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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s worst week since early December appears to be heading for a quiet end, with stocks mixed Friday as worries build about the economy’s strength. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 27 points, or
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Nordstrom are slumping in premarket trading Friday after the upscale department store chain cut its annual profit outlook amid lackluster holiday sales that forced it to slash prices. The Seattle-based chain said that net sales declined 3.5% for the nine-week holiday period ended
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slumped nearly 18% in 2022, the slowest year for the housing market in nearly a decade. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that existing home sales totaled 5.03 million last year, a 17.8% decline from 2021. That marks
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Inspections of ships carrying Ukrainian grain and other food exports have slowed to half their peak rate under a U.N.-brokered wartime agreement. That’s created backlogs in vessels meant to carry supplies to developing nations where people are going hungry. Some U.S. and Ukrainian officials accuse Russia
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN The real estate market took a downward turn in 2022, as rising interest rates rapidly slowed the frenzied sales activity seen the year before — but home prices still hit a record high. The median home sale price in 2022 was $386,300, up 10.2% from 2021 and the highest on record,
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By MICHAEL PHILLIS and ADAM BEAM Associated Press ACAMPO, Calif. (AP) — On Sunday morning, Kyle Starks woke up to floodwaters that reached the door of his Jeep after yet another heavy rain storm drenched California. Emergency crews showed up with boats to float Starks and other residents of his rural mobile home park in
Continue Reading By MICHAEL PHILLIS and ADAM BEAM Associated Press ACAMPO, Calif. (AP) — On Sunday morning, Kyle Starks woke up to floodwaters that reached the door of his Jeep after yet another heavy rain storm drenched California. Emergency crews showed up with boats to float Starks and other residents of his rural mobile home park in
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Cut the world some slack please, Apple TV+. The streamer has announced that Season 3 of “Ted Lasso” is happening in spring 2023. No actual date, just that. A first-look photo was also released featuring the character Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) and Nate Shelley (Nick Mohammed) standing face to face
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — El gobierno del presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, se encuentra en un punto muerto con Alemania sobre el envío de tanques a Ucrania, antes de una reunión clave de los líderes de defensa occidentales en Berlín este viernes. En los últimos días, funcionarios alemanes indicaron que no van a enviar
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Actor and producer Alec Baldwin is not the only public figure to face charges in connection to a death that resulted from a tragic event. Baldwin and a film armorer will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter by Santa Fe, New Mexico prosecutors in the shooting death
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN College freshman Dieunerst Collin’s road to internet meme fame started with a confused side-eye at a Popeyes in New Jersey. It was a decade ago, and the then 9-year-old was in line waiting for a family pack of chicken, biscuits and fries at the fast-food chain in Irvington. A stranger pulled
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN And you think you helped scarf down a really big pizza recently? You’ve got nothin’ on this one. When Pizza Hut decided to bring back its “big New Yorker” pizza — a cheese and pepperoni pie with foldable slices designed to be eaten on the go in true Manhattan style —
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Regal Cinemas is closing 39 more movie theaters across the United States. The decision comes four months after its parent company Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after the pandemic devastated the industry and public screenings. In a filing this week, Cineworld said it is planning to reject leases for the
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British scientists say they don’t think pollution killed thousands of crabs that washed up on beaches in northeast England in late 2021. The crustaceans were found dead or dying along more than 70 kilometers (44 miles) of coastline. Some displayed unusual “twitching” while in the throes of death. Environmentalists suspected toxins released
Continue Reading By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian state television says that a man’s body has been pulled out of a swollen river in a southwestern town and rescuers are searching for another man. Floods in the Balkans have closed down schools, cut railway traffic and soaked homes and farmland. The floods this
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday took its biggest swipe yet at app stores run by Apple and Google, with a new report accusing the two tech giants of exercising “gatekeeper” power that has led to “suboptimal” levels of competition in digital markets. The report published by the Commerce Department finds
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A wide range of businesses, internet users, academics and even human rights experts defended Big Tech’s liability shield Thursday in a pivotal Supreme Court case about YouTube algorithms, with some arguing that excluding AI-driven recommendation engines from federal legal protections would cause sweeping changes to the open internet. The diverse group
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — As Paris Fashion Week geared up for Dior Men, British designer Paul Smith went encyclopedic with his fall-winter menswear show. Smith delved into the history books for a thoughtful display on Friday that seemed to merge London from the 1970s with the city in the 1870s.
Continue ReadingBy Molly Stazicker and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will remain in police custody until February 27 after a Romanian court on Friday extended their detention, Tate’s lawyers told CNN affiliate Antena 3. The brothers are being investigated on allegations of human trafficking and rape. Authorities in Romania said police
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN The world economy is still in a sticky spot, according to the head of the International Monetary Fund, despite cautious optimism among economists and business leaders that slowing inflation means the worst of last year’s crises may be over. Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, said on Friday that conditions
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