By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Companies in the S&P 500 bought a record amount of their own stock last year and don’t show any signs of slowing down. Flush with cash from solid earnings, major corporations repurchased $882 billion of stock in 2021. Goldman Sachs is forecasting stock buybacks to reach $1 trillion
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Troy Kotsur is just the second actor who’s deaf to be nominated for an Academy Award. His performance in the best-picture nominee “CODA” has elevated the 53-year-old Kotsur to Hollywood’s biggest stages while making history for the Deaf community. He’s the first deaf actor ever
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a Texas death row inmate could have his spiritual adviser pray aloud and “lay hands” on him during his execution, establishing new guidelines that will govern similar requests in other prisons across the country. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Sudanese riot police have fired tear gas at thousands of protesters rallying in Khartoum against the country’s military rulers and demanding an immediate handover of power to civilians. Thursday’s protests were the latest of dozens of rallies since the October military coup upended Sudan’s transition to democracy after nearly three decades of
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN After Lebohang Kganye’s mother died at age 49, the South African artist began going through the things she’d left behind as a means to deal with the grief. In her mother’s wardrobe, Kganye recognized clothes and jewelry that she’d only seen her wear in old photographs, many of them taken before she
Continue ReadingBy BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Authorities on a Portuguese island in the North Atlantic are readying the possible evacuation of local people as six straight days of minor temblors stoke fears of a possible major earthquake or volcanic eruption. The president of the Azores Islands regional government said Thursday that airlines
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher and Wesley Bruer, CNN Debra Meadows, the wife of former congressman and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, signed voter forms attesting she resided at a Macon County, North Carolina, mobile home that reports indicate the couple never lived in. On registration forms, both Debra and Mark Meadows indicated their residency at
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Una periodista rusa que trabajaba para el sitio de noticias independiente The Insider murió en un bombardeo en Kyiv, informó este miércoles ese medio en un comunicado. Oksana Baulina estaba filmando la destrucción de los bombardeos de las tropas rusas en el distrito de Podilskyi de la capital, cuando quedó bajo el
Continue ReadingDOHA, Qatar (AP) — Pablo Larrazábal shot an 8-under 64 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Qatar Masters. The Spaniard birdied his first three holes and had nine total. The 122nd-ranked player dropped only one shot. That was on the par-4 fifth hole as the temperature rose at Doha Golf
Continue ReadingOpinion by Nikos Tsafos for CNN Business Perspectives In a matter of weeks, the war in Ukraine has upended an energy relationship between Europe and Russia that goes back decades. Europe understands that it cannot sever ties with Russia overnight, as it still needs Russian energy. But Russia’s role in the European and global energy
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Uber, hit by driver shortages and a surge in food delivery requests during the pandemic, will begin including New York City taxi cabs on its app. That’s a partnership that until recently would have been unthinkable with both camps fighting ferociously for the same customers. But the wait for
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Uber, hit by driver shortages and a surge in food delivery requests during the pandemic, will begin including New York City taxi cabs on its app. That’s a partnership that until recently would have been unthinkable with both camps fighting ferociously for the same customers. But the wait for
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Unless you enjoy throwing money away, you’ll want to do all you can to avoid being hit with tax penalties and interest if you end up owing money to the IRS on your 2021 tax return. Even a relatively small balance owed can balloon quickly. Say you owe the IRS
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The Ethiopian government on Thursday announced what it called an “indefinite humanitarian truce” in its war-ravaged Tigray region, saying the action was necessary to allow unimpeded relief supplies into the area. A government statement urged fighters loyal to Tigray’s fugitive leaders “to desist from all acts
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates continued to rise amid fears of inflation and geopolitical uncertainty. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.42% in the week ending March 24, up from 4.16% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased by more than a quarter of a percentage point as mortgage
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Just 187,000 people in the United States filed for initial weekly unemployment benefits last week, lower than economists’ expectations of 210,000, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Labor. The last time the weekly number was that low was September 6, 1969, shortly after Neil Armstrong
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Carey, Tim Lister, Celine Alkhaldi, Olga Voitovych and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Ukrainian armed forces on Friday identified a large Russian landing ship that they said they destroyed at the port of Berdyansk in southern Ukraine the day before. The port, which had recently been occupied by Russian forces with several Russian warships
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR has issued steep penalties against Brad Keselowski and his new race team for illegally modifying a supplied part on the Next Gen car. Keselowski was docked 100 driver points and the No. 6 Ford team docked 100 owner points. Crew chief Matt McCall
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN For years, researchers have sought to understand why Vikings abandoned one of their settlements in Greenland after centuries of success. While some experts have suggested that dropping temperatures may have been the cause, new research suggests the cold wasn’t a factor. Instead, the Vikings faced a new adversary they couldn’t defeat:
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