By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s going to be a “Beautiful Day” for the band U2 and four other artists when they receive this year’s Kennedy Center Honors in December. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Thursday that the Irish rock band along with actor George Clooney, singers
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers. “It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN A growing number of Republicans are openly cheering for a competitive primary field in 2024 and encouraging candidates to jump into the race, as some in the GOP get increasingly anxious about the idea of Donald Trump becoming their presidential nominee again — especially amid damning revelations
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Part-time work has become a lot less popular, both with job seekers and employers. The number of workers who are working part of the time for economic reasons — because they can’t find full-time jobs, or because their employer has cut back their hours — hit a 20-year low of
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Officials with the National Park Service said Wednesday evening that the body of a climber who went missing Monday evening in the Olympic National Park has been found. Sean Allen, 38, of Port Angeles, was found by rescue workers using a helicopter to locate the man, whose body was on the southern
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry says the United States has shown disrespect for Russian law by characterizing basketball star Brittney Griner’s jailing on drug charges as “wrongful detention.” Griner has been jailed since she was arrested in mid-February at a Moscow airport after vape canisters containing
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry says the United States has shown disrespect for Russian law by characterizing basketball star Brittney Griner’s jailing on drug charges as “wrongful detention.” Griner has been jailed since she was arrested in mid-February at a Moscow airport after vape canisters containing
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The European Central Bank is about to raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years as it attempts to put a lid on record inflation fed by surging energy prices. What’s happening: The ECB has made clear that it will hike rates at its meeting on Thursday for
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Ford says it has contracts to deliver enough batteries to produce electric vehicles at a rate of 600,000 globally per year by late in 2023. The company says Thursday that Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. of China will supply new lithium-iron phosphate batteries starting next year. The deal is in addition to a
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Washington (CNN) — La investigación federal sobre las actividades comerciales de Hunter Biden se acerca a una coyuntura crítica, ya que los investigadores sopesan los posibles cargos y los fiscales confrontan las pautas del Departamento de Justicia para evitar, en general, acercar los casos políticamente delicados a las elecciones de mitad de
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers are taking the first steps toward building a privately-funded sports and entertainment arena. The team’s managing partners on Thursday announced the creation of a new development company to create its future home in the city’s Fashion District. They say 76 Place is anticipated to cost about $1.3 billion. Josh
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers are taking the first steps toward building a privately-funded sports and entertainment arena. The team’s managing partners on Thursday announced the creation of a new development company to create its future home in the city’s Fashion District. They say 76 Place is anticipated to cost about $1.3 billion. Josh
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers are taking the first steps toward building a privately-funded sports and entertainment arena. The team’s managing partners on Thursday announced the creation of a new development company to create its future home in the city’s Fashion District. They say 76 Place is anticipated to cost about $1.3 billion. Josh
Continue ReadingBy MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling has pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s second-largest city, as well as several other cities across the country. Local authorities in Kharkiv said at least three people were killed and 23 injured during a Russian barrage on Thursday that struck a mosque, a
Continue ReadingJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The pilot of a passenger airplane in Indonesia suffered a health emergency 15 minutes after take-off and was forced to return to the airport before being rushed to a hospital where he later died. The Citilink Indonesia flight — an Airbus A320 carrying more than 100 passengers — had departed from
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Business Baidu has unveiled plans for an electric self-driving car with a removable steering wheel, marking another step forward in the fast-moving robotaxi race in China. The Chinese tech giant, the country’s answer to Google, revealed the Apollo RT6, its sixth-generation autonomous vehicle, at its annual flagship conference on Thursday. Baidu’s
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is reporting a $476 million profit for the second quarter as summer travelers pack planes. It was American’s first profit without government pandemic aid in the COVID-19 era. American said Thursday that it achieved record revenue of more than $13 billion in the second
Continue ReadingWorkers aren’t settling for part-time work nearly as often as they used to. The number of workers employed in part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time work, or because their hours had been cut back by their employers, has fallen to a 20-year low. And, as a percentage of the work force, it’s at a
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The monkeypox virus has spread quickly in clusters across the United States — at certain music festivals, pool parties and bathhouses — and now public health officials in areas with a lot of infections want more vaccines made available to help control transmission, which appears to happen when people touch intimately,
Continue ReadingBy Carlotta Dotto, CNN Above the green hills of the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy, an agile farmer leaps across terraced lemon groves overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Balancing between one wooden pole and another, the not-so-young acrobat defies gravity, bending to pick lemons and transport them in crates weighing more than 25 kilograms (55 pounds)
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