By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An aid organization says a U.S. nurse and her young daughter who were kidnapped in Haiti in late July and released this week were not harmed and are healthy. Thursday’s announcement allays concerns about the state of Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter. Violent gangs
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey (CNN) — “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” will reveal the fates of the original film franchise’s many characters, including Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens’ Troy and Gabriella. Many of the movies’ original cast members make an appearance In the Season 4 premiere of the Disney+ series, including Corbin Bleu (Chad),
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN Washington (CNN) — Calls to implement tougher ethics standards on Supreme Court justices are likely to be stirred again following the publication of a new report about Clarence Thomas’ lifestyle, though sources in both parties say there’s no chance that Congress will pass new legislation. Last month, the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — The time Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, has spent helping disaster-stricken places in the state like Mayfield rebuild could be a key to his reelection bid against Republican challenger Daniel Cameron, the state’s attorney general. Voters such as Gina Thorn, whose life was uprooted when
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Russia has successfully launched Luna 25, the country’s first lunar lander in 47 years. The uncrewed spacecraft lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Oblast, Russia. Hitching a ride aboard a Soyuz-2 Fregat rocket, Luna 25 took flight at 8:10 a.m. local time Friday, or 7:10 p.m. ET
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Grocery prices ticked up 0.3% in July, after staying flat in June, driven largely by rising beef prices. From June to July, adjusted for seasonal swings, the price of uncooked beef roasts spiked 6.5%, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Thursday. Uncooked beef
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Covering the same terrain as “Dopesick” in too-precious fashion, “Painkiller” is a semi-fictionalized look at the opioid crisis and how Purdue Pharma cashed in on OxyContin at the expense of those who became hooked on the drug. Yet the tonal excesses and wild dramatic devices undermine this Netflix
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — More Americans are failing to make payments on their credit cards and auto loans, another sign of rising financial pressure on consumers. New credit card and auto loan delinquencies have now surpassed pre-Covid levels, according to a Wednesday report issued by Moody’s Investors Service. The rate of
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM and BRITTANY PETERSON and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press LUDLOW, Vermont (AP) — Across the U.S., municipal water systems and sewage treatment plants are at increasing risk of damage from floods and sea-level rise brought on in part or even wholly by climate change. The storm that walloped Vermont last month hit the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Police say a prisoner receiving medical treatment escaped from a New York City hospital by tying sheets together, rappelling from a fifth-floor window and hailing a taxi. A police spokesperson says the 44-year-old man escaped from Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon and is still at large
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The telecast of the 75th Emmy Awards has been pushed back to air in January, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Television Academy and Fox announced Thursday. The awards show has historically aired in September, but there had been speculation that it would either be postponed or
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — The latest Consumer Price Index shows that shelter costs contributed 90% of total inflation last month — but there’s a sharp turnaround ahead, say economic researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Housing makes up the largest chunk of CPI, and that measurement, known as
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — An author is raising alarms this week after she found new books being sold on Amazon under her name — only she didn’t write them; they appear to have been generated by artificial intelligence. Jane Friedman, who has authored multiple books and consulted about working in the
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered an indefinite suspension of 22 major land reclamation projects in Manila Bay to allow a study of their environmental impact and legal compliance. Marcos’s order came after the United States expressed public concern over environmental damage from the projects
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — As drug shortages near record levels in the United States, a new survey shows how widespread — and serious — the effects are. About 99% of health care system pharmacists who were surveyed — the vast majority of whom work in hospitals — say that they are experiencing drug shortages, including
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have slapped sanctions on Lebanon’s embattled ex-central bank governor and a handful of close relatives and associates over allegations of corruption. U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday that Riad Salameh “abused his position of power … to enrich himself and his
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei, who will have spent three years in detention in China as of Sunday, said in a rare message that she misses her family and life in Australia. “I miss the sun. In my cell, the sunlight shines through the window but
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una madre que alega que su bebé fue decapitado durante el parto en un hospital de Georgia el mes pasado presentó una demanda este miércoles contra el hospital y otras personas involucradas en el parto, según documentos legales. La demanda presentada en el condado de Clayton, en Georgia, alega que
Continue ReadingBy Darya Tarasova, Tim Lister and Radina Gigova, CNN The founder and former CEO of Russia’s largest internet company, Arkady Volozh, has slammed Vladimir Putin’s “barbaric” war in Ukraine, becoming one of the most prominent Russian businessmen to express criticism of what Russia still calls euphemistically its “special military operation.” “I’ve been asked a lot
Continue ReadingBy COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police in northern Greece have detained seven Romanian men carrying knives and protective gear, amid concerns that a deadly soccer-related attack this week could attract more groups of violent supporters from around Europe. They were arrested near the Greek border with Bulgaria after
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