By Paul R. La Monica and Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Consumer spending continues to power the US economy. Whether it’s to buy a new house or just a Squid Game plush toy from Amazon, people still seem willing to shell out their hard earned cash for stuff. Retail sales in the United States soared more
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A young man has been severely injured when he fell off a slab that’s part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust. The 21-year-old tourist, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, fell several meters (feet) early Sunday and was
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA THOMAS and FRANCES D’EMILIO ROCCELLA JONICA, Italy (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland. One rescue, of 303 migrants, began Saturday night and ended early Sunday
Continue ReadingBy BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain’s foreign minister has summoned Cuba’s top diplomat in Madrid to explain why Havana has revoked the press credentials of five journalists on the island working for Spanish state news agency Efe. Spanish diplomatic sources told The Associated Press on Sunday that the Spanish embassy in
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Jon Rahm has pulled out of the DP World Tour Championship, despite having a chance to win the Race to Dubai for the second time in three years. Rahm, who won the money list title in 2019, is third on the standings behind British Open champion Collin Morikawa and Billy Horschel but
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El gobierno cubano revocó el sábado las credenciales de prensa de la agencia de noticias española Efe en Cuba, antes de una protesta opositora prevista para el lunes que las autoridades han prohibido. No obstante, este domingo el gobierno entregó credenciales de prensa a dos periodistas de la agencia
Continue ReadingDUBAI (AP) — Danish player Joachim B. Hansen hit a 4-under 68 to hold off co-overnight leader Francesco Laporta and a soaring Bernd Wiesberger by one stroke to win the Dubai Championship. Hansen had four birdies to finish at 23 under overall having opened with a 9-under 63 in the first round. Hansen and the
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s citizen’s arrest and self-defense laws are key to the defense strategy in the trial of the three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The defense is arguing father and son Greg and Travis McMichael suspected the 25-year-old Black man in burglaries and pursued
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam Since vaccines were first authorized for use nearly a year ago, swarms of anti-vaxxers have pushed a variety of unfounded claims suggesting the vaccine is unsafe and urging people not to receive one. Even with 58.5% percent of Americans fully vaccinated and mandatory vaccines for federal employees and contractors set to go
Continue ReadingCNN, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY By Tara Subramaniam Since vaccines were first authorized for use nearly a year ago, swarms of anti-vaxxers have pushed a variety of unfounded claims suggesting the vaccine is unsafe and urging people not to receive one. Even with 58.5% percent of Americans fully vaccinated and mandatory vaccines for federal employees and
Continue ReadingGENOA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the discovery comes as ground-penetrating radar has been used in recent weeks to search for a cemetery once used by the school that operated
Continue ReadingBy HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure package, many eyes are turning to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The bill will make the 39-year-old former mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate one of the more powerful brokers in
Continue ReadingBy HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure package, many eyes are turning to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The bill will make the 39-year-old former mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate one of the more powerful brokers in
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Max Foster, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is set to attend the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at London’s Cenotaph memorial as the nation remembers its war dead, her first public engagement since being advised to rest by doctors just over two weeks ago. Buckingham Palace confirmed on Thursday that the
Continue ReadingBy Lindsay Isaac and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Austria will implement lockdown measures for all those age 12 and older who are not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 from Monday, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced. Around 65% of Austria’s population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, one of the lower rates in the European Union where cases are surging.
Continue ReadingVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision, hours after U.N. led-climate talks yielded a compromise on how to combat global warming. Francis in remarks to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday said the cry of the poor, united to the cry of
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un sismo de magnitud 6,5 sacudió el sur de Irán el domingo, según un informe preliminar del Centro Sismológico Europeo-Mediterráneo (EMSC). Posteriormente, el USGS confirmó que se trató de un sismo de magnitud 6,3 y con una profundidad de 10 kilómetros. La misma región sintió otro terremoto poco antes,
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Los números de coronavirus no pintaron bien esta semana. Los nuevos diagnósticos de covid-19 aumentaron en aproximadamente la mitad de los estados de EE.UU. durante la última semana. Las hospitalizaciones se incrementaron en 11 estados y las muertes han aumentado en 17 estados. Los casos de coronavirus en EE.UU. se
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s a hidden crisis that’s existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families. That word comes from Feeding America, which
Continue ReadingBy John Blake, CNN On a rainy spring morning in Muncie, Indiana, a White, middle-aged, conservative woman met a transgender woman for a date. It did not start well. The transgender woman was waiting at a table when the other woman showed up. She stood up and extended her hand. The other woman refused to
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