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☆ Farmers’ protests have erupted across Europe. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Sophie Tanno | Chris Liakos | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

This week, the farmers’ protests struck at the heart of the European Union, when they rolled into Brussels on Thursday as leaders held a major summit on Ukraine. The EU has waived quotas and duties on Ukrainian imports in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “In Germany, it was really focused on diesel, so starting to tax diesel for tractors. France this week announced a series of measures for farmers in light of the protests. This has already been seen in Germany, when the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) involved itself in the protests and expressed solidarity with the farmers.

Persons: ”, Sebastien Bozon, Kay Nietfeld, Hugo Auge, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s, Dimitar Dilkoff, Emmanuel Mathé, “, we’re, Anger, Renaud Foucart, Sakis Mitrolidis, Stefano Guidi, Gabriel Attal, Attal, Ursula von Der Leyen, Rob Engelaar Organizations: CNN — Farmers, CNN, European Union, Toulouse, BFMTV, Getty Images Farmers, AP, Farmers, Getty, ” Farmers, EU, Lancaster University, Deal, Green, European Commission, French, Farmer, Citizen Locations: Europe, Paris, France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Poland, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Eastern Europe, EU, Brussels, Ukraine, Zandvliet, Meer, Lyon, Vesoul, AFP, Berlin, Thessaloniki, Spanish, Hamburg, Cologne, Bremen, Nuremberg, Munich, Eastern, Bulgaria, Yvelines, French, Noisy, Seine et Marne, England, Novara, Belgium, Arendonk, Dutch

Our experts answer readers' credit card questions and write unbiased product reviews (here's how we assess credit cards). Annual fees increase between 18% to 52% on six consumer and business Delta SkyMiles credit cards. American Express and Delta Air Lines increased annual fees across their co-branded airline credit cards today for consumer and business credit cards alike. Delta SkyMiles® Platinum American Express Card, Delta SkyMiles® Platinum Business American Express Card, Delta SkyMiles® Reserve American Express Card, and Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Card cardholders will receive $2,500 Medallion Qualifying Dollars (MQDs) every qualifying year, beginning February 1, which will give them a jumpstart toward earning Delta status each year. Delta SkyMiles® Platinum Business American Express Card and Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Card cardholders can now spend above their credit limit, albeit within a certain undisclosed extent.

Persons: Resy, Katherine Fan, I've, Guy, NerdWallet, I'm, you'll, Read Organizations: Delta, American Express, Delta Air Lines, Delta SkyMiles, Delta SkyMiles ®, Express, Finance, Business, Forbes, USA, Austin American, Statesman, Associated Press, Google, MSN, University of Texas Locations: Hawaii , Alaska, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, delta.com, Delta, Austin, Southwest, Texas, Taiwan, New York City

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. (AP) — Police in an Atlanta-area city responding to shots fired at a home on Thursday found numerous women there and are investigating the possibility the residence was used for sex trafficking, authorities said. South Fulton police detained 19 people at the home, most of them women between 16 and about 40 years old, police said. South Fulton is about 20 miles (32km) southwest of Atlanta. South Fulton Police Chief Keith Meadows said a “sex party” had been advertised for this weekend at the residence. “We've had complaints about possibly sex trafficking," he said.

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☆ Boeing CEO: ‘We caused the problem’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said that Boeing is responsible for the incident of door plug blowing out of a 737 Max 9 in flight earlier this month, saying that Boeing must do a better job than it did in this instance. “We caused the problem, and we understand that,” he told investors during a call after reporting the latest quarterly loss at the company. It led to a three-week grounding of the Boeing 737 Max 9 model as inspections discovered problems with the installation of other door plugs. But he said that “I am convinced we have this [door] plug completely under control.”He also defended the company’s decision not to give updated financial guidance. Asked if Boeing has lost the confidence of its airline customers, he said that so far the customers are telling the company they are sticking with Boeing.

