By Angela Dewan, CNN When temperatures in Antarctica soared to 38 degrees Celsius above normal — around 70 Fahrenheit — in March, a teetering ice shelf the size of Los Angeles collapsed. Scientists don’t know what role the extreme temperatures may have played in the event, but the heat rushed in through what’s known as
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia says he’s raised $13.6 million this year for his reelection campaign. The Democrat’s staff says that’s the most ever raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year. Warnock’s overall fundraising tops $65 million in the battleground
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Clinton Health Access Initiative selected Dr. Neil Buddy Shah as its new CEO Thursday, a sign of the global health organization’s move towards growth in low- and middle-income nations and use of new philanthropic efforts to help fund the expansion. Shah is currently managing
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Clinton Health Access Initiative selected Dr. Neil Buddy Shah as its new CEO Thursday, a sign of the global health organization’s move towards growth in low- and middle-income nations and use of new philanthropic efforts to help fund the expansion. Shah is currently managing
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says it will begin cracking down on e-cigarettes that have used synthetic nicotine to skirt oversight. The companies behind those products sell vaping flavors that appeal to kids. Previously, the agency could only regulate products that used nicotine derived from tobacco.
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says it will begin cracking down on e-cigarettes that have used synthetic nicotine to skirt oversight. The companies behind those products sell vaping flavors that appeal to kids. Previously, the agency could only regulate products that used nicotine derived from tobacco.
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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will soon ban abortions after 15 weeks. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the law on Thursday; it goes into effect on July 1. The move comes amid a growing conservative push to restrict abortion ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could limit access to
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business With home prices skyrocketing by double-digit percentages over the last year, it would be no surprise if property taxes jumped too. But surprisingly, the average property tax on a single-family home rose by just 1.8% last year to $3,785, increasing at the smallest pace in the past five years, according
Continue ReadingBy NOMAAN MERCHANT and JAMES LAPORTA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has called Russia’s war on Ukraine a genocide and he’s accused Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes. But Biden’s administration has struggled with how much intelligence it’s willing to give Ukrainian forces that are trying to stop the Russian leader. Since
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los gobiernos de Reino Unido y Ruanda anunciaron este jueves la firma de un acuerdo para abordar la migración ilegal, que incluye la reubicación en el país africano de quienes solicitan asilo en el Reino Unido. “Hoy, el Reino Unido y Ruanda han firmado una nueva asociación conjunta de migración
Continue ReadingAssociated Press In his first letter to Amazon shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy offered a defense of the wages and benefits the company gives its warehouse workers while also vowing to improve injury rates inside the facilities. Jassy, who took over from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as CEO last July, wrote the company has researched and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press In his first letter to Amazon shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy offered a defense of the wages and benefits the company gives its warehouse workers while also vowing to improve injury rates inside the facilities. Jassy, who took over from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as CEO last July, wrote the company has researched and
Continue Readingdzaratsian (CNN) — Démosle un vistazo a la tradición de Pascua y de Semana Santa. El domingo de Pascua, los cristianos celebran la resurrección de Jesucristo al tercer día después de su crucifixión. También marca el final del período de penitencia de 40 días llamado Cuaresma. La Pascua es considerada como una de las temporadas
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Formula One’s governing body FIA has dismissed criticisms of its safety car being too slow after drivers complained following the Australian Grand Prix last weekend. The FIA says in a statement that the priority is not pleasing the drivers but ensuring safety on the track. F1 safety car duties are shared by
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER and PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Abortion-rights groups have gone to court seeking to restore abortion services in Kentucky. Their lawsuits come a day after the Republican legislature imposed new abortion restrictions. The suits say the two remaining abortion clinics in Kentucky can’t immediately comply with new restrictions.
Continue ReadingBy TOM HAYS, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged in this week’s Brooklyn subway attack has been ordered held without bail, with prosecutors saying he terrified the “entire city.” Frank James appeared in federal court Thursday, a day after his arrest in an attack that left
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has imposed a 12-year prison sentence on a 76-year-old Afghan man convicted of involvement in war crimes in a Kabul prison in the 1980s. The man had told a court in The Hague his prosecution was a case of mistaken identity. Dutch war crimes prosecutors are convinced
Continue ReadingOpinion by Senator Tom Carper and Senator John Cornyn for CNN Business Perspectives It’s been more than a month since Russia invaded Ukraine — with atrocities and tragedies playing out day after day across social media and televisions around the world. The US, our European allies and our global partners are completely aligned in our
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Black adults in America are nearly 40 points more likely than the general population to say that their racial background is central to the way they think about themselves, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, and how Black Americans view their racial identity affects
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