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By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business American shoppers spent more in October, showing continued resilience amid persistently high inflation and an early start to the holiday shopping season. US retail sales rose 1.3% in October, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. That’s the biggest monthly gain since February and better than the 1% economists had expected. Consumer
Continue ReadingBy Kristy Kepley-Steward Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — The Asheville Police Department is asking for help identifying a suspect who reportedly broke into a West Asheville restaurant early Monday morning but managed to leave his burglary tools behind. Authorities say on Monday, Nov. 14., at around 4:37 a.m.,
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By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers U.S. futures shifted between small gains and losses early Wednesday morning after Target issued a lackluster profit report, while investors awaited the U.S. government’s latest retail sales data. Futures for the Dow Jones and S&P 500 were essentially unchanged one hour before the opening bell. Shares
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Russia’s ability to spy in Europe has been dealt the “most significant strategic blow” in recent history after coordinated expulsions of diplomats since the invasion of Ukraine, with a hundred diplomatic visa requests refused in the UK alone in recent years, according to the head of the UK’s security services,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business FTX Digital Markets, the Bahamas-based unit of the recently collapsed cryptocurrency trading platform, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US. The company filed Tuesday in New York court under Chapter 15, which is a way for foreign companies to use US bankruptcy law to restructure debt — commonly done
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Carlos Alcaraz termina el año como el número 1 más joven en la historia del tenis masculino, después de que Rafael Nadal fuera eliminado de las ATP Finals. A la edad de 19 años y 214 días, el campeón del US Open Alcaraz supera el récord de Lleyton Hewitt, quien terminó
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a blast in Poland that killed two people probably wasn’t an attack by Russia. He said Wednesday that it appears to have been caused by a Ukrainian air defense system meant to counter a Russian aerial bombardment. His remarks came after NATO
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk says Twitter is a software and servers company at its heart and wants employees to decide by Thursday evening if they want to remain a part of the business, according to an email the new owner sent to Twitter workers. Musk wrote that
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk says Twitter is a software and servers company at its heart and wants employees to decide by Thursday evening if they want to remain a part of the business, according to an email the new owner sent to Twitter workers. Musk wrote that
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has given employees until Thursday evening to commit to “extremely hardcore” work or else leave the company, according to a copy of a late-night internal email sent by the billionaire and obtained by CNN. “Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN When former President Donald Trump phoned Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to “find” votes to overturn the 2020 presidential election results on January 2, 2021, Fani Willis had only been in office as Fulton County district attorney for a day. She had campaigned on the premise of restoring
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Kaufman and Oren Liebermann, CNN A congressional report has found that sexual misconduct by instructors in a military leadership program operating in high schools across the United States was a bigger issue than previously known. There were 58 substantiated allegations of sexual abuse, harassment and other forms of sexual misconduct over the past
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Convinced that the boom in leisure travel is permanent, Airbnb aims to expand its listings by convincing more people to turn their homes into short-term rentals. The company said Wednesday that it will increase the amount of liability coverage for hosts, up to $3 million, in a play for
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Convinced that the boom in leisure travel is permanent, Airbnb aims to expand its listings by convincing more people to turn their homes into short-term rentals. The company said Wednesday that it will increase the amount of liability coverage for hosts, up to $3 million, in a play for
Continue Reading By KRISTIN SHAW Edmunds Cadillac unveiled the CT4-V Blackwing as a new-for-2022 version of the CT4 sedan, which the luxury brand debuted in 2020. As the Blackwing, Cadillac’s sporty sedan can hold its own against European rivals. That includes the ferocious BMW’s M3, which has been a staple in the German brand’s lineup for decades.
Continue Reading By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday that a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people appeared to be unintentional and was probably launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine. Russia had been bombarding Ukraine at the time
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By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday that a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people did not appear to be intentional and was probably launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine. Russia had been bombarding Ukraine at
Continue Reading By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Six weeks before taking power, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday told a packed crowd at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt that his administration would crack down on illegal deforestation and thrust Latin America’s largest and most populous nation to the
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN US climate envoy John Kerry confirmed to CNN that formal climate talks with China have restarted at the UN’s COP27 summit in Egypt, lifting a months-long freeze on negotiations and showing an early sign of concrete results from a meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping
Continue Reading KCAL, KCBS By Taylor Romine, CNN Two people were stabbed, including a 9-year-old boy, at a Target store in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday evening in what police are describing as an “unprovoked” and “heinous act.” The suspect, a 40-year-old man, was shot and killed by a security guard who confronted him, according to Los Angeles
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