FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) — Federal Way police are investigating after the body of a teen was found in a park. Police were called to the park around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday after several neighbors reported hearing gunfire. Patrol units couldn’t find anything and left. Hours later, one of the neighbors was taking their daughter to
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has watched from the sidelines as the government that toppled him after 12 years in power passed a national budget, dealing a major blow to his hopes of a swift comeback. The man whose shadow loomed so large for
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN A spectacle of light will shine Thursday evening as the South Taurid meteors shoot across the sky. The meteor shower peaks in the late hours of November 4 through the dawn of November 5, according to EarthSky. The exact peak of the shower is 1 a.m. ET, or 5 a.m. GMT,
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said Thursday it had authorized Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics’ oral antiviral, molnupiravir, to treat mild-to-moderate Covid-19 in adults at risk for severe illness. It is the world’s first oral antiviral to be authorized anywhere for the treatment of Covid-19. The drug comes in
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — La vacuna contra el VPH de primera generación redujo las tasas de cáncer de cuello uterino entre algunas mujeres en un 87%, informaron investigadores británicos. El estudio publicado el miércoles en la revista The Lancet estima que a mediados de 2019, había 450 casos menos de cáncer de cuello uterino y
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona faces an important match at Celta Vigo while its club officials are busy negotiating in Qatar to sign Xavi Hernández as its new coach. This week appears key to Barcelona’s aspirations to secure the release of Xavi from his current club Al-Sadd. Saturday’s match at
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Moderna fell short of profit and sales expectations for the third quarter, and the Covid vaccine maker warned that its full year shipments of the vaccine will not meet its forecasts. Shares of Moderna plunged nearly 20% at their low point of the day Thursday and closed down 18% for
Continue ReadingCNN, HARTFORD HEALTHCARE, PFIZER By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Moderna fell short of profit and sales expectations for the third quarter, and the Covid vaccine maker warned that its full year shipments of the vaccine will not meet its forecasts. Shares of Moderna plunged nearly 20% at their low point of the day Thursday and
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Moderna is scaling back expectations for the number of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries it expects to make this year and the revenue it will record from them. Issues including longer delivery lead times for exports and a temporary impact from expanding the company’s capacity to fill vials with vaccine and
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The number of bodies recovered from a collapsed high-rise apartment building in Nigeria’s most populous city has risen to 36, an emergency official told The Associated Press. Ibrahim Farinloye of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said 15 bodies more bodies have been recovered from the site
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Paris, Rome, Barcelona… Europe’s cities are bucket list destinations, and rightly so. But the continent’s small towns are a dream, too, with all the beautiful architecture and much of the culture you’ll find in the big hitters, only with fewer crowds to share them with. Here are some of the prettiest small
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business MGM Resorts is putting the Mirage resort and casino in Las Vegas up for sale, ending a 21-year ownership of one of the strip’s most famous properties. The company made the announcement in its earnings call late Wednesday, explaining to analysts that it doesn’t want to invest more money into
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business Nintendo has become the latest victim of a global chip shortage that is battering supply chains. The Japanese company reduced its forecast Thursday for sales of its popular Switch console by about 6%. It now expects to sell 24 million units by the end of the fiscal year, which concludes
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Nintendo has become the latest victim of a global chip shortage that is battering supply chains. The Japanese company reduced its forecast Thursday for sales of its popular Switch console by about 6%. It now expects to sell 24 million units by the end of the fiscal year,
Continue ReadingCNN By Patrick Oppmann, CNN A skinny, bespectacled, left-leaning playwright whose works until recently were promoted by the government would seem an unlikely candidate to become Cuba’s public enemy number one. But Cuban officials are increasingly taking aim at Yunior Garcia Aguilera and his proposal to hold a peaceful political march later this month —
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN A skinny, bespectacled, left-leaning playwright whose works until recently were promoted by the government would seem an unlikely candidate to become Cuba’s public enemy number one. But Cuban officials are increasingly taking aim at Yunior Garcia Aguilera and his proposal to hold a peaceful political march later this month — for
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Official data shows that German factory orders, an important indicator for Europe’s biggest economy, made a feeble recovery in September after a big drop the previous month. The Economy Ministry said Thursday that orders were up 1.3% after a steep 8.8% decline in August. Even September’s small gain was boosted by bulk
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Official data shows that German factory orders, an important indicator for Europe’s biggest economy, made a feeble recovery in September after a big drop the previous month. The Economy Ministry said Thursday that orders were up 1.3% after a steep 8.8% decline in August. Even September’s small gain was boosted by bulk
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN The gap is widening between the impacts of the climate crisis and the world’s effort to adapt to them, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme. The annual “adaptation gap” report — which published Thursday amid the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow — found that the estimated costs
Continue ReadingBy SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s prime minister has again urged his information minister to step down over an unprecedented diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia that threatens to destabilize the new government and escalate its economic tailspin. The prime minister on Thursday said the information minister’s resignation would help resolve a
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