By Brenda Goodman, CNN Influenza is always unpredictable. Infectious disease experts like to hedge their forecasts with a caution: When you’ve seen one flu season, you’ve seen one flu season. But when forecasters try to get a bead on what influenza might have in store for North America in any given winter, they look to
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Scottish soccer giant Rangers is back in the Champions League after a 12-year absence during which the club went out of business because of a financial crisis. Rangers is one of Europe’s most storied clubs and has a record 55 national league titles. The Glasgow team has gone through
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s unprecedented monsoon season and flooding have killed hundreds of people and made hundreds of thousands homeless. The rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years. Curator Ahsan Abbasi said on Tuesday that flooding has not directly hit Mohenjo Daro, a UNESCO World Heritage
Continue ReadingBy MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet Credit limits aren’t always there when you need them. With a potential recession looming, it’s important to understand how issuers treat credit limits in an unstable economy. While a credit card issuer’s decision to cut your credit limit or close an account is out of your control, there are still
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — With summer vacations winding down, airlines are counting on the return of more business travelers to keep their pandemic recovery going into the fall. Air travel in the United States, bolstered by huge numbers of tourists, has nearly recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Inflation — and especially
Continue ReadingCNN By Angela Fritz, CNN Antarctica’s so-called “doomsday glacier” — nicknamed because of its high risk of collapse and threat to global sea level — has the potential to rapidly retreat in the coming years, scientists say, amplifying concerns over the extreme sea level rise that would accompany its potential demise. The Thwaites Glacier, capable
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond is down nearly 20% in midday trading following the death of its one its top executives. Gustavo Arnal, the chief financial officer of the beleaguered retailer, jumped to his death from a high-rise apartment in Manhattan on Friday afternoon, a law enforcement source previously
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Nueva York (CNN Business) — Bed Bath & Beyond está en una profunda crisis. La compañía de venta de artículos para el hogar está tratando de rescatarse y mantenerse fuera de la bancarrota, por eso decidió hacer algunos cambios en sus finanzas para apuntalar la crisis financiera y salir a flote. Esto
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — The Spanish league has announced a new joint venture to expand its reach in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent to continue its push to grow internationally and narrow the gap to the English Premier League. The Spanish league is teaming with multinational
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Una jueza federal echó un cable este lunes a la investigación del Departamento de Justicia sobre el posible mal manejo de documentos de la Casa Blanca del expresidente Donald Trump, al conceder su solicitud de un perito independiente para revisar las pruebas incautadas en su casa de Florida el mes
Continue ReadingBy Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN Texas state Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr. has voted for anti-abortion legislation more than a dozen times in the last decade. He was one of the state lawmakers who both sponsored and voted for the controversial “Heartbeat Bill,” which criminalized abortion as soon as a fetus’ heartbeat is detected
Continue ReadingBy MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet Credit limits aren’t always there when you need them. With a potential recession looming, it’s important to understand how issuers treat credit limits in an unstable economy. While a credit card issuer’s decision to cut your credit limit or close an account is out of your control, there are still
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Alleged antisemitic chants by Juventus and Inter Milan fans are being investigated by Italian soccer authorities. The chants allegedly included references to Jews and occurred on Saturday during Juventus’ 1-1 draw at Fiorentina and Inter’s 3-2 loss to AC Milan in the Milan derby. Inter tweeted its support of the fight against
Continue ReadingBy VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The European commissioner for energy says the EU’s next steps for addressing the continent’s worsening energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are expected to be unveiled next week. Many European countries have tightened their belts as energy costs soar. Russia’s state-run energy company has
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog agency urged Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday to establish a “nuclear safety and security protection zone” around the Zaporizhzhia power plant amid mounting fears the fighting could trigger a catastrophe in a country still scarred by the Chernobyl disaster. “We are playing
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended sweeping war games involving troops from China and other nations in a show of force amid Moscow’s tensions with the West. The weeklong exercise in Russia’s far east that began Thursday is intended to showcase growing defense ties between Russia and
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A new report says Russia sent significantly more oil and coal to India and China over the summer compared with the start of the year, while European countries that long relied on Russian energy have cut back sharply in response to the war in Ukraine. The Centre for Research on Energy and
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A new report says Russia sent significantly more oil and coal to India and China over the summer compared with the start of the year, while European countries that long relied on Russian energy have cut back sharply in response to the war in Ukraine. The Centre for Research on Energy and
Continue ReadingBy ARSENE KABORE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A suspected jihadi roadside bomb has hit a convoy in northern Burkina Faso, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens more. The governor of Sahel region, Lt. Col. Rodolphe Sorgho, said that a supply convoy escorted by the army was hit
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta has arrived in Australia for a state visit as negotiations over lucrative gas resources reach a critical stage for his impoverished nation. The East Timorese are gaining confidence that they can break a 20-year deadlock with the new Australian government over
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