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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has vowed to support higher production at the nation’s coal mines in order to bring down heating and energy prices. Fuel costs have soared amid the war in Ukraine and European Union efforts to reduce its dependency on Russian energy sources. However the pledge made Thursday by Poland’s
Continue Reading By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was confronted in Parliament Thursday by opposition politicians who pressed him to step down from office pending a criminal investigation into allegations that he covered up a theft from his rural game farm. The theft in 2020 of a large amount of
Continue Reading GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for Michigan governor, was arrested Thursday, the FBI said. Kelley was arrested in western Michigan. FBI spokeswoman Mara Schneider declined to comment on the reason when reached Thursday morning but said court documents would be unsealed soon. Kelley is one of five candidates on the
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s transport minister has announced strong opposition to an European Union plan that bans the sale of new cars with combustion engines across the bloc in 2035. The plan backed by EU lawmakers Wednesday still needs to be approved by EU nations. Transport Minister Volker Wissing told
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is launching a push to reduce the costs of shipping goods across oceans. It’s a major challenge for retailers that the White House said has pushed up prices as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. The White House is releasing a video that
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The latest “crypto winter,” which sent the values of Bitcoin and other digital currencies plummeting, served as a healthy reminder that cryptocurrencies are highly risky investments. But that risk is by no means limited to price volatility. Should the company holding your crypto assets declare bankruptcy or otherwise be unable
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN Scientists have identified several dinosaur bones belonging to one of Europe‘s biggest land-based hunters. The remains of a spinosaurid, a predatory dinosaur with two legs and a crocodile-like face, were discovered on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England. The spinosaurid, which lived about 125
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GLAMIS, Calif. (AP) — Military officials on Thursday had yet to release official word on the fate of five Marines aboard a Marine Corps Osprey aircraft that crashed the day before in a Southern California desert. The MV-22B went down around 12:25 p.m. Wednesday near the Imperial County community of Glamis, about 115 miles (185
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Rents keep climbing in Manhattan, hitting a record high in May for the fourth consecutive month. Median rent for an apartment in Manhattan climbed to $4,000 a month in May, surging 25% from a year ago, according to a monthly report from brokerage firm Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel Real
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Ask any Christian, and they’re likely to tell you their earliest experiences of religion are ones of music. The memories of voices swelling with song or a grandmother softly humming a favorite tune can hold a sacred place in one’s heart, deeper than even speech or scripture can reach. Jeannette Lindholm
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped back up ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve meeting where it’s expected to announce another big increase to its main borrowing rate. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate jumped to 5.23% this week from 5.09% last
Continue Reading By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Basil Rajapaksa, the younger brother of Sri Lanka’s president and the country’s former finance minister, has resigned from Parliament amid mounting criticism of his role in the island nation’s economic crisis, as the United Nations launches an appeal for $47 million in emergency aid. The
Continue ReadingCNN Oscar Holland, CNN The horrifying photograph of children fleeing a deadly napalm attack has become a defining image not only of the Vietnam War but the 20th century. Dark smoke billowing behind them, the young subjects’ faces are painted with a mixture of terror, pain and confusion. Soldiers from the South Vietnamese army’s 25th
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente and CNN Sports staff Following the start of the inaugural LIV Golf event near London on Thursday, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced that all golfers playing in the breakaway series have been notified that they are suspended and otherwise no longer eligible to participate in PGA Tour tournaments. “As
Continue ReadingCNN By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was weighing executive actions he could take if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade’s holding of a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The President, during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Los Angeles, again pressed Congress to codify into
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Buenos Aires es ahora mismo la ciudad más cara de Latinoamérica, según la lista anual de la compañía de movilidad global ECA International, con un ranking que toma en cuenta tanto el precio del alquiler como el de los alimentos básicos y el transporte para medir en qué urbes del
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El exgobernador de Chihuahua César Duarte enfrentará un juicio por cargos de peculado y asociación delictuosa con penalidad agravada, según decidió el juez de control del distrito de Morelos este miércoles. También determinó que Duarte continúe en prisión preventiva, informó la Fiscalía General del estado de Chihuahua en un comunicado. EE.UU.
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped back up ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve meeting where it’s expected to announce another big increase to its main borrowing rate. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate jumped to 5.23% this week from 5.09% last
Continue Reading By BERNAT ARMANGUÉ and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Two British citizens and a Moroccan were sentenced to death Thursday for fighting on Ukraine’s side, in a punishment handed down by the country’s pro-Moscow rebels. A court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic found the three men guilty of working toward a
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The Covid-19 pandemic changed the nature of work in innumerable ways, some of which may not be fully discerned for years. But one casualty is already clear: The era of the leaning-in “girl boss” is over. The girl boss movement, born shortly after Sandberg’s Lean In and coined by online
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