By Danielle Wiener-Bronner and Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Some sobering news for US shoppers: There’s little relief in sight on grocery store bills. Grocery prices climbed 13.5% in August from the year before, the highest annual increase since March 1979, according to government data. Executives at large food manufacturers and analysts expect inflation to hover
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Danielle Wiener-Bronner and Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Some sobering news for US shoppers: There’s little relief in sight on grocery store bills. Grocery prices climbed 13.5% in August from the year before, the highest annual increase since March 1979, according to government data. Executives at large food manufacturers and analysts expect
Continue ReadingBy Angie Koehle Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KTVK, KPHO) — Workers from Apple Roofing are caravanning across the country to help in Hurricane relief efforts. The Phoenix branch joined other branches nationwide. In all, the company sent 75 workers to do work on homes and businesses hit by the storm. “The
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union energy ministers have adopted a package of measures to ease an energy crisis, including a levy on windfall profits of fossil fuel companies. But an agreement on capping natural gas prices that is supported by a majority of countries remained off the
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Russian athletes who do not endorse their country’s war in Ukraine could be accepted back into international sports. IOC president Thomas Bach suggests this pathway back for Russians in an interview published on Friday. Bach tells Italian daily Corriere della Sera “it’s about having athletes with
Continue ReadingBy Alexis Cortez Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KTVK, KPHO) — Police say a Phoenix man is in the hospital with serious burns after a group of men filled grocery bags with gasoline and loaded them into a car, leading to a fire on Thursday morning. Phoenix police say a vehicle was
Continue ReadingCNN By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Hurricane Ian may have caused as much as $47 billion in insured losses, according to the latest estimate, which could make it the most expensive storm in the state’s history. CoreLogic, a research firm that estimates losses from natural disasters, released the estimate for damages as of Thursday night.
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain has not called up any of the female players who renounced playing for their nation in a decision that the Spanish soccer federation interpreted as a move towards removing their coach. Coach Jorge Vilda dropped all 15 players who last week sent emails to the
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press TEQUA, West Bank (AP) — Men clutching the body of a 7-year-old Palestinian boy have marched through a town in the occupied West Bank to his final resting place, a day after his parents say he died from fear of Israeli soldiers. Rayan Suleiman’s funeral Friday came a day after
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime emergency services worker who was killed in an unprovoked stabbing in New York City was planning to retire in a few months and spend more time with her family, the head of her union said. Lt. Alison Russo-Elling was about six or seven months
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two brothers in Texas have been arrested after authorities say one of them opened fire on a group of migrants getting water near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one man and shooting a woman in the stomach. The shooting Tuesday was in rural Hudspeth County about
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Friday that U.S. interest rates will likely have to remain high for an extended period to combat inflation, capping a week of tough rhetoric by Fed officials. In remarks at a conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Hours after she was formally sworn in at the Supreme Court on Friday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a rousing speech at the Library of Congress, saying that since her appointment, she has been approached by people from “all walks of life” with what she called “a
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, Phil Mattingly and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US is imposing what it describes as “swift and severe costs” on Russia, including sanctions on a figure the Biden administration says is key to Russia’s economy, after President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of regions of Ukraine following what the West casts as “sham
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Noah says that he’s leaving “The Daily Show” as host, after seven years of a Trump and pandemic-filled tenure on the weeknight Comedy Central show. Noah surprised the studio audience during Thursday’s taping, dropping the news after discussing his “feeling of gratitude” that it
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — Emergency workers in hazmat suits have responded to the headquarters of the European Union’s executive commission after an envelope containing a suspicious white powder was found on the premises. A spokesperson for Brussels firefighters said only one person came into contact with the substance on Friday and they didn’t show any negative
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has launched a special hotline for transgender people in an effort to protect their rights and save them from discrimination and harassment. Salman Sufi, an adviser to the prime minister, tweeted on Friday that the hotline was live and connected to top police officers and the Ministry of Human Rights. Trans
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business GM’s self-driving car subsidiary Cruise said earlier this year that it wants to add as many as 5,000 more robotaxis to American streets, including in San Francisco, where it currently maintains a fleet of fewer than 100 cars. But the city says the robotaxis are already shaping up to be
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press GATESVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s staff this month quietly dropped a series of human trafficking and child sexual assault cases after losing track of one of the victims, a stumble in open court emblematic of broader dysfunction inside one of America’s most prominent law offices. The
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Hurricane Ian may have caused as much as $47 billion in insured losses, according to the latest estimate, which could make it the most expensive storm in the state’s history. CoreLogic, a research firm that estimates losses from natural disasters, released the estimate for damages as of Thursday night. The
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