Persons: Dave Calhoun, ”, ” Calhoun, I’ve, “, Calhoun, he’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Boeing, Federal Aviation Administration, Alaska Airlines, Max, FAA, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, CNBC, National Transportation Safety Board, “ Locations: New York, Alaska

☆ China rolls out fresh property relief measures to stem the fallout from Evergrande's meltdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Yuheng Zhan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Officials in China are boosting property sector relief measures to blunt the impact of Evergrande's collapse. The new measures are part of a wider series of economy-boosting initiatives, especially in the real estate sector, which constitutes one-quarter of the country's economy. The crisis in the property sector stems from huge debt and overbuilding in the last decade, which has resulted in a liquidity crisis for many property developers, including Evergrande. The company's troubles sent country's property sector into a tailspin starting in 2022 when it defaulted on some of its offshore bonds. China is moving mountains to hold the real estate sector's crisis from pouring into other sectors.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Beijing, China's Ministry of Housing, China Mingsheng Banking Corp, China Securities Journal, Guangzhou, Reuters, Bloomberg Locations: China, Hong Kong, Nanning, Guangxi, Chongqing, Suzhou, Shanghai, restructurings

☆ Boeing's 737 Max 9 jet is flying again. Here's what experts say about its safety.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewOn January 5, an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 door plug broke off shortly after takeoff from Portland International Airport, leaving a gaping hole in the jet's fuselage. The Federal Aviation Administration quickly grounded 171 other Max 9 planes with the same door plug, mostly flown by United Airlines and Alaska. Four critical bolts used to secure the door plug were missing from the jet when it left Boeing's assembly line, The Wall Street Journal reported, representing a massive quality control lapse. Not all experts agree on the Max 9's safetyThe Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9. AdvertisementAccording to the Washington Post, the travel booking website Kayak said its filter for the 737 Max significantly increased in the days after the incident.

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☆ Scientists thought an ancient tomb had been lost 170 years ago until one expert discovered it practically right in his backyard
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An instructor at Dingle campus of Connecticut-based Sacred Heart University, he's mapping the sites of wedge tombs . "These types of structures are burial places," Mag Fhloinn said, generally dating to around 2,500 to 2,000 BCE. During his searches of the hill, Mag Fhloinn took photographs to create a 3D model. Rotating the 3D model on his screen, Mag Fhloinn saw how well it corresponded with the 1838 drawing. Most wedge tombs face west, particularly to the southwest, Mag Fhloinn said.

Persons: —, Lady Georgiana Chatterton, Raidió, COVID lockdowns, Billy Mag Fhloinn, Fhloinn, RTÉ, Seán Mac, Richard Hitchcock, couldn't, Caimin O'Brien, O'Brien Organizations: Service, Business, Heart University, National Monuments Service Locations: Ireland's Dingle, South, Ireland, Dingle, Connecticut

(AP) — Residents of an east Arkansas town have been without running water for the past two weeks after the state was hit by below-freezing temperatures, and the outage has forced them to line up for bottled water, fill up jugs or take showers at a truck brought in by the state. The town faced a similar crisis last summer, when the same part of the city was without water in June. The outages are affecting one of two water systems for Helena-West Helena, which was two separate cities until 2006. Each day, distribution sites for the water have seen a steady line of people filling up on water to use for their homes. He said citizens in general have been understanding of the emergency water distribution process.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Facing severe criticism after a door plug blew out on a 737 Max over Oregon this month, Boeing said Monday that it is withdrawing a request for a safety exemption needed to certify a new model of the plane. Maria Cantwell, chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Tammy Duckworth, chair of its aviation safety subcommittee, urged the Federal Aviation Administration to deny the request. "I hope this means they can quickly develop a compliant design across other MAX planes.”The FAA grounded all Max 9s in the U.S. the day after the blowout. The 737 Max went into service in May 2017. Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Stan Deal said in a message to Boeing employees Friday that the company’s most immediate goal is to help airlines restore operations.

