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By Angus Watson, Duarte Mendonca and Matt Foster, CNN Australia’s men’s cricket team has withdrawn from a series of upcoming matches against Afghanistan in protest over the ruling Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls’ education and employment, Cricket Australia (CA) said in a statement Thursday. The teams were scheduled to play three One Day International
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By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis is leading a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post of the Czech president. Babis was recently acquitted in a fraud trial. The former prime minister boosted his chances of winning in the first
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By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis is leading a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post of the Czech president. Babis was recently acquitted in a fraud trial. The former prime minister boosted his chances of winning in the first
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose 9.5% in 2022 as electric vehicle purchases nearly doubled, but demand slumped in December, foreshadowing weaker growth this year. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers says sales of SUVs, sedans and minivans in 2022 rose to 23.6 million.
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Some of your favorite movie stars, icons, and hit franchises return in 2023. Stacker lists the noteworthy movies, both big and small, premiering this year.
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Estey & Bomberger, LLP researched the contents of prescription drug advertisements, the associated FDA regulations, and the impact of pharmaceutical marketing on consumers to unpack what drug advertisements do and do not disclose to the public.
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HeyTutor cited data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to examine the impact of the pandemic on teacher shortages, exploring new policies and initiatives school districts have implemented to counter this issue.
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Stacker examined 2021 data from personal finance website WalletHub to determine the best lake towns to live in across the U.S.
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Growthink reviewed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to identify the top 10 industries with the highest business survival rates.
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Using Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics data, Get It Made assessed what is behind the recent surge in U.S. manufacturing jobs.
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Holly Yan, CNN Monterey Peninsula residents could soon be living on an island as mammoth flooding threatens to cut them off from the rest of California. The state has been hammered by a cascade of atmospheric rivers — long, narrow regions in the atmosphere that can carry moisture thousands of miles.
Continue Reading LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Police are pressing ahead with the clearance of a condemned village in western Germany where activists are vowing to hold out against its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. Officers resumed their effort on Thursday after working into the night to bring down activists from the
Continue Reading MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has pulled out of its upcoming men’s one-day international cricket series against Afghanistan, citing further restrictions on women’s rights imposed in the country by the ruling Taliban government. Australia was set to meet Afghanistan in the United Arab Emirates for three matches in March. But following consultation with the Australian
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN A number of key provinces and cities in China have announced their growth targets for this year, most of them above 5%, offering the first clues about the country’s economic path in 2023. Local governments across China began to convene this week for annual legislative sessions laying out their respective policy
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By Amanda Watts and Eric Levenson, CNN Days after the husband of missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe was arrested on a charge of misleading investigators, details of his tumultuous legal history are beginning to emerge. Ana Walshe told police in 2014 someone threatened to “kill (her) and her friend,” according to an incident report CNN
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu Dhabi’s state-run oil company and oversees its renewable energy efforts to be the president of the upcoming United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai. The announcement Thursday naming Sultan al-Jaber highlights the
Continue Reading By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — State officials in Republican-controlled Montana want to require prior authorization before its health department pays for abortions for people covered by Medicaid, a proposal critics say would reduce access and delay or even prevent abortion care for low-income women in the state. The Department of
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose 9.5% in 2022 as electric vehicle purchases nearly doubled, but demand slumped in December, foreshadowing weaker growth this year. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers says sales of SUVs, sedans and minivans in 2022 rose to 23.6 million.
Continue ReadingCNN By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN Officials are still trying to figure out exactly what led to the Federal Aviation Administration system outage on Wednesday but have traced it to a corrupt file, which was first reported by CNN. In a statement late Wednesday, the FAA said it was continuing to investigate the
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Foran and Melanie Zanona, CNN House Republicans are spotlighting the issue of abortion as they roll out their legislative agenda in the new Congress — a move that comes after the Supreme Court’s highly consequential decision last summer to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The GOP-led House voted on
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