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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday, according to the cryptocurrency platform and police. Officers responded to a report of a stabbing on Main Street at 2:35 a.m. Tuesday and found a 43-year-old
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday, according to the cryptocurrency platform and police. Officers responded to a report of a stabbing on Main Street at 2:35 a.m. Tuesday and found a 43-year-old
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants from coal-fired power plants. That’s an update to standards imposed more than a decade ago. The proposal would lower emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants that can harm brain development
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN This year’s MTV Movie and TV Awards will honor some old favorites and new delights. Blockbuster film “Top Gun: Maverick” joins TV shows “Stranger Things,” “The Last of Us,” “The White Lotus” and “Wednesday” with the most nominations among the scripted content. “Jersey Shore Family Vacation,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “The
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Lauren Fox, CNN Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday will become the second US House speaker to meet with Taiwan’s president in person in the span of a year when he sits down with Tsai Ing-wen in southern California. His meeting could be considered less provocative than Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island
Continue Reading By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the creators of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” initially set out to adapt the book of the same name, which critiques the docility of climate activism, director Daniel Goldhaber had in mind a very different movie than what they eventually made. “I was very
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, CNN Former top national security officials have told prosecutors and testified to a federal grand jury that they repeatedly told former President Donald Trump and his allies that the government didn’t have the authority to seize voting machines after the 2020 election, CNN has learned. Ken Cuccinelli, the former second in command
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La película “Barbie” se estrenará este verano boreal, y un nuevo tráiler de la cinta dirigida por Greta Gerwig reveló más detalles sobre la fantástica “Barbie Land”. Entre otras cosas, Margot Robbie, en el papel protagonista, y el Ken de Ryan Gosling lucen atuendos rosa chicle a juego mientras viajan en
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A maker of biomedical filters will invest $243 million to build a plant in Athens, Georgia, that is projected to eventually employ nearly 1,800 workers by 2031. Privately held Meissner Corp. of Camarillo, California, made the announcement Wednesday, saying it needs another site to make filters and
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Members of a House panel focused on US-China competition are set to meet with leaders from Silicon Valley and Hollywood during a multi-day tour of California beginning today, according to a source close to the committee. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party plan to meet with top
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Members of a House panel focused on US-China competition are set to meet with leaders from Silicon Valley and Hollywood during a multi-day tour of California beginning today, according to a source close to the committee. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party plan to meet with top execs
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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government has terminated the national state of disaster it declared two months ago to deal with an electricity crisis, although there are no signs that the power problems are ending. The government ended the state of disaster Wednesday while Africa’s most
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher and Devon M. Sayers, CNN North Carolina Republicans gained a veto-proof supermajority in the state House after a Charlotte-area Democrat announced Wednesday she was switching parties. State Rep. Tricia Cotham, who won as a Democrat in her blue district last fall by nearly 20 points, said at a news conference in Raleigh
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday he has “no doubt” that Russia has wrongfully detained an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was arrested last week on spying allegations. However, Blinken said a formal determination of Evan Gershkovich’s wrongful detention has not
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — An electric Ram pickup truck with up to 500 miles of range per charge and a battery-powered people-hauling Kia SUV are among the new vehicles being introduced Wednesday at the New York International Auto Show. The two debuts in New York on Wednesday are among only nine automaker press conferences, far short
Continue Reading By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press Lewis Capaldi’s first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy nomination for the singer-songwriter. Besting that with his sophomore album was daunting enough, but then he agreed to allow a Netflix documentary crew to follow him. Capaldi says, with his trademark wit, he wouldn’t
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are dipping on Wall Street Wednesday, and Treasury yields are dropping following the latest signals that the U.S. economy is slowing under the weight of much higher interest rates. The S&P 500 was 0.5% lower in midday trading, a day after it broke a
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A large tornado tore through southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday, causing widespread destruction and killing multiple people as a broad swath of the Midwest and South braced for further storms that could spawn additional twisters and hail. The tornado touched down around
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN After Twitter announced in February it would begin charging third parties to access its platform data, academic researchers warned that the vaguely worded plan could threaten important studies about how misinformation, harassment and other malicious activity spreads online. Now, as Twitter has released more pricing information, many of those same academics
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s governor has signed a bill criminalizing gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. Idaho is at least the 12th state to enact a law restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors, and nearly two dozen more are considering bills that would ban or restrict the care.
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