Hafsa Khalil, CNN A white Lamborghini, Louis Vuitton bags and Rolex watches were just some of the luxury loot seized from drug dealers and auctioned off in an “exceptional sale” by the French state earlier this week, raising nearly €1.5 million ($1.65 million). Organized by the Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Europe’s economy avoided a recession over the winter, picking up pace slightly in the first quarter of 2023 despite Russia’s war in Ukraine and sizable interest rate hikes aimed at fighting inflation. Economic output in the European Union rose 0.3% in the first three months of 2023 compared with the previous
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The chairman of the BBC has resigned after a report found he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest over his role in arranging a loan more than two years ago for Boris Johnson. The publicly funded national broadcaster has been under pressure after it was
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah court on Friday will consider a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing a statewide ban on abortion clinics set to begin taking effect next week. The organization in a motion filed earlier this month argued a state law passed earlier this year
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Portland General Electric, the utility serving Portland, Oregon, announced Friday it is putting in the second-largest battery storage installation in the United States, at 400 MW of power. The significance of such projects is they diminish the need for power plants that burn fossil fuels that warm the planet. The
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland General Electric, the utility serving Portland, Oregon, plans to announce Friday it is putting in 400 MW of power, the second-largest battery storage installation in the United States. The significance of such projects is they diminish the need for power plants that burn fossil fuels
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European economy has scraped out meager growth in the first three months of the year. That’s barely momentum as stubborn inflation is hiking the price of groceries and eroding people’s willingness to spend paychecks that are failing to keep pace. Friday’s less-than-stellar increase of
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN Any Time, Any Place — just not in Atlanta on Thursday. Boston star Jayson Tatum apologized to Janet Jackson after the Celtics’ 128-120 Game 6 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. Jackson had been scheduled to perform a concert at the Hawks’ State Farm Arena on Thursday, but — in a turn
Continue ReadingCNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN There’s good news on the inflation front: Annual price growth fell to its lowest pace in nearly two years, the Commerce Department reported Friday. But for consumers, the lengthy spell in the crossfire of persistently high prices and rising interest rates has taken its toll. Inflation-adjusted consumer spending was flat
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed A law passed 150 years ago that banned the mailing of contraceptives, lewd materials and drugs that induce abortions could provide a pathway for effectively banning abortion nationwide — even in states where the procedure is legal. When the Supreme Court last summer reversed Roe v. Wade and eliminated constitutional protections
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed A law passed 150 years ago that banned the mailing of contraceptives, lewd materials and drugs that induce abortions could provide a pathway for effectively banning abortion nationwide — even in states where the procedure is legal. When the Supreme Court last summer reversed Roe v. Wade and eliminated constitutional protections that
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Sean Lyngaas, Zachary Cohen and Haley Britzky, CNN New details about the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman accused of leaking a trove of classified documents online reveal how multiple red flags went unheeded and weren’t enough to prevent the Pentagon from granting him a top-secret security clearance. Officials across the government are now
Continue ReadingBy Matt Foster, CNN USA Boxing, the national governing body for the sport in the country, terminated its membership of the Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA) on Wednesday as a result of the organization’s failure to address issues which saw the IBA’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition suspended in 2019. USA Boxing, which had been
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Qatar has landed the hosting rights to another World Cup as it continues its quest to bring the Olympics to the tiny country. The International Basketball Federation has picked Qatar to host the 2027 edition of its marquee men’s World Cup. There was no vote between
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam and Kocha Olarn, CNN Thai police say they are investigating whether a woman arrested this week on suspicion of murdering her friend with cyanide may have done the same to at least 12 other victims in a spate of killings that has transfixed the kingdom. The suspect, who police have identified only
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Climate activists are staging a 10th straight day of protests in Berlin. They blocked key roads during rush hour and brought parts of the German capital to a standstill on Friday. Members of the group Last Generation glued themselves to the road and caused long traffic jams for commuters driving into the
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The star-studded Prince’s Trust Global Gala raised more than $1.7 million Thursday night at Casa Cipriani in New York City, as a wide range of grantees — past and present — explained how King Charles III’s charity has improved their lives. “Luther” star Idris Elba
Continue ReadingBY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese residents say heavy explosions and gunfire rocked parts of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s rival top generals. The military and the Rapid Support Forces traded accusations of violating the ceasefire on Friday.
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In 1953, London was still recovering from World War II. The city was pockmarked with bomb damage, food supplies were tight and life was dull for children who had never eaten anything so exotic as a banana. But the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II helped lift the
Continue ReadingBy RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A defense lawyer says a Chinese national who was arrested in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy has been released after a court granted him bail. Atif Khan Jadoon, the lawyer for the man who has been only identified as Mr. Tian, said Friday the Chinese national
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