CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Anna Cooban, CNN Business It’s getting harder for shoppers in the United Kingdom to find Heinz baked beans. Blame food price inflation. Tesco, the country’s biggest supermarket chain, has stopped selling some products made by Kraft Heinz in a dispute over prices. Kraft Heinz is behind some of the country’s favorite pantry
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Justin Gamble, CNN Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled that a woman claiming to be the descendant of enslaved people can proceed with some of the claims in her lawsuit against Harvard University. The June 23 ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court allows Tamara Lanier to seek damages from Harvard for mistreating her when using
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By JOSH BOAK and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, including nearly 8 in 10 Democrats, according to a new poll that finds deep pessimism about the economy plaguing President Joe Biden. Eighty-five percent of U.S. adults say
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BRIDGEPORT, Calif. (AP) — A Sierra Nevada wildfire destroyed a building and was a threat to more than 250 homes and other structures, California authorities said Wednesday. The Rices Fire grew to 904 acres (366 hectares) along the Yuba River in Nevada County, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said in a nighttime
Continue Reading CNN By Raja Razek, CNN A Colorado man required medical treatment at a hospital after he was gored by a bull bison at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, officials said. The 34-year-old man was walking with his family on a boardwalk near the Giant Geyser at Old Faithful on Monday when the bull bison charged
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment investigation was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes. Lev Parnas had sought leniency on the grounds that he’d helped the Congressional
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By TOM HAYS and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Through tears and anger, R. Kelly’s accusers told a court Wednesday he had preyed on them and misled his fans as the fallen R&B star listened with downcast eyes as he awaited sentencing on his federal sex trafficking conviction. “You made me
Continue Reading By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY, JAN M. OLSEN and JARI TANNER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — When the leaders of Finland, Sweden and Turkey met with NATO’s chief this week, some remained pessimistic the meeting would lessen Turkey’s objections to the Nordic pair’s historic request to join NATO. The government in Ankara had indicated for weeks that
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas drilling lease auctions since President Joe Biden took office after a federal court blocked the administration’s attempt to suspend such sales because of climate change worries. The online auctions start Wednesday and
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas drilling lease auctions since President Joe Biden took office after a federal court blocked the administration’s attempt to suspend such sales because of climate change worries. The online auctions start Wednesday and
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is urging the Catholic faithful to stop exploiting the old Latin Mass for ideological reasons. In a letter Wednesday, he is instead urging them to discover the beauty of the new liturgy that grew from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.Francis penned a letter
Continue Reading DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria says it has decided to recognize the “independence and sovereignty” of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions and establish diplomatic relations. The Syrian Foreign Ministry announcement Wednesday comes days after President Bashar Assad met a joint delegation from both regions in Damascus. Syria is a strong ally of Russia, which
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq and Benjamin Brown, CNN An 8-year-old boy was found alive in a sewer eight days after he went missing in Oldenburg, northwestern Germany. The boy, identified by authorities only as Joe, was reported missing on the afternoon of June 17. Joe was eventually rescued from the sewer system after a passer-by
Continue Reading By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JULIO CORTEZ Associated Press POOLESVILLE, Md. (AP) — People who work to protect rivers and waterways have begun using drones to catch polluters in places where wrongdoing is difficult to see or expensive to find. The images they capture have already been used as evidence to accuse companies of wrongdoing. Now
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN We’re about to have an entirely new perspective on the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first high-resolution color images on July 12. One of those images “is the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a news conference
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Unilever has sold its Ben & Jerry’s business in Israel to its distributor in the country, following ongoing controversy related to its activities in Israel and the West Bank. Unilever announced Wednesday the sale for an undisclosed amount to American Quality Products (AQP), which distributes Ben & Jerry’s in Israel.
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Shareholders of Spirit Airlines will vote next month on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines. If that deal fails, Spirit could be sold to JetBlue Airways. A vote on the Frontier deal had been scheduled for Thursday but was delayed until July 8. The outcome could
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Shareholders of Spirit Airlines will vote Thursday on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines, and the outcome could affect fares for millions of air travelers who depend on the budget airlines. The merger would create a single airline that might dominate the lower-price end of the
Continue Reading By RAHIM FAIEZ and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan finance and central bank officials from the Taliban-led government have departed for Qatar to meet with U.S. officials. The move comes after last week’s deadly earthquake highlighted how critical relief efforts have stumbled under the weight of the country’s spiraling economic woes. The
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there’s “no guarantee” the central bank can tame runaway inflation without hurting the job market. Speaking Wednesday at a European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal, Powell repeated his hope that the Fed can achieve a so-called soft landing —
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