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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Hasbro’s profit and sales slipped in the third quarter as families watched their spending on toys more closely with inflation cutting into budgets. CEO Chris Cocks says there is increasing sensitivity to rising prices for the company’s average customer. Hasbro earned $129.2 million in the period, down 49%. Revenue
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By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country’s president called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark and make peace talks impossible. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said nearly one-third of
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose broadly in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as the market continues to claw back more of the ground it lost in a miserable few weeks of trading. The S&P 500 rose 2% as of 10:13 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial
Continue ReadingBy Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist A wintry air mass will cake decorative pumpkins with frost and put people in the mood for hot apple cider Tuesday and Wednesday. Freeze warnings, watches and frost advisories are in effect for over 100 million people from eastern Colorado to the Appalachians — and all the way south to
Continue ReadingCNN By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist A wintry air mass will cake decorative pumpkins with frost and put people in the mood for hot apple cider Tuesday and Wednesday. Freeze warnings, watches and frost advisories are in effect for over 100 million people from eastern Colorado to the Appalachians — and all the way south
Continue ReadingBy Duarte Mendonca, CNN The UK government has warned that current and former British military pilots are being lured to China with large compensation packages to train the country’s armed forces, and said it would take measures to stop such recruitment schemes amid national security concerns. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it believes
Continue Reading By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Incoming Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has vowed to set the country on a new course on immigration, criminal justice and energy policy as he presented a center-right coalition government led by his conservative Moderate Party. Thirteen new ministers are Moderates, six are Christian Democrats and five
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Police say two people have been killed and another seriously wounded in a stabbing in southwestern Germany. Police said that they were alerted to the stabbing in a suburb of the city of Ludwigshafen on Tuesday afternoon. The 25-year-old suspect, a Somali citizen, initially fled the scene and was detained in a
Continue Reading By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will promise Tuesday that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to sign abortion protections into law. That’s a big if. It’s
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s main opposition party is seeking the suspension of the enforcement of a newly-approved media law that mandates prison terms for disinformation. Parliament approved the legislation that amends media laws with the aim of combating fake news last week. Critics fear that the measure will be used to further crack down
Continue Reading STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) — A college student died after being struck by the propeller of a small plane as he disembarked at an airport in southeast Georgia, authorities said. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Board are investigating the death Sunday night at Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport, FAA spokesman Steve Kulm said. Sani Aliyu,
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, Tierney Sneed and Evan Perez, CNN A French cement company admitted Tuesday to making millions of dollars of payments that supported ISIS and another terrorist organization as part of an effort to maintain its operations in Syria as the civil war escalated. The company, Lafarge SA, is paying a financial penalty of
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Jeremy Diamond and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday made a major promise on a push to put abortion rights into law as his party looks to seize on the politically divisive issue in the final push ahead of the midterm elections. At an abortion-rights-focused speech at a Democratic National
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macamilarincon (CNN) –– Mientras las protestas históricas y una sangrienta reacción autoritaria convulsionan Irán, el expresidente Barack Obama reflexionó sobre su respuesta a los levantamientos previos que vivió el país. Cómo las protestas en Irán se transformaron en un levantamiento nacional Durante las protestas de la Revolución Verde de 2009 en Irán, el entonces presidente
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Facebook parent Meta says it will sell off Giphy after running out of options to thwart a ruling by U.K. regulators, who again found that the deal to buy the GIF-sharing platform would limit competition and innovation. Britain’s competition watchdog had ordered Meta last year to
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Facebook parent Meta says it will sell off Giphy after running out of options to thwart a ruling by U.K. regulators, who again found that the deal to buy the GIF-sharing platform would limit competition and innovation. Britain’s competition watchdog had ordered Meta last year to
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top opposition leader has called on the country’s ruling party to fully clarify the facts surrounding an eight-year-old affair involving the illegal recordings of top politicians and coal imports from Russia. Tusk said Tuesday that it has long been clear that Russia was involved in
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top opposition leader has called on the country’s ruling party to fully clarify the facts surrounding an eight-year-old affair involving the illegal recordings of top politicians and coal imports from Russia. Tusk said Tuesday that it has long been clear that Russia was involved in
Continue ReadingBy John Amos Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — The latest Census numbers are out and it’s not looking good for the Bay Area. The San Francisco region leads the nation in the number of people fleeing the big city. But it’s who is leaving that could have an impact
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Jeremy Herb, CNN During a December 2019 Oval Office interview with then-President Donald Trump, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward asked whether his bellicose rhetoric toward North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had been intended to drive Kim to the negotiating table. “No. No. It was designed for whatever reason,
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