BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission will launch proceedings to suspend support payments to Hungary for breaching the 27-nation bloc’s rule-of-law standards. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the announcement Tuesday. It will be the first time that the new mechanism allowing the EU to take measures to protect the budget will be used
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission will launch proceedings to suspend support payments to Hungary for breaching the 27-nation bloc’s rule-of-law standards. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the announcement Tuesday. It will be the first time that the new mechanism allowing the EU to take measures to protect the budget will be used
Continue ReadingOpinion by Scott Galloway for CNN Business Perspectives Remember when Adam Neumann, the CEO of WeWork, pronounced that his startup was going to “elevate the world’s consciousness” versus what the company really did, which was renting desks? There’s a term for that: “Yogababble.” Yogababble is an attempt to smear Vaseline over the lens of truth,
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The introduction differs slightly from tournament to tournament though the general theme never changes. “The defending Masters champion.” Some version of those words have been what Hideki Matsuyama has heard on the first tee of whatever tournaments he’s played over the last year. Last week
Continue ReadingBy Jo Shelley and Olha Konovalova, CNN In a metro station in Kharkiv, a young woman holds up a toy car, a stuffed bear and a juice carton to a group of elementary school-age children. “These are objects we come across in our daily lives,” Julia Gorlenko, from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, explains.
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN Ivanka Trump, the daughter of former President Donald Trump and a former White House senior adviser, met with the committee investigating the Capitol Hill insurrection for close to eight hours on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the interview told CNN. The sources would not provide details
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Campaigns for Congress are underway for this year’s elections, but lingering disagreements over the final shape of new voting districts have left some candidates — and would-be candidates — in limbo. A few states have yet to enact new congressional districts following the 2020 census, and some have had
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Camila Alves McConaughey has co-written a new children’s book about a bunch of picky eaters. Only in this case, the picky eaters aren’t the children. “Just Try One Bite” follows three kids as they try to get their parents to put down the ice cream,
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Henderson and Eric Levenson, CNN A shooting at a high school in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday morning left one person injured, authorities said. Multiple shots were fired inside Erie High School shortly after 9:20 a.m., Erie’s Public Schools said in a statement. One student was shot and is in stable condition, the school
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Former France great Michel Platini has filed a criminal complaint against FIFA president Gianni Infantino. Platini previously served as president of UEFA and was Infantino’s boss at the time. Platini’s lawyers say they filed the complaint in France alleging Infantino peddled influence and that former FIFA legal director Marco Villiger was complicit.
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN Most airplane exteriors look more or less the same — white backdrop, bold lettering, company logo — but every now and again, an airline unveils a livery that stands out from the pack. Take All Nippon Airways’ “Flying Honu” A380s, designed to resemble bright colored turtles, or the stunning indigenous art that
Continue ReadingBy Beth Braverman Millions of Americans left or lost their jobs during the pandemic and many have decided that they don’t want to go back to work …. at least not for someone else. There were nearly 5.4 million new business applications in the United States last year, according to an analysis of Census data
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Ivanka Trump, hija del expresidente Donald Trump y exasesora principal de la Casa Blanca, se reúne este martes con la comisión del 6 de enero de la Cámara de Representantes, según dijeron a CNN dos fuentes familiarizadas con la reunión. Además de ser una de las asesoras más cercanas de Trump durante
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk — once again — has everyone on Twitter talking. But this time, the talk is about Twitter itself. On Monday, the company disclosed that Musk has purchased 9.2% of its shares, making him Twitter’s largest individual shareholder. And on Tuesday, Twitter announced that it is appointing Musk
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk — once again — has everyone on Twitter talking. But this time, the talk is about Twitter itself. On Monday, the company disclosed that Musk has purchased 9.2% of its shares, making him Twitter’s largest individual shareholder. And on Tuesday, Twitter announced that it is appointing Musk to
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — An appeals court in Slovakia has dismissed a lower court ruling that convicted the leader of a far-right party for the illegal use of neo-Nazi symbols. But the country’s Supreme Court still found Marian Kotleba guilty of sympathizing with neo-Nazism and gave him a six-month suspended sentence. Kotleba appealed an October
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors have heard conflicting explanations for why an off-duty police officer from Virginia entered the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot. A federal prosecutor said Tuesday that former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson stormed the Capitol because he believed the 2020 presidential election had been stolen
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The jury that will decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz gets a death sentence will tour the blood-stained, bullet-pocked building where he murdered 17 people four years ago. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer rejected a defense argument that a jury tour of the three-story building
Continue ReadingBy Spencer Thomas Click here for updates on this story CLARK COUNTY, Washington (KPTV) — A full investigative report has now been released detailing the sequence of events that led up to the death of Vancouver police officer Donald Sahota. The officer was shot by a Clark County deputy on Jan. 29 outside his home
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