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By MIKE CORDER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, her coffin borne by a horse-drawn gun carriage and trailed by grieving family members during a journey to the Houses of Parliament, where it will lie in state until the funeral early next
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By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A teenage girl died of an apparent overdose at a Los Angeles high school and police on Wednesday were investigating at least three other possible overdoses of teens in the area where officials warned that dealers are selling counterfeit pills laced with deadly fentanyl at a
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Days before he was gunned down in Los Angeles, rapper PnB Rock talked about fellow artists feeling targeted for robbery. In an interview with YouTuber DJ Akademiks about a week before he was shot and killed during a robbery while at Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles on Monday, PnB
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The commission of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria says an Israeli airstrike on the airport of the Syrian capital Damascus in June that forced it to close for two weeks led to the suspension of humanitarian activities during that period. On
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Reports that up to 100 staff at King Charles III’s former residence could lose their jobs has drawn criticism of the British monarchy, within days of his accession to the throne. The Guardian newspaper reported Tuesday that dozens of staff at Clarence House, Charles’ former official residence,
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — When it came time to showcase its electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV to the public this year, General Motors decided against doing so at the big Detroit auto show, as it typically would have done in the past. Instead, it unveiled the Equinox six days earlier. GM’s
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — When it came time to showcase its electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV to the public this year, General Motors decided against doing so at the big Detroit auto show, as it typically would have done in the past. Instead, it unveiled the Equinox six days earlier. GM’s
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is steadying itself after tumbling to its worst day in two years on fears about higher interest rates and the recession they could create. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in early Wednesday trading after drifting between small gains and losses. So was the Dow, a day after losing
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is steadying itself after tumbling to its worst day in two years on fears about higher interest rates and the recession they could create. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in early Wednesday trading after drifting between small gains and losses. So was the Dow, a day after losing
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN Business The European Union wants to raise €140 billion ($140 billion) by tapping the windfall earnings of some energy companies to help households and businesses pay eye-watering gas and electricity bills. On Wednesday, the European Commission proposed skimming off excess revenue from renewable and nuclear electricity producers, and taxing the windfall
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A strong typhoon made landfall on a group of Chinese islands on Wednesday as it headed toward the metropolis of Shanghai. Typhoon Muifa hit the Zhoushan archipelago, near the port city of Ningbo on the country’s east coast, at about 8:30 p.m., China’s National Meteorological Center said. It was forecast to weaken
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Juan Pablo Elverdin Minneapolis (CNN Business) — Justo un día después de que el decepcionante informe del Índice de Precios al Consumidor de agosto provocara un colapso en Wall Street, otro informe sobre la inflación indicó que el aumento de los precios al por mayor está mostrando signos de mejora. El Índice de Precios al
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will transfer $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to benefit the Afghan people as hunger grips every province there. In an announcement Wednesday, a year after the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal, the U.S. said the Taliban government will not have access to the
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business McDonald’s roughly 1,200 locations across the United Kingdom will close for most of the day Monday for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. “All of our UK restaurants will be closed on Monday until 5 pm, to allow everyone at McDonald’s to pay their respects to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” the company
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico five years ago and highlighted the funding problems the Caribbean island has long faced. Philanthropists are warning that many of those issues have not been addressed, just like the repairs still needed for the American territory’s physical infrastructure. The Category
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Jim Beam plans to ramp up bourbon production at its largest Kentucky distillery to meet growing global demand in a more than $400 million expansion to be powered by renewable energy. The project will increase capacity by 50% at the Beam plant in Boston, Kentucky, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — A French court is expected to issue a verdict in the trial of the Yemeni airline that operated a passenger plane that crashed in 2009, killing 152 people. While landing in strong winds, the aging Airbus A310 operated by Yemenia crashed into the Indian Ocean about 15 kilometers (9 miles) off the
Continue ReadingOpinion by Todd Greene, Ioana Marinescu, Jake Rosenfeld and Elisabeth Jacobs for CNN Business Perspectives Each day seems to bring new headlines of low-wage workers coming together to start a union. A historically tight labor market has given rise to a new era of worker power, although the conditions workers are protesting are far from
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Just one day after August’s disappointing Consumer Price Index report triggered a meltdown on Wall Street, a separate inflation report indicated that wholesale price increases are showing signs of improvement. The Producer Price Index, which tracks average changes in the prices paid to producers of goods and services, was up
Continue ReadingBy Yulia Kesaieva and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited newly liberated Izium in the northeastern region of Kharkiv on Wednesday, five days after the country’s forces recaptured the city. Photographs on the Facebook page of an army unit showed Zelensky at a ceremony in the main square to raise the Ukrainian
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