By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Instagram on Wednesday began rolling out an Amber Alert feature on its platform to notify users of missing children in their area. The alerts, which will be available in the United States and two dozen other countries, will include details about the missing child, such as a photo, description and
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Justin Lewis has decided to remain in the NBA draft rather than return to Marquette for the 2022-23 season. The 6-foot-7 forward issued a social media post saying, “Thank you Marquette,” on Wednesday. That marked the NCAA deadline for players who had entered the draft to withdraw from consideration and maintain their
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne is in contention to win English football’s Player of the Year award for the third straight season. De Bruyne is on a six-man shortlist for the award alongside Liverpool trio Sadio Mane, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah, Tottenham striker Harry Kane and Manchester United striker
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN United Airlines is becoming the first major airline carrier to donate flights to ship baby formula from abroad to the United States as the federal government works to address the ongoing shortage, the White House announced Wednesday. The flights will come as part of the White House’s “Operation Fly Formula” efforts.
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday commemorated the “historic first” time that a woman will lead a branch of the armed forces, as Adm. Linda Fagan became the first female commandant of the US Coast Guard. Fagan became the 27th commandant of the Coast Guard. Adm. Karl Schultz, the 26th commandant, is
Continue ReadingBy GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The chant in Arabic blasted from rooftop loudspeakers, drowning out both the growl of traffic from nearby interstates and the chatter and clinking glasses on the patio of the dive bar that shares a wall with Minneapolis’ oldest Somali mosque. Dozens of men in fashionably ripped jeans
Continue ReadingTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Veteran defensive tackle Akiem Hicks has signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 32-year-old Hicks is likely to become a replacement for Ndamukong Suh, who is a free agent after spending the past three seasons on one-year deals with Tampa Bay. Hicks was a third-round draft pick of
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN The stereotype that Black people don’t swim is one oft repeated, but for Nathan Fluellen, it wasn’t one that was true. Fluellen grew up in a Black middle class neighborhood in Chicago, where everyone knew how to swim, he told CNN. What he never saw, though, was Black people surfing. “I
Continue ReadingBy LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith turned her husband’s Oscar-night blowup into a teachable moment about alopecia areata, the hair-loss disorder affecting her and millions of others that, in some cases, can impact a person’s sense of identity. “Considering what I’ve been through with my own health and
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says his country is improving its transport infrastructure to help increase the export of grain and other key products from neighboring Ukraine that has been severely restricted by Russia’s invasion. He spoke in the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka, near Kyiv, that was heavily damaged by Russian shelling. He
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says his country is improving its transport infrastructure to help increase the export of grain and other key products from neighboring Ukraine that has been severely restricted by Russia’s invasion. He spoke in the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka, near Kyiv, that was heavily damaged by Russian shelling. He
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson New York (CNN Business) — Elon Musk exigirá a los trabajadores de Tesla que regresen a trabajar presencialmente a las oficinas o renuncien a la compañía. La política, revelada en correos electrónicos filtrados que Musk envió al personal ejecutivo de Tesla este martes, la reportó inicialmente el sitio de noticias de vehículos eléctricos
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in a U.S. prison, his lawyer said Wednesday. In 2020, a judge had denied Rodríguez Orejuela, who was in his 80s, early
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Republican candidate for Michigan governor has lost his bid to get on the Aug. 2 primary ballot. It’s the first key court decision since election officials found campaign petitions rife with fraudulent signatures. The ruling affects Perry Johnson, a wealthy businessman considered to be a leading
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed In most other pockets of the federal government, a public employee’s decision to lawyer up in the face of an internal investigation would be a no-brainer. But for Supreme Court clerks now being asked to cooperate with new steps in the court’s leak probe, such a move could upend the trajectories of
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines is boosting its outlook for second-quarter revenue because it expects phenomenal demand for travel this summer. The airline said Wednesday that it expects second-quarter adjusted revenue will be back to pre-pandemic 2019 levels, and revenue per seat will be higher than originally expected. CEO Ed Bastian
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Busari, CNN Kunle Adeyanju is a self-confessed daredevil who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice and cycled from Lagos to Accra over three days. But it is his latest adventure that is creating a buzz after he successfully completed a motorcycle ride from London to Lagos. The journey took 41 days as he traveled
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The last surviving Howard Johnson’s restaurant has closed. Open for most of the past 70 years, the restaurant was located in Lake George, New York, a popular summer vacation spot near the Adirondack Mountains. The restaurant closed its doors in recent weeks and the property is up for lease, according
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Twenty-one years ago, Bart Riley and co-founders bet their short-lived company, A123 Systems, on batteries free of nickel and cobalt. They believed the battery technology offered several benefits for automakers in the then-nascent electric vehicle space. The Massachusetts-based startup pitched Tesla on its batteries between 2008 and 2011, Riley recalled,
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Melissa Alonso, CNN The families of two Utah teenagers have filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that bans transgender women and girls from participating in school sports. The suit asks the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement. It was filed Tuesday in the Third Judicial District
Continue Reading