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By Robert Shackelford, Mike Saenz and Dave Alsup, CNN Some daily record high temperatures were set Tuesday and Wednesday across multiple states as extreme heat scorched the south central US — part of a heat wave affecting even more of the country Thursday. Here are some of the record highs for July 20 set in
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By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donations from Fidelity Charitable climbed 11% to a record $4.8 billion for the first half of 2022. The nation’s largest grantmaker says the growth in payouts from its donor-advised funds paints a far sunnier picture about philanthropy than other recent reports. Donor-advised funds let donors
Continue Reading By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the uninitiated, outfitting a college dorm room can be a dizzying experience. Doing it at a time of high inflation can make it even more daunting. The first step: Meticulously go over what the school allows and provides. If you want a microwave and minifridge,
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By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the uninitiated, outfitting a college dorm room can be a dizzying experience. Doing it at a time of high inflation can make it even more daunting. The first step: Meticulously go over what the school allows and provides. If you want a microwave and minifridge,
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business It wasn’t long ago that Wall Street would have bristled at such grim news out of Netflix: Between April and June, the company lost 970,000 subscribers. But investors aren’t freaking out about the number of customers bailing from the service. In fact, they’re cheering. What’s happening: Shares of Netflix are
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors and Lockheed Martin are working together on a new Lunar Rover. but it needs tires. So, Goodyear is now joining the team. GM and Goodyear have been over this dry, dusty ground before. Both companies worked on NASA’s original Lunar Roving Vehicles that went to the moon in
Continue Reading By IVANA BZGANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Egypt and Serbia have agreed to boost political, economic and other cooperation as the two countries look for ways to deal with the global impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is in Serbia on a three-day visit this week — the
Continue Reading By IVANA BZGANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Egypt and Serbia have agreed to boost political, economic and other cooperation as the two countries look for ways to deal with the global impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is in Serbia on a three-day visit this week — the
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative Party are choosing the two finalists in the contest to replace Boris Johnson. It comes on the day Johnson made his final appearance in Parliament as prime minister. Johnson signed off his last weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session with the words “Hasta la vista, baby.”
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Italy’s political turmoil is making life harder for the European Central Bank as it hikes interest rates and raising bad memories of the eurozone debt crisis a decade ago. Premier Mario Draghi has offered to resign, and the threat of political changes as borrowing costs
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Italy’s political turmoil is making life harder for the European Central Bank as it hikes interest rates and raising bad memories of the eurozone debt crisis a decade ago. Premier Mario Draghi has offered to resign, and the threat of political changes as borrowing costs
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has resumed hot air ballooning over the ancient city of Luxor following a two-day hiatus after two tourists were lightly injured during a ride. The Ministry of Civil Aviation says Wednesday it decided to resume the rides after reviewing “all safety measures and steps taken” to operate the popular flights. A
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KCAL, KCBS, HANDOUT PHOTO, HANDOUT VIDEO, CNN By Stephanie Elam and Kacey Cherry, CNN Gems and jewelry worth millions of dollars were stolen from an armored truck parked at a rest stop near Los Angeles, officials said, setting off a multi-agency investigation. The heist unfolded between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. July 11 at a
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN This week, many of us have been dealing with the record-breaking temperatures beating down across Europe and parts of America. While the worrying heat may have you wishing you could draw the blinds, crank up the fan and lay as still as possible, there are jobs to work and paychecks to earn,
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La tenista rusa mejor clasificada contó en una entrevista que es homosexual, al tiempo que abordó las crecientes actitudes homófobas en su país. Daria Kasatkina, actualmente la número 12 del ranking mundial, dijo a un bloguero ruso que tiene una relación con una mujer, la patinadora artística Natalia Zabiiako. Kasatkina
Continue Reading By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Before she was gunned down with her classmates, 10-year-old Alithia Haven Ramirez, of Uvalde, Texas, wanted to be an artist who shared her creations with the world. Google is obliging. Earlier this year, the search giant asked students to submit entries for its Doodle for Google contest. The winner will
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business A new show about a young female attorney has become another South Korean hit on Netflix, giving investors hope that the producer may have another “Squid Game”-like success on its hands. “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” a series that follows the titular character Woo Young-woo as “a newbie at a top law
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers have elected the country’s unpopular prime minister as their new president. Wednesday’s choice risks reigniting turmoil in the South Asian nation reeling from economic collapse. The crisis has already forced one Sri Lankan leader out, and a few hundred protesters quickly gathered
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN Police in Malawi have charged a Chinese man with child trafficking after a BBC documentary accused him of filming children chanting racist phrases mocking themselves in Chinese, according to authorities in the southeast African country. Deputy spokesperson for the Malawi Police Service, Harry Namwaza, told CNN the man, identified as Lu
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN Hundreds of millions of people around the world were sweltering in extreme heat on Wednesday, as record-breaking heat waves set swathes of Europe’s countryside on fire, scorched the US and put dozens of Chinese cities under alert. Five separate high-pressure weather systems across the northern hemisphere, which are linked by atmospheric
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