(CNN Business) — Las autoridades egipcias incautaron un enorme carguero que bloqueó el canal de Suez durante casi una semana el mes pasado, en medio de una disputa por daños financieros. Un tribunal egipcio ordenó al propietario japonés del barco, Shoei Kisen Kaisha, pagar US$ 900 millones en compensación como resultado de las pérdidas infligidas
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Kroger wants to sell you more groceries online. And to do that, it’s banking on a strategy that’s drawing some skepticism on Wall Street. Kroger this spring is opening a $55 million, 375,000 square-foot fully automated distribution center outside Cincinnati in partnership with Ocado— the British online supermarket and warehouse specialist. It’s the first of
Continue Reading JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is bullish about the economy, but he remains concerned about the growing wealth gap, particularly for Black people, in the United States. “The American dream is fraying and income inequality is like the fault line,” Dimon said in an interview with David Axelrod, the founder and director of the University
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The United States could have around 300 million excess Covid-19 shots by the end of July, health policy experts at Duke University estimated in a report Thursday, calling on the country to share doses more widely to address the stark inequality around global vaccine distribution. The US has provided limited shipments of AstraZeneca’s vaccine —
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The U.S. government has asked Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvadora to help lower the number of child migrants arriving at its own border with Mexico.
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County officials in southern Arizona have said the federal government will provide $2.1 million to cover the costs of supporting people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border seeking asylum.
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Cryptocurrency backers have spent years insisting that bitcoin, ethereum and other digital coins could revolutionize the world of finance. Finally, they’re getting their moment. What’s happening: The Wall Street debut of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on Wednesday was a massive success, with the company’s valuation at one point topping $100 billion. Shares finished the trading session
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey plans to sign a bill Thursday that allows a major expansion of gambling in the state.
Continue Reading Busch is sniffing around for a new CTO — “chief tasting officer” — and it wants your very good boy to apply. The beer brand is expanding its “Dog Brew,” a canine-friendly, alcohol-free bone broth it launched last year. According to Anheuser-Busch, the brew sold out within 24 hours. The role comes with a $20,000
Continue ReadingFulton County officials on Wednesday passed a resolution that will allow Georgia’s most populous county to explore legal challenges to the state’s controversial voting law that was rushed into law last month. The Board of Commissioners passed the “Stop Voter Suppression” resolution, 4-2, on party lines. The resolution directs the Fulton County attorney to research
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President Joe Biden is carrying out some of Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promises by leaving America’s longest war, targeting economic aid at forgotten Americans and building an infrastructure plan that may actually happen. The current White House is, of course, a sharp political and behavioral reaction to the previous one. And Biden is never going
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President Joe Biden’s promise to remove US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 is his effort — each of the last four presidents has had one — to end America’s longest war. The deadline for Biden’s withdrawal is significant — September 11, 2021, is 20 years after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, Washington,
Continue Reading (CNN) — Momentos antes de morir, Daunte Wright llamó a su madre y le dijo que lo habían detenido. No sabía que sería la última vez que hablaría con su hijo. El joven de 20 años necesitaba obtener información sobre el seguro, dijo su madre Katie Wright. Daunte Wright murió poco después de hablar con
Continue ReadingThe inspector general overseeing a probe into the United States Capitol Police’s preparation for and response to the January 6 insurrection is set to detail critical lapses in planning, policies and procedures resulting in the catastrophic failure that killed five people, including one of their own, Officer Brian Sicknick. Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton’s
Continue Reading The mystique of Mars is one that humans can’t seem to resist. The red planet has easily captured our interest for centuries, heavily featured in science fiction books and films and the subject of robotic exploration since the 1960s. In February, three spacecraft arrived at Mars after departing from different launch points on Earth in
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It’s Tax Day in the US, but don’t freak out! You still have a month to file your 2020 return. There are other changes to this tax season you should know about, too. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
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At Pastor Tony Spell’s Sunday sermon this week, he preached a different kind of message than usual to his congregants: Don’t trust Covid-19 vaccines. “I’ll just tell you today, if being anti-mask and anti-vaccine is anti-government, then I’m proud to be anti-government,” Spell, who has made a national name for himself protesting Covid-19 rules in
Continue ReadingEarly in President Barack Obama’s second term, while fellow Democrats still controlled the Senate, the President asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to a private lunch at the White House. At the time, some liberals were calling for Ginsburg to step down to allow Obama to name a younger liberal, just as some Democrats today are
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, says the recommended pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is just that: a pause — and not a cancellation — and will likely last days to weeks. “I doubt very seriously if we’re talking about weeks to months,” he told CNN on Wednesday. And
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, está llevando a cabo algunas de las mayores promesas de campaña de Donald Trump al abandonar la guerra más larga del país, dirigir la ayuda económica a los estadounidenses olvidados y construir un plan de infraestructura que realmente puede funcionar. La Casa Blanca actual es, por
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