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☆ A UK destroyer scored the Royal Navy's first missile kill since the Gulf War, when one of its warships pulled off another historic first
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA UK warship on Wednesday shot down a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis in Yemen, marking the Royal Navy's first such kill since the Gulf War more than 30 years ago. AdvertisementA view shows HMS Diamond in the Red Sea on Operation Prosperity Guardian, in this handout image taken on January 6, 2024. Related storiesDuring the Gulf War, the Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester used Sea Dart missiles to destroy an Iraqi silkworm anti-ship missile that was targeting an American warship. That engagement marked the first time anti-air missiles successfully destroyed an enemy missile threat during a battle at sea. The HMS Diamond, a UK warship, responds to a Houthi attack on Jan. 9, 2023.

Persons: —, CENTCOM, Diamond, Chris Sellars, Handout, Grant Shapps Organizations: Service, Royal, Viper, Business, US Central Command, Prosperity, REUTERS, The Times, Royal Navy, UK Ministry of Defense, US Navy Locations: Yemen, Gulf, Aden, Gloucester, Iraqi, American, Gulf of Aden

☆ Louis Rees-Zammit: Welsh rugby star agrees to NFL deal with Kansas City Chiefs: reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN has reached out to the Chiefs, Rees-Zammit’s agent and the NFL for comment. The 23-year-old winger is a star for Wales and his former club Gloucester but elected to leave the security of rugby for the NFL International Player Pathway (IPP) program and eventually an NFL roster. “I fancy a new challenge and what a better challenge than to be in the NFL,” Rees-Zammit told CNN’s Coy Wire earlier this month. Despite never playing American football at any organized level, Rees-Zammit is familiar with the game, having watched the sport from a young age. “My dad as a teenager in the UK, he always played American football,” Rees-Zammit explained to Wire.

Persons: CNN — Louis Rees, Rees, ” Rees, Zammit, CNN’s Coy, “ I’ve, “ Organizations: CNN, National Football League, Welsh, Kansas City Chiefs, ESPN, Chiefs, NFL, Wales, Gloucester, Irish Lions, American Locations: American

☆ Why are prices still so high? Corporate greed, some say.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Tami Luhby | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

While supply chain problems and high demand may have helped spur inflation early in the pandemic, Rosolino believes there’s another key reason why prices have soared and remained high: Corporate greed. It’s corporate greed.”Nick Rosolino feels businesses won't lower their prices as long as consumers keep spending. “Too many corporations raise prices to pad their profits, charging more and more for less and less,” Biden said. Companies are typically slower to reduce their prices when costs decline than they are to raise prices when their expenses jump. Corporate profits have contributed to inflation, though experts differ on the extent.

Persons: Nick Rosolino, Rosolino, there’s, ”, “ It’s, Nick Rosolino Reluctantly, Joe Biden, “, ” Biden, Cookie Monster, Lael Brainard, Goldman Sachs, Neil Bradley, Heather Vargas, ” Vargas, ” Heather Vargas, Heather Vargas Vargas, –, Kellogg, Gary Pilnick’s, Companies haven’t, Aaron Hackman, McKinley Conner, Aaron Hackman “, Hackman Organizations: CNN, America, White, Economic Council, Federal Reserve, Companies, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, US Chamber of Commerce, of Labor Statistics, “ Locations: Maine, New Gloucester , Maine, Portland, Heights , California, Fort Lauderdale , Florida

☆ Kate, Princess of Wales: Why the royals have become the center of conspiracy theories
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | Max Foster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Editor’s Note: This is a version of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on Britain’s royal family. William, a source told CNN, had called the Greek royal family to let them know of his last-minute change of plans. Many saw the prince’s recent return to royal duties as a signal that the prognosis in the Wales household was improving quickly. If the role of monarchy is presence, continuity and unity, it was a stark visual seeing the royal family enter the chapel without several key senior faces among them. It’s worth emphasizing that the royal source told CNN that Kate “continues to be doing well” in her recovery.

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☆ King Charles has cancer. Here’s what we know
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | Max Foster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

London CNN —King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer and has started treatment in London. Specific medical conditions of members of the royal family are rarely divulged publicly. Andrew Parsons/Kensington PalaceQueen Camilla has been undertaking a full program of public duties in recent weeks, with that expected to continue. Now, 11 members of the clan conduct royal duties - more than half of whom are over the age of 70. Under the Regency Act 1937, that would be the next in line to the throne, which is Prince William.

