SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A storm that has hurled rain on the southern Caribbean and the northern shoulder of South America was expected to hit Central America as a tropical storm over the weekend and eventually develop into a hurricane over the Pacific, forecasters said Thursday. The fast-moving disturbance known merely as “Potential
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Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of RH are down 9% at the opening bell after the luxury furniture store chain cut its sales expectations just weeks after issuing guidance to its investors, blaming worsening macro-economic conditions and rising mortgage rates. After predicting earlier this month that 2022 sales would be flat to up
Continue ReadingIRVING, Texas (AP) — Authorities say officers fatally shot a patient at a Dallas-area hospital who had a gun in an emergency room. Irving police spokesman Robert Reeves says a nurse called police Wednesday night after she saw that the 34-year-old patient had a gun at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. Reeves says a
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Clearly, this isn’t your father’s RadioShack. The zombie retailer’s Twitter account contains a stream of explicit comments, vulgarities and a bunch of drug references. Many companies have edgy social media presences, but not like this. So what’s going on? RadioShack is trying to sell you cryptocurrency — with an attitude.
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian official has warned that Moscow could see Western sanctions as a cause for war. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, denounced the Western restrictions as “boorish and cynical” and noted that they border on “economic war.” He said Thursday that “under
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business A million bears walking on the streets of Hong Kong. A strawberry frog. A cat made out of spaghetti and meatballs. These are just a few of the text descriptions that people have fed to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems in recent weeks, which these systems — notably OpenAI’s DALL-E 2
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges have issued arrest warrants for three men wanted on suspicion of committing war crimes during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. Russia invaded Georgia after violence broke out between separatist groups and Georgian forces. The war killed hundreds and displaced thousands of civilians.
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Dealmaking booms when markets are stable and businesses are feeling good about the economy and access to financing. When conditions deteriorate, confidence flags, and the number of companies going public or pursuing takeovers drops. That’s what is happening now. Details, details: The number of global initial public offerings, or IPOs,
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Five years after the last “Despicable Me” movie and a dozen years since the first, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” extends the animated franchise without exactly rising to the occasion, delivering a mundane exercise set to an odd 1970s soundtrack. Loud and colorful, it’s likely to divert smaller kids whose
Continue ReadingCNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Five years after the last “Despicable Me” movie and a dozen years since the first, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” extends the animated franchise without exactly rising to the occasion, delivering a mundane exercise set to an odd 1970s soundtrack. Loud and colorful, it’s likely to divert smaller kids
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont is “comfortably recovering” following surgery to repair a broken hip after he fell in his Virginia home on Wednesday. It is unclear how long he will be out in the 50-50 split Senate, but the chamber is in recess until the week of July 11.
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A pair of lawsuits that for years has plagued Virginia’s largest school system with allegations that it ignored students’ accusations of sex assaults are back in front of federal judges. One of the lawsuits includes allegations of horrific abuse suffered by a student at a
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor says he suspects that Russia may not resume gas deliveries to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after planned maintenance work in July. Russia reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia this month as European Union countries scramble to refill storage facilities to
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor says he suspects that Russia may not resume gas deliveries to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after planned maintenance work in July. Russia reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia this month as European Union countries scramble to refill storage facilities to
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Internet search traffic on abortion medication surged 162% higher than expected and reached a record high in the days after a draft of the US Supreme Court’s abortion decision was leaked in May, according to new research. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Wednesday, found that there was higher
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Una mujer que empujaba a un bebé en un cochecito recibió un disparo en la cabeza a corta distancia y murió en Manhattan en la noche de este miércoles, dijo la policía. El bebé de tres meses resultó ileso, y la relación entre la mujer de 20 años y el
Continue ReadingJacopo Prisco, CNN A rare portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, will be on public display for the first time after it was recently sold at auction. The oil sketch, a preparatory study for a formal full-length portrait by American artist Nelson Shanks, was completed in 1994, three years before Diana’s death in Paris. It
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament has given final approval to a bill that would allow the banning of foreign news media in response to other countries taking actions against Russian news outlets. The Kremlin-controlled State Duma approved the bill on its third and final reading on Wednesday. The upper house of
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia’s parliament has given final approval to a bill that would allow the banning of foreign news media in response to other countries taking actions against Russian news outlets. The Kremlin-controlled State Duma approved the bill on its third and final reading on Wednesday. The upper house of
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