By Chris Isidore, CNN Business About 100 Starbucks stores across America will be on strike for the next three days, as the union attempts to turn up the pressure in it year-long battle with the coffee retailer. This is the second widespread strike by Starbucks Workers United, which staged a one-day strike in November on
Continue ReadingCNN By Paula Hancocks, Yoonjung Seo and David Hawley, CNN “She’s smiling, look at her smile, her face.” Oh Il-seok looks lovingly at a photograph of his daughter taken in the last hours of her life. As he takes off his glasses to wipe his eyes, his wife whispers, “Ji-min is my friend, she is
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un nuevo estudio revela que casi el 6% de los 130 millones de personas que acuden cada año a los servicios de urgencias de EE.UU. son diagnosticadas erróneamente, lo que supone que 1 de cada 18 pacientes recibe un diagnóstico equivocado. El informe, publicado este jueves por la Agencia para
Continue ReadingBy Saskya Vandoorne and Jason Hanna, CNN An American college student who was reported missing more than two weeks ago in France has told relatives he is safe in Spain, his family said Friday, seemingly resolving at least part of a mystery that sparked a multinational search. Kenny DeLand Jr. called his relatives early Friday,
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says its latest round of sanctions will hit Russia’s military-industrial complex, as well as people and groups that are attacking Ukrainian civilians or kidnapping children. A European Commission vice-president said on Friday that the package would deal a blow to 168 companies or state
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says its latest round of sanctions will hit Russia’s military-industrial complex, as well as people and groups that are attacking Ukrainian civilians or kidnapping children. A European Commission vice-president said on Friday that the package would deal a blow to 168 companies or state
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters and CNN The number of people killed in a landslide Friday near the Malaysian capital has risen to 23, while 10 people are still missing, Malaysia’s state media agency Bernama reported Saturday. The authorities have identified six bodies so far, Bernama reported, citing Malaysia’s National Disaster Management Agency. The landslide in Batang
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN Tyrell Terry, a 2020 NBA draft pick of the Dallas Mavericks, has announced his retirement from basketball, citing anxiety. In an Instagram post on Thursday, the 22-year-old Terry called it “the darkest times” of his life while describing the anxiety basketball caused him. “Intrusive thoughts, waking up nauseous, and finding myself
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The International Energy Agency says coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel. The Paris-based agency said in a report published Friday that while coal use grew by only 1.2% in
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The International Energy Agency says coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel. The Paris-based agency said in a report published Friday that while coal use grew by only 1.2% in
Continue ReadingBy Bethlehem Feleke and Christian Edwards, CNN A hippo has attacked a 2-year-old boy in Uganda, swallowing half of his body before spitting him out, a statement from the Uganda Police Force said on Friday. The child was attacked on December 4 at around 3 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET) in the Katwe-Kabatoro district,
Continue ReadingCNN By Joe Sutton and Amanda Jackson, CNN Winston-Salem State University, a historically Black institution in North Carolina, has addressed the use of law enforcement on its campus amid the online spread of a video that shows a Black student being arrested in a classroom after an apparent dispute with a professor. The incident Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) — Excitement for Sunday’s World Cup final in Argentina is rising fast and anxiety is running particularly high in Messi’s hometown as many are hoping he will finally win the one major trophy missing from his illustrious career. The neighborhood in Rosario popularly known as La Bajada
Continue ReadingBy GEROLD ROZENBLAD and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Dutch colonizers kidnapped men, women and children and enslaved them on plantations growing sugar, coffee and other goods that built wealth at the price of misery. On Monday, the Netherlands is expected to become one of the few nations to apologize for its
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Facebook parent Meta is sparring with the FTC over its pending acquisition of a virtual reality fitness company Within Unlimited in federal court in San Jose, California, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify as a witness. At issue is whether Meta’s purchase
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Facebook parent Meta is sparring with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over its pending acquisition of virtual reality fitness company Within Unlimited in federal court in San Jose, California. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify as a witness. At issue is whether Meta’s
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN In July 2020, the same month former President Donald Trump said he would ban TikTok in the United States, Callie Goodwin of Columbia, South Carolina, posted her first video on the app to promote the small business she had started out of her garage during the pandemic. Inspired by a neighbor
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN In July 2020, the same month former President Donald Trump said he would ban TikTok in the United States, Callie Goodwin of Columbia, South Carolina, posted her first video on the app to promote the small business she had started out of her garage during the pandemic. Inspired
Continue ReadingBy Nadine Schmidt, CNN A 46-foot-high aquarium that was home to around 1,500 exotic fish burst Friday morning, injuring at least two people and sending a flood of water and debris onto a nearby street, police and firefighters in central Berlin have said. The AquaDom aquarium is located in the foyer of a Radisson Collection
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Elon Musk’s abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the platform to build their audiences. Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and
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