CNN By Jessie Yeung and Wayne Chang, CNN US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several other Congress members visited Singapore on Monday, their first official stop in a high-profile Asia tour that has attracted international attention over speculation she may visit Taiwan. The delegation started their two-day visit to the city-state by meeting Singaporean President
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were modestly higher early Friday on Wall Street, despite news that closely watched inflation data jumped by the most in four decades last month. The S&P 500 and the technology-weighted Nasdaq are each on track to end July with the biggest gains since November 2020. Investors were buoyed by positive
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN Jared Kushner details his clashes with Steve Bannon in his new book, describing a “toxic” West Wing presence who accused him of “undermining the President’s agenda” and threatened to break him “in half” if Kushner turned on him. The detailed account in the memoir — set to be published next month
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Procter & Gamble’s sales rose 3% in the fiscal fourth quarter, but the world’s largest consumer products maker gave a lackluster fiscal 2023 sales forecast as it contends with rising commodity and freight costs. P&G’s revenue climbed to $19.52 billion from $18.9 billion during the quarter, helped by higher
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La UEFA, organismo rector del fútbol europeo, abrió una investigación luego de que se escuchara a seguidores del equipo de fútbol turco Fenerbahce cantar el nombre del presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, durante un partido de clasificación a la Liga de Campeones contra el Dynamo Kyiv de Ucrania. El Fenerbahce
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles police officer was injured in a hit-and-run crash on a freeway Thursday night, authorities said. The motorcycle officer was struck on the 110 Freeway around 8:15 p.m. and paramedics took the officer to the hospital, officials said. LAPD Officer Matthew Cruz, a police spokesperson, told the Los Angeles
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Employers continued hiking workers’ pay at a brisker-than-expected pace, but the increases still weren’t enough to compensate for the even faster rise in inflation. Wages and salaries for civilian workers increased 1.4% in the second quarter and 5.3% over the year ending in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En medio de lluvias sin precedentes, Margaret Shellert, residente de St. Louis, Missouri, enfrenta la peor parte de las devastadoras inundaciones consecutivas esta semana. Después de que la región fuera azotada por lluvias torrenciales este lunes y martes, una segunda ronda de tormentas exacerbó este jueves aún más las condiciones
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business ExxonMobil and Chevron both reported record massive profits thanks to record gasoline prices during the quarter. Exxon’s profit, excluding special items, came to $17.6 billion in the second quarter, nearly double what it made in its very profitable first quarter as oil and gas prices started to soar in the
Continue ReadingBy Deion Broxton Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — Thursday, the City of East St. Louis announced the city has declared a State of Emergency due to historic flooding Tuesday. A press release states Mayor Robert Eastern III declared the emergency on Tuesday, even though, the press release was
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By SAM METZ Associated Press TONOPAH, Nev. (AP) — The Nye County Commission is used to dealing with all sorts of hot-button controversies. Water rights, livestock rules and marijuana licenses are among the many local dramas that consume the time of the five commissioners in this vast swath of rural and deeply Republican Nevada. Last
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A $1.1 billion lottery prize will be on the line Friday night as numbers are drawn for the Mega Millions game. The giant jackpot is the nation’s third-largest prize and is the result of 29 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all of the game’s six numbers. That last time someone
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.8% in June from a year ago, the biggest increase in four decades, and leaving Americans with no relief from surging costs. Friday’s government figures underscored the persistence of the inflation that is eroding
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — Lambert Airlines says it is seeing an increase in the number of firearms being taken through security. 51 guns have come through St. Louis checkpoints so far this year. That number was 102 in 2021. Travelers can fly with guns
Continue Reading By RAQUEL REDONDO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is asking government officials and people working in the private sector to save energy by giving up neckties. He appeared at a news conference in an open-necked white shirt and blue shirt. Sánchez explained he dressed less formally not as a nod
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest has been wounded in a shooting on a highway in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero. The Mexican Council of Bishops says the Rev. Felipe Vélez Jiménez was shot in the cheek Thursday but is “out of danger.” Vélez Jiménez serves as a parish priest in the
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN Español) — La vicepresidenta electa de Colombia, Francia Márquez, afirmó este jueves que el presidente de Chile, Gabriel Boric, ofreció al país austral como sede para un posible diálogo de paz entre el gobierno colombiano y el Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). “Saludamos con mucha alegría que hoy el presidente Boric haya manifestado
Continue ReadingCNN, HLN By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Beyoncé says she will remove an ableist slur from her new album, “Renaissance,” after facing online backlash and criticism from disability campaigners. The 40-year-old singer received rave reviews when she debuted her dance-inspired seventh studio album on Friday, but she came under fire over the weekend when fans noticed
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER and TIMOTHY D. EASLEY Associated Press JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Search and rescue teams backed by the National Guard searched Friday for people missing in record floods that wiped out entire communities in some of the poorest places in America. Kentucky’s governor said 15 people have died, a toll he expected to
Continue ReadingBy Shanila Kabir Click here for updates on this story KAPOLEI, Hawaii (KITV) — This week marked the final shipment of coal into the islands. Many environmental experts said this is a historical step forward to clean-energy use. “Coal doesn’t have a place here in Hawaii, where the environment is so fragile. We need to
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