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☆ Charles and Kate are out of hospital but the royal family is stretched thin
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Max Foster | Lauren Said-Moorhouse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Editor’s Note: This is a version of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on Britain’s royal family. London CNN —As King Charles III waved to well-wishers outside the hospital and Queen Camilla stood by his side, both smiled broadly at the cheering crowds. But with three of the most senior members of the family sidelined, a difficult reality has been laid bare: The family is incredibly stretched. King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Wales family wave from the Buckingham Palace balcony after attending the King's birthday parade in London last June. Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images“We have a much smaller royal family going into 2024 - much fewer royals to do the engagements because we have an aging King,” CNN historian Kate Williams says.

Persons: King Charles III, Queen Camilla, Catherine, Princess, Wales, Charles, Kate, Chris Jackson, Prince William, ”, King Charles , Queen Camilla, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Duke, Duchess, Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess of Kent, Prince Harry, Meghan, Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Charles ’, Adrian Dennis, Kate Williams, Edward, Sophie, Anne, William, Camilla, Beatrice, Eugenie, Queen Elizabeth II Organizations: CNN’s Royal, London CNN, London Clinic, Getty, ” CNN Locations: London, Wales, Buckingham, Kensington, Windsor, Edinburgh, AFP, ”

☆ Louis Rees-Zammit: Getting a foothold in the NFL is almost impossible – even if you’re a professional athlete
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Thomas Schlachter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

‘Big NFL fan’Rees-Zammit is a Welsh international rugby union player and one of the sport’s biggest talents. Gray recalls being amazed when he first learned of the off-field work NFL players and coaches were doing. He imitates holding a chunky playbook – staggered by the sheer number of plays that NFL players need to become fluent in. According to the NFL, 37 international players have joined teams – allocated, drafted or signed as a free agent – since the IPP’s inception. “He’s a big NFL fan, he’s young … he’s right at the beginning of his journey.

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☆ Exclusive: Applied Materials under US criminal probe for shipments to China's SMIC-sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Karen Freifeld | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A smartphone with a displayed Applied Materials logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. Shares in Applied Materials fell 7.3% after the news and the company reported quarterly results. Reuters could not determine whether Applied Materials violated the law, and it isn't clear whether the investigation will result in charges. SMIC did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the shipments from Applied Materials. A spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington was not aware of the Applied Materials probe.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, SMIC, Liu Pengyu, Karen Freifeld, Anna Driver Organizations: REUTERS, Semiconductor, Applied, Justice Department, Reuters, Materials, Justice and Commerce, Attorney's, Prosecutors, National Security Unit, China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, U.S . Commerce Department, Commerce Department, Federal Register, Lam Research Corp, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, Thomson Locations: U.S, South Korea, China, Santa Clara , California, Massachusetts, Boston, Gloucester, Washington

☆ Rugby World Cup: After triumphing with the All Blacks, Malakai Fekitoa has found a ‘new purpose’ with Tonga
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Long before he had the chance to travel to New Zealand, Fekitoa set his sights on competing for the All Blacks – undoubtedly the most famous rugby team on the planet. “It was always a dream of mine to play for New Zealand, even though I was born and raised in Tonga,” Fekitoa tells CNN Sport. Fekitoa tries to force his way through a tackle during a Rugby Championship match between New Zealand and Argentina in 2014. The change has proved particularly beneficial for Tonga, which, as well as Fekitoa, has named former All Blacks Vaea Fifita, George Moala and Charles Piutau in its squad for the ongoing Rugby World Cup in France. After the rule change, he thinks more All Blacks players will follow his lead by swapping allegiances.

Persons: Fekitoa, ” Fekitoa, Jonah Lomu, Cameron Spencer, –, haven’t, Fifita, George Moala, Charles Piutau, Leon Lord, Adam Coleman, Israel Folau, “, ”, “ I’m, I’ve, Richard Heathcote, It’s, James Crombie, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, All Blacks, New Zealand, CNN Sport, Tonga, Wellington Sevens, Wesley College, Rugby, Blacks, Fiji, Getty, Australia, Ireland, Wasps, Gloucester, Tonga –, Rugby Championship, Nations, United Rugby, Munster, Romania, Tonga’s, Tongan, Kiwi, New Locations: Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Auckland, Argentina, Europe, Monaco, France, AFP, New, England, Ireland, Italy, South Africa, Scotland, Samoa

☆ Explainer: Extreme heat may mean using a different sunscreen
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Nancy Lapid | Thomson Reuters | Nancy Has Been A Health News Editor At Reuters For More Than A Decade. Previously She Was A Writer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Because mineral sunscreens aren't absorbed, older formulations often had a greasy feel and a white appearance. People who do not like the thicker texture of mineral sunscreens often use chemical sunscreens in creams or sprays. The ingredients form a thin protective film that absorbs UV rays and changes their structure, converting them into heat before they penetrate the skin. Extreme heat also means more sweating, and sweat can contribute to itchiness and rashes some people experience from ingredients in chemical sunscreens, Radusky added. Even in the absence of extreme heat, people with sensitive skin should opt for mineral sunscreens, the AAD advises.

