olivertapia (CNN) — Fiona ya es un huracán de categoría 4 y continúa su camino catastrófico hacia el norte este miércoles, dejando atrás comunidades afectadas por desastres en Puerto Rico, Islas Turcas y Caicos y la República Dominicana que ahora deben comenzar a trabajar hacia la recuperación. Los vientos sostenidos de Fiona alcanzan los 210
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar Port authorities say they are working to mitigate the impact of a new oil leak from a partly sunken ship in its bay area. Bad weekend weather triggered the leak, which is affecting fishing in both the British territory and in a town in nearby in
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Gibraltar Port authorities say they are working to mitigate the impact of a new oil leak from a partly sunken ship in its bay area. Bad weekend weather triggered the leak, which is affecting fishing in both the British territory and in a town in nearby in
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States has urged the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought by Iran seeking to claw back some $2 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets that the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States has urged the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought by Iran seeking to claw back some $2 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets that the U.S. Supreme Court awarded to victims of a 1983 bombing in Lebanon and
Continue ReadingPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued a 13-year-old blind dog that fell into a hole at a California construction site. According to KABC-TV, the dog, named Cesar, lives next to the site in Pasadena with his owner. The dog apparently wandered onto the site, said Cesar’s owner Mary, who declined to give her last
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In what has become an annual ritual, the CEOs of the major U.S. banks are appearing in front of Congress this week, to sell themselves as shepherds of a helpful industry at a time of financial and economic distress for many Americans. Democrats have called JPMorgan
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The CEOs of the nation’s biggest banks have appeared in front of Congress and given a dim view of the U.S. economy, reflecting the financial and economic distress many Americans are facing. JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Citigroup’s Jane Fraser and other chief executives said the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marcus, CNN Audio In a deeply personal and intimate conversation about loss and grief on Anderson Cooper’s new podcast All There Is, “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert opened up about the importance of “learning to love the thing you most wish had never happened.” Colbert, who is the youngest of 11 siblings,
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN Air travel volume is up and passenger satisfaction is down. This comes as no surprise to anyone who passed through an airport over the summer. The J.D. Power 2022 North America Airport Satisfaction Study, released Wednesday, shows overall satisfaction down 25 points on a 1,000 point scale from the 2021 score.
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spain has fined delivery company Glovo nearly 79 million euros ($78 million) for violating a 2021 law that obliged app-based food delivery platforms to make their riders full employees. Spanish Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz said Glovo had continued to treat some 10,000 regular riders as self-employed workers when they should have been
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spain has fined delivery company Glovo nearly 79 million euros ($78 million) for violating a 2021 law that obliged app-based food delivery platforms to make their riders full employees. Spanish Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz said Glovo had continued to treat some 10,000 regular riders as self-employed workers when they should have been
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of police have raided 24 properties across Germany linked to Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, in connection with alleged breaches of sanctions and money laundering rules. Prosecutors in Frankfurt and Munich said Wednesday in separate statements that some 250 state
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN Business Well, it was nice while it lasted. After sinking every day for more than three months, US gas prices edged higher — by a penny — to $3.68 a gallon, on average Wednesday, according to AAA. That ends 98 consecutive days of falling pump prices, the second-longest
Continue ReadingBy CNN Sport staff Aaron Judge moved level with baseball legend Babe Ruth’s single-season tally of 60 home runs on Tuesday — one shy of Roger Maris’ American League (AL) single-season record — in a dramatic 9-8 New York Yankees win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Yankees trailed by four runs at the bottom of
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The central idea behind House and Senate bills to reform an arcane federal election law is simple: Congress should not decide presidential elections. The bills are a response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and ex-President Donald Trump’s efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count
Continue ReadingZURICH (AP) — Swiss champion Zurich has fired coach Franco Foda. He leaves the team without a win in the defense of its title and after losses to Arsenal and Bodø/Glimt in the Europa League. Foda guided Austria to the knockout stage at the European Championship last year. Zurich hired him in June to replace
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — En un video, una multitud vitorea cuando una mujer levanta un par de tijeras hacia su cabello, expuesta, sin un hiyab a la vista. El mar de personas, muchos de ellos hombres, ruge mientras ella se corta la cola de caballo y levanta el puño en el aire. Se trató de un
Continue ReadingCNN By Simone McCarthy and Rob Picheta, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the immediate “partial mobilization” of Russian citizens on Wednesday, a move that threatens to escalate his faltering invasion of Ukraine following a string of defeats that caused recriminations in Moscow. Putin said in a speech that he would use “all the means
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Jessica Dean, Kristin Wilson and Daniella Diaz, CNN The House passed legislation Wednesday introduced by GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election in the future by proposing changes to the Electoral Count Act. Cheney and Lofgren,
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