By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will have to keep boosting its benchmark interest rate to a point that raises unemployment and gets inflation down from unusually high levels. That’s according to two central bank officials in separate remarks Monday. The comments from both officials added to an ongoing
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will have to keep boosting its benchmark interest rate to a point that raises unemployment and gets inflation down from unusually high levels. That’s according to two central bank officials in separate remarks Monday. The comments from both officials added to an ongoing
Continue ReadingBy ED DAVEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — At the start of 2022, the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s leading private equity firms, published a report on its financial risk from greenhouse gas emissions. Yet something was not in the report. As the climate crisis worsens and emissions get more scrutiny, what major companies
Continue ReadingBy ED DAVEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — At the start of 2022, the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s leading private equity firms, published a report on its financial risk from greenhouse gas emissions. Yet something was not in the report. Carlyle’s largest oil and gas investment, NGP, was not included. A “note on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADRID (AP) — Heavy rain caused by a tropical storm has hit several regions in Spain, leaving one person dead and widespread damage. Authorities and national media said Monday that a 62-year-old man was found dead in the southeastern Murcia region after a sudden downpour flooded his house late Sunday. The Spanish weather
Continue ReadingCNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid Monday, and it’s all in the name of planetary protection. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will crash into the space rock at 7:14 p.m. ET after launching 10 months ago. The spacecraft will attempt to affect the
Continue ReadingKMGH, AURORA POLICE DEPT, CNN By Steve Almasy, CNN The autopsy report for Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died while in police custody in Colorado three years ago, has been changed to update the cause of death from “undetermined” to “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint,” Adams County Chief Coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson is retiring from full-time racing and will turn his focus toward spending time with family. He figures his future schedule will include no more than 10 bucket-list events, but the 47-year-old had no idea Monday what that will look
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS, WSVN By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN For the past two years Jan Gautam has been filling in sporadically as a housekeeper at hotels in Orlando, Florida, run by Interessant Hotels & Resort Management, or IHRMC. When he’s not making beds, he’s busy running the company. He’s the President and CEO of IHRMC — which
Continue ReadingBy Sebastian Shukla and Anna Chernova, CNN Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of Russia’s most elusive oligarchs, now admits to founding the private military company known as Wagner in 2014, reversing years of denials about his connection to the shadowy outfit. Prigozhin is so close to the Kremlin that he is known as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Pfizer asked U.S. regulators Monday to expand use of its updated COVID-19 booster shot to children ages 5 to 11. Elementary school-aged children already received kid-sized doses of Pfizer’s original vaccine, a third of the dose given to everyone 12 and older — two primary shots plus a booster. If the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The government is getting its day in court to try to block a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue. A trial is scheduled to start Tuesday in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against the airlines. The government says that letting American and JetBlue work together on
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Cuba legalizó el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo después de que los cubanos votaran a favor de un código de familia que aumenta la protección de las minorías en la isla, según anunció este lunes el Consejo Electoral Nacional del país. El organismo dijo que el 74,1% de las
Continue ReadingCNN By Mick Krever, Olga Voitovych, Josh Pennington, John Allen and Stephanie Halasz, CNN The foreigners that Russian state media routinely cite as being international observers to the so-called referendums in four regions of Ukraine are violating numerous international principles of election observation and are engaging in nothing more than “political activism,” experts in the
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Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. James Florio has died at age 85. Florio spent 15 years in Congress before his 1989 election as governor. He served a single term leading the state before voters turned him out — after the Democrat pushed through a tax increase and
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 CATHERINE GASCHKA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says Russia’s war in Ukraine and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are dragging down global economic growth more than expected and driving up inflation that will stay high into next year. The Paris-based organization projects worldwide growth to
Continue ReadingBy CATHERINE GASCHKA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says Russia’s war in Ukraine and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are dragging down global economic growth more than expected and driving up inflation that will stay high into next year. The Paris-based organization projects worldwide growth to
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Top U.S. insurance companies and associations say California is risking a crisis in the nation’s largest automobile insurance market by refusing to approve rate increases since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The companies already are cutting back and say they can’t continue operating at a
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