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By Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — A judge paused in two Southern states a new federal mandate that employers give workers seeking elective abortions time off to obtain and recover from the procedure. US District Judge David C. Joseph in a Monday order partially halted the new rule being implemented by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Kevin Costner wants you to know that his new film, the first part of “Horizon: An American Saga,” is not three hours long. “It’s two hours and fifty-one minutes,” he told CNN in a recent interview as he sipped on a soothing cup of tea with honey during
Continue ReadingBy SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Citizens of Kosovo and Israel will be able to visit the other nation without visas following an agreement between the two governments. The visa waiver agreement was signed Tuesday in the Kosovar capital, Pristina, by visiting Israeli Interior Minister Moshe Arbel and Kosovar
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Extreme heat alerts affected tens of millions of people in the United States on Tuesday as cities including Chicago broke records at the start of a week of sweltering weather. Midwestern states started to bake Monday in what the National Weather Service called a dangerous and long duration heat wave expected
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is discontinuing its buy now, pay later service known as Apple Pay Later barely a year after its initial launch in the U.S., and will rely on companies who already dominate the industry like Affirm and Klarna. It’s an acknowledgement from a company known
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is discontinuing its buy now, pay later service known as Apple Pay Later barely a year after its initial launch in the U.S., and will rely on companies who already dominate the industry like Affirm and Klarna. It’s an acknowledgement from a company known
Continue ReadingBy Nicki Brown and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — New York’s highest court has declined to hear Donald Trump’s appeal on the gag order in his hush money case, according to a decision list posted Tuesday. The gag order, issued by Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case against Trump, remains in effect. Separately, Trump has asked
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jeff Nichols had dreamt of making a film about a 1960s motorcycle clubs for over 20 years. The obsession started in his brother’s apartment, when he first cracked open Danny Lyon’s book “The Bikeriders,” a New Journalism-style account of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the mid-1960s. He could
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Preventive Services Task Force updated its final recommendations Tuesday for how primary care clinicians can best help children with a high body mass index, the measure most practitioners use to determine whether a person has obesity. The task force suggested that extensive and intensive behavioral interventions are
Continue ReadingBy DEBORAH BRENNAN/CalMatters CalMatters SAN DIEGO (AP) — Several members of California’s Legislative Black Caucus launched a statewide tour in San Diego Saturday to promote a slate of 14 reparations bills, including a measure that could change the state constitution to end forced prison labor. That measure and several others designed to mitigate the effects
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A team of Haitian police commanders have met Kenya’s inspector general of police ahead of a planned deployment to the violence-hit Caribbean country expected to take place by the end of June. Kenya is set to lead a U.N.-backed multinational peacekeeping mission with officers drawn from
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Russian authorities have detained three people in connection with a suspected botulism outbreak. It’s a move that comes after dozens of people in four different Russian regions have been hospitalized with symptoms of the rare and dangerous disease. Officials link the outbreak to ready-to-eat salads made by a popular delivery
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary’s populist government says its presidency of the European Union will be held under the motto “Make Europe Great Again.” But Budapest is playing down any parallels with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement in the United States. EU Affairs Minister János Bóka said Tuesday that “I don’t know
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses are increasingly concerned about payment fraud. In a recent survey from KeyBank, 44% of small business owners said they worried about unauthorized transactions or unauthorized electric fund transfers; 37% were concerned about identity theft; 28% said malware and ransomware attacks were their biggest
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A cruise ship starring some of Broadway’s biggest names, including Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti and Emmy-winner Wayne Brady, will sail from Miami to Mexico next spring. The Broadway Cruise will travel to Cozumel and back March 31-April 4, 2025. The cruise will also feature Tony
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer U.S. lawmakers are expected to press Boeing’s chief executive Tuesday about the company’s latest plan to fix its manufacturing problems, and relatives of people who died in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners plan to be in the room, watching him. CEO David Calhoun is scheduled to appear
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jeff Nichols had dreamt of making a film about a 1960s motorcycle clubs for over 20 years. The obsession started when he first cracked open Danny Lyon’s book “The Bikeriders,” a New Journalism-style account of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the mid-1960s. He saw it as a story
Continue ReadingBy Scarlett Conlon, CNN (CNN) — With flyers strewn across the floor, metal barriers covered in recycled plastic, and a sporadic assembly of plastic chairs arranged in dimly-lit arts space south of central Milan, British menswear designer Martine Rose eschewed the polish often associated with the Italian fashion capital, giving guests a taste of her
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their records Tuesday following the latest signal that the economy’s growth may be slowing without cratering, as hoped. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% a day after setting an all-time high for the 30th time this year. The Dow Jones Industrial
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — The post-pandemic surge in global sales of luxury handbags, shoes and apparel is set to stall this year amid a creativity crisis and price hikes as brands shift focus to the biggest spending customers, a new study by the Bain consultancy said Tuesday. Bain is forecasting
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