By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Exxon Mobil’s third-quarter profit declined compared with last year when the oil giant was put up record numbers due to soaring crude prices, but net income was up 15% compared with the previous quarter. It also raised its quarterly dividend. Those lofty crude prices have fueled a shopping spree
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — The California Department of Motor Vehicles Tuesday revoked Cruise’s permits to test and operate fully driverless vehicles on the state’s roads. The California DMV said, in part, it was because Cruise, which is GM’s self-driving vehicle technology subsidiary, withheld video and information about a crash involving a pedestrian. The
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Several agencies were working to contain a 100-acre wildfire burning in Palm Springs early Friday morning at the base of the mountains near Tramway Road and Highway 111. Firefighters were called to the scene shortly after midnight of the flames burning near the Palm Springs Visitors Center. According to Palm Springs Fire Department’s Battalion Chief
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to reopen the case of a well-known priest-artist accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing adult women. The Vatican says Francis has removed the statute of limitations on their claims to allow a canonical trial to proceed. The announcement came just
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Cooper Flagg, the consensus top player in the 2024 recruiting class, says his focus is on the tragedy of a mass shooting in his home state of Maine, an indication that an announcement on where he will play college basketball could be delayed. The 6-foot-9 small forward has been deciding between
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders believe it’s time to lay the foundations for a future relationship between Israel and the Palestinians where the militant group Hamas does not control Gaza. The 27-nation bloc is exploring ways to realize a long-held EU ideal — two states living peacefully side by
Continue ReadingBy Abigail Holmes, Sara Tonks, CNN (CNN) — Trick-or-treaters are in for a shock this Halloween as an impressive shot of cold air from Canada plunges into the US and temperatures plummet in its wake. High pressure from Canada will slide into the central US and keep conditions dry for many trick-or-treaters. But it will
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Kane, CNN Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each episode will focus on one of those states — the distracted brain, the frightened brain, the depressed brain and others — to spotlight what
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Private-equity billionaire Stephen Schwarzman doesn’t think office workers worked hard enough during Covid-19. Schwarzman, the Blackstone CEO whose fortune is estimated at $32 billion, told a crowd of investors at a ritzy Saudi Arabia conference known as “Davos in the Desert” that people who worked remotely during the pandemic
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — On Friday, Dr. Ankit Patel will become a pharmaceutical pioneer. He’ll be the first pharmacist to legally sell medical cannabis from a pharmacy counter in the United States. “It’s awesome,” Patel said. “It’s historic.” Patel’s Robins Pharmacy and two others in the same region, Omega Pharmacy and the Allen
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian activists have slammed the government’s plan for a weeklong program in schools to support the Palestinian cause after pictures of students and teachers toting toy guns went viral on social media. The Education Ministry says the Palestine Solidarity Week program starting Monday is to teach students empathy and concern
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — It was a near perfect night for Liverpool in the Europa League on Thursday, with the Reds producing an exciting 5-1 win against French side Toulouse. It was also a special game for winger Mohamed Salah, with the Egyptian star coming on as a second-half substitute to score his
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Kris Jenner is opening up about infidelity in her marriage to her late ex-husband, Robert Kardashian. Jenner has previously talked about cheating on her first husband. In the latest episode of “The Kardashians,” she reveals why she made that choice. In a conversation with daughter Khloé Kardashian, Jenner said
Continue ReadingCNN By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Kris Jenner is opening up about infidelity in her marriage to her late ex-husband, Robert Kardashian. Jenner has previously talked about cheating on her first husband. In the latest episode of “The Kardashians,” she reveals why she made that choice. In a conversation with daughter Khloé Kardashian, Jenner
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s giant property developer Country Garden has been declared in default on its debt after failing to make a bond repayment by a final deadline of October 18. A panel of global banks and investors said Thursday that a “failure to pay” event had occurred on that
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay and Patrick Sung, CNN (CNN) — FC Barcelona coach Xavi said that he hopes Saturday’s El Clásico can be played with “mutual admiration” after a board member at the club deleted a derogatory social media post about Real Madrid forward Vinícius Jr. Earlier this week, Miquel Camps, the deputy spokesperson for Barcelona’s board of directors, posted about
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An independent probe has found “serious failings” in how NatWest Group’s private and exclusive Coutts Bank shut down the account of the right-wing British politician Nigel Farage. Law firm Travers Smith was appointed to conduct a review in the wake of Farage’s so-called “debanking” at NatWest-owned Coutts
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s ruling party has selected as its leader the daughter of Thaksin Shinawatra, the country’s divisive former prime minister, highlighting the family’s continuing influence more than two decades after Thaksin entered politics. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thaksin’s youngest daughter, was voted into the post at a meeting at the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian state news agency Tass says Iran’s deputy foreign minister met Hamas representatives in Moscow. Thursday’s meeting is likely to draw condemnation from Israel which criticised Russia’s decision to invite the Hamas representatives and called for them to be expelled from Russia. The Iranian deputy foreign minister and Hamas representative discussed
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of a US Air Force B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea on Tuesday, according to the US military. The Chinese pilot “flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner, demonstrated poor airmanship by closing with uncontrolled excessive speed, flying below,
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