By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Popular daytime TV show “Dr. Phil” is coming to an end after more than two decades on air. Its host, former psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, has said he is stepping back from the daytime slot because “there is so much more I wish to do.” McGraw, who began his TV career
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple and Google say they disagree with a Commerce Department report accusing them of operating mobile app stores that stifle competition. President Joe Biden is convening his competition council for an update on efforts to promote competition and lower prices. Wednesday’s Commerce Department report says the current
Continue ReadingKTVL, GRANTS PASS POLICE DEPARTMENT, JEN MORSE-YOST, CNN By Paradise Afshar, Joe Sutton and Steve Almasy, CNN Investigators believe a man who was accused of kidnapping and torturing a woman in Oregon and then died from a self-inflicted gunshot after a standoff with law enforcement also killed two men while he was on the run,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced several new clean energy initiatives in her annual federal budget speech on Wednesday, saying “green growth” is a top priority for the country. More than $8 billion dollars were announced for projects like mangrove restoration which help suck carbon dioxide out of the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced several new clean energy initiatives in the government’s annual federal budget speech on Wednesday, saying “green growth” is a top priority for the country. More than $8 billion dollars were announced for projects like mangrove restoration which help suck carbon dioxide out of
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have begun their promised aggressive oversight of the Biden administration. The focus Wednesday was on what watchdogs describe as “indications of widespread fraud” in federal coronavirus aid programs initiated under President Donald Trump. GOP lawmakers complained that too little attention was paid to the problems
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1,000 people have pleaded guilty or have been convicted of federal charges of defrauding the myriad COVID-19 relief programs that Congress established in the early days of the pandemic. And more than 600 other people and entities face federal fraud charges. But investigators scheduled to
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Europe’s inflation rate has dipped at the start of the year, giving some relief to consumers but still leaving them facing higher prices. The European Union statistics agency said Wednesday that the consumer price index for the 20 countries that use the euro currency reached 8.5% in
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Europe’s inflation rate has dipped at the start of the year, giving some relief to consumers but still leaving them facing higher prices. The European Union statistics agency said Wednesday that the consumer price index for the 20 countries that use the euro currency reached 8.5% in
Continue ReadingBy RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers,” surrounded by orchards of pear, quince and pomegranate trees. It was a trading city, situated at the gates of a key mountain valley connecting South and Central Asia. But for the past four
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN People who live in a highly polluted area have a higher risk of depression and anxiety than those who live with cleaner air, a new study says. The study, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, found that people who were exposed to higher amounts of multiple air pollutants for a
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Orr, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan, CNN Six months into his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made a telling admission. “I don’t normally do stops like this,” he told the officers at a local police precinct in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who were there to deliver an endorsement. The political newcomer had
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd President Joe Biden announced new progress Wednesday on his administration’s “competition agenda,” specifically taking aim at junk fees while calling on Congress to pass legislation targeting hidden fees across multiple industries. These costs can “drain hundreds of dollars a year from the pockets of hardworking American families, especially folks who are already
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy did not walk away from his highly anticipated White House meeting on Wednesday with an agreement in hand to address the debt limit, but signaled optimism that both he and President Joe Biden can reach consensus “long before” the United States reaches default. McCarthy
Continue ReadingBy Alasdair Howorth, CNN Less than six weeks after the national team’s remarkable performance at the World Cup, Morocco finds itself at the center of world soccer as it hosts the FIFA Club World Cup. Since 2005 the Club World Cup has been held annually, featuring the six winners of each continent’s equivalent to Europe’s
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Authorities scanning a remote Australian highway for a tiny missing radioactive capsule have found it by the roadside, after a challenging search likened to trying to find a needle in a haystack. State emergency authorities announced the discovery on Wednesday afternoon, six days after the capsule, containing highly radioactive Caesium-137, was
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish ruling party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, has made a donation to the Ukrainian army to settle a defamation case with a political rival. Kaczyński was ordered by a court in December to pay Radek Sikorski more than 700,000 zlotys ($162,000) to cover the costs of publishing an apology for calling
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to ramp up capital spending by 33% in a $550 billion annual budget designed to spur economic growth and create jobs ahead of a general election next year. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says private investment has been rising after
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to ramp up capital spending by 33% in a $550 billion annual budget designed to spur economic growth and create jobs ahead of a general election next year. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says private investment has been rising after
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, Joe Sutton and Steve Almasy, CNN Investigators believe a man who was accused of kidnapping and torturing a woman in Oregon and then died from a self-inflicted gunshot after a standoff with law enforcement also killed two men while he was on the run, authorities said Wednesday. Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died
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