Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Jimmy Carter sets a new record on October 1, his birthday, when he will become the first American president to reach triple digits. It’s a milestone more and more Americans will reach in the years to come – and something the American social safety net is not
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By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s imports and exports in what could become the country’s most disruptive work stoppage in decades.
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden offered a 100th birthday greeting to former President Jimmy Carter, celebrating a predecessor he said he admires “so darn much.” Calling the former president a “moral force for our nation and the world,” Biden heralded Carter as “a voice of courage, conviction, compassion, and most of
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, hizo sus primeras declaraciones públicas desde su liberación tras llegar a un acuerdo con Estados Unidos, afirmando que está libre porque se declaró “culpable de periodismo”. Assange, de 53 años, viajó este martes a la ciudad francesa de Estrasburgo para comparecer ante la Asamblea Parlamentaria
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — ¿Mito o realidad? ¿Beber café es bueno para ti? Si te guías por los hechos, tienes razón. Los nuevos estudios de esta semana se suman a docenas más que informan los beneficios para la salud del café, incluida la protección contra la diabetes tipo 2, la enfermedad de Parkinson, la enfermedad hepática,
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Get ready to bundle up this winter — inside your home. Home heating expenses in the US are expected to jump 10.5%, on average, due in part to colder temperatures forecast for the Northeast and Midwest, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association. Consumers who heat with electricity
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana’s first-in-the-nation law listing the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol as “controlled dangerous substances” took effect Tuesday, triggering fears among health-care providers and pharmacists that routine care may be worsened for women in the state. Beyond abortion, the medicines are used for miscarriage management and, in misoprostol’s case, to
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By Helen Regan and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel has launched a ground operation across its northern border into Lebanon targeting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, opening a new and dangerous phase in almost a year of war. The incursion, which Israel’s National Security Cabinet has called the “next phase” of its war with Hezbollah,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A strike by dockworkers at 36 ports from Maine to Texas, the first in decades, could snarl supply chains and lead to shortages and higher prices if it stretches on for more than a few weeks. Workers began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils, grocery meat and produce trays may contain alarming levels of toxic flame retardants that may be leaching from electronic products during recycling, a new study found. “A product with one of the highest levels of flame retardants were black
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill and Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — The ship was scheduled to set sail four months ago for a three and a half year cruise. After seeing its departure postponed several times, Villa Vie Odyssey finally set off from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday night. The former Fred. Olsen Cruise ship departed around 11:30
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An armed rebel group in Congo generates around $300,000 a month in revenue through its control of a mining area in the east of the country, the U.N. Security Council heard. In April, the M23 — a rebel group with alleged links to Rwanda — seized the Rubaya mining
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Israel lanzó lo que denominó “una operación terrestre limitada” a través de su frontera septentrional con Líbano contra el grupo militante Hezbollah, respaldado por Irán, abriendo una nueva y peligrosa fase en casi un año de guerra. La incursión, que el Gabinete de Seguridad Nacional de Israel calificó de “próxima fase”
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A nationwide census has been launched by Myanmar’s military government, which says it will be used to compile voter lists for a general election promised for next year, even though much of the country is engulfed in civil war. Census takers, most of them schoolteachers and local administrative workers, began
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN Español) — Octavio Romero Oropeza asumirá el cargo de director general del Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (INFONAVIT). Este ingeniero agrónomo, egresado del Colegio Superior de Agricultura Tropical de Tabasco, continuará en el servicio público, aunque ya no en su rol de director de Pemex, puesto que
Continue ReadingBy Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — As the climate crisis worsens, Formula One is looking for ways to pollute less planet-heating carbon and become more sustainable. Like many other sports, Formula One has committed to achieving net-zero by 2030, meaning that those behind it pledge to dramatically reduce its carbon pollution and remove from the
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made his first public remarks since his release after he struck a deal with the United States, saying he is free because he pleaded “guilty to journalism.” The 53-year-old on Tuesday traveled to the French city of Strasbourg to appear before the Parliamentary Assembly
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s government says a code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users after research found that three-in-four people suffer some form of sexual violence through the platforms. Bumble, Grindr and Match Group Inc. have agree to the code that took effect on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — A cruise ship taking passengers on a 3 ½-year around-the-world voyage has finally sailed from Belfast, after spending four months stuck in the Northern Ireland capital. The ship spent months at a Belfast’s shipyard for rudder and engine repairs after embarking from Southampton. The ship’s operator, Villa Vie Residence, paid
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Four years after certification of the presidential election led to rioting at the US Capitol, fights over the once pro forma process are becoming more frequent and widespread as Republicans in battleground states that could be decided by only thousands of votes try to challenge the
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