By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Doritos is betting on a new way to get people addicted to their tortilla chips: booze. The PepsiCo-owned brand is releasing a new spirit based off of Doritos’ nacho cheese flavor that “tastes just like the real thing,” according to a press release. The chip maker partnered
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Choice Hotels, which owns a number of budget lodging brands, including Comfort Inn, is getting more aggressive in its attempt to acquire its rival Wyndham Hotels. On Tuesday, Choice said it will expand its several monthslong hostile takeover bid of the Days Inn owner by taking its
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, the university’s highest governing body announced Tuesday. “Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — All five people inside a construction site elevator that crashed to the ground in Stockholm have died, a Swedish prosecutor said Tuesday. Authorities had previously only reported that the occupants were seriously injured when the elevator plummeted 20 meters (66 feet) in Sundbyberg, a Stockholm suburb, on Monday. It is still
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, llegó a Washington este martes en un momento crítico, en un contexto en el que la Casa Blanca ha advertido que la ayuda estadounidense a Ucrania podría agotarse inminentemente y las conversaciones sobre nueva asistencia están estancadas en el Congreso. La invitación de última hora del
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Mowbray, CNN (CNN) — Swedes know a thing or two about living with light, or, right about now, living with a lack of it. In December, the country’s capital Stockholm experiences around six hours of daylight a day, but in some northernmost parts of the country that are within the Arctic Circle, the
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Interpol and the World Customs Organization say they seized 53 primates, four big cats and more than 1,300 birds in their sweeping annual crackdown on wildlife and timber trafficking. They also confiscated some 300 kilograms of ivory, thousands of turtle eggs, and rhino horns, leopard skins, and lion teeth and paws and
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British officials say an asylum-seeker on board a barge housing migrants off the south coast of England has died and a police investigation has been launched into the incident. Police said officers received “a report of a sudden death of a resident” on the barge, called the
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — A trio of top Senate Democrats is demanding the federal government require airlines to carry epinephrine auto-injectors – such as EpiPens – on board commercial flights. In a letter shared first with CNN, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer and Ed Markey tell the Federal Aviation Administration it has a
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — It turns out Pep Guardiola and Magnus Carlsen, two of the biggest names from the worlds of soccer and chess, may have more in common than you think. Guardiola and Carlsen were recently brought together by Puma, in a video where they discussed some of the greatest moments from
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The NFL rarely schedules two games to compete in the same prime time slot. But on Monday night, the double-booking only added to the tension-filled evening. In Florida, the playoff-bound Miami Dolphins looked to be booking their spot atop the AFC, only for the Tennessee Titans to mount a
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Jordanian troops have clashed with dozens of drug smugglers along the country’s northern border with Syria, leaving several dead including one soldier while another was wounded. The Jordanian Armed Forces said Tuesday the smugglers were trying to bring into Jordan “large amounts of drugs” while taking advantage of fog and low visibility.
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Choice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts after repeated attempts to reach a deal with the rival hotel chain were rebuffed. Choice Hotels said Tuesday that its exchange offer to shareholders of Wyndham, which runs Days Inn, La Quinta, Ramada and a host
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament is remembering a young woman who died in Iranian police custody during a ceremony at which she and a Iranian human rights group were officially awarded the EU’s top human rights prize. Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini was 22 when she died last year, three days after she was arrested by
Continue ReadingBy KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Floods, fires, historic storms — severe weather events are on the rise. If your home was hit by high water or a fire emergency, would your important papers be safe? Items like insurance information, birth and marriage certificates, passports, Social Security cards and estate planning paperwork should all be protected
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — As is the case with many football fans across Brazil, supporters of Santos FC view their club as something of a second religion. One of South America’s most storied teams and the club where Brazil great Pelé played for the majority of his career, Santos suffered an almost unimaginable
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s culture minister has announced that Tricia Tuttle, a former director of the London Film Festival, will become the new director of the Berlin International Film Festival next year. Tuttle, who is American, will take over in April from the outgoing leadership duo of executive director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Every year, Google releases a list of users’ most-searched terms. The top trending term in the US and globally in 2023 was “War in Israel and Gaza,” the tech giant announced Monday. Other leading topics included NFL player Damar Hamlin, the “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” movies, and the late actor
Continue ReadingBy Niamh Kennedy, Darya Tarasova and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — The trial of Alexey Navalny was postponed on Tuesday, one day after his team said it had lost contact with the jailed Russian opposition leader, who was believed to be imprisoned in a penal colony about 150 miles east of Moscow. Concern was sparked
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The US women’s soccer team received more than twice the amount of abusive messages on social media than any other nation at this year’s Women’s World Cup, according to a report from FIFA and FIFPRO. The study, commissioned by world soccer’s governing body and the global players’ union, identified
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