By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Last week, the Associated Press announced the creation of an unusual new position: a democracy editor. Tom Verdin — a more than 20-year veteran of the AP who spent the past seven years leading its state government team — will take up the role,managing coverage on challenges to democracy, voting
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Film director Paul Haggis was detained on Sunday for investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, Italian news media said, quoting local prosecutors. The Canadian-born, Oscar-winning Haggis, 69, has been in Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a tourist town in Puglia,
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Torri Huske, Caeleb Dressel and Alex Walsh have all won golds for the United States on the second day of racing at the world swimming championships. Only Nicolò Martinenghi prevented an American clean sweep as the 22-year-old claimed Italy’s first-ever gold medal in the men’s
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS, WBAL By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business President Joe Biden said he was “proud” of Apple’s retail workers in Towson, Maryland, who voted this weekend to form the first-ever labor union at one of the tech giant’s US stores. “I’m proud of them,” the President told reporters from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Monday. “Workers
Continue ReadingBy Jasmine Wright, CNN The White House said Sunday that President Joe Biden‘s upcoming meeting with Saudi officials will “include” the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, hours after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested there would be a one-on-one meeting. Granholm said Sunday on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ that it was her “understanding” that
Continue ReadingCNN By Jasmine Wright, CNN The White House said Sunday that President Joe Biden‘s upcoming meeting with Saudi officials will “include” the kingdom’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, hours after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested there would be a one-on-one meeting. Granholm said Sunday on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ that it was her “understanding”
Continue ReadingSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president has asked people to be patient after the price of the cryptocurrency fell below $20,000 — less than half the price the government paid. According to the tracking site nayibtracker.com, El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele’s administration has spent about $105 million on Bitcoin, starting
Continue ReadingSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president has asked people to be patient after the price of the cryptocurrency fell below $20,000 — less than half the price the government paid. According to the tracking site nayibtracker.com, El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele’s administration has spent about $105 million on Bitcoin, starting
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sue Bird admitted that it felt like a fairy tale. It was only fitting that her final regular-season game in her hometown of New York ended with her hitting the last shot. The league’s all-time assist leader made a 3-pointer to seal the game and
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer DENVER (AP) — “Mr. Game 7” is back in the Stanley Cup Final, but in a much different role than before. Three-time champion and 2014 playoff MVP Justin Williams is joining NHL Network as a guest analyst for Games 3 and 4 between the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay
Continue ReadingOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — About 6,000 bees were recently removed from inside the walls of an Omaha couple’s 100-year-old home. Thomas and Marylu Gouttierre told the Omaha World-Herald they have been planting bee-friendly flowers outside theirhome, but they never expected the bees to move in. Gouttierre said he could hear buzzing when he put his
Continue ReadingBy Keith Allen and Ralph Ellis, CNN Four inmates escaped early Saturday from a federal prison camp in Hopewell, Virginia, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Inmates Corey Branch, Tavares Lajuane Graham, Lamonte Rashawn Willis and Kareem Allen Shaw were reported as missing from the Federal Correctional Complex Petersburg’s
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua for the world heavyweight title will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Aug. 20. Usyk will be defending the IBF, WBA, WBO titles he claimed from Joshua in beating the British fighter in London in September. Joshua will fight in Saudi Arabia for
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Saturday. Here’s a look at other unionization drives of the past several months: STARBUCKS In December, a Starbucks store in Buffalo became the first to unionize at one of the coffee retailer’s company-owned U.S. stores.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Saturday. Here’s a look at other unionization drives of the past several months: STARBUCKS In December, a Starbucks store in Buffalo became the first to unionize at one of the coffee retailer’s company-owned U.S. stores.
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN There really is no such thing as a free lunch. An anonymous bidder paid a record-breaking $19 million for a private steak lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett. The sale was part of the 21st annual auction for a lunch with Buffett, produced in collaboration with eBay and the Glide Foundation,
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 people, mostly ethnic Amhara, have been killed in an attack in the country’s Oromia region and are blaming a rebel group, which denies it. It is one of the deadliest such attacks in recent memory as ethnic tensions continue in Africa’s second
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press FROMBERG, Mont. (AP) — With Yellowstone National Park pushing to reopen to tourists more quickly than anticipated after record floods pounded southern Montana, some of those hardest hit in the disaster live far from the famous park’s limelight and are leaning heavily on one another to pull
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — World swimming’s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s events, starting Monday. FINA members widely adopted a new “gender inclusion policy” on Sunday that only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. The organization also proposed
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press FROMBERG, Mont. (AP) — With Yellowstone National Park pushing to reopen to tourists more quickly than anticipated after record floods pounded southern Montana, some of those hardest hit in the disaster live far from the famous park’s limelight and are leaning heavily on one another to pull
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