Persons: Johnson, Brian Snyder, Jacqueline, Ross Radusky, Radusky, Nancy Lapid, Michele Gershberg, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, American Academy of Dermatology, Sun Protection, Research Center, Thomson Locations: Gloucester , Massachusetts, U.S, Scottsdale , Arizona, Dallas , Texas

☆ Clijsters wants ATP, WTA to merge as women's tour celebrates 50 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Kim Clijsters of Belgium speaks as she is inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, U.S., July 22, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File PhotoNEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - It is time for the men's and women's professional tennis bodies to merge says former world number one Kim Clijsters, who wants a united front in the sport as the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) celebrates its 50-year anniversary. Like people who don't know much about tennis, they say, 'Oh yea, ATP and WTA', but behind it there's one unit.' The ITHF unveiled a video segment celebrating 50 years of the WTA this year called "TennisWorthy." And you kind of always bump into a wall where, you know, not much happens and it stays with conversations.

Persons: Kim Clijsters, Brian Snyder, Billie Jean King, Clijsters, King, Steffi Graf, it's, Roger Federer, Amy Tennery, Ken Ferris Organizations: International Tennis Hall of Fame, REUTERS, Women's Tennis Association, Wimbledon, WTA, men's Association of Tennis Professionals, Millennium, Thomson Locations: Belgium, Newport , Rhode Island, U.S, German, New York

☆ Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With tolling bells, grim chords and an uneasy melody, the opening immediately brings to mind Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” another tale of a king gone mad. This first section, “The Divided Kingdom,” shows Aucoin’s talent for creating orchestral textures that are simultaneously granitic and flickering, like fast-shifting storm clouds. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, deserves credit for consistently leading this richly gifted composer’s works with both organizations over the past few years. (Aucoin is currently working on an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “Demons,” planned for the Met.) The Tchaikovsky lacked the passionate opulence that is this score’s reason for being.

Persons: “, “ Boris Godunov, ”, Kurosawa’s, —, Yannick Nézet, Dostoevsky’s, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky Organizations: Metropolitan Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, hiccups Locations: “ Heath, ”

☆ Fireworks, Fishing Derbies and Schooner Parades: A Guide to Summering at America’s Seaports
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Ellie Mcgrath | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

IN A BREEZE The annual Gloucester Schooner Festival showcases the majestic two-masted boats, such as the Schooner Columbia. Photo: Getty ImagesWHEN I WAS growing up in Gloucester, Mass., we were steeped in local fishing-port legends. In elementary school, a teacher introduced us to “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” a poem published in 1842 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and if we hadn’t read “Captains Courageous,” Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 novel, we’d probably seen the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy. We knew the tale of Gloucester hero Howard Blackburn, who rowed his dory to Newfoundland in an 1883 storm, his hands frozen to the oars.

All were taken by renowned British photographer Hugo Burnand at Buckingham Palace. In this photo made available by Buckingham Palace on Monday, May 8, 2023, Britain's King Charles III poses for a photo in full regalia in the Throne Room, London. Britain's Queen Camilla poses for a photo in The Green Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace, London. In this photo made available by Buckingham Palace on Monday, May 8, 2023, King Charles III and Queen Camilla are pictured in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace, London. Lady Ogilvy and Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace, London.

☆ New Jersey's environmental agency called itself out for destroying two endangered birds' protected habitats while creating one for another species
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New Jersey's environmental agency plans to punish itself for damaging land for endangered birds it was supposed to protect. The damage happened when the department was trying to create habitat for another bird species, the American woodcock. The work was designed to create habitat for one species of bird, but actually wound up destroying habitat for two others. Before the work was done, this land was considered suitable habitat for the barred owl, which is listed as a threatened species, and the red-shouldered hawk, an endangered species. The project also cleared and disturbed an additional 12 acres of land near wetlands known as transition areas, which also are protected.

