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By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist. Sure, social media sleuths did piece together this week that the country superstar had been quietly paying for the band uniforms of many Tennessee high schools for years. And yes, it
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By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press Once again, disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein sits in a courtroom, on trial in Los Angeles while the reckoning the accusations against him launched marks a significant milestone this month: It’s been five years since a brief hashtag — #MeToo — galvanized a broad social movement. The Associated
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By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press Once again, disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein sits in a courtroom, on trial in Los Angeles while the reckoning the accusations against him launched marks a significant milestone this month: It’s been five years since a brief hashtag — #MeToo — galvanized a broad social movement. The Associated
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction. The group Just Stop Oil which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects, said activists dumped two cans of Heinz tomato soup over the oil painting, one of
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her Treasury chief ahead of a hastily arranged news conference on Friday as she struggled to calm markets and hang on to her job following the release of a controversial economic plan. Kwasi Kwarteng’s departure comes after
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Four astronauts boarded a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and returned home from the International Space Station on Friday, bringing an end to their nearly six-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts — NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti with the European Space Agency or ESA
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton proudly accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall Thursday night, saying she was “proud and honored to be a part of anything that is going to make the world a better place.” The country superstar was celebrated along with Dallas entrepreneur
Continue Reading By STEVE PEOPLES and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democrats across Ohio are pleading for help in the state’s Senate contest, afraid they may lose a winnable election unless national party leaders make major investments in the coming days. So far, the most powerful groups in Democratic politics have prioritized Senate
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN In the last six months, Virginia Evans said sometimes her toilets wouldn’t flush or the water coming out the faucets at her Jackson, Mississippi home, was brown and had low pressure. The water crisis, Evans said, has been so troubling that she remains afraid to drink or cook with it
Continue Reading WRAL, WTVD, TWITTER|@RALEIGHPOLICE, MAPBOX, CNN By Ray Sanchez, Ryan Young, Devon Sayers and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A 15-year-old suspect is in custody after five people were killed and at least two others wounded in a mass shooting Thursday in Raleigh that North Carolina’s governor called a “moment of unspeakable agony.” A handgun and long gun
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN The skin of a 67-million-year-old dinosaur has revealed bites and gashes from an ancient crocodile, and how its flesh was ripped apart may explain why it became mummified. Skin decays much more easily than bone so it’s extremely rare to find fossilized dinosaur skin. New research on a 7-meter (23-foot) long
Continue ReadingCNN By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Home sales in the US declined for the eighth month in a row in September as surging mortgage rates and high prices pushed buyers out of the market. Sales of existing homes — which include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops — were down 23.8% in September from a
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn and Jordan Valinsky, CNN Kroger announced Friday that it plans to buy Albertsons in a nearly $25 billion deal that could change the US retail industry and impact how millions of customers buy their groceries. The deal, which is expected to close in 2024, would combine two of the largest supermarket chains
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British media say Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng has left the government, ahead of an announcement by Prime Minister Liz Truss on changes to an economic package that sparked market turmoil. The BBC and Sky News reported Kwarteng’s departure on Friday. It comes after a
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s third quarter profits fell by 17% from a year earlier, as the bank set aside roughly a billion dollars to cover potential losses in what CEO Jamie Dimon has said a could be a recession in six to nine months. While
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wells Fargo easily beat Wall Street’s third-quarter revenue forecasts as higher interest rates helped offset a steep decline in home lending. The nation’s biggest mortgage lender brought in $19.5 billion in revenue for the period, thanks to $12.1 billion in net interest income, a 36% increase
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Two of the nation’s largest grocers have agreed to merge in a deal that would help them better compete with Walmart, Amazon and other major companies that have stepped into the grocery business. Kroger on Friday bid $20 billion for Albertsons Companies Inc., or $34.10 per share. Kroger will
Continue ReadingCNN, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER By Brenda Goodman, CNN Iana dos Reis Nunes was 43 when she told her husband that she could feel something like a bubble in her abdomen when she lay on her side. An ultrasound scan found spots on her liver, which led to blood tests and a
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Ringo Starr canceló el resto de su gira por América del Norte después de dar positivo por covid-19 nuevamente. El exbaterista de los Beatles tuiteó este jueves que estaba “sorprendido” por el resultado positivo de su prueba. El 3 de octubre, el músico pospuso varias fechas de su gira por
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Beyond Meat is undertaking a second round of job cutting and trimmed its revenue expectations for the year as it cuts costs to offset a decline in sales. The company said Friday that 200 job cuts, which amount to about 19% of its total global workforce, will be mostly
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