acquisition by Frontier Airlines. Spirit shareholders are scheduled to vote June 10 on the Frontier bid, which is favored by the Spirit board. Spirit has cited uncertainty about regulatory
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CNN, KCAL, KCBS, KABC By Eric Levenson and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A California family and sports medicine doctor with a deep interest in building community was praised as a hero after he died confronting a gunman at a church service Sunday. Dr. John Cheng, 52, was the lone person killed in the mass shooting at
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN Tiger Woods says he is feeling “a lot stronger” than he was at the Masters last month as the 15-time major champion ramps up his return to golf at the PGA Championship. Woods was playing his first tournament for close to 17 months at Augusta National having suffered serious leg injuries
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By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Bayern Munich’s league title celebrations were tainted by a sense of underachievement this year. It was the only trophy this season. Speculation about the future of Robert Lewandowski is adding to a sense of unease at the club. The novelty of winning Germany’s championship is wearing
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer JetBlue is going hostile in its bid for Spirit Airlines and asking Spirit shareholders to reject a proposed $2.9 billion acquisition by Frontier Airlines. Spirit shareholders are scheduled to vote June 10 on the Frontier bid, which is favored by the Spirit board. Spirit has cited uncertainty about regulatory
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — McDonald’s anunció este lunes que está vendiendo su negocio en Rusia, diciendo que la “crisis humanitaria causada por la guerra en Ucrania y el precipitante entorno operativo impredecible han llevado a McDonald’s a concluir que la propiedad continua del negocio en Rusia ya no es sostenible, ni es consistente con
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La Luna brilló de rojo este domingo por la noche y las primeras horas de este lunes, después de un eclipse lunar total en el que el Sol, la Tierra y la Luna formaron una línea recta en el cielo nocturno. Mira el esplendor del eclipse de la superluna de
Continue Reading By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek enters the French Open on a 28-match winning streak that has lasted three months. The 20-year-old Polish player just won the Italian Open for her fifth straight title. All of the elements of Swiatek’s game were on display during one memorable 19-shot rally
Continue Reading CNN, TONAWANDA FIRE, GARNELL WHITFIELD JR., YOUNG FAMILY, @_OKANE__, COUNTY NEWS, ERIE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY By Joe Sutton, CNN A shooting at a flea market in Harris County, Texas, on Sunday left two dead and several people injured, according to a tweet from the sheriff. The “shooting may have stemmed from an altercation between two
Continue Reading By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Home values have been soaring — but the amount of home sale profit you can shelter from taxes has not. The $250,000/$500,000 exemption hasn’t changed since it was created in 1997, even though median home prices have almost tripled. That means more people face capital gains taxes when selling their
Continue Reading KOVR By Ella Nilsen, CNN Data visuals by John Keefe Forecasters say the West could be looking at a particularly bad wildfire year, as several destructive fires have already ignited well before the hottest, driest months. A fast-moving blaze Wednesday night destroyed 20 homes in a wealthy Orange County, California, community. In New Mexico, more
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Dominique Calhoun y sus hijas estaban comprando un helado en el supermercado Tops Friendly Markets de Buffalo, Nueva York, una tarde de sábado de primavera. Acababan de entrar en el aparcamiento, listas para salir, cuando el horror comenzó a desarrollarse. “La gente empezó a gritar y a salir corriendo del
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN Your child doesn’t want to go to the playground to play with other kids. Or she doesn’t want to attend a friend’s birthday party or the class pool party. How do you know whether she’s just having a bad day or if it’s a sign of ongoing anxiety she might be
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has slashed its forecasts for economic growth in the 27-nation bloc amid the prospect of a drawn-out Russian war in Ukraine and disruptions to energy supplies. The EU’s executive arm said Monday that gross domestic product will expand 2.7% this year and 2.3% in 2023. It’s the European Commission’s
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business McDonald’s became the symbol of glasnost in action 30 years ago when it opened its first restaurant in Moscow. But after temporarily shutting down more than 800 restaurants following the invasion of Ukraine, McDonald’s has decided to leave Russia altogether. The burger chain will sell its Russia business, saying the
Continue Reading By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe pushed to toughen its response Monday to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Sweden joining Finland in deciding to seek NATO membership and European Union officials working to rescue proposed sanctions against Russian oil. On the ground, Ukrainian troops resisted attempted Russian advances
Continue ReadingMarcel Krueger, CNN Suspension railways today seem like an anachronism — a 19th-century vision of what the future of transport would look like. By the year 2022, surely we would all be commuting to work on upside down railways! Unlike boring ordinary train lines that stay determinedly fixed to terra firma, suspension railways dangle beneath
Continue Reading Associated Press JetBlue is going hostile in its bid for Spirit Airlines and asking Spirit shareholders to reject a proposed $2.9 billion acquisition by Frontier Airlines. Spirit shareholders are scheduled to vote June 10 on the Frontier bid, which is favored by the Spirit board. Spirit has cited uncertainty about regulatory approval of JetBlue’s $3.6
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los meteorólogos dicen que el oeste de Estados Unidos podría enfrentarse un año de incendios forestales especialmente grave, a medida que varios fuegos destructivos comenzaron mucho antes de los meses más calurosos y secos. Un incendio de rápido avance el miércoles por la noche destruyó 20 casas en una comunidad
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer More than three decades after it became the first American fast food restaurant to open in the Soviet Union, McDonald’s said Monday that it has started the process of selling its business in Russia, another symbol of the country’s increasing isolation over its war in Ukraine. The company, which
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