By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 10th anniversary of the Global Citizen Festival, which included performances from Metallica, Mariah Carey and Usher, generated more than $2.4 billion in commitments to fight extreme poverty and disease. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Barbados Prime Minister
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The government of Venezuela has rejected a report by an independent experts working with the United Nations’ top human rights body who allege that President Nicolas Maduro personally ordered the detention of government opponents. Detainees allegedly endured electric shocks, asphyxiation and other cruel
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced a new initiative that would eventually allow consumers to see a more complete price on airline tickets before they buy them. That would include baggage and change fees. The White House says the proposed rule from the Department
Continue ReadingMartha C. White America’s seniors are facing a lot of hard choices. After the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike, the combination of climbing prices on everything from food to gas to utilities and ever-higher borrowing costs is making the finances of Americans on fixed incomes increasingly precarious. “Overall, they have an increase in daily living
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Assistance League of Bend will have a booth at the 23rd anniversary of the Heaven Can Wait 5K Walk/ Run in Redmond. They will be offering free knitted and sewn hats to cancer patients and “knitted knockers” prothesis to patients who have undergone a mastectomy. All of the items have been
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Christina Ricci will be the first to tell you she doesn’t like her terrifying “Yellowjackets” character Misty Quigley. “I mean, she’s not somebody that I would choose to be friends with,” Ricci tells CNN of her Emmy-nominated role. Still, she does like playing her even if she is untrustworthy. “I really enjoy
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank says the economic outlook “is darkening” and she expects business activity to “slow substantially” in the coming months as high energy and food prices pushed up by the war in Ukraine sap consumer spending power. ECB President Christine
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank says the economic outlook “is darkening” and she expects business activity to “slow substantially” in the coming months as high energy and food prices pushed up by the war in Ukraine sap consumer spending power. ECB President Christine
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey “House of the Dragon” star Emily Carey is reacting to actress Olivia Cooke now stepping in to reign as the series takes a time jump. Cooke and Emma D’Arcy will now play the adult versions of their characters, Queen Alicent Hightower and Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. Carey and actress Milly Alcock departed the
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors say that a 30-year-old man suspected of involvement in the slaying of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries has been arrested by authorities in Poland. De Vries, one of the Netherlands’ best-known journalists who also campaigned to solve cold cases, was gunned down in Amsterdam on July 6
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government will no longer require people to wear masks on planes. Government officials also confirmed Canada is dropping the vaccine requirement for people entering the country at the end of the month. Canada, like the United States, requires foreign nationals to be vaccinated when entering
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Aiello Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA (CTV Network) — The federal government has announced it is dropping all COVID-19 border restrictions for anyone entering Canada, including: proof of COVID-19 vaccination, quarantine and isolation requirements as well as all pre- or on-arrival COVID-19 testing. Canada is also making the ArriveCan application
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — The herd of wild horses inhabiting an isolated island that was directly in the path of post-tropical storm Fiona appear to have come through the extreme weather safely. Sable Island, a small island around 300km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Continue ReadingBy Betty Yu Click here for updates on this story SAN LORENZO, California (KPIX) — Violent road rage incidents have increased by 500 percent over the past decade, leading to hundreds of deaths here in the Bay Area alone. A week ago, Rienheart Asuncion, a 30-year-old San Lorenzo newlywed, was shot and killed at the
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET and JADE LE DELEY The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France is forecasting growth to slow down substantially next year in the EU’s second-biggest economy. That is coming amid fears of recession in neighboring Germany as the economic situation in Europe is slammed by Russia’s war in Ukraine. France’s budget was presented
Continue ReadingBy Kirsten Mitchell Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A popular Minneapolis restaurant closed this weekend after a stomach-churning discovery went viral. A video appeared to show a rodent in a bin of rice inside Stella’s Fish Café in Uptown. RaLasia Wright captured the video at about 2 a.m. Saturday when
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced a new initiative that would eventually allow consumers to see a more complete price on airline tickets before they buy them. That would include baggage and change fees. The White House says the proposed rule from the Department
Continue ReadingBy Giles Hudson Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — A group of people got stranded just floors from the top of Reunion Tower after power went out to the elevator. It happened just before 5:30 this afternoon at the iconic tower located on the west end of downtown Dallas. The glass-windowed
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, Clare Duffy and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business Billionaire Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal did not sit for depositions Monday as part of an ongoing merger lawsuit despite earlier scheduling notices filed in a Delaware court, marking another twist in a closely watched case about the future of one of the
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Business When Parag Agrawal took over as Twitter’s CEO last November following co-founder Jack Dorsey’s surprise resignation from the role, he was little known outside the company. Ten months later, Agrawal has featured prominently in a whistleblower disclosure, been rebuked by name in a Congressional hearing and fielded criticism from
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