By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Dealmaking booms when markets are stable and businesses are feeling good about the economy and access to financing. When conditions deteriorate, confidence flags, and the number of companies going public or pursuing takeovers drops. That’s what is happening now. Details, details: The number of global initial public offerings, or IPOs,
Continue ReadingCNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Five years after the last “Despicable Me” movie and a dozen years since the first, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” extends the animated franchise without exactly rising to the occasion, delivering a mundane exercise set to an odd 1970s soundtrack. Loud and colorful, it’s likely to divert smaller kids
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Five years after the last “Despicable Me” movie and a dozen years since the first, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” extends the animated franchise without exactly rising to the occasion, delivering a mundane exercise set to an odd 1970s soundtrack. Loud and colorful, it’s likely to divert smaller kids whose
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont is “comfortably recovering” following surgery to repair a broken hip after he fell in his Virginia home on Wednesday. It is unclear how long he will be out in the 50-50 split Senate, but the chamber is in recess until the week of July 11.
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By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GAUHATI, India (AP) — Pounding rain following weeks of heavy downpours has triggered a mudslide in northeast India that killed at least 14 people and left more than 30 others missing. Disaster response workers, police and local villagers are trying to rescue those buried under the debris in Noney, a
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A pair of lawsuits that for years has plagued Virginia’s largest school system with allegations that it ignored students’ accusations of sex assaults are back in front of federal judges. One of the lawsuits includes allegations of horrific abuse suffered by a student at a
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor says he suspects that Russia may not resume gas deliveries to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after planned maintenance work in July. Russia reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia this month as European Union countries scramble to refill storage facilities to
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor says he suspects that Russia may not resume gas deliveries to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after planned maintenance work in July. Russia reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia this month as European Union countries scramble to refill storage facilities to
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Internet search traffic on abortion medication surged 162% higher than expected and reached a record high in the days after a draft of the US Supreme Court’s abortion decision was leaked in May, according to new research. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Wednesday, found that there was higher
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Low pressure continues to dominate the current forecast, increasing westerly winds and filtering cooler air into the valley. Peak wind gusts tonight between 30-40 mph will be possible, with occasional stronger winds for areas that typically see more wind than others. Here’s a look at how winds may strengthen by 6 p.m. KESQ Conditions remain
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Una mujer que empujaba a un bebé en un cochecito recibió un disparo en la cabeza a corta distancia y murió en Manhattan en la noche de este miércoles, dijo la policía. El bebé de tres meses resultó ileso, y la relación entre la mujer de 20 años y el
Continue ReadingJacopo Prisco, CNN A rare portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, will be on public display for the first time after it was recently sold at auction. The oil sketch, a preparatory study for a formal full-length portrait by American artist Nelson Shanks, was completed in 1994, three years before Diana’s death in Paris. It
Continue Reading By WILSON RING Associated Press U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont has broken a hip in a fall at his home and was to undergo surgery to repair it, his office said Thursday. The 82-year-old Democrat fell Wednesday night in McLean, Virginia, the statement said. Doctors determined the best course of action would be to
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament has given final approval to a bill that would allow the banning of foreign news media in response to other countries taking actions against Russian news outlets. The Kremlin-controlled State Duma approved the bill on its third and final reading on Wednesday. The upper house of
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament has given final approval to a bill that would allow the banning of foreign news media in response to other countries taking actions against Russian news outlets. The Kremlin-controlled State Duma approved the bill on its third and final reading on Wednesday. The upper house of
Continue Reading PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has decided to reverse plans to halt mining in a key black coal region to help the country safeguard its power supply amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura said Thursday that the state-owned OKD company will extend its mining activities in north-eastern Czech Republic until at
Continue Reading PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has decided to reverse plans to halt mining in a key black coal region to help the country safeguard its power supply amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura said Thursday that the state-owned OKD company will extend its mining activities in north-eastern Czech Republic until at
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WLNY By Pervaiz Shallwani, Mark Morales, Jason Hanna and Brynn Gingras, CNN A 20-year-old woman pushing a baby in a stroller was shot in the head at close range and killed Wednesday night on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, police said — a brazen crime that comes amid a push to curb gun violence in New
Continue ReadingCNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Keeping your body and brain fit has long been a prescription for better mental health as you age. A new study has now revealed that women’s mental processing speed may actually benefit more than men from a boost of exercise, such as brisk walking or biking for at least 15
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Scientists have identified a gene that appears to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s in women, providing a potential new clue as to why more women than men are diagnosed with the disease. The gene, O6-Methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase, or MGMT, plays an important role in how the body repairs damage to DNA in both
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