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By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers delivered a stunning burst of hiring to begin 2024, adding 353,000 jobs in January in the latest sign of the economy’s continuing ability to shrug off the highest interest rates in two decades. Friday’s government report showed that last month’s job gain —
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court says it has jurisdiction to rule on a request by Ukraine for a declaration that Kyiv is not responsible for genocide. The ruling Friday comes in the preliminary phase of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Moscow used trumped-up
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Devan Cole, CNN New York City (CNN) — New guidance from court officials suggests a verdict in the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Donald Trump could come any time in the next few weeks. “It’s looking like early to mid-February, as a rough
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Sofía Benavides Nota del editor: Valerii Zaluzhnyi ha sido comandante en jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas de Ucrania desde 2021. Este artículo fue escrito antes del esperado anuncio de su despido. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario son suyas. Lee un análisis detallado en inglés de CNN de este artículo aquí y el ensayo completo
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By Mitchell McCluskey, Amy Cassidy, Larry Madowo, Bethlehem Feleke and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A gas explosion at an unlicensed cooking gas-filling plant in Kenya’s capital on Thursday night killed at least three people and injured 280 others, according to authorities in the East African country. The blaze started when a truck carrying gas blew
Continue ReadingISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Scrutiny over Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up online, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions that are let off with each flight. The chatter heated up in the last few days after the Kansas City Chiefs, the team that Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A group of residents of towns near Japanese nuclear plants has submitted a petition asking regulators to halt safety screening for the restart of idled reactors until damage to a plant that partially lost external power and spilled radioactive water during a recent powerful earthquake is fully
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Police say a man has died after falling from the Tate Modern art gallery in London. The Metropolitan Police force said officers and ambulance crews were called to the gallery at about 10:45 a.m. (1045GMT) on Friday A man was pronounced dead at the scene. He has not yet been identified. Police
Continue ReadingCNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN New York (CNN) — The US economy added a stunning 353,000 jobs last month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday, registering a stronger-than-expected gain to kick off 2024 and underscoring the resilience of the US economy in an election year. The unemployment rate remained at 3.7% from the month
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin describes Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a battle for Russia’s survival as he campaigned for reelection next month in balloting that he’s all but certain to win. Speaking at a meeting with arms industries workers Friday in the city of Tula south of Moscow, Putin declared that the
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane. A lot has changed in three years. Biden, now
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane. A lot has changed in three years. Biden, now
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Worries about the downside of a too-hot job market are keeping Wall Street in check on Friday, drowning out some big gains for Big Tech stocks. Leaps for Meta Platforms and Amazon, which are two of the market’s most influential stocks, had the S&P 500
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has bolstered defenses at a base in Jordan that was attacked by Iran-backed militants as it prepares for a wider U.S. response to the drone attack that killed three service members, a U.S. official said Friday. Even as a larger U.S. military
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming Tokyo concert to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl the next day, she’d better already have a place to park her plane. Places to leave private aircraft at airports in and around
Continue ReadingBy Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Forget soccer’s transfer deadline day on Thursday. The only switch most sports fans were talking about was the announcement that seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton would be leaving Mercedes at the end of the this season to join Ferrari in 2025, replacing Carlos Sainz at the Italian outfit.
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president says the country’s government will seek an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the escalation of tensions with its former province of Kosovo after its government decided to ban the use of the Serbian dinar and introduce the euro in areas
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot and two people on the ground died when a small plane crashed into a Florida mobile home park. The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot reported engine failure shortly before disappearing from radar near the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. The pilot was
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press An aid memo seen by The Associated Press says that Eritrean troops are abducting farmers and stealing hundreds of livestock in border regions of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The memo prepared on Jan. 31 by the Ethiopia Health Cluster comes 15 months after a cease-fire ended a civil war there and called
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a pre-Grammy event, Mariah Carey used the Recording Academy stage to speak about fighting against conforming to certain music industry standards in an effort to create her music that would eventually appeal to the masses. “I was not encouraged to focus on my
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