By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite surging interest rates, punishing inflation and global turbulence, the U.S. economy stood firm last year. From employers to consumers, the picture was one of surprising resilience. This year may be shaping up as a more downbeat story. The economy is widely expected to decelerate steadily
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden capped South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official state visit with a glamorous state dinner at the White House Wednesday night to celebrate the two nations’ 70-year alliance. “This visit is about reaffirming all that unites our two nations. It’s
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is repealing a ban on city-funded travel to 30 states that it says restrict abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights after determining the boycott is doing more harm than good. The Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 on Tuesday to repeal a section of the city’s administrative code that prohibits staff
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Restaurant owners in Indio are encouraged to apply for a $5,000 grant that can be used for kitchen equipment, technical upgrades, employee training and bonuses, and to address unforeseen hardships. The grants are funded by a $1 million donation from SoCalGas to the California Restaurant Foundation’s Restaurants Care Resilience Fund. Independent restaurants with one to
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN Who says a metro has to be below ground? In Kochi, a city in southern India, it’s now easier to get around via waterways thanks to a new fleet of slick, brightly colored ferry boats. The “water metro” will connect Kochi, in Kerala state, with 10 nearby islands in the Arabian
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Dining Out For Life, an annual fundraising event that has collected more than 100 million dollars for community-based organizations that serve people living with or impacted by HIV since its inception in 1991 — will take place in Palm Springs and across the Coachella Valley on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Every year since 2005 —
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is repealing a ban on city-funded travel to 30 states that it says restrict abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights after determining the boycott is doing more harm than good. The Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 on Tuesday to repeal a section of the city’s administrative code that prohibits staff
Continue Reading By JOHN PERROTTO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — After 13 years in the minor leagues, Drew Maggi was greeted with a standing ovation when he made his major league debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night. The 33-year-old, who played 1,154 games in the minors, pinch hit for five-time All-Star Andrew McCutchen in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Chandelis Duster, CNN Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday spoke out against antisemitism and hate, pointing to his family history in the hope it would stand as an example for others. “My father was, and so many other millions of men were, sucked into a hate system through lies and deceit. And
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By Andy Rose, CNN A man was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in a 2018 road rage attack that left a child dead and injured his mother in a Denver suburb, officials said. Jeremy Webster, 28, had been accused of killing a 13-year-old boy, wounding his mother and injuring two
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden dijo que “evaluó seriamente” su propia edad cuando sopesaba la posibilidad de postularse a la reelección, en su primera respuesta directa a una pregunta sobre esta decisión desde que hizo el anuncio oficial de competir por un segundo mandato este martes. “(El electorado estadounidense) va a ver
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Shawna Mizelle, CNN The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a complaint challenging a recently enacted Tennessee bill that prohibits gender-affirming care for minors, saying it “denies necessary medical care to youth based solely on who they are.” DOJ argues in its complaint that the legislation violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection
Continue Reading By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new law banning transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care. According to the federal government, the statute should be blocked because it discriminates against people because of their transgender status. Nationally, Republican lawmakers have proposed hundreds of laws
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, Hannah Rabinowitz and Rachel Clarke, CNN The Justice Department team tasked with reviewing the botched law enforcement response to the deadly rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, is analyzing 13,000 pieces of evidence connected to the massacre ahead of a report it is expected to publish, the department said Wednesday.
Continue Reading By MATT CARLSON Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. drove in three runs with a pair of singles, lifting the San Diego Padres to a 5-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night. With runners at second and third in the seventh, Tatis hit Brandon Hughes’ 2-1 slider past diving Cubs third
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN Speaker Kevin McCarthy rolled the dice. As he took his short walk from the speaker’s suite to the House floor on Wednesday evening, the California Republican wasn’t entirely sure he would have the votes on the most important bill of his young speakership: To raise the
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Selina Wang, CNN When Ya Ya, a giant panda from China, landed in the United States in 2003, several hundred spectators at the Memphis International Airport broke into cheers to welcome the fluffy goodwill ambassador from Beijing. The moment encapsulated a high-point in US-China relations, coming two years after China joined
Continue ReadingCNN, WHBQ By Nectar Gan and Selina Wang, CNN When Ya Ya, a giant panda from China, landed in the United States in 2003, several hundred spectators at the Memphis International Airport broke into cheers to welcome the fluffy goodwill ambassador from Beijing. The moment encapsulated a high-point in US-China relations, coming two years after
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas board is telling high schools and middle schools that must see transgender athletes’ first birth certificates to decide what teams they can join. The Kansas State High School Activities Association wrestled with that issue Wednesday as an effort in the Legislature to end
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tucker Carlson emerged Wednesday, two days after Fox News fired him, with a two-minute, campaign-style monologue that didn’t address why he suddenly became unemployed. He posted a video on Twitter shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern, the time his Fox show used to begin, that talked
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