By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Two years ago, when the pandemic ushered in the sharpest economic downturn on record, it sparked a tidal wave of layoffs. The subsequent recession was painful but mercifully short — technically, it lasted only two months. Since then, the economy has come roaring back. Unemployment in the US is near
Continue ReadingBy ALAN SUDERMAN and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers unable to get paychecks. Tax and customs systems paralyzed. Health officials unable to access medical records or track the spread of COVID-19. A country’s president declaring war against foreign hackers saying they want to overthrow the government. For two months now, Costa Rica
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban and Uliana Pavlova, CNN Business The semiconductor industry just can’t catch a break. After grappling with pandemic-fueled supply bottlenecks, chipmakers are facing a new headache: Russia, one of the world’s biggest suppliers of gases used to make semiconductors, has started to limit exports. Moscow began restricting exports of inert, or “noble” gases,
Continue ReadingIRBIL, Baghdad (AP) — Iraq’s Kurdistan’s counter-terrorism service says a Turkish drone targeted a vehicle traveling in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Friday, killing four Kurdish militants. It says the drone struck the jeep in the town of Kalar in the northern province of Sulaymaniyah on Friday. A fifth passenger was wounded and was being treated
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La candidatura de Ucrania para ingresar en la Unión Europea recibió un gran impulso este viernes por la mañana, después de que el ejecutivo del bloque dijera que creía que el país debía ser considerado formalmente para el estatus de candidato tras la invasión de Rusia. En Bruselas, la presidenta
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The leaders of Greece and Cyprus are seeking to tamp down tensions with neighboring Turkey amid increasingly belligerent rhetoric from the Turkish president. They are insisting that the best way to counter such talk is through “calm and composed determination.” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a meeting with Cypriot
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s members have approved a plan to sell portions of the team’s television rights and future revenues from merchandise and licensing in hopes of injecting immediate cash into the debt-ridden Spanish club. The club says it hopes to earn 600 million euros ($631 million) from the
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN When US intelligence and national security officials gathered at a classified facility in April to speak with election officials around the country, there was no burning new intelligence to share about cyber threats to American democracy. The briefing covered Russia’s war on Ukraine and foreign and domestic sources of disinformation about
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Ana de Armas está atrayendo todas las miradas por su asombrosa interpretación de Marilyn Monroe en Blonde, la nueva película de Netflix que rinde homenaje a la ‘rubia de oro’ de Hollywood. Estas son algunas de las actrices que le han rendido homenaje a Monroe en series, películas y
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN New York Republican congressional candidate Carl Paladino told a radio host in late 2016 that Black Americans were kept “dumb and hungry” so they could be conditioned to only vote for the Democratic Party, saying, “You can’t teach them differently.” Paladino, then a Buffalo school board member, was
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has recommended making Ukraine a candidate for EU membership. The move would be a first step on what is expected to be a long road before the war-torn country could actually join the 27-nation bloc. The European Commission on Friday delivered its
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The popular rideshare company Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations, including not disclosing reports of drivers assaulting passengers. Notably, the money will go to shareholders instead of the individuals who’ve been victim to and reported such incidents. Here’s what you need to know
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian reporter working for an Iranian news agency was briefly abducted, beaten and threatened by Palestinian gunmen. The incident happened on Tuesday, after he covered the violent dispersal of an Islamist student demonstration in the West Bank. The Tasnim news agency, which reported the event Thursday, says the men forced the
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For half a century, every major Washington scandal started with some form of this question: Is this another Watergate? Watergate spawned an all-purpose suffix. If “gate” were appended to misdeeds it was controversy of first rank. Watergate brought down a president. It reordered American politics, at least
Continue ReadingGAIBA, Italy (AP) — Top-seeded Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium has eased into the semifinals of the Veneto Open with another straight-set victory. Van Uytvanck saw off Swiss player Ylena In-Albon 6-4, 6-2. Van Uytvanck hasn’t dropped a set this week. She will face Harmony Tan in the semifinals after the Frenchwoman beat Ana Bogdan
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The popular rideshare company Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations, including not disclosing reports of drivers assaulting passengers. Notably, the money will go to shareholders instead of the individuals who’ve been victim to and reported such incidents. Here’s what you need to know
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The popular rideshare company Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations, including not disclosing reports of drivers assaulting passengers. Notably, the money will go to shareholders instead of the individuals who’ve been victim to and reported such incidents. Here’s what you need to know
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The popular rideshare company Lyft has agreed to a $25 million settlement with shareholders over safety-related allegations, including not disclosing reports of drivers assaulting passengers. Notably, the money will go to shareholders instead of the individuals who’ve been victim to and reported such incidents. Here’s what you need to know
Continue ReadingBy Luke McGee, CNN Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union received a major boost on Friday morning, after the bloc’s executive said it believed the country should be formally considered for candidate status in the wake of Russia’s invasion. Speaking in Brussels, the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen said the Commission recommends
Continue ReadingBy Pallabi Munsi, CNN Women are not a monolith, their experiences of menopause are not all negative, and this stage of life should not be medicalized, argue an international group of experts. In an analysis piece published in the British Medical Journal on Wednesday, obstetrician Martha Hickey of the Royal Women’s Hospital in Victoria, Australia
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