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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is opening mixed after data suggested the U.S. job market is still plenty warm enough to keep the economy growing but maybe not so hot that it stokes inflation. The S&P 500 was little changed in early trading Friday. The Dow fell 42 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq
Continue Reading By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s lower house of Congress has approved a major reform of the nation’s notoriously complicated tax system, showing compromise is possible between the conservative Congress and leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The long-awaited tax reform aims to simplify the system, widely considered overly
Continue Reading By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi government spokesman says Baghdad has opened an investigation into the case of a dual Israeli-Russian academic who has been missing in Iraq since last March. The spokesman’s comments on Friday were the first official Iraqi statements since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Humanoid robots say they could lead more efficiently than humans, but wouldn’t take anyone’s job away and had no intention of rebelling against their creators. Nine AI-enabled humanoid robots sat or stood with their creators at a podium in a Geneva conference center on Friday for what the United Nations’ International Telecommunication
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Having followed the dizzying path from one-woman play to Spotify podcast to Amazon series, “The Horror of Dolores Roach” flips the gender and venue on “Sweeney Todd,” becoming the latest show built around a serial killer. Yet the fact that its protagonist sort of stumbles into that avocation
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Agriculture has begun accepting applications for financial relief of up to $500,000 for farmers who have faced discrimination in its lending programs. Opening the application process is a step forward in the department’s effort to remedy decades of discrimination felt by farmers of color after
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The German government has warned the elderly, people with health conditions, pregnant women and parents with young children to seek out cool places amid forecasts for temperatures as high as 37 Celsius (99 Fahrenheit) over the weekend. Germany’s Health Ministry urged people to stay indoors, consume enough liquids and avoid strenuous activity,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Tracy Chapman is pretty reclusive, but she is commenting on a bit of history she made this week. “I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I’m honored to be there,” Chapman told Billboard in an exclusive statement. “I’m happy for Luke and his success
Continue ReadingBy Jeanine Barone, CNN (CNN) — In the sun-baked Alentejo region due southeast of Lisbon, the star is a body of water that has radically transformed a land long plagued by droughts: Alqueva Lake. This shimmering reservoir stretches across almost 100 square miles, making it among the largest manmade lakes in western Europe. It was
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Davies and Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — He might have won back-to-back Formula One drivers’ championships, but there is absolutely no indication that Max Verstappen is about take his foot off the gas. The 25-year-old has had an accelerated start to his young F1 career and it has become a strange sight to
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On Thursday, some of the nation’s largest truck makers pledged to stop selling new gas-powered vehicles in California by 2036. The agreement came between the truck makers and state regulators. California has been on a mission to stop using fossil fuels. In the last few years, new rules were implemented that work to get rid
Continue ReadingCNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The “Let’s do another ‘Bridesmaids’” energy is strong in “Joy Ride,” a road-trip comedy that peaks early and feels guilty of trying too hard thereafter. Built around a predominantly Asian-American cast, it’s so determined to be crude and edgy that while its friendship dynamic lingers, its initial
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The “Let’s do another ‘Bridesmaids’” energy is strong in “Joy Ride,” a road-trip comedy that peaks early and feels guilty of trying too hard thereafter. Built around a predominantly Asian-American cast, it’s so determined to be crude and edgy that while its friendship dynamic lingers, its initial cleverness
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El mercado de trabajo de EE.UU. finalmente se enfrió en junio de 2023, añadiendo solo 209.000 puestos de trabajo, informó la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales este viernes. El total de los empleos en junio fue inferior a la fuerte e inesperada cantidad de puestos de trabajo de mayo de 306.000,
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Continue ReadingGianluca Mezzofiore and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Construction workers have unearthed a white marble head in the historic center of Rome, the city’s mayor has revealed on social media. Posting a picture of the mud-covered relic on Twitter on Thursday, Mayor Roberto Gualtieri wrote: “#Roma continues to return precious evidence of its past: a
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By Conor Powell and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — A Princess Cruises ship crashed into a pier in San Francisco as it was preparing to dock after a 10-day Alaskan cruise, officials said. The 113,561-ton Ruby Princess “made unexpected contact with the dock at Pier 27” at the port of San Francisco Thursday morning, Princess
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It’s now been nearly a month since a Palm Springs man packed his bags and headed to Ukraine for humanitarian work. Just two nights into his arrival Nicholas Campbell got a small taste of what life had been like for those living in Ukraine. “At 2:30 in the morning, we were woken up to a
Continue Reading By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The shipping industry has agreed a climate pledge to reduce its planet-heating pollution to net zero “by or around” 2050. While the agreement, published on Friday, marks an increased climate ambition from a hugely polluting industry, experts have slammed the deal as woefully inadequate in the face of an
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El escritor peruano y Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa, de 87 años, recibió el alta este viernes tras haber sido hospitalizado por covid-19. Según anunció su hijo Álvaro a través de su cuenta oficial de Twitter, el literato ya “está recuperado” y por esta razón ha podido
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