By ANNE D’iNNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Target will hire fewer seasonal workers this year and will instead offer more hours to current employees. The move, announced Thursday, is in response to its permanent workers wanting more hours, the company said. About 100,000 seasonal workers will be hired nationwide, the company said
Continue ReadingBy Tom Pilcher, CNN Amped up crowds will be bringing the noise to Whistling Straits this week at the Ryder Cup. In the past that din hasn’t always been a pleasant cacophony — the last time the biennial event was held on US shores Europe’s Rory McIlroy was jeered about ex-girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki. Things can
Continue ReadingCNN By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN David Robinson has been in Arizona for the last three months searching for his 24-year-old son Daniel Robinson who went missing after leaving a work site in the desert in his Jeep Renegade on June 23. Robinson, who lives in South Carolina, hired an independent investigator and assembled a
Continue ReadingBy JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres have stripped Jack Eichel of his captaincy. It raises further questions about his future in Buffalo. He and the team disagree over how to treat a neck injury that has sidelined the center for six months. The Sabres were unable to trade
Continue ReadingBy Drew Kann, CNN The falling water levels at Lake Powell, the second-largest man-made reservoir in the US, could make the dam’s hydroelectric power generation impossible as soon as next year, according to new projections released Wednesday by the US Bureau of Reclamation. The new modeling shows a 3% chance that Lake Powell, which is
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week for a second straight week to 351,000, a sign that the delta variant of the coronavirus may be disrupting the job market’s recovery, at least temporarily. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week for a second straight week to 351,000, a sign that the delta variant of the coronavirus may be disrupting the job market’s recovery, at least temporarily. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has unexpectedly cut the main interest rate by one percentage point, bowing to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for lower borrowing rates to boost growth. The bank’s monetary committee on Thursday cut the policy rate from 19% to 18% despite an annual inflation rate of 19.25%. Economists generally view
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has unexpectedly cut the main interest rate by one percentage point, bowing to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand for lower borrowing rates to boost growth. The bank’s monetary committee on Thursday cut the policy rate from 19% to 18% despite an annual inflation rate of 19.25%. Economists generally view
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has closed its airspace to all Moroccan planes in the latest escalation of diplomatic tensions between the two North African neighbors. Algeria’s High Council for Security announced the decision Wednesday following a meeting with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and top officials. The council cited Moroccan “provocations and hostile practices” to justify
Continue ReadingBy Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst In a way, it’s almost hard to believe: Here Democrats are, in control of the Congress and the White House, and they can’t figure out how to get to yes and pass a measure the public actually likes. Sure, President Joe Biden’s economic agenda is bigger than the
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The spectacular run for a once-hot investment has fizzled so much that many have been relegated to the bargain bin. These special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are often called “blank-check companies” because they have no real business other than to hunt for privately owned businesses
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN President Joe Biden didn’t enter the back-to-back-back meetings on Wednesday with nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers demanding a deal — or even looking for one. Things are simply too far apart for that at the moment. But he did demand action, according to lawmakers and officials involved in
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press STILLWATER, N.Y. (AP) — Veterans are helping with an archaeological dig at the Saratoga National Historical Park that is uncovering evidence from the tide-turning Second Battle of Saratoga. But the vets are getting something out of it, too. Some of them are dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and physical injuries.
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Turnbull, CTVNews.ca Producer Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — The federal government plans to lift a months-long ban on direct flights from India early next week with enhanced COVID-19 screening protocols in place. A statement from Transport Canada released Tuesday says the current restrictions, which were set
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business All eyes are on China’s Evergrande, the heavily-indebted real estate conglomerate that’s become a market obsession after global investors tuned in to its mounting problems this week. What’s happening: The company faces a crucial test on Thursday, when it has a deadline to pay nearly $84 million worth of interest
Continue ReadingBy Brooklyn Neustaeter, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A 3,500-year-old clay tablet that shows parts of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh is being formally handed back to Iraq after it was stolen and eventually housed in a museum in the United States. Known
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu, CNN After more than a year of racial reckoning that saw historic monuments to enslavers and colonists torn down on both sides of the Atlantic, the United Nations convened a major day-long event on racism and reparations on Wednesday. But representatives from some of the West’s biggest powers never showed. On its
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson, Amanda Watts, Randi Kaye and Kari Pricher, CNN A couple from Louisiana who were vacationing in Jackson, Wyoming, last month said Wednesday they saw an incident involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in a restaurant in one of the last sightings of Petito before her death. Nina Angelo told CNN
Continue ReadingCNN, KUTV, WFTS By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson, Amanda Watts, Randi Kaye and Kari Pricher, CNN A couple from Louisiana who were vacationing in Jackson, Wyoming, last month said Wednesday they saw an incident involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in a restaurant in one of the last sightings of Petito before her death. Nina
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