By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines is boosting its outlook for second-quarter revenue because it expects phenomenal demand for travel this summer. The airline said Wednesday that it expects second-quarter adjusted revenue will be back to pre-pandemic 2019 levels, and revenue per seat will be higher than originally expected. CEO Ed Bastian
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Busari, CNN Kunle Adeyanju is a self-confessed daredevil who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice and cycled from Lagos to Accra over three days. But it is his latest adventure that is creating a buzz after he successfully completed a motorcycle ride from London to Lagos. The journey took 41 days as he traveled
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The last surviving Howard Johnson’s restaurant has closed. Open for most of the past 70 years, the restaurant was located in Lake George, New York, a popular summer vacation spot near the Adirondack Mountains. The restaurant closed its doors in recent weeks and the property is up for lease, according
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Twenty-one years ago, Bart Riley and co-founders bet their short-lived company, A123 Systems, on batteries free of nickel and cobalt. They believed the battery technology offered several benefits for automakers in the then-nascent electric vehicle space. The Massachusetts-based startup pitched Tesla on its batteries between 2008 and 2011, Riley recalled,
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Melissa Alonso, CNN The families of two Utah teenagers have filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that bans transgender women and girls from participating in school sports. The suit asks the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement. It was filed Tuesday in the Third Judicial District
Continue ReadingFLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — An 8-year-old boy visiting South Carolina from New Hampshire was shot and killed by a man randomly firing a gun at passing cars from woods near his house, authorities said. Quarius Naqua Dunham died Sunday, a day after he was struck in the neck by a bullet while riding on a
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Sam Ashgari is opening up about how he and Britney Spears are dealing with their pregnancy loss. “We’re positive about it,” Ashgari told GQ. “It’s something that happens to a lot of people. And one beautiful thing that I heard was when the baby’s ready, it’ll come,” he said. “So
Continue Readingurielblanco Nota del editor: Philip Alpers es profesor adjunto y director fundador de GunPolicy.org, un proyecto global de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Sydney que compara la violencia armada, la legislación sobre armas de fuego y la prevención de lesiones en 250 jurisdicciones de todo el mundo. Las opiniones expresadas en
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is headed for “a lot of unnecessary loss of life,” the Biden administration says, if Congress fails to provide billions more dollars to brace for the pandemic’s next wave. Yet the quest for that money is in limbo, the latest victim of election-year gridlock that’s
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey JoJo Siwa is responding to a critic who doesn’t want her judging “So You Think You Can Dance.” A viewer took to Twitter to write that they were disappointed Matthew Morrison was leaving the show as a judge instead of Siwa, citing Morrison’s Broadway experience. Siwa saw the message, retweeted it, and
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Agatha left at least 11 people dead and 33 missing in the southern state of Oaxaca after setting off deadly flooding and landslides. Oaxaca Gov. Alejandro Murat gave the updated toll Wednesday, saying that more than 40,000 people in the state have been affected, primarily along the coast and in
Continue ReadingOpinion by Bill Carter for CNN Business Perspectives Streaming networks were the center of attention last month when the television industry — or, more accurately now, the entertainment industry — staged its annual ritual known as the “upfronts.” Long-time attendees of these affairs surely felt some sense of disorientation, because the upfronts were invented as
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Brenda Hampton first came across the toxic industrial compound PFAS after finding it was part of the cocktail of contaminants that tainted the drinking water in her North Alabama community. Hampton, who believes the contaminated water contributed to kidney problems she and other residents suffer, soon learned
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Brenda Hampton first came across the toxic industrial compound PFAS after finding it was part of the cocktail of contaminants that tainted the drinking water in her North Alabama community. Hampton, who believes the contaminated water contributed to kidney problems she and other residents suffer, soon learned
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — Hall of Famer Martin St. Louis has officially became the 32nd head coach in Montreal Canadiens’ history. He signed a three-year contract extension nearly four months after being named interim coach. The 46-year-old St. Louis took over from the fired Dominique Ducharme. The Canadiens finished out the season with a 14-19-4 record
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will make a present of a horse to Queen Elizabeth II, to mark the celebrations of her 70 years on the throne. The Elysee said Macron decided to give a 7-year-old grey horse belonging to the largely ceremonial French Republican Guard named Fabuleu de Maucour.
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Elon Musk is demanding that Tesla office workers return to in-person work or leave the company. The policy, disclosed in leaked emails Musk sent to Tesla’s executive staff Tuesday, was first reported by electric vehicle news site Electrek. “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La cuenta regresiva para la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales en Colombia sigue su curso y a una semana de la definición, el domingo 19, Gustavo Petro y Rodolfo Hernández, han tomado ventaja el uno del otro, por pocos, poquísimos puntos porcentuales en la intención de voto. Resultados
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press The school district police chief who served as on-site commander during last week’s deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas, said Wednesday that he’s talking daily with investigators, contradicting claims from state law enforcement that he has stopped cooperating. In a brief interview, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NAPA, California (KPIX) — Evacuees were allowed to return to their homes early Wednesday while crews continue to gain containment of the blaze that burned nearly 600 acres. The “Old Fire” on Old Soda Springs Road near the Silverado Country Club and the burn zone
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