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☆ North Korean missiles won't defeat Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

An expert believes that North Korean short-range ballistic missiles could hit pinpoint targets. North Korean arms are known for being cheap rather than good, as Moscow discovered when it recently began importing shoddy North Korean ammunition . But these North Korean ballistic missiles are not some knockoff of the notorious 1950s Soviet Scud, a liquid-fueled rocket that takes more than an hour to launch. "They may have some design heritage with Russian systems, but they borrow heavily from North Korean expertise." This suggests that Russia will need a lot of North Korean missiles, which in turn raises the question of North Korea's rocket manufacturing capacity.

Persons: —, Russia's, Masao Dahlgren, Dahlgren, Ukraine –, Kim Jong Organizations: Service, White House, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Korean, International Institute for Strategic Studies Locations: Russia, Korean, Ukraine, Korea, Moscow, Zaporizhia, Washington ,, United States, Iran, Nazi, Iranian, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Japan, South Korea, Pyongyang, Russian, Korea's

NEW YORK (AP) — N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel "House Made of Dawn" is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. “His Kiowa heritage was deeply meaningful to him and he devoted much of his life to celebrating and preserving Native American culture, especially the oral tradition." Like Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” Momaday’s novel was a World War II story that resonated with a generation protesting the Vietnam War. Addressing a gathering of American Indian scholars in 1970, Momaday said, “Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves.” He championed Natives' reverence for nature, writing that "the American Indian has a unique investment in the American landscape." Audio guides to tours of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian featured Momaday's avuncular baritone.

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For instance, the U.S. has blocked shipments of cotton coming from China, a top manufacturer of popular clothing brands, because it was produced by forced or prison labor. While prison labor seeps into the supply chains of some companies through third-party suppliers without them knowing, others buy direct. Cargill acknowledged buying goods from prison farms in Tennessee, Arkansas and Ohio, saying they constituted only a small fraction of the company’s overall volume. For instance, about a dozen state prison farms, including operations in Texas, Virginia, Kentucky and Montana, have sold more than $60 million worth of cattle since 2018. “What for?”FOLLOWING THE MONEYThe business of prison labor is so vast and convoluted that tracing the money can be challenging.

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☆ A Burger King employee who's worked there for 50 years says she loves her job so much she even comes to work when she's sick or in pain
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Burger King employee says she enjoys her job so much she even comes in when she's sick or in pain. Wanda Byrd has worked at the Burger King in Medicine Park, Oklahoma for 50 years. AdvertisementA Burger King employee who's worked there for more than 50 years says she still comes to work when she's sick or in pain because she enjoys her job so much. Byrd told KSWO that in 2005, the burger chain gave her a Jeep to reward her for her speedy service. One Burger King worker who's been at the chain for nearly 30 years said the healthcare insurance he gets covered his four daughters through high school and college.

Persons: Wanda Byrd, —, who's, she'd, Byrd, KSWO, who've, Burger Organizations: Burger King, Service, King, Medicine, Business, Bureau of Labor Statistics Locations: Medicine Park , Oklahoma, Oklahoma

☆ A man opened a plane's emergency exit and walked onto its wing after his flight was delayed on the tarmac for 4 hours. His fellow passengers are now defending him: 'He saved our lives'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Aeromexico passenger opened a plane's emergency exit and walked onto the wing on Thursday. AdvertisementAn Aeromexico passenger opened a plane's emergency exit and walked onto the wing, but his fellow travelers are defending — not criticizing — his actions. They added that the man who opened the emergency exit acted "to protect everyone, with the support of everyone." It's not the first time a passenger has ventured onto a plane's wing or opened an emergency exit in recent months. In July, a passenger tried to open an AirFrance emergency exit midair to ensure it worked properly.

Persons: —, Justin Sullivan, AM762, Aeromexico