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Issy Ronald, CNN A license plate has sold for an eye-watering 55 million dirhams ($15 million) at a charity auction in Dubai, fetching what organizers Emirates Auction say is a world record price. Simply reading “P7,” the vanity plate smashed the previous record which belonged to Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Khouri who bought a license plate
Continue ReadingCNN, WFOR, WSVN By Joe Sutton, Taylor Ward and Travis Caldwell, CNN More rain is in the forecast after substantial downpours inundated Fort Lauderdale and parts of South Florida in a 1-in-1,000 year rainfall event, leading to a flash flood emergency in Broward County that closed schools, forced drivers to abandon their cars and shut
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Mackenzie Click here for updates on this story MCDOWELL COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A McDowell County man is working to reunite a lost prosthesis with its rightful owner. The prosthesis, custom fit for a right lower leg amputee, was found on March 11 in the middle of U.S. 221 near Marion. William
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu, Oliver Briscoe and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Hundreds of thousands of people took part in a fresh round of demonstrations across France on Thursday over government plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, a day before a crucial court ruling on the constitutionality of the divisive law. Protesters in Paris
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Even as rents are cooling in some parts of the country, it has never cost more to rent a Manhattan apartment as it did in March. Typically, rental activity builds from the spring to a peak in late summer, but median rent last month was the highest on record, according to
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Companies across the S&P 500 are expected to report the biggest drop in earnings since the spring of 2020 when first-quarter results begin rolling out this week. The only question for many on Wall Street is how much worse they will get. Still-high inflation, a
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN The federal appeals court ruling Wednesday night that is keeping medication abortion drugs available is likely to complicate abortion access across the country, even in places where the procedure is legal. Since the Supreme Court overturned of Roe v. Wade last year, abortion pills — and the US Food and Drug
Continue Reading CIRCLE PINES, Minn. — Northern Technologies: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that Germany’s imports from Russia fell by more than 90% in the first year of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, largely as a result of the collapse of Russian energy deliveries to Europe’s biggest economy. The Federal Statistical Office said Thursday that Germany imported goods worth 300 million euros ($329
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Dean and Anna Chernova, CNN A fresh leak of classified US intelligence documents suggests broad infighting between Russian officials, including some within the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Defense Ministry, the New York Times reported Thursday. CNN has not independently verified the documents. The NYT said it had shown the new 27-pages of
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Trading was muted on Wall Street early Thursday, one day after a report showed that inflation in the U.S. eased and Federal Reserve officials said they expect fewer interest rate hikes this year. Futures for the Dow were mostly unchanged and futures for the S&P 500
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN When Eileen Monaghan’s cousin Nora died in 2014, Eileen grieved not only the loss of a beloved older relative but also her last link to Ireland. Eileen’s grandmother emigrated from the tiny village of Shalvey, in Donegal, Ireland in the late 1800s. Growing up in the US, young Eileen loved hearing her
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is closing out a three-week push to highlight the benefits of infrastructure investments in local communities by awarding nearly $300 million to help repair or replace more than a dozen bridges. Events in several states Thursday will mark the end of the
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN President Joe Biden made a gaffe during his visit to Ireland on Wednesday as he confused a rugby team with a controversial 1920s-era British police force. Biden was speaking at the Windsor Bar in Dundalk, Ireland, when he appeared to mistake New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the Black and
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, CNN To those who knew former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan‘s one-time chief of staff, Roy McGrath was fastidious to a fault. He was task-oriented and straight-laced, a career public servant and political operator who was quirky and deeply concerned about his image. What McGrath did not seem to be, they said, was
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una colección de documentos clasificados del Pentágono filtrados resaltan las preocupaciones de Estados Unidos sobre la creciente influencia de China y Rusia en América Latina y África. Entre los detalles hay referencias al grupo de mercenarios rusos Wagner que evalúa aceptar un contrato para luchar contra las bandas criminales en
Continue ReadingCNN By Chris Isidore, CNN Delta Air Lines reported record advanced bookings for this coming summer, a further sign that the US airline industry is putting the pandemic-caused losses behind it. But rising labor costs did result in a net loss in the period, even if the company reported a profit when excluding special items,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Delta Air Lines reported record advanced bookings for this coming summer, a further sign that the US airline industry is putting the pandemic-caused losses behind it. But rising labor costs did result in a net loss in the period, even if the company reported a profit when excluding special items, the
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La tasa de suicidios en Estados Unidos volvió a un máximo casi récord en 2021, revirtiendo dos años de declive, según un informe publicado este jueves por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades, CDC. Los datos finales del año muestran que el suicidio fue la undécima
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN A Botox blog promoting injections to mothers on the school run has been banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exploiting women’s insecurities and perpetuating “harmful” gender stereotypes. The action was taken following a complaint to the ASA, the UK’s regulator of advertising, about a promotional page on www.glowday.com, a
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