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By Alison Kosik, CNN Toyota said it would stop donating to Republican lawmakers who opposed certifying the 2020 presidential election results, after a political action committee called out the automaker’s financial support for “seditious politicians.” The decision to support those members of Congress has “troubled some stakeholders,” Toyota said in a press release Thursday. “At

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Of all the tax advantaged ways to save for retirement, the Roth IRA is one of the best. Though you don’t get a tax deduction on your contributions, you can grow, and eventually withdraw the money without paying any taxes on it. Before you hit retirement age, the money is

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN When the England football team sing the national anthem ahead of their Euro 2020 final against Italy on Sunday, Prince William will join in along with the rest of the crowd at Wembley, just as he has for other key games. William has been attending in his capacity

By Madeline Holcombe and Jay Croft, CNN Elsa has been downgraded from a tropical storm to a post-tropical cyclone, after its rains and winds hit major cities in the Northeast on Friday. All storm warnings have been discontinued for the New England coast, the National Hurricane Center said in its final advisory on Elsa, though

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Stellantis, the giant automaker formed by the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and France’s PSA, plans to invest €30 billion, or $35.5 billion, by the end of 2025 to expand its portfolio of electrified vehicles. The company is planning for 70% of its sales in Europe and 40% of sales

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist While Tropical Storm Elsa was dumping heavy rain on Florida on Wednesday, Texas was dealing with its own flooding crisis. A flash flood emergency was issued for Rockport and Fulton, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon after almost a foot of rain fell across the region in a short period of time.

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN Stifling heat is searing the US West as the weekend approaches, with historic drought conditions worsening and fire danger escalating across much of the Northwest. Daytime high temperatures across the West will threaten records once again, soaring into the 90s and triple digits through the end of the

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Schoolteacher Katrina Sam has lived in Lytton in the Canadian province of British Columbia all her life, but a week after a disastrous wildfire, the town she grew up in is almost entirely gone. Lytton itself is a village of just 250 inhabitants, but over 1,000 people live in the surrounding

Opinion by Rabah Arezki and Per Magnus Nysveen for CNN Business Perspectives After a pandemic and a price war sent petroleum prices tumbling in 2020, they are again on the rise. A new oil price super cycle — an extended period during which prices exceed their long-term trend — seems to be in the making.

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Hundreds dead in a historic heat wave. A Canadian village burned to the ground. Water shortages. Animals competing for food. The culprit? Humans, according to climate change scientists. The unprecedented heat wave in the Pacific Northwest in late June “would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change,”

By Caitlin Hu, Kiarinna Parisi, Etant Dupain, Mitchell McCluskey, Gerardo Lemos, Helen Regan, Ivana Kottasová and Jack Guy, CNN Two US citizens are among more than a dozen arrested in Haiti in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a top government official said Thursday. Elections Minister Mathias Pierre told CNN two US citizens

By Madeline Holcombe and Eric Levenson, CNN Tropical Storm Elsa, which brought heavy rain and high winds to parts of Florida and Georgia, moved into the Carolinas on Thursday and is forecast to race northward up the East Coast over the next few days. Tornadoes were reported across northern Florida and southeastern Georgia on Wednesday,

By Manveena Suri, Jessie Yeung and Swati Gupta, CNN Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped 12 members of his cabinet on Wednesday in a dramatic reshuffle, including the federal ministers for health and law, as he faces fierce criticism over the government’s alleged mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who was the

By Stefano Pozzebon An international human rights body has accused Colombia’s security forces of applying “disproportionate and excessive force,” in dealing with street protesters, more than two months since demonstrations began in Bogota, which left dozens dead. The report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), released on Wednesday, adds to criticisms of the