By Auzinea Bacon and Jordan Valinsky, CNN (CNN) — Party City filed for bankruptcy Saturday for the second time in less than two years. The filing comes after the retailer told employees Friday it would begin “winding down” operations. The nation’s largest party supply chain said in a statement that filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Saturday that averts a government shutdown, bringing a final close to days of upheaval after Congress approved a temporary funding plan just past the deadline and refused President-elect Donald Trump’s core debt demands in the package. The deal funds the government at
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Do you hear that sound? No, it’s not jingling bells or reindeer hooves. It’s the sound of nearly 120 million people in the US taking to the roads, rails and skies this holiday season. If you plan to drive to your destination, here are the
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Senate approved a slimmed-down, temporary government spending plan early Saturday morning, averting a shutdown of the federal government. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law later Saturday morning. The passage of the package came after President-elect Donald Trump torpedoed a bipartisan agreement struck
Continue ReadingPor Katie Lobosco y Tami Luhby, CNN El Senado aprobó un plan de gasto gubernamental temporal y reducido a primeras horas de este sábado, lo que evitó un cierre del gobierno federal. La legislación ahora pasa al presidente Joe Biden para su firma. La aprobación del paquete se produjo después de que el presidente electo,
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the limestone plateau in the United Kingdom’s Mendip Hills is famed for its natural beauty. But around 4,000 years ago in the Early Bronze Age, a grisly chapter of British prehistory unfolded there. Thousands of human bones excavated in the 1970s and 1980s in a shaft that plunges
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — The Teamsters union announced late Friday that warehouse workers at a massive Amazon sorting and distribution center in Staten Island, New York, have joined the thousands of union members who began a strike this week against the online retail giant. But Amazon continues to
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a deadly attack on a military checkpoint in the country’s northwest. It’s the militant group’s latest assault on troops in the restive province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which borders Afghanistan. The group said it killed 35 soldiers and injured 15 others in an early Saturday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The top uniformed police officer in the New York Police Department has resigned amid allegations he demanded sex from a subordinate. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Saturday she accepted the resignation of Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey on Friday night, effective immediately. John Chell, the department’s chief of patrol,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified for having abdicated for a day rather than approve legislation to legalize abortion. The Holy See’s saint-making office on Dec. 17 established a historical commission, made up of experts in Belgian
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid to address extensive damage caused by hurricane and other disasters. The money is in a bill passed early Saturday by Congress after this week’s scramble to find consensus on a government spending bill. The money is being provided after back-to-back
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — The US Senate passed a bipartisan bill early Saturday to increase Social Security benefits for close to 3 million federal, state and local public sector workers, which includes firemen, policemen and teachers. In the roll call vote, 76 senators voted in favor of the bill, and 20 senators voted
Continue ReadingPor CNN Español La Policía detuvo el viernes al sospechoso de embestir con un vehículo a una multitud que disfrutaba en la noche del viernes de un mercado navideño en la ciudad oriental de Magdeburgo, un ataque que dejó hasta el momento cinco muertos y 200 heridos, 40 de ellos en estado grave. Mientras comienzan
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene, Kristen Holmes and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — When Spotify CEO Daniel Ek spoke by phone with Donald Trump, he came prepared. Ek shared statistics with the president-elect about how well his pre-election podcast interview with Joe Rogan performed on the streaming platform, a source familiar with the discussion told CNN –
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — When Allie Reimold boarded Flight 2223 in Houston a week ago, she didn’t expect to see him. It had been four years since they’d last visited in person. And eight years, almost exactly, since the budding scientist – on the darkest day of the year
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer The Washington Commanders’ path to returning to nation’s capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve. The U.S. Senate passed a resolution early Saturday to transfer the land including old RFK Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia. A provision to do
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — We all know the stressors: Social obligations. Family discord. Political rifts. Financial stress. And the desire to stay cheery and big-hearted throughout. So here’s a reminder about how to banish your inner perfectionist and truly enjoy the holiday season: “It really helps to let go of some of the
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald and Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — To say the return to competition for Tiger Woods was a success would be an understatement. Playing alongside his son Charlie and with daughter Sam as his caddie, Team Woods carded a blistering 13-under round of 59 Saturday in the first round of the two-day PNC
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of former Syrian soldiers are reporting to the country’s new rulers for the first time since Bashar Assad was ousted to answer questions about whether they may have been involved in crimes against civilians in exchange for a promised amnesty. The former soldiers trooped to what used to
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Each week of 2024, CNN Style has delved into the standout or most talked-about celebrity fashion moment of the last seven days, from Heidi Klum’s show-stopping E.T. Halloween costume to the internet-breaking Harris-Walz camo caps released on the campaign trail. Not all ensembles were enviable, of course. Looks ranged
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