By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is something about stargazing that inspires us to dream, to imagine the impossible. What if, as you looked to the stars, you were envisioning your next destination? It’s something that Apollo astronauts did in the 1960s. And this week, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson became the first person to ride
Continue ReadingFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies before Congress and explains that inflation will remain elevated for the next six months. CNN’s Clare Sebastian reports.
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The Dow and S&P 500 are both up about 15% in 2021 and are each about a percent away from their all-time highs. But as Friday’s market sell-off showed, investors remain extremely nervous about the market. The CNN Business Fear & Greed Index, which looks at seven different
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business More inclusive emojis may be coming to future software updates, including one of a pregnant man. Ahead of World Emoji Day on Saturday, popular emoji reference site Emojipedia released new images of some of the emoji finalists on the radar of the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that oversees emoji
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Nueva York (CNN Business) — Jeff Bezos volará al espacio en el primer vuelo con tripulación del New Shepard, el cohete fabricado por su compañía espacial, Blue Origin. El vuelo está programado para el 20 de julio, solo 15 días después de que renuncie como presidente ejecutivo de Amazon. Blue Origin dijo
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Holly Thomas es una escritora y editora con sede en Londres. Tuitea en @HolstaT. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario le corresponden exclusivamente a la autora. Ver más artículos de opinión. (CNN)– Este domingo, Richard Branson cumplió su sueño de niño al lanzarse a 85 kilómetros de altura al borde
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN Business) — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk y Richard Branson tienen un patrimonio neto combinado de US$ 400.000 millones, aproximadamente el tamaño del PIB de toda Irlanda. Y los tres hombres han decidido poner grandes sumas de su riqueza en la persecución de sus sueños de viajes espaciales, creando una carrera espacial moderna
Continue Readingjosemartinezgomez (CNN Español) — Jeff Bezos, el mayor multimillonario del mundo, anunció que él y su hermano Mark serán unos de los pasajeros del primer viaje comercial de su empresa Blue Origin al espacio. El vuelo, programado para el 20 de julio, será el inicio del principal objetivo de la empresa fundada hace 21 años,
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Business) — ¿Cuánto pagarías por un viaje al espacio suborbital de 11 minutos junto a Jeff Bezos? Según los postores en una subasta que concluyó el sábado, el viaje tiene un valor de US$ 28 millones. La compañía inició la subasta el mes pasado —antes de que se revelara que el
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN Business) — Richard Branson irá audazmente donde ningún barón del espacio ha ido antes este domingo, cuando suba al avión espacial supersónico de su empresa de cohetes, Virgin Galactic. El breve viaje de placer de Branson lleva más de dos décadas preparándose. Fundó Virgin Galactic en 2004 con el objetivo de crear
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda Nueva York (CNN Business) — El misterioso postor que ofreció la suma de US$ 28 millones por un viaje de 11 minutos al borde del espacio junto a Jeff Bezos no hará el viaje, anunció el jueves la compañía de cohetes Blue Origin de Bezos. Blue Origin dijo en un comunicado de
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN When England played Italy in the Euros 2020 soccer final on July 11, the images went around the world. Not just of the Italian team — who eventually won the game on penalties — and not just of the devastated England team. But of the scenes at Wembley, in London, where the
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By Alex Rogers and Michael Warren, CNN In one of next year’s most consequential Senate races, the Republican primary to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona is turning on a question: Who won the 2020 presidential election? Former President Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud, including his promotion of a controversial,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France and Andy Rose, CNN Biz Markie, who infused his music with so much fun and humor that he became known as “The Clown Prince of Hip Hop,” has died, his manager, Jenni Izumi, confirmed to CNN. He was 57. “Biz created a legacy of artistry that will forever be celebrated by
Continue ReadingBiz Markie, who infused his music with so much fun and humor that he became known as “The Clown Prince of Hip Hop,” has died at 57, his manager, Jenni Izumi, confirmed to CNN.
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN Drug overdose deaths rose by close to 30% in the United States in 2020, hitting the highest number ever recorded, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. More than 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020, according to provisional data released by the CDC’s National Center for
Continue ReadingThe water level in Utah’s Great Salt Lake today is inches away from a 58-year low, state officials say, and Western drought conditions fueled by the climate crisis have exacerbated conditions.
Continue ReadingBy Lucy Kafanov, Leslie Perrot and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Great Salt Lake is also known as America’s Dead Sea — owing to a likeness to its much smaller Middle Eastern counterpart — but scientists worry the moniker could soon take new meaning. Human water consumption and diversion have long depleted the Utah lake. Its
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Trent, CNN Of all the aspects of normality Americans missed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, physical touch has been a common theme. The touch associated with browsing at a record store is no exception — clicking a download button can’t match the feeling of walking into a shop with other music fans, flipping through
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The burning heat of summer has us all reaching for sunscreens. But before you slather that product on your skin, first check to see if it is part of a voluntary recall by sunscreen brands Neutrogena and Aveeno. The companies recently pulled several sunscreens from market shelves after independent testing had
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