AP Business Writer The largest proposed grocery store merger in U.S. history is going to court. On one side are supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons, which say their planned merger will help them compete against rivals like Costco. On the other side are antitrust regulators from the Federal Trade Commission, who say the merger would
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Last year, consumers shelled out big bucks for their back-to-school shopping needs, spending a record $41.5 billion, according to estimates from the National Retail Federation. That whopping tally, which amounted to more than $890 per household, bested 2021’s all-time high by roughly 12%. While higher prices
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus, demanding safe return to Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The refugees gathered in an open field at Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar district carrying banners
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El Ejército israelí dijo que unos 100 de sus aviones de combate “atacaron y destruyeron miles de cañones lanzacohetes de Hezbollah ” en decenas de sitios de lanzamiento desde el Líbano este domingo. Israel dijo que lanzó lo que llamó ataques preventivos contra “objetivos terroristas en el Líbano” después de identificar
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire over the weekend that briefly raised fears of an all-out war. But their decades-long conflict is far from over, regional tensions linked to the war in Gaza are still high, and it’s probably only a matter of time before another escalation.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two separate bus crashes hours apart in Pakistan on Sunday left at least 36 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said. The first happened when a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims returning from Iraq through Iran fell from a highway into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing at least
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — A Syrian man on Sunday was ordered held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organization in connection with the Solingen knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary. A judge at the Federal Court of Justice in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving more than two dozen people dead or missing. Despite a nearly decade-long civil war, Yemen remains a major route for migrants from East Africa trying to reach wealthy Gulf countries for work. The International
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A top UN official is warning that the Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws provide a distressing vision for Afghanistan’s future. The laws include a requirement for a woman to conceal her face, body and voice outside the home. Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the U.N. mission in the country, said Sunday the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NICE, France (AP) — French acting Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says police have apprehended a suspect in an arson attack on a synagogue in a southwestern Mediterranean town in which a police officer was injured. Antiterrorism prosecutors said Sunday the suspect was injured during an exchange of fire with police before he was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PATERZELL, Germany (AP) — The northern bald ibis, or the Waldrapp, once soared over North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and much of Europe. They were hunted essentially to extinction by the 17th century. While breeding and rewilding efforts have been successful, the birds no longer knows the route to migrate for the winter.
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) –Es martes por la noche en el Caledonian Sleeper , que circula seis días a la semana desde Londres a Escocia, y el Club Car está en pleno apogeo. Después de haber degustado platos como haggis escoceses, neeps y tatties , los pasajeros están probando whiskies de Malta y ginebras de Edimburgo
Continue ReadingBy Gordon Cole-Schmidt, CNN (CNN) — In today’s world of autonomous cars, keyless ignitions and charging ports, it’s hard to imagine just how big the tiny, two-door Volkswagen Beetle once was. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the plucky car lives
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Los fanáticos de Minnesota Lynx no solo pudieron presenciar una victoria sino también que el equipo retiró la camiseta de la leyenda de la WNBA, Maya Moore, este sábado. A pesar de los 23 puntos de Caitlin Clark, las Lynx vencieron a las Indiana Fever por 90-80 y ganaron su sexto
Continue ReadingBy Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — If there was one sign this week of Vice President Kamala Harris’ place atop the Democratic ticket having improved the party’s brand, it was the presence of so many Senate candidates taking the stage at its convention in Chicago. Notably, three of the most vulnerable senators skipped the Democratic
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Jessie Peterson sufrió un episodio diabético y fue trasladada a un hospital en Sacramento, California, el 6 de abril de 2023. La joven de 31 años habló con su madre por teléfono dos días después y le pidió que la recogieran en el hospital. Pero esa llamada telefónica sería la última
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un hombre sirio se entregó y confesó haber apuñalado hasta la muerte a tres personas y herido a otras ocho en un festival este viernes en la ciudad de Solingen, en el oeste de Alemania, informó la policía. Las autoridades investigan si el sospechoso, de 26 años, tenía alguna conexión con una
Continue ReadingBy Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Spending time outside during a heat wave can be sweaty, uncomfortable, even health-endangering, but scientists have come up with an innovation they say could provide relief: clothes that physically cool down the body. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a flexible, chalk-based coating which can be
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti Esta cobertura terminó por el día de hoy. Puedes leer más noticias sobre Medio Oriente aquí. Esta foto tomada desde una posición en el norte de Israel muestra un avión de combate de la Fuerza Aérea israelí disparando bengalas. Crédito: JALAA MAREY/AFP vía Getty Images The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc.,
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, CNN Sacramento, California (CNN) — A lawsuit filed in California alleges a hospital misplaced a patient and failed to notify her family. Here is what the family says happened: Jessie Peterson suffered a diabetic episode and was taken to a hospital in Sacramento, California, on April 6, 2023. The 31-year-old spoke with
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