AP Business Writers Value was in vogue in 2024. Shoppers and restaurant patrons in the U.S. were choosy about where and how to spend their money as they wrestled with high housing and food prices. Well-heeled customers traded down to Walmart and Aldi. Diners opted for fast food or home cooking instead of sit-down restaurants.
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Former President Jimmy Carter’s active post-presidency extended to relationships with his seven successors in the White House. Some of them leaned on his experience and advice, as well as his diplomatic abilities. Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, also used his platform to speak out against some presidents
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Barton, CNN (CNN) — Novak Djokovic has credited rival-turned-coach Andy Murray with bringing a “fresh look” to his game ahead of the start of the 2025 season. Having played Murray 36 times in ATP events and winning 25, the 24-time major winner took on the Scot as his coach in November until the
Continue ReadingPor Stephen Collinson La decisión de Donald Trump de apoyar a Elon Musk en el tema de las visas para trabajadores de alta tecnología es el ejemplo más significativo hasta el momento de cómo el presidente electo favorece a elementos poderosos de su nueva coalición MAGA en detrimento del ADN antiinmigrante de su base, que
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Good Monday morning! After a few spotty showers earlier this morning, we’re expecting things to dry up. Temps dropped into the 20s overnight so we’re waking up to icy conditions. Dry and crisp are the best words to sum up the final days of 2024. Today will be cloudy, but the sunshine will be peeking
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities say 18 passengers have been killed in two separate road accidents in Pakistan. Police say the first accident happened on a highway Monday in eastern Punjab province when a speeding passenger bus overturned. Local media reported eight other people died when a passenger van collided with a truck on a highway
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — More good news is coming to inflation-weary drivers: Gas prices are expected to drop in 2025 for the third straight year, according to GasBuddy projections shared exclusively with CNN. GasBuddy, which has accurately forecasted gas prices the past several years, expects the national average for regular gas
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer Of all the things Chip Kelly is looking forward to in his return trip to Southern California, there is one that rises above everything else. “Gotta get more sunscreen looking at the weather report, because we haven’t seen the sun for a little while in Columbus,” said Kelly with a wry smile.
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — So you want to get your financial life in order. And you swear that 2025 will be the year you do it. In fact, you’re making it your new year’s resolution. It’s a fine idea. No, really. It is. But you might meet with more success by not making
Continue ReadingPor Joan Bikupic Jimmy Carter, que cumplió un solo mandato presidencial completo sin la oportunidad de nombrar a un juez de la Corte Suprema, dejó sin embargo un legado judicial incomparable. Fue el primer presidente en diversificar significativamente los tribunales federales inferiores al nombrar jueces mujeres y pertenecientes a minorías, un punto que la difunta
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church and Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — It was a successful night for Washington Commanders safety Jeremy Reaves, for more reasons than one. After helping his team to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2020, Reaves then got down on one knee to propose to his long-term girlfriend Mikaela Worley. The
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco and Evan John, CNN (CNN) — One of the original stereotypes about robots is that their movements are stiff and abrupt, something that endures in the “robot dance” that first became popular in the 1980s. Robots have since evolved and now exhibit far more human-like qualities, with movements that have become softer
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s public prosecutor has indicted 13 people including a former minister over the collapse of a concrete canopy that killed 15 last month and triggered weeks of massive anti-government protests. The suspects were charged Monday in the northern city of Novi Sad, where the Nov. 1 collapse happened. The
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Body camera footage documenting the fatal beating of Robert Brooks at the hands of New York state corrections officers has triggered an outpouring of rage and condemnations – and analysis from experts who said the video shows a misuse of force by officers. Brooks, a man incarcerated at
Continue ReadingPor Jessie Yeung Linda Lavin, la actriz y cantante ganadora de premios Tony y Globo de Oro mejor conocida por protagonizar la comedia de CBS “Alice” durante casi una década, murió el domingo a la edad de 87 años. La actriz falleció debido a complicaciones de un cáncer de pulmón recientemente descubierto, según sus representantes.
Continue ReadingPor Mike Valerio, Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae y Alex Stambaugh Los sonidos de sollozos, oraciones y angustia resonaron este lunes en la sala de salidas de un aeropuerto en el suroeste de Corea del Sur mientras las familias de las víctimas que murieron cuando un avión de pasajeros se estrelló durante el fin de semana
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — A lawyer for the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot says he won’t appeal his 20-year sentence for drugging and raping her and allowing dozens of other men to rape her while she was unconscious. The case revolted France and triggered calls for tougher measures to stamp out rape culture. Lawyer Béatrice
Continue ReadingPor Gloria Pazmino y Sabrina Shulman Ya pasó una semana desde que una mujer murió en un vagón del metro de Nueva York, presuntamente incendiada por un hombre indocumentado y sin hogar. Todavía no fue identificada y el hombre acusado de su asesinato dice que ni siquiera recuerda haber estado allí. El crimen renovó el
Continue ReadingThe Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups employing Afghan women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. In a letter
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Linda Lavin, the Tony- and Golden Globe-winning actress and singer best known for starring in the CBS sitcom “Alice” for nearly a decade, died on Sunday at the age of 87. She died due to complications from recently discovered lung cancer, according to her representatives. Lavin’s long, illustrious career
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