By Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — At the start of 2022, with pandemic fatigue spreading and the majority of Canadians having received at least two vaccine doses, many were hoping this summer might finally be a return to normal. The majority of public health restrictions was
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — As extreme heat events around the world continue to become more common and deadlier thanks to the effects of climate change, some climate activists are calling on heat waves to be given names, just like hurricanes and tropical storms. The city
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business It’s been one year since Robinhood went public. And to say that the online broker’s performance has been disastrous would be a massive understatement. If someone were to write a kids’ book about it, they could title it “Robinhood and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year.”
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko and Gul Tuysuz, CNN Ukrainian authorities have detained a ship at one of the ports where grain shipments are expected to resume through the Black Sea this week — asserting the vessel is owned by a Russian company. The ship is a bulk carrier, the Emmakris III, and is currently
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business The American economy is losing steam and is vulnerable to sinking into a recession but it’s not in one yet, according to Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. “This is a slowdown. We’re not in recession, certainly not during the first half of this year,” Zandi told CNN in a
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Bay Area’s transit system is again requiring masks for travelers and employees, the agency said Thursday. The board of directors for Bay Area Rapid Transit, known as BART, voted Thursday to reinstate the mask mandate on all trains and in stations beyond ticket gates. It runs through Oct.
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN The burning desire for fame, and the way people seize upon “causes” often without doing their due diligence, give a meaty foundation to “Not Okay,” a dark comedy about a lie that brings unexpected benefits before, inevitably, spiraling out of control. Bearing parallels to “Dear Evan Hansen,” it’s a movie
Continue ReadingBy Will McGough, CNN Colorado’s iconic destinations have seemingly been around forever, and we know their names by heart: Vail, Aspen and Breckenridge, to name a few, along with Denver, a city that has exploded in the past decade. For something new, a traveler must go farther west in the state, where a budding yet
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By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prices for gas, food and rent are soaring. The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates to the highest level since 2018. The U.S. economy has shrunk for two straight quarters. Economists are divided over whether a recession is looming. What’s clear is
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, CNN Kellyanne Conway, a former adviser to Donald Trump, had a breakfast meeting Friday morning with a group of House Republicans in House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office, multiple GOP sources told CNN. The topic of discussion: the policy task forces that McCarthy created last summer to start sketching out a legislative
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Much of contemporary Silicon Valley was built on advertising dollars. That dependence made even the most powerful companies look at least somewhat vulnerable this week after reporting their latest earnings results. “We seem to have entered an economic downturn that will have a broad impact on the digital advertising business,”
Continue ReadingOpinion by Bill Carter for CNN Business Perspectives Almost 50 years ago, fresh out of school, I was transfixed by the coverage of the famous hearings into the Watergate break-in. They were certainly as compelling as anything I saw on television in that era. And I wasn’t the only one: An estimated 80 million watched
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By RAQUEL REDONDO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s leader has proposed an energy-saving move that many men have already embraced. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has asked government officials and people working in the private sector to save energy by giving up wearing neckties at work. Appearing at a news conference in an open-necked
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Different sex, same city in “Uncoupled,” original “Sex and the City” producer Darren Star’s look at gay life and love in very upper-crust New York, where the most decadent porn is of the pricey Manhattan real-estate variety. Mostly, the Netflix comedy serves as a vehicle for Neil Patrick Harris as
Continue ReadingCNN Exclusive by Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Tamara Qiblawi, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mohammed Abo Al Gheit and Darya Tarasova Video by Alex Platt and Mark Baron Graphics by Sarah-Grace Mankarious, Marco Chacón, Natalie Croker and Henrik Pettersson Days after Moscow launched its bloody war on Ukraine, a Russian cargo plane stood on a Khartoum runway, a
Continue ReadingCNN By Nima Elbagir, CNN Sudan’s military authorities have launched a “manhunt” for people suspected of providing information to CNN for an investigation that exposed Russia’s plundering of gold in the African nation, according to multiple former and current officials. Relatives were also threatened in a bid to silence suspected leakers. One source said authorities
Continue ReadingBy Courtney Allen Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — “A truly good man” is the way friends describe Aaron Walker, whose life was cut short at age 51. Walker was shot and killed by a coworker at Kenny Pipe & Supply on Wednesday afternoon. It is the second workplace shooting
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN The latest graphic novel from Brian K. Vaughan to make the leap to the screen, “Paper Girls” possesses a “Stranger Things”-wannabe vibe, blending coming-of-age elements, time travel, nostalgia and science fiction. The result makes for a semi-watchable Amazon series that feels a little too convoluted to satisfactorily deliver. Delivery, in
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN Since rising to fame in 2021 after a brief but indelible relationship with Kanye West, Julia Fox’s sartorial unpredictability has become an almost constant source of internet chatter. From DIY-ing a bandeau top and matching bottoms out of a single pair of jeans using just a pair of scissors, to her now
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Will there be a recession? And, if so, just how bad will it be for my finances? Those questions are looming large for Americans after the Federal Reserve yet again raised rates to combat high inflation, and the latest gross domestic product report showed that the economy slowed for the
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