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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series. Personal Birth date: July 31, 1965 Birth place: Gloucestershire, England Birth name: Joanne Rowling Father: Peter Rowling, aircraft factory manager Mother: Anne (Volant) Rowling, lab technician Marriages: Neil Murray (December 26, 2001-present); Jorge Arantes (1992-1995,
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business If a recession were to arrive in the United States, there would normally be evidence of pain at America’s biggest lenders. But so far, top banks aren’t seeing major signs of weakness, even as they admit they’re bracing for tougher times ahead. What’s happening: Results from JPMorgan
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business A leading inflation indicator surged in June, showing that prices continue to remain stubbornly high. The Producer Price Index, a measure of the change in prices paid to US producers of goods and services, hit 11.3% in June compared to the same period a year ago and jumped 1.1% from
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By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s president has asked Prime Minister Kaja Kallas to form a new government after she tendered resignation of her one-party minority Cabinet to end a more than month-long political stalemate in the Baltic nation. Estonia’s government crisis culminated in early June. Kallas is the leader of the
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Central banks have made clear that after a sluggish start, they’re serious about putting a lid on inflation. Now, as prices soar even faster than expected, they’re weighing increasingly drastic options. What’s happening: Investors see a growing probability that the Federal Reserve could hike interest rates by a full percentage
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los alquileres siguen disparándose y alcanzaron nuevos máximos históricos en Manhattan el mes pasado. El alquiler mensual medio pagado por un inquilino de un condominio en Manhattan subió a US$ 4.050 en junio, casi un 25% más que hace un año y estableciendo un nuevo récord por quinto mes consecutivo,
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Rachel Metz, CNN Business It only took Matt Laming, a 19-year-old from the United Kingdom, about a month to hit a million followers on Twitter. And all it required was sharing a steady stream of the most outlandish computer-generated images that he and a bunch of internet strangers could think up.
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business It only took Matt Laming, a 19-year-old from the United Kingdom, about a month to hit a million followers on Twitter. And all it required was sharing a steady stream of the most outlandish computer-generated images that he and a bunch of internet strangers could think up. In recent weeks,
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A major automaker, large truck stop chain and an electric vehicle charging company are proposing a network that would put charging plugs at 50-mile intervals along U.S. highways. General Motors, Pilot Travel Centers and EVgo said Thursday they will build 2,000 charging stalls at “up to”
Continue Reading VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s prime minister says her country won’t try to reverse a decision by the European Union’s executive arm to allow certain sanctioned goods pass through its territory on the way to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave. The European Commission said Wednesday that Russia can continue transporting certain cargo to Kalingrad by rail as
Continue ReadingBy Allie Malloy, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday stopped short of committing to raise the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with leaders in Saudi Arabia this week, instead saying he “always” brings up human rights and that his views on the murder have been made “absolutely” clear. “My views on Khashoggi have been
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari has died at 98. Scalfari helped revolutionize Italian journalism by founding liberal daily newspaper La Repubblica. The Rome-based paper broke ground when it burst onto already crowded newsstands in 1976, grabbing attention with punchy headlines and a sassy style. It was known for
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN It could take a decade to fully eradicate a critical vulnerability found last year in software used by governments and tech firms around the world from some computer systems, a Department of Homeland Security review board said Thursday. The review board, which the White House established last year to investigate major
Continue ReadingBy Barry Neild, CNN Cycling vacations usually conjure up images of pedaling across the French countryside, a baguette lashed to the handlebars, or perhaps a breezy ride along the flat and friendly bike paths that weave their way through cities like Copenhagen or Amsterdam. They don’t usually involve the Arabian desert, where summer temperatures and
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Neema Avashia is all too used to the shocked reaction she gets when she tells people she’s from West Virginia. A queer woman whose parents immigrated to the US from India, Avashia doesn’t fit the image many Americans have about Appalachians: impoverished, rural and White. But those stereotypes about Appalachia don’t
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has sentenced an Iranian citizen to life imprisonment after being convicted of murder and other war crimes during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. The Stockholm District Court said Thursday that Hamid Noury took part in severe atrocities in July-August 1988 while working as an
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI, JOSH BOAK, and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States is “not going to wait forever” for Iran to rejoin a dormant nuclear deal, a day after saying he’d be willing to use force as a last resort against Tehran if necessary. Biden
Continue Reading By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles that struck a city in central Ukraine killed at least 20 people and wounded about 90 more Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said. The country’s president called the attack “an open act of terrorism” against civilians in locations without military value. Ukraine’s national police said
Continue Reading By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he
Continue Reading By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he
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