By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed after a system that offers safety information to pilots failed. The government launched an investigation into the breakdown, which grounded some planes for hours. The Federal Aviation Administration said preliminary indications traced
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN When Lovie Smith was hired by the Houston Texans in February 2022 as the team’s new head coach, he said the NFL had “a problem” with hiring Black coaches and diversity. “I realize the amount of Black head coaches there are in the National Football League,” Smith told reporters just under
Continue ReadingBy Zahid Mahmood and Amarachi Orie, CNN The former King of Greece, Constantine II, has died at the age of 82, CNN affiliate CNN Greece reported on Tuesday. According to CNN Greece, the former King had experienced serious health problems in the past few months and recently contracted coronavirus for the second time, which appeared
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By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN The airline industry slowly resumed service after a Federal Aviation Administration system outage caused thousands of flight delays and cancellations across the United States Wednesday. The FAA briefly halted all domestic flight departures across the US Wednesday morning, lifting the ground stop around 9 a.m. ET after it
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen and Naomi Thomas, CNN Some vaccine advisers to the federal government say they’re “disappointed” and “angry” that government scientists and the pharmaceutical company Moderna didn’t present a set of infection data on the company’s new Covid-19 booster during meetings last year when the advisers discussed whether the shot should be authorized and
Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Cohen and Naomi Thomas, CNN Some vaccine advisers to the federal government say they’re “disappointed” and “angry” that government scientists and the pharmaceutical company Moderna didn’t present a set of infection data on the company’s new Covid-19 booster during meetings last year when the advisers discussed whether the shot should be authorized
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN Music star Gwen Stefani has been called out for comments made about her affinity to Japan during an interview with Allure magazine, while promoting her beauty brand GXVE. In the article published on Tuesday, Stefani, 53, spoke extensively about her Japanese influences, at one point telling writer Jesa Marie Calaor, while remembering
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From electric cars and boats to wireless TVs to the latest phones and tablets, there was a wide range of innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas last week. Some of it aimed to solve big real world problems. Some of it aimed to make
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A South Korean solar panel maker said Wednesday that it will invest more than $2.5 billion to build factories in Georgia in what it says is the largest solar investment in American history. Qcells, a unit of Hanwha Solutions, projects it will supply about 30% of total
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A South Korean solar panel maker said Wednesday that it will invest more than $2.5 billion to build factories in Georgia in what it says is the largest solar investment in American history. Qcells, a unit of Hanwha Solutions, projects it will supply about 30% of total
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch and Chenelle Woody, CNN Authorities investigating the disappearance of 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari have confiscated three cell phones from her family’s North Carolina home, search warrants obtained Tuesday by CNN affiliate WCCB show. Officers searched the family’s home in Cornelius in December and seized more than two dozen items, including the phones, the
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s center-right coalition government says it will present legislation which will enable the construction of new nuclear power stations. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Wednesday that the government wants to alter the law to make it possible “to build more reactors in more places than is possible today.” Sweden’s environmental laws set
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s center-right coalition government says it will present legislation which will enable the construction of new nuclear power stations. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Wednesday that the government wants to alter the law to make it possible “to build more reactors in more places than is possible today.” Sweden’s environmental laws set
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has acknowledged that serious human rights violations occurred across the country in recent decades and vowed to compensate victims and prevent such abuses from happening again in the future. In televised comments on Wednesday, Widodo admitted a total of 12 incidents categorized
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government says the country’s former and last king will be buried as a private citizen in Tatoi, the former summer residence of Greece’s royals and the location of his parents’ graves. A controversial figure in Greek history, Constantine died in a hospital late Tuesday at
Continue ReadingBy MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A court in Istanbul has convicted the president of the Turkish Medical Association of disseminating “terror organization propaganda” following a trial that human rights groups had denounced as an attempt to silence government critics. The court sentenced Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci on Wednesday to
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN Britain’s advertising regulator has banned a poster promoting Demi Lovato‘s most recent album for being “likely to cause serious offence to Christians.” The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) launched an investigation into the poster, which was seen at multiple sites across London in August, after receiving complaints from four members of the
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court appears open to further shrinking the scope of the Voting Rights Act in a case that could lead to another major Supreme Court showdown over voting rights. The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals at a hearing on Wednesday considered whether private entities — and not just
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Coaching changes paid off in a big way for several NFL teams this season. From impressive turnarounds for Jacksonville and the New York Giants to big boosts for Minnesota and Miami, a record-setting five of the 10 teams that hired new coaches for the 2022 season made the
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Watts, CNN Brian Walshe, the husband of the missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe, was described as a “sociopath” and “not a trustworthy person” in affidavits filed during a legal dispute over his father’s estate, according to court documents. Dr. Thomas Walshe, who headed the neurology division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston
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