By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Team USA walks with the world’s athletes at the Paris Olympics’opening ceremony, they’ll be doing so in snappy tailored navy blazers from Ralph Lauren — and blue jeans. Just regular, everyday denim blue jeans. Ralph Lauren, which unveiled Tuesday its ninth turn creating Olympic
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers barely increased spending in May from April as still high inflation and high interest rates curbed spending. Retail sales rose 0.1% in May, below the pace that economists projected, according to a report from the Commerce Department on Tuesday. And April sales were revised
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Two key congressional Democrats have given their approval to allow the Biden administration to proceed with what is believed to be the biggest weapons package for Israel, expected to be worth more than $18 billion and include some 50 F-15 fighter jets. Rep. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Migos rapper Quavo’s quest to transform his nephew Takeoff’s tragic shooting into a force for change during a movement-building summit aimed against gun violence on what would have been the late rapper’s 30th birthday. Quavo hosted the inaugural Rocket Foundation Summit at the Carter
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Electric vehicle maker Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second electric startup to do so in the last year as even industry leaders struggle to lure more buyers beyond the early adapters of the technology. Fisker Group Inc. said in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Electric vehicle maker Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second electric startup to do so in the last year as even industry leaders struggle to lure more buyers beyond the early adapters of the technology. Fisker Group Inc. said in a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Continue ReadingBy Mark Thompson, CNN London (CNN) — A record number of millionaires could leave the United Kingdom this year as political turmoil and the potential for higher taxes under a future Labour government reduce the appeal of what was once among the top destinations for the rich. As many as 9,500 people with at least
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S., aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the southern border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S., aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the southern border earlier this month that enraged advocates
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS A university professor has been jailed in Estonia after being found guilty of spying for Russia. Viacheslav Morozov, a Russian citizen, taught at the Baltic country’s most prestigious university and was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for collecting information about Estonia’s defense and security policy and the people
Continue ReadingBy RYAN DOAN-NGUYEN and AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Civil rights lawyer and jazz pianist Bryan Stevenson and Pulitzer-winning jazz artist Wynton Marsalis are debuting a new live performance album of historic jazz records created in time for Juneteenth to protest racial injustice. “Freedom, Justice and Hope” includes a new arrangement of
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters have increased their containment of a large wildfire that is burning in steep, hard-to-reach areas and threatening critical infrastructure in mountains north of Los Angeles, officials said. But hot, dry, windy weather could challenge their efforts Tuesday. The Post Fire was 20% contained Monday night after wind caused explosive growth
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French actress Anouk Aimée, winner of a Golden Globe for her starring role in “A Man and a Woman” by legendary French director Claude Lelouch, has died, her agent said Tuesday. She was 92. Agent Sébastien Perrolat said in an text message to The Associated Press that Aimée died Tuesday morning “surrounded
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters have increased their containment of a large wildfire that is burning in steep, hard-to-reach areas and threatening critical infrastructure in mountains north of Los Angeles, officials said. But hot, dry, windy weather could challenge their efforts Tuesday. The Post Fire was 20% contained Monday night after wind caused explosive growth
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Extreme heat alerts continued for 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. States in the Midwest started to bake Monday in what the National Weather Service called a
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been indicted and arraigned on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail. Thaksin is the unofficial power behind the party leading the government, Pheu Thai,
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Some 9,000 troops from 20 NATO countries are participating in military exercises in the Baltic Sea region, which has become strategically sensitive following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sweden, which had joined the drills in the past, took part in the Baltops 2024 exercises for the first time this month as a
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French actress Anouk Aimée, winner of a Golden Globe for her starring role in “A Man and a Woman” by legendary French director Claude Lelouch, has died. She was 92. Agent Sébastien Perrolat said in an text message to The Associated Press that Aimée died Tuesday morning “surrounded by her loved ones.”
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan, CNN (CNN) — If I were to design a family crest, it would feature a rusted lawnmower in an overgrown field of weeds above the motto, “If it’s broke, don’t bother” — in Latin, of course. My father was an Army surgeon who operated on wounded soldiers, and yet anything mechanical, automotive
Continue ReadingBy Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to give the signal to the enslaved people hiding ashore. When the boats sounded their steam whistles, more than 700 men, women and children fled the plantations along the river to race
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