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Results 1 to 30Micron to invest up to $100 billion to build chip factory in upstate New York
2022-10-04, 20:09Micron on Tuesday said it would invest up to $100 billion over the next two decades to build a massive semiconductor factory in upstate New York. The move comes in the wake of US government efforts to boost domestic chip production. The Idaho-based firm said it plans to build the “largest...
Waiting for a better time to buy a car? Keep waiting
2022-10-04, 20:09Average car prices are shooting higher and higher thanks to continued auto parts shortages. Interest rates are rocketing higher thanks to the federal government’s efforts to control inflation. And car companies and dealers have less incentive to take steps to bring down costs because demand is still...
Did Lee County’s evacuation order come too late?
2022-10-04, 20:09Journalists are pressing elected leaders in Florida on whether Lee County’s evacuation order came too late. In the wake of Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic landfall that has left at least 100 people dead in Florida, the press is holding local and state officials to account, confronting elected leaders...
Biden didn’t get us into this inflation mess; Jerome Powell did, Ro Khanna says
2022-10-04, 19:39Congressman Ro Khanna wants Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to apologize for the central bank’s handling of inflation. “I blame the Fed and I blame Powell for mismanaging the situation in the first place,” the Democratic Rep. told CNN in a phone interview. “He should take accountability that...
It’s been a very bad 24 hours for Herschel Walker
2022-10-04, 19:24From the start, Republican leaders knew they were taking a risk in quickly unifying behind the Senate candidacy of Herschel Walker in Georgia. Walker had never run for any office before and there were already well-known stories about his turbulent past out in the ether. But Walker was a former...
How this year’s Supreme Court cases could shape the 2024 election and beyond
2022-10-04, 19:24A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The US Supreme Court kicked off its new term this week and will hear two cases this year with potentially significant implications for voting rights and the conduct of future elections....
Barriers to Black entrepreneurship widen the wealth gap
2022-10-04, 19:08One of the best ways to build wealth in the United States is to own your own business. But just 2% of businesses with employees are Black-owned, according to a report from the Alliance for Entrepreneurial Equity. And that has played a big part in widening the racial wealth gap in the US. Black...
Twitter stock surges on reports Elon Musk again proposes buying the company at full price
2022-10-04, 18:05Twitter stock was halted twice and rose around 13% in midday trading Tuesday following reports that Elon Musk has proposed to move forward with his deal to buy the company at the originally agreed upon price of $54.20 per share. Bloomberg and the Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Musk had...
Jack Thomas, longtime Boston Globe journalist who wrote about his terminal cancer, dies at 83
2022-10-04, 17:30Jack Thomas’ byline appeared in the Boston Globe for an impressive 60 years. He was a copy boy to start, working for the sports desk as a teenager after a childhood spent delivering papers. From a police writer to a national correspondent to the paper’s ombudsman, Thomas wore more hats in his time...
Former All-American basketball player Tiffany Jackson dies from breast cancer at 37, according to university
2022-10-04, 17:30The University of Texas at Austin women’s basketball program is “mourning the loss of Longhorn legend” Tiffany Jackson, the school said on Monday in a statement on their website. Jackson was 37 years old and passed away after a battle with breast cancer according to the school. Jody Conradt, who...
Billionaire hedge fund founder Ray Dalio cedes control of Bridgewater
2022-10-04, 16:54Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, is stepping down from his role at the firm after 47 years. “I transitioned my control of Bridgewater to...
Republicans hold a near-historic lead on a key midterm indicator
2022-10-04, 16:17Sometimes you see a polling result that jumps out from the page. That was the case when I saw a recently released Gallup poll on who Americans think can better handle the issue that is most important to them. Put in a historical context, this poll potentially portends very good things for...
The Try Guys say they will remove Ned Fulmer from future videos
2022-10-04, 16:17The Try Guys are working to distance themselves from former member Ned Fulmer. The remaining three members of the viral video team, Eugene Lee Yang, Zach Kornfeld and Keith Habersberger, took to YouTube Monday to address parting ways with Fulmer, who last week acknowledged he had “a consensual...
Lori Loughlin and John Stamos reunite for a TikTok throwback
2022-10-04, 16:17Lori Loughlin joined John Stamos for a sweet TikTok trend. Loughlin appeared alongside her former “Full House” co-star in a video posted to Stamos’ account in a series of...
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker visit ‘DWTS’ to cheer on Charli D’Amelio
2022-10-04, 16:17Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker visited the ballroom of “Dancing with the Stars” on Monday to cheer on TikTok star Charli D’Amelio. Week three of Season 31 of the competitive...
