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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers have held inconclusive talks with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help people cope with soaring gas and electricity prices. Johnson, who is in his final weeks as prime minister, joined his Treasury chief at the meeting with firms
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers have held inconclusive talks with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help people cope with soaring gas and electricity prices. Johnson, who is in his final weeks as prime minister, joined his Treasury chief at the meeting with firms
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are rising on Wall Street, extending gains from a day earlier that lifted indexes to three-month highs. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are each up more than 0.6% at the opening bell Thursday, and the Dow Jones industrials are also higher. Inflation at the wholesale
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are rising on Wall Street, extending gains from a day earlier that lifted indexes to three-month highs. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are each up more than 0.6% at the opening bell Thursday, and the Dow Jones industrials are also higher. Inflation at the wholesale
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level fell from June to July, the first month-to-month drop in more than two years and a sign that some of the U.S. economy’s inflationary pressures cooled last month. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index —
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level fell from June to July, the first month-to-month drop in more than two years and a sign that some of the U.S. economy’s inflationary pressures cooled last month. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index —
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — El ministro del Interior de Ecuador, Patricio Carrillo, confirmó el asesinato del periodista Gerardo Delgado en la ciudad costera de Montecristi, en la provincia de Manabí. El periodista dirigía la plataforma digital “Ola Manta TV” y fue acribillado cuando conducía por la vía Manta-Montecristi la tarde de este miércoles.
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By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos now sport the wealthiest owner in the NFL and the league’s most diverse ownership group. Four of the six members of the Walton-Penner ownership group, which was welcomed into the NFL this week, are either women or minorities. Walmart heir Rob
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Western nations make more pledges to send arms to Ukraine while the European Union’s full ban on Russian coal imports kicks in on Thursday amid claims sanctions against Moscow now even affected its defense exports. Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged that Germany “is shipping arms _ a
Continue ReadingJacopo Prisco, CNN The A380 super jumbo has many supporters around the world, but none quite as vocal and powerful as Tim Clark, the president of Emirates, by far the largest operator of the aircraft. The Dubai-based airline purchased nearly half of all A380s ever produced and now has 118 in its fleet, about 80
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man with a shotgun and a gasoline canister took up to 10 people hostage at a Beirut bank Thursday and threatened to set himself on fire unless he was allowed to withdraw his trapped savings to pay his father’s medical bills, authorities
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Canada (CTV Network) — With some airlines denying compensation for delayed flights or missing baggage, a few Canadian passengers are taking their claims to court.. Edmonton resident Curtis Altmiks said he was booked to fly to Toronto with his wife and three
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Un caso de polio detectado en Nueva York el mes pasado es “solo la punta del iceberg” y un indicio de que “debe haber varios centenares de casos en la comunidad circulando”, declaró este miércoles a CNN un alto funcionario de los Centros de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) de Estados
Continue ReadingBy Glen McGregor, CTV National News Senior Political Correspondent Click here for updates on this story Ottawa, Canada (CTV Network) — A Canadian Armed Forces veteran has been charged with murder in connection to a mass shooting in Belize that left two people dead and eight others injured. J.R. Smith, who served with the Royal
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Jackson Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — New changes are in progress for the Southern Baptist Convention after an independent investigation accused several pastors and church leaders of sexual abuse. The SBC has formed a Sexual Abuse Taskforce, composed of nine people, that will develop recommendations to prevent
Continue ReadingBy Chuck Morris and Brendan Tierney Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A woman was rushed to the hospital Wednesday morning when her car fell off the upper level of a parking garage. The red pickup truck fell four stories out of the parking garage at Saint Thomas Hospital and
Continue ReadingBy Rebekka Schramm Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — Civil rights icon Rev. Al Sharpton is expected to deliver the eulogy Thursday at the funeral for Brianna Grier, a 28-year-old woman who died after an encounter with Hancock County deputies. Following the funeral, the family’s attorney, famed civil rights attorney
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET and VANESSA GERA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Firefighters from across Europe struggled Thursday to contain a huge wildfire in France that has swept through a large swath of pine forest, while Germans and Poles faced a mass fish die-off in a river flowing between their countries. Europe is suffering under a
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s big gains this summer have been spread widely across industries. The profit growth underpinning those gains? Not so much. While the energy sector has seen profits nearly quadruple amid sky-high prices for gasoline, overall earnings per share for the rest of the S&P
Continue ReadingBy Evan Sobol, Eliza Kruczynski, Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story MERIDEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A historic but unoccupied building in Meriden was torn down Wednesday night following a partial collapse. Meriden firefighters said they received a report of a building collapse around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Meriden police
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