By THOMAS ADAMSON and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is planning to welcome Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to his presidential palace and offer him dinner. The move marks another step in the Saudi leader’s diplomatic rehabilitation less than four years after the Saudi slaying of critic Jamal
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Super producer Norman Lear turned 100 on Wednesday, and spent his birthday in Vermont with his family. He will be publicly honored in September when ABC airs a special on his life, called “Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter.” Lear is behind some of TV’s best sitcoms, including, “All in
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday and pounded the northern Chernihiv region as well, in what Ukraine said was revenge for standing up to the Kremlin. Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, announced a counteroffensive to take back
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court has unsealed an arrest warrant for a former government minister in Central African Republic for crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed in 2013. Prosecutors at the global court accuse Mahamat Nouradine Adam of crimes including torture, persecution, enforced disappearances and cruel treatment at two
Continue ReadingCNN By Martha White and Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy shrank again in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday. Gross domestic product, a wide-ranging measure of economic activity, fell by 0.9% on an annualized basis from April through June. That decline marks a key symbolic threshold for the most
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By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank from April through June for a second straight quarter, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace and raising fears that the nation may be approaching a recession. The decline that the Commerce Department reported Thursday in the gross domestic product — the broadest
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank from April through June for a second straight quarter, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace and raising fears that the nation may be approaching a recession. The decline that the Commerce Department reported Thursday in the gross domestic product — the broadest
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation in 1997 when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by the mainland’s ruling Communist Party as its own territory. China had other priorities. President Jiang Zemin’s government was preparing to celebrate Hong
Continue ReadingCNN Thomas Page and Henry Hullah, CNN How do you tell a story when the final chapter is public knowledge? You start at the end. “Fire of Love,” Sara Dosa’s moving documentary about husband-and-wife volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, begins on June 2, 1991, at Mount Unzen in Japan. The Kraffts, rockstar scientists in their
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said he tested positive Thursday for COVID-19 and was in quarantine with what he described as minor symptoms. The No. 2 Senate Democrat, who said in a statement he was vaccinated and had received two coronavirus booster shots, planned to continue to work remotely. The 77-year-old
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un diamante rosa de 170 quilates descubierto en Angola puede ser la piedra preciosa más grande encontrada en 300 años, según la minera australiana Lucapa Diamond Company. El diamante llamado “Lulo Rose” fue encontrado en la mina de diamantes aluviales de Lulo, en la región de Lunda, Norte de Angola,
Continue ReadingJack Guy and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Spanish government has launched a summer campaign encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to go to the beach. “Summer is for us too. Enjoy it however, wherever and with whoever you want,” the Ministry of Equality tweeted Wednesday. “Today we raise a toast to a summer
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates dropped last week as fears grow that the US economy is entering a recession. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.30% in the week ending July 28, down from 5.54% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. That is still significantly higher than this time last year when it
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Danquah Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Confusion with the Metro Nashville non-emergency line has many people facing long wait times with emergency communication crews looking for a solution to keep people safe. It’s an issue dozens of people said they’re constantly running into. When you call the
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — En una amplia entrevista con la CBS, una de las principales abogadas de Johnny Depp, que saltó a la fama asegurando una victoria legal contra su exmujer, habló de las ventajas de un equipo legal joven, de la petición de su cliente de tener cámaras en el tribunal y rechazó
Continue Reading Associated Press Stocks are falling early Thursday as investors reacted to news that the U.S. economy shrank for a second consecutive quarter, sharply raising rears that that the U.S. economy is already in or is heading for a recession. The S&P 500 was down 0.4% as of 10 a.m. Eastern, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday dismissed fears that the US is in a recession after a government report showed the US economy shrunk again in the second quarter, arguing there are “signs of economic progress,” including in the labor market and consumer spending. The President said slower growth was expected compared
Continue Reading BY JULIE WATSON Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — With its cheery unicorn printed case, Ana Morazan’s iPhone contains all that’s left of what she calls her “other world,” referring to her middle-class life before back-to-back hurricanes destroyed her home in Honduras. There are glam shots of the 42-year-old with blond, salon-styled hair, impeccable makeup
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers JetBlue has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines in a $3.8 billion deal, a day after Spirit and Frontier Airlines dropped their merger proposal. JetBlue will acquire Spirit for $33.50 per share in cash, including a prepayment of $2.50 per share in cash payable once Spirit stockholders
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Sofía Petro Alcocer es una de los cinco hijos de Gustavo Petro, el presidente electo de Colombia, por lo que su vida ha estado marcada transversalmente por la política. “Desde que tengo memoria, siempre, siempre, he estado en la política, porque yo nací y él ya estaba metido en
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