By MARK PRATT Associated Press Employees at a Trader Joe’s in Massachusetts are casting votes over the next two days in an attempt to form the supermarket chain’s first union. A union organizer says about 80 workers at the Hadley store are scheduled to vote Wednesday and Thursday. The workers are organizing under the name
Continue ReadingBy Alex Hardie, Amy Cassidy and Hafsa Khalil, CNN The total number of wildfires in the European Union since the beginning of 2022 is almost four times the 15-year average for the same time period, according to Copernicus, the bloc’s Earth observation program. In a tweet posted on Tuesday, Copernicus said that 1,926 wildfires had
Continue ReadingBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazil forward Neymar will stand trial in Spain a month before the World Cup for alleged irregularities involving his transfer to Barcelona in 2013. Neymar’s parents, former Barcelona president Sandro Rosell and both the club and Brazilian team Santos are also set to go on trial after a complaint brought by
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz, CNN House Democrats will not vote on a series of gun and policing bills this week that would have included an assault weapons ban, according to a source familiar with the matter. This comes after the chamber had scheduled these bills in the wake of a wave of mass shootings across the
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Apenas a las 7 a.m. de este martes, los residentes de St. Louis ya enfrentaban el día más lluvioso en la historia de la ciudad desde que se tienen registros, mientras las carreteras se llenaban de agua y las inundaciones generalizadas sobrepasaban automóviles, autopistas y casas. El día acababa de comenzar. A
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business The Federal Reserve is stepping up its war on inflation. That means borrowing costs are going sharply higher for families and businesses. The US central bank last increased its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, which is the biggest single hike since 1994. This follows the Fed’s
Continue ReadingBy Hadas Gold, CNN Israeli officials are trying to tamp down the diplomatic fracas that has erupted in recent weeks as Moscow has sought to dissolve the Jewish Agency’s Russian branch, an organization that helps Jews emigrate to Israel. The Jerusalem-based Jewish Agency for Israel encourages and assists Jews, both logistically and financially, who may
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Shania Twain is showing fans everything in her new documentary “Not Just A Girl,” released on Netflix July 26. The legendary singer says music saved her from a violent father in Timmins, Ont., but that her mother fully supported her dreams, taking her to local bars to sing when her father was
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Cash-strapped Lebanon plans to build two new grain silos to fight its food security crisis for millions living in poverty. Caretaker Economy Minister Amin Salam told The Associated Press on Wednesday that several countries, including the United States, France, Germany and the United Arab Emirates have shown
Continue ReadingBy Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The Internet is obsessed with him. His playful smile. His big, soulful eyes. The fact that he has no bad angle in photos. His owner is also actor Chris Evans, which makes the pair’s selfies ten times more “like”-able on Instagram. Named after a character from the movie “Oliver & Company,”
Continue ReadingBy Josh Campbell, Kristin Wilson and Lauren Koenig, CNN Gun manufactures selling assault-style rifles have employed questionable marketing tactics, including appealing to White supremacists, “preying” on the masculinity of young men, and running advertisements that mimic video games, according to an investigation by the Democrat-led House Committee on Oversight and Reform. In a hearing Wednesday,
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer CHAUVIN, La. (AP) — Sliding off the side of her small boat, seabird biologist Bonnie Slaton wades through waist-high water, brown pelicans soaring overhead, until she reaches Raccoon Island. During seabird breeding season, the place is a symphony of noise and motion — one of the few remaining refuges
Continue ReadingGOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… The Excessive Heat Warning has been extended through Saturday at 11:00 pm. Be prepared to deal with daytime highs in the low triple digits until then. Highs today will be around 102 with northerly and NW breezes at a gentle 5-10 mph. Many will see hazy conditions and areas to the
Continue ReadingLOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (AP) — An unraced 2-year-old colt trained by Bob Baffert has been euthanized after an accident at Los Alamitos in Southern California. It was the 10th horse to die at the Orange County track this year. The track says Rapacious had completed his morning workout when he reared up twice as he
Continue ReadingCNN By Jen Christensen, CNN In June, the World Health Organization recommended that scientists continue to research all possible origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, including a lab leak. Two newly published studies take totally different approaches but arrive at the same conclusion: The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, was most likely the epicenter for
Continue ReadingMUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy fatally shot his 5-year-old sister in their home in eastern Indiana and their parents have been arrested in the killing, police said. First responders discovered the girl with a gunshot wound to the head early Tuesday afternoon at the home in Muncie, 60 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The head of the U.S. government aid agency has called on China to help Sri Lanka and other nations that had borrowed heavily from Beijing with debt restructuring, not just with lines of credit and emergency loans. Samantha Power, the administrator for the U.S. Agency for
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The head of the U.S. government aid agency has called on China to help Sri Lanka and other nations that had borrowed heavily from Beijing with debt restructuring, not just with lines of credit and emergency loans. Samantha Power, the administrator for the U.S. Agency for
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity has died on his 103rd birthday. James Lovelock’s family said Wednesday that he died the previous evening at his home in southwest England after his health deteriorated
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Pennsylvania mortgage company owned by billionaire businessman Warren Buffett’s company discriminated against potential Black and Latino homebuyers in Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware, the Department of Justice said Wednesday, in what is being called the second-largest redlining settlement in history. Trident Mortgage Co., a
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