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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion combination after a court ruling blocked their merger. JetBlue said Monday that even though both companies still believe in the benefits of a combination, they felt they were unlikely to meet the required closing conditions before the July 24
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling barring liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin from running in the upcoming presidential election. Nadezhdin, a city council member, was nominated by the Civic Initiative party to run in an election President Vladimir Putin is all but set to win. He has been vocal against the
Continue ReadingKATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s two largest communist parties joined forces to form a new coalition government that would include smaller parties as partners. Maoist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal will remain the prime minister a year after he was elected to the office. Dahal has ended his partnership with the Nepali Congress party which
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Wall Street drifted modestly lower before the open on Monday as markets turn their attention this week to a trove of labor market data and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s appearance before Congress. Futures for the S&P 500 slipped 0.1% before the bell and futures for the
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press KUCOVE, Albania (AP) — NATO member Albania has inaugurated a refurbished Soviet-era air base, the alliance’s first in the Western Balkan region. The air base is named after the small town of Kucove, 52 miles south of the capital Tirana. Officials said the new air base will serve as a
Continue ReadingBy KATIE MARIE DAVIES and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has vehemently rejected allegations that Russia’s leak of a conversation by high-ranking German military officers was an indication Berlin was preparing for war against Russia. The government is at the same time trying to contain the domestic fallout from the
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won the Republican presidential primary in Washington, DC, after three days of voting in the party’s only capital polling location – a downtown hotel. Haley’s victory – her first of the primary – comes on the eve of what is expected to be a decisive
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British police have recovered a Ferrari stolen from Formula One driver Gerhard Berger in Italy almost three decades ago. The red Ferrari F512M was one of two sports cars taken while their drivers were in Imola for the San Marino Grand Prix in April 1995. Neither was ever found, until London’s Metropolitan
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Shehbaz Sharif has been sworn in as Pakistan’s new prime minister. It’s the second time he’s had the job. Monday’s swearing-in ceremony saw Sharif pledging to perform his duties and functions with honesty and loyalty and always for the country’s independence. But he has a tough task of bringing lawmakers together to
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An online protest campaign exposing corruption has rattled government officials and others in Uganda, where street protests are practically outlawed. The campaign, which relies on leaks of official documents, has been presented on the social media platform X as an “exhibition” — in a sequence of
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — Last month, news surfaced that major companies like Walmart, Starbucks, Delta and Chevron were using AI to monitor employee communications. The reaction online was swift, with employees and workplace advocates worrying about a loss of privacy. But experts say that while AI tools might be new, watching, reading
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — More than 61,000 pounds Trader Joe’s steamed chicken soup dumplings are being recalled due to possible contamination with hard plastic from a permanent marker. The dumplings were produced by CJ Foods Manufacturing Beaumont Corporation in California on December 7 and shipped to Trader Joe’s locations nationwide, according to an
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The National Weather Service is warning of an elevated fire risk through Monday in areas of the northern Texas Panhandle where large wildfires are burning. Strong winds spread flames over the weekend and led to the evacuation of the small town of Sanford. A cluster of
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters (Reuters) — Four decades after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given just six months to live, Bert Janssen has set a Guinness World Record as the longest-surviving transplant patient. “I want to be an example for people,” said the Dutchman, who was 17 when he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy,
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have ordered a nighttime curfew after an explosion of violence when gang gunmen overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend. A 72-hour state of emergency began Sunday night. The government said it would set
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By Eve Brennan and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Around 170 people have been “executed” in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso’s northern Yatenga province, the regional public prosecutor has said. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly said in a statement on Friday that his office was initially informed of the “massive murderous attacks” in the villages
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for breaking the bloc’s competition laws by unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals. Apple muzzled app developers from telling users where they could
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — For one of Germany’s most established soccer teams, earning a nickname for your propensity to fall short at the final hurdle isn’t ideal. For Bayer Leverkusen it was the moniker ‘Neverkusen,’ notably in 2002 when a team, which included Michael Ballack, Oliver Neuville, Dimitar Berbatov, Lúcio and Zé Roberto,
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Here’s one simple thing you can do to ease you and your children into getting up an hour earlier when Daylight Saving Time rolls around on Sunday, March 10 — start adapting today by going to bed and waking up earlier each day until the time change. “Planning for
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Ed Pierson volaba de Seattle a Nueva Jersey en 2023, cuando terminó abordando un avión en el que nunca quiso volar. El residente de Seattle reservó con Alaska Airlines en marzo pasado. Seleccionó deliberadamente un vuelo con un avión en el que estaba feliz de abordar, esencialmente, cualquier cosa menos un
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