[ad_1] Americans are expected to open their wallets this holiday season, increasing their gift budgets even as a slowing job market and stubborn inflation weigh on consumer confidence, according to a new analysis from Visa Business and Economic Insights. U.S. consumers are forecast to spend an average of $736 each on holiday gifts, a 10%…
[ad_1] This fall’s race for Virginia governor offers Democrats a chance to start recovering from stinging losses in last year’s presidential election. It also brings the risk that the party could slip further into the doldrums that hurt its brand with voters around the country in 2024. The Nov. 4 elections for governor of Virginia…
[ad_1] Disney networks including ABC and ESPN have gone dark on Google-owned YouTube TV after the two corporate giants couldn’t come to terms on a new deal. And the two sides wasted no time pointing fingers. A post on the YouTube blog says, “Last week, Disney used the threat of a blackout on YouTube TV…
[ad_1] Geneva — The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared…
[ad_1] Indian customs officers have arrested a plane passenger after discovering two endangered gibbons stuffed inside a checked bag, the latest animals seized from smugglers at Mumbai’s airport. One of the tiny animals from Indonesia was dead, while the other, in a video shared by Indian Customs, was seen cradled in the arms of an…
[ad_1] A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said. The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes…
[ad_1] Colombian President Gustavo Petro had trouble refueling his plane on a trip to the Middle East after being sanctioned by the United States, his government said Thursday. Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said that the presidential plane stopped in Madrid to refuel on the way to Saudi Arabia but that officials at Barajas airport, Spain’s…
[ad_1] An attorney for Abby Zwerner, the first-grade teacher shot and wounded by a 6-year-old student earlier this month in Newport News, Virginia, said that the administrators of Richneck Elementary School had multiple warnings that the unidentified boy was armed, but “failed to act” on those reports. In a news conference on Wednesday, Diane Toscano, a…
[ad_1] Some federal workers going unpaid during the U.S. government shutdown are resorting to taking out bank loans to tide them over financially. A San Antonio, Texas, woman whose husband works for the Department of Defense, told CBS News her family is relying on a no-interest loan from the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) to pay…
[ad_1] The rumble of large machinery, whine of chain saws and chopping of machetes echoed through communities across the northern Caribbean as they dug out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa and surveyed the damage it left behind. The storm was being blamed for at least 45 deaths, mostly in Haiti and Jamaica. It also…