Republicans largely stay away from abortion issue in their ads. But not all of them.
2022-10-04, 15:59Not many Republican candidates want to talk about abortion in their campaigns, especially in their costly paid television or digital ads. But the few who are taking on the issue are doing so with a familiar message: We aren’t the extremists, Democrats are. It’s a theme playing out across the...
‘We have the power’: Fetterman zeroes in on Philadelphia with Senate race on the line
2022-10-04, 15:59If Democratic nominee John Fetterman is going to become the next senator from Pennsylvania, he needs to wallop Republican Mehmet Oz in the Commonwealth’s largest and most diverse city, Philadelphia. That’s no secret. Fetterman has multiple paths to victory in November, but they all hinge on at least...
This is the bar Joe Biden will have to clear in 2024
2022-10-04, 15:59Joe Biden still hasn’t made up his mind about whether or not to run for president in 2024. “Look, my intention as I said to begin with is that I would run again,” the President said last month in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.” “But it’s just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run...
Hurricane Ian’s death toll rises as crews in Florida go door-to-door in search for survivors ...
2022-10-04, 15:59After Hurricane Ian obliterated communities in Florida, rescue crews going door-to-door in search of survivors are reporting more deaths, and residents grappling with the losses are facing a long, daunting recovery. As of Monday, at least 101 people have been reported killed by the hurricane in...
The number of US job openings fell by more than 1 million in August
2022-10-04, 15:41The tight US labor market started to show signs of loosening in August. The number of job openings dropped to...
Russian journalist who protested on live television escapes house arrest
2022-10-04, 15:05Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian journalist who staged a daring protest live on state-run television, has been declared a fugitive after going on the run, Russian media reported. Ovsyannikova was placed under house arrest in August. She had been charged with disseminating false information about the...
Wrong place, wrong time: How things went so badly for Twitter’s new CEO so quickly
2022-10-04, 15:05When Parag Agrawal took over as Twitter’s CEO last November following cofounder Jack Dorsey’s surprise resignation from the role, he was little known outside the company. Ten months later, Agrawal has featured prominently in a whistleblower disclosure, been rebuked by name in a Congressional hearing...
Credit Suisse angst shows just how freaked out markets are right now
2022-10-04, 14:48Social media speculation that Credit Suisse was on the brink of collapse sent shares of the Swiss bank on a wild ride in recent days, as investors traded off the frenzy and bought up protection in case of a default. But the hand-wringing over the global lender’s fortunes appears to say more about...
Liquid Death canned water company is now worth $700 million
2022-10-04, 13:53For the “Why didn’t I think of that?” file: A startup that sells water in beer cans — that’s literally it — is approaching a $1 billion valuation. Liquid Death raised a fresh funding round Monday, bringing its valuation to $700 million. Since its launch in 2019, the brand has had...
Dow set to rally more than 1,000 points in two days as fear begins to fade
2022-10-04, 13:53Is the worst really over on Wall Street? It’s too soon to say. But stocks were set to rise sharply again Tuesday morning following Monday’s big rally. It appears that the market bears may be going into hibernation, at least temporarily. Not even the news of North Korea firing a missile over Japan...
What we learned from Week 4 of the 2022 NFL season
2022-10-04, 12:59With a lot of starting NFL players not playing in the preseason, the first few weeks of a new season sometimes are more mistake ridden and have more miscues than we’d tend expect. But, by Week 4, those kinks are beginning to be ironed out and we’re starting to see the stars shining on offense and...
Who is Ibrahim Traore, the soldier behind Burkina Faso’s latest coup?
2022-10-04, 12:41As a heavily armed convoy drove through a cheering crowd in Burkina Faso’s capital on Sunday morning, the boyish face of the country’s latest military ruler, Captain Ibrahim Traore, emerged from the turret of an armored personnel carrier. Sporting fatigues and a red beret, the 34-year-old smiled and...
Protester tackled by LA Rams linebacker Bobby Wagner as he ran onto field
2022-10-04, 12:06A protester met the full-force of NFL linebacker Bobby Wagner on Monday night as the Los Angeles Rams hosted the San Francisco 49ers. At the end of the first half, a man ran onto the field at the Levi’s Stadium carrying a pink flare, temporarily halting play. While he initially evaded...
Amir Malik is on a drive to make golf more inclusive for Muslims
2022-10-04, 11:29Amir Malik is a man in love with golf. Yet golf has not always loved him back. A devoted sports fan since his childhood in Kingston upon Thames, London, he was fascinated with golf long before he took his first swing. But knowing nobody else who played, Malik settled for a sideline view. That all...
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