By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen once proclaimed he’d “take a bullet” for Donald Trump. Now, after breaking with the former president amid his own legal troubles, the fixer-turned-foe is poised to testify against his old boss Tuesday as a key witness at the civil fraud trial
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — The parties forming Spain’s acting government say they will push for a 37½-hour workweek. The coalition partners struck the agreement on Tuesday as they try to remain in power following an inconclusive election in July. Spain has had a 40-hour workweek for the past two decades. The proposal is for Spain to
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — The United Auto Workers union took its most serious shot yet at General Motors in its five-week old strike as 5,000 members walked off the job at a plant in Texas. Arlington Assembly builds GM’s very profitable full-size SUVs, the Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, GMC Yukon
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Talks to secure the release of a large number of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza are ongoing, two sources familiar with the matter and one western diplomat familiar with the discussions told CNN, but the negotiations are being complicated by
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Nigeria’s government is celebrating a “landmark victory” after a UK court ruled it was not liable for a multibillion-dollar payout earlier awarded to a private firm over a failed gas project. The West African nation was previously ordered by an arbitration tribunal in 2017 to pay $6.6 billion, plus
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel over two weeks ago. The negotiations have once again put the small Arabian Peninsula country in the spotlight. They
Continue ReadingCNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday in the Georgia election subversion case and will cooperate with Fulton County prosecutors – the third guilty plea in the past week. At an unscheduled hearing in Atlanta, Ellis pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a lower court ruling that the state’s restrictive abortion law was invalid, leaving limited access to abortions unchanged for now. The justices on Tuesday rejected a lower court ruling that the ban was invalid because it was enacted in 2019, when
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Formula One fanatics will get more behind-the-scenes access to the global motorsports series through a new CNBC documentary that explores the business aspects of the highest form of racing in the world. The documentary “Inside Track: The Business of Formula 1” will debut Nov. 16 on CNBC ahead
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rising Tuesday after Verizon, General Electric and other big companies reported fatter profits for the summer than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.5% higher in early trading and on track to break a five-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the damage done to an undersea telecoms cable between Sweden and Estonia was “purposeful,” but has declined to give any details. A spokesman for the Swedish Navy said that divers saw “seabed tracks nearby, but we don’t know if it’s deliberate or an accident.” Swedish authorities
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she looks back on that time with “deep remorse.” Ellis, the fourth defendant in
Continue ReadingGARDNER, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts are searching for a man in connection with the shooting death of his wife. Police say 33-year-old man Aaron Pennington, was considered to be armed and dangerous. They found his car Monday night in the woods in the city of Gardner in the northern part of the state,
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Police officers in suburban Milwaukee have killed a person who fired at them from a middle school roof. Officials with the state Department of Justice say officers with the Germantown Police Department responded Monday evening to a person acting erratically in Kennedy Middle School’s parking lot. When officers arrived the
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A strike by auto workers against General Motors is expected to cut pretax earnings by $800 million this year, and another $200 million per week after that, the company’s chief financial officer said. And those figures include only factories that are on strike now, so if
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’d be hard pressed to find a rap duo doing it like City Girls, bringing life-affirming, pretty-girl scam rap to the masses. A lot has changed since their 2018 debut “Girl Code” and their feature on Drake’s “In My Feelings.” “RAW,” JT and Yung Miami’s
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Mohammad Al Shanti is forced to travel nearly four miles to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza to fill up plastic bottles with water. It’s only enough for his family’s most basic needs. “We don’t wash our clothes, we save every little drop,” he told CNN, describing
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The office of Slovakia’s president says she is ready to swear in a new Cabinet led by a former populist prime minister after a coalition partner agreed to replace its nominee for environment minister known for not believing in climate change. President Zuzana Caputova is set to appoint the new government
Continue ReadingWESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — The body of one of two boaters who went missing in the Long Island Sound off Connecticut has been recovered. Westport Police Lt. Eric Woods says the remains of Juan Gabriel Valle Pineda were found at 4:30 p.m. Monday by Bridgeport Fire Department staffers. The 38-year-old Pineda, of Spring Valley, New
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street after Coca Cola, General Electric and other big companies reported fatter profits for the summer than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher in early trading Tuesday and on track to break a five-day losing streak. The pace is picking up for corporate profit
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