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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Foo Fighters have announced a new album is in the works, the first since the death of the band’s drummer, Taylor Hawkins. The rockers said in a statement that the upcoming 10-track “But Here We Are” will be “a brutally honest and emotionally raw response
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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Fox News’ nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have rippled through the United States for nearly three years. Several similar lawsuits
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is moving to contain an internal quarrel over some member nations temporarily banning imports of Ukrainian farm produce. The embargoes threaten to highlight divisions when the EU wants to show unity with Ukraine as it confronts Russia. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — China está haciendo “progresos significativos” en la construcción de la quinta instalación de investigación del país en la Antártida después de un paro de varios años en la construcción, según un informe del Centro de Estudios Estratégicos e Internacionales (CSIS, por sus siglas en inglés). El grupo de expertos afirma, en
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Tesla dropped the starting prices for its two top-selling models overnight, the company’s fourth price cut in the U.S. this year. The company lopped $3,000, or about 6%, off the starting prices for all three versions of the Model Y small SUV, Tesla’s top-seller. It also cut $2,000, or about 5%, from
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By Nick Valencia, Ray Sanchez, Pamela Kirkland and Maxime Tamsett, CNN The family of Tyre Nichols filed a federal $550 million lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Memphis, its police department and what the suit said were “unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised” officers assigned to a special unit who brutally beat the 29-year-old Black man after
Continue Reading NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus says it is seeking information from the U.S. and Britain on whether 13 Cypriot nationals included in a new round of sanctions targeting the financial networks of two Russian oligarchs have breached domestic and European Union laws. The government spokesman said Wednesday that President Nikos Christodoulides has asked for a
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is slipping Wednesday following mixed earnings reports from big U.S. companies and another signal that inflation remains painfully hot around the world. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower in midday trading, slicing off some of the gain it’s built this week. The Dow
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Tami Luhby, CNN Speaker Kevin McCarthy has settled on a plan to raise the national debt limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for an array of cuts across domestic programs, setting off a furious effort to wrangle GOP votes and escalating a high-stakes standoff with the White House. After months of
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN To borrow a line from another Disney+ series, it’s been the Empire all along. After a somewhat disjointed third season, “The Mandalorian” took a big step toward crystallizing its next phase in the last two episodes, which officially brought back the villainous Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) and made clear that
Continue Reading CNN, KTRK By Elizabeth Wolfe, Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Rosa Flores, CNN The most seriously injured of two teenage cheerleaders shot in a Texas parking lot this week — an incident in which one said she’d opened the wrong vehicle door — is recovering from surgery as her team prepares to compete in a
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a Turkish bank’s main arguments for avoiding prosecution on charges it helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions. But the court sent the case back to a lower court for additional review. Halkbank had argued that a federal law gave foreign states absolute immunity
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter appears to have quietly rolled back a portion of its hateful conduct policy that included specific protections for transgender people. The policy previously stated that Twitter prohibits “targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Turns out even good-looking, famous guys who play superheroes can get ghosted. Chris Evans, named People magazine’s 2022 Sexiest Man Alive and star of the new movie “Ghosted,” said that just like many of us, he has been humbled by a romantic interest who stopped communicating with him. In other words,
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Jeremy Diamond, CNN The US government’s Afghanistan watchdog told lawmakers Wednesday that he cannot say with certainty that US aid to the country is “not currently funding the Taliban.” “While I agree, and we all agree Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian and economic situation, it is critical that our
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By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a red hooded sweatshirt, hard hat and a pair of well-loved work boots, LaSonia Mansfield heads out alongside her daughter and forewoman, Deja Stocks, to survey the expansive construction site she is responsible for keeping safe and clean. For the next hour, they methodically
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Michelle Watson and Carma Hassan, CNN A 13-year-old in Ohio has died after “he took a bunch of Benadryl,” trying a dangerous TikTok challenge that’s circulating online, according to a CNN affiliate and a GoFundMe account from his family. Jacob Stevens was participating in a TikTok challenge with some friends at
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story FAR ROCKAWAY, Queens (WABC) — A 2-year-old girl fell out the fifth-story window of her Far Rockaway, Queens, apartment building — the second child to fall from a window on the same day. The girl was found on the grass outside the Seagirt Boulevard building
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN As she readies herself for perhaps the most arduous sailing race in the world, Clarisse Crémer does so not only as a competitor hoping to thrive during her three months alone at sea, but also as a guiding light for new mothers in the sport and beyond. For Crémer, the fastest
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN A new study on breast cancer deaths raises questions around whether Black women should screen at earlier ages. An international team of researchers wrote in the study, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Network Open, that clinical trials may be warranted to investigate whether screening guidelines should recommend Black women start
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