By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the interior minister won’t face investigation over allegations that she tried to pull strings after getting a speeding ticket. It’s an attempt by Sunak to lay to rest one of several ethics claims dogging the government. Sunak said Wednesday that the
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into the protracted shortages of baby formula in the United States that left store shelves bare of the essential product for several months, probing whether baby formula makers colluded in bidding on state contracts. The agency, according to documents
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s central bank is scaling back plans to revamp its Frankfurt headquarters, citing a sharp rise in construction costs and the fact that many of its employees want to continue working from home. The Bundesbank started work on modernizing its 50-year-old main building in 2022. It said Wednesday that it is “recalibrating”
Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN New York (CNN) — A New York judge has set a trial date of March 25, 2024, for the criminal case against former President Donald Trump, potentially setting up a media spectacle in the middle of the Republican presidential primary season. The trial date
Continue ReadingCNN By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Netflix is officially beginning its crackdown on users who share passwords in the United States. The streaming video company on Tuesday said it is now sending out emails to all US subscribers who share passwords with people outside their household, as part of a long planned
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of a South Korean team of experts said Wednesday they saw all of the facilities they had requested to visit at Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant and Japanese officials had carefully answered their questions about a contentious plan to release treated but still slightly radioactive
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Lopez-Martinez/CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Astronomers have captured breathtaking new photos of a nearby supernova. Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered the remnants of the star explosion called SN 2023ixf last week, NASA said in a news release on Monday. Located in the Pinwheel Galaxy
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “Platonic” is one of those anything-goes streaming series, where the prevailing sense is once high-profile talent agreed to star they could get away with doing anything – or in this case, practically nothing. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne thus while away time bantering and sparring, in a show
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “American Born Chinese” feels like about three series crammed into one, which might explain why it takes so long to get into its story. Despite good moments and the benefit of fortuitous timing – featuring Michelle Yeoh and (briefly) Ke Huy Quan after their Oscar-winning work in “Everything
Continue ReadingBy Daniele Hamamdjian/CTV National News London News Bureau Correspondent Click here for updates on this story London (CTV Network) — Canadian entrepreneur Craig Cohon is on an epic guilt trip that’s already cost him $1 million and taken him across Europe, not as the jet-setter he once was, but by walking up to 40 kilometres
Continue ReadingEINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) — Ruud van Nistelrooy has resigned as PSV Eindhoven coach with only one match left to play this season. The Dutch club says the former Manchester United striker did not feel enough support within the team. Van Nistelrooy had been in charge only one year and led his players to victory in
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Las Fuerzas Militares y comunidades indígenas de Colombia encontraron más elementos en el perímetro de la zona de búsqueda que “podrían pertenecer” a los cuatro niños desaparecidos tras el accidente de la avioneta en la que viajaban, informó la Aeronáutica Civil en sus redes sociales. “Un par de tenis, pañales usados,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Legendary songwriter Stevie Nicks had some words of gratitude for a fellow artist. During a concert this week in Atlanta, Nicks expressed her thanks to Taylor Swift for a song that spoke to Nicks’ grief over the death of her Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Christine McVie. “Thank you to
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A high-level U.N. conference has raised less than $1 billion of the more than $5 billion organizers were hoping for to help over 30 million people in the Horn of Africa cope with a major climate crisis and mass displacement after years of conflict. It
Continue ReadingCNN By Sydney Kashiwagi, Dianne Gallagher, Carma Hassan and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A controversial six-week abortion ban bill is headed to South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s desk to be signed into law after the measure cleared the state Senate Tuesday. The state Senate approved a House-amended version of the bill by a
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Lautner has some feelings about those saying he “did not age well.” The “Twilight” actor posted a video Monday in which he responded to the criticism. Lautner explained that he and his wife, Taylor Dome Lautner, had earlier made an appearance in New York that was recently
Continue ReadingCNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Lautner has some feelings about those saying he “did not age well.” The “Twilight” actor posted a video Monday in which he responded to the criticism. Lautner explained that he and his wife, Taylor Dome Lautner, had earlier made an appearance in New York that was
Continue ReadingLIMA, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say one of two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison has been captured in Kentucky after a police pursuit of a stolen car the men were believed to be in ended in a crash and a foot chase. James Lee was captured at the scene but the second inmate,
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s statistics agency says migration from Russia to Finland was at record levels last year, higher than figures seen after the collapse of the Soviet Union over 30 years ago. Citing official 2022 immigration data, Statistics Finland said slightly over 6,000 people immigrated from Russia to the Nordic country of 5.5 million
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prosecutor who President Joe Biden nominated to become a U.S. district judge in Kansas has withdrawn his name from consideration. Jabari Wamble cited a nearly two-year wait for action in a letter to the Democratic president on Tuesday. Wamble is a
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