CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Shawn Deng and Chris Liakos, CNN Business China is intensifying its crackdown on cryptocurrencies. Chinese government agencies including the country’s securities regulator and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said in a statement on Friday that all cryptocurrency-related business activities are illegal and vowed to clamp down on illicit activities involving digital
Continue ReadingToyin Owoseje, CNN Looking for a new home and not too worried by things that go bump in the night? You could be in luck. The purportedly haunted Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring” has just gone on the market for $1.2 million. According to real estate agent Mott &
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — HNA Group, the Chinese airline operator that ran into financial trouble following a global acquisition spree beginning in 2014, says its chairman and CEO have been detained on suspicion of committing crimes. A company statement says Chen Feng and Tan Xiangdong were “taken under compulsory measures” by police in the southern island
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Apple TV+ makes one of the new TV season’s biggest bets by turning writer/producer David S. Goyer loose on “Foundation,” Isaac Asimov’s sweeping and cerebral science fiction novels. The 10-episode first season looks appropriately epic but struggles to tame a centuries-spanning, complex plot that feels lost in space — dazzling
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN As is often the case with such fare, “Midnight Mass” begins as a creepy, provocative horror yarn and finally can’t deliver on its promise. Created by “The Haunting of Hill House’s” Mike Flanagan, the Netflix series deserves praise for its distinctive ambitions and jolting surprises but too often plays like
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Christopher Meloni has garnered many a fan in his role as detective Elliot Stabler on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and now “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” He is so popular that he’s been dubbed a “zaddy,” which is pretty much a hot dad. “To the best of my
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers The U.S. launched a campaign to offer boosters of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to millions of Americans on Friday even as health officials stressed the real problem remains getting first shots to the unvaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed boosters for some who got
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers The U.S. launched a campaign to offer boosters of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to millions of Americans on Friday even as health officials stressed the real problem remains getting first shots to the unvaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed boosters for some who got
Continue ReadingBy CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The International Organization for Migration says migrant deaths along the Atlantic route from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands reached a record high last month with 379 lives lost at sea. Those deaths account for nearly half of the total number of casualties for all of
Continue ReadingBy Justina Latimer Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Murfreesboro mother is sharing her story as part of Ovarian Cancer Awareness month in September. “Faith has been vital in this journey, no doubt about that,” said Kristen Troutt. Troutt said in 2017 she started having symptoms like bloating and
Continue ReadingCésar López (CNN Español)– Lionel Messi se perderá el partido del sábado del Paris Saint Germain ante el Montpellier, por los problemas que arrastra en su rodilla izquierda. Messi ya había sido baja del encuentro frente al Metz a mitad de semana. El director técnico del equipo, Mauricio Pochettino, aseguró en su rueda de prensa
Continue ReadingBy Terry Bulger Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Most 85 year olds don’t have a job, but Nashville’s Bill Buffett has two. Best known for the jazz-related paintings he’s been making for years, but for three days out of the week, it’s more about salami, ham and cheese. When
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — German soccer clubs are pushing for more fans to be allowed at Bundesliga games despite discrepancies in their approaches to getting them there. Most clubs are asking for fans to show they are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, recovered from COVID-19, or to produce a negative
Continue ReadingBy Shain Bergan Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A man is dead and a woman injured after a 4-wheeler popped a wheelie and drove into the side of a Jeep that had a baby inside on Thursday night. The incident happened Thursday around 10 p.m. at 31st Street
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A French general handed the baton of a key NATO command center to a fellow French air force officer this week as tensions between France and the United States simmered over a defense deal that sank a multi-billion-dollar French submarine contract. The ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia cemented
Continue ReadingBy Joylyn Bukovac Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (KCTV) — A Rutherford County man is on the mend after fighting for his life for a month and a half. After his heart monitor flatlined five times, Joe Gammon is now in a rehab facility where he will stay until he gets
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Oleksandr Usyk is giving up 19 pounds on world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua for their fight on Saturday. Usyk tipped the scales at 221 pounds at the weigh-in in London. That’s heavier than the former cruiserweight was for his two fights since moving up to the heavyweight division in 2019. Joshua is
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — La estrella de Harry Potter Tom Felton sufrió un “incidente médico” mientras jugaba en un partido de golf de celebridades en Whistling Straits, Wisconsin, antes de la Ryder Cup. Felton, mejor conocido por interpretar a Draco Malfoy en las películas de Harry Potter, estaba consciente después de colapsar en el campo
Continue ReadingBy Rex Hodge Click here for updates on this story GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, North Carolina (WLOS) — Elk are among the most popular wildlife to see in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But people should be extra cautious when going to see them in early fall. Fall is mating season for elk.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials say Multnomah County plans to spend $1 million to hire four prosecutors and two investigators to help with an increasing caseload of homicide investigations. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports District Attorney Mike Schmidt made the announcement Thursday. Sixty-five people have died in homicides this year in Portland, approaching the most ever recorded
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