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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Maybe this counts as good news in a time of painful price increases for necessities such as food, fuel and housing: The cost of a US postage stamp just increased by a mere 2 cents. That raises the cost of mailing a first-class letter by 3.4%, to 60 cents —
Continue ReadingBy Virginia Langmaid and Deidre McPhillips, CNN The number of monkeypox vaccine doses distributed across the United States has more than tripled since last week, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, but supply falls far short of demand — and short of the levels that experts say will be needed to
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NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Libya is voicing concern over the struggle for control of Libya’s oil corporation after its chairman was sacked. In a statement Thursday, the embassy said it was following standoff over the leadership of Libya’s National Oil Corporation. The Tripoli-based government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The survival of Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s government is hanging in the balance before a key vote in the Senate. Senators began debating the bill on Thursday morning. It allocates badly needed relief for high energy costs battering citizens. Former Premier Giuseppe Conte announced on Wednesday night
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and two of his children — Donald Jr. and Ivanka — are due, in the coming days, to face questioning under oath in New York’s civil investigation into their business practices. But will the Trumps answer? The ex-president’s lawyer has indicated that he will
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By Randi Kaye, Dianne Gallagher and Ray Sanchez, CNN Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been indicted for the 2021 murders of his wife and son by a Colleton County grand jury. The once prominent, now disbarred, attorney was indicted Thursday morning on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a
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Juan Pablo Elverdin Washington (CNN) — Un tribunal federal condenó este miércoles a un exempleado de la CIA, acusado de llevar a cabo la mayor filtración de datos clasificados en la historia de la agencia. Joshua Schulte —que fue acusado de entregar resmas de datos clasificados a WikiLeaks en 2016— fue declarado culpable de reunir
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN Once again, Covid-19 seems to be everywhere. If you feel caught off-guard, you aren’t alone. After the Omicron tidal wave washed over the United States in January and the smaller rise in cases in the spring caused by the BA.2 subvariant, it might have seemed like the coronavirus could be ignored
Continue Reading By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities in Serbia have detained 85 migrants near the border with Hungary where a clash earlier this month apparently involving people smugglers left one person dead and several injured. Police said that a police task force found automatic weapons, guns, knives and other weapons and ammunition
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Local officials with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party have met to consider calls to expel former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The ex-leader’s longstanding ties to the Russian energy sector and refusal to distance himself fully from President Vladimir Putin after Russia invaded Ukraine have left his political standing in tatters. An arbitration committee
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Orr, CNN Donald Trump will return to Washington on July 26 to deliver what’s being billed as a major policy speech, CNN has learned, marking the former President’s first time back in the nation’s capital since he left office nearly a year and a half ago. Trump will deliver remarks at the America
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Amazon has promised to treat third-party merchants on its website fairly as it seeks to resolve two European Union antitrust investigations. The bloc’s competition watchdog said Thursday that the U.S. online retail giant offered to make a number of commitments to ease competition concerns. The European
Continue Reading By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The survival of Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s government is hanging in the balance before a key vote in the Senate. Senators began debating the bill on Thursday morning. It allocates badly needed relief for high energy costs battering citizens. Former Premier Giuseppe Conte announced on Wednesday night
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business The biggest trend in snacking is something small: Chip bags and sodas are going mini. PepsiCo is seeing “huge growth [in] small-format” snacks, as well as for mini cans of its full-sugar products, CEO Ramon Laguarta said Tuesday on an earnings call. The reason? “Portion control,” Laguarta said. PepsiCo has
Continue ReadingCNN By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business The biggest trend in snacking is something small: Chip bags and sodas are going mini. PepsiCo is seeing “huge growth [in] small-format” snacks, as well as for mini cans of its full-sugar products, CEO Ramon Laguarta said Tuesday on an earnings call. The reason? “Portion control,” Laguarta said. PepsiCo
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN Despite running as a staunchly anti-transgender and anti-abortion candidate, far-right Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake once posted in support of transgender youth and asked her followers about aborting fetuses who would be born with disabilities in social media posts from 2015 and 2016 reviewed by CNN’s KFile. Lake,
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business China’s real estate crisis is escalating, raising concerns about growing risks in the banking system. Desperate homebuyers across dozens of cities are refusing to pay mortgages on unfinished homes, according to state media reports and economists at international banks. In China, real estate firms are allowed to sell homes before
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Hay un factor nuevo y potencialmente muy significativo en la guerra en Ucrania: la capacidad de los ucranianos de utilizar sistemas occidentales recientemente suministrados para atacar puestos de mando, centros logísticos y depósitos de munición rusos mucho más allá de las líneas del frente. En la última semana se produjeron
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban and Livvy Doherty, CNN Business Emirates airline has blasted one of the world’s busiest airports for its “incompetence” in failing to handle a surge in passengers. The Dubai-based airline on Thursday slammed demands made by London’s Heathrow airport earlier this week that carriers stop selling any more tickets for this summer. The
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has blamed inadequate police protection for the death of former leader Shinzo Abe, who was shot while giving an outdoor campaign speech. Abe, one of Japan’s most influential politicians, was assassinated last Friday in western Japan, shocking a nation known for its
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