☆ See the Chipotle of the future
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —The distinctive gas grills in Chipotle restaurants might be a thing of the past. The exterior of a new Chipotle has solar panels. ChipotleNoticeable changes in this new store format include rooftop solar panels, electric vehicle charging stations and biodegradable flatware and bowls. Chipotle (CMG) will tweak the design based on feedback from customers and employees, the company said. ChipotleSustainability has long been a focus for Chipotle, which, along with other fast food chains, has been criticized for not being environmentally friendly.

☆ Chipotle unveils sustainable-restaurant design as it aims to cut carbon footprint in half by 2030
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Next year, more than 100 of the burrito chain's new locations will use all-electric equipment and some additional elements from the new design. Chipotle Mexican Grill on Tuesday unveiled a new all-electric restaurant design aimed at helping the company reach its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. Chipotle isn't the only restaurant chain looking to its restaurants to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. And a year earlier, its archrival, Restaurant Brands International's Burger King, revealed a new restaurant design that features solar panels. The company's goal to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 is based on its 2019 baseline of 1.4 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent across its supply chain and restaurants.

☆ ‘Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester’ Review: The Nearly Sunk and Future King
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Henry Hitchings | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

There are three million shipwrecks scattered across the ocean floor. Only a tiny number of these have been explored. This 117-foot craft had sunk in May 1682 after hitting a sandbank, while carrying the Duke of York, the future King James II of England. But only in June last year was the wreck formally identified—and hailed as the most significant maritime discovery since Henry VIII’s warship the Mary Rose was raised in 1982. Another find is a silver teaspoon, with an engraving that suggests it belonged to one of James’s huntsmen, Thomas Jory, a “saucy fellow” who hid under a seat on a rescue boat as the Gloucester went down.

With the deep freeze stretching from Montana to Texas as it crept eastward, some 240 million people - more than two-thirds of the U.S. population - were under winter weather warnings and advisories on Friday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. The map of existing or impending wintry hazards "depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever," the NWS said. [1/5] A driver makes their way through a flooded street at high tide during a winter storm in Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S., December 23, 2022. Their plight has added to local agencies scrambling to get people off the streets as the arctic blast arrived. While some areas downwind from the Great Lakes received a foot or more of snow on Friday, "the big story wasn't so much the falling snow but the blowing snow," weather service meteorologist Brian Hurley said.

☆ The new European vacation? Travelers are returning for trips that are all about food and wine
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Last year, the couple set up a tour company called Stay Awhile, which organizes trips "designed around food," according to the company's website. Guests taking part in Stay Awhile's French baking course visit the area to sample gourmet delicacies. A food tour of San SebastianPintxos are a staple in San Sebastian, one of the most popular places for foodies in Spain's Basque Country. It's not just doing a wine tour … it's a gourmet getaway," Stebbings told CNBC by phone. On a tour of the French Languedoc-Roussillon region, travelers can take a boat trip to an oyster farm off the coast of Montpellier.

☆ The US cities where home values are most likely to plummet in a recession
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The report — published on Wednesday — is based on data from nearly 600 counties in the US. Nine counties around New York City were included in the top 50 most vulnerable. ATTOM spokesperson says a recession seems 'more likely' than getting inflation under control. On Wednesday, real estate data company, ATTOM Data Solutions, published its Special Housing Risk Report for the second quarter of 2022. The report listed nearly 600 US counties vulnerable to value decline, based on "home affordability, underwater mortgages, foreclosures and unemployment," the report says.

☆ At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater
▼ + stars: | 2019-03-27 | by ( Parul Sehgal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The Broadway play as envisioned by the director Sam Gold, however, is lush; the set, a jewel box, with brassy, Trumpian accents. “Glenda is so lean, and I don’t just mean that physically,” the actor Elizabeth Marvel, who plays Goneril, told me. Jackson is the smallest person on stage, but you won’t notice it — she arrives cascading over the language, dominating it. “Glenda is going to do something very intense, very special, very big,” he said. Glenda Jackson is going to endure this, and you’re going to witness it.”For most of its history, this ritual has been considered too traumatizing for the stage.

Persons: “ King Lear, ”, Deborah Warner, Jackson, Sam Gold, Lear, — “, ” Jackson, Glenda, Elizabeth Marvel, Goneril, Shakespeare, Ophelia, Prince of, ” Gold, Lear I’ve, Gold, “ Glenda, You’re, Glenda Jackson, Charles Lamb, Samuel Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Edmund, Gloucester Locations: Prince of Stratford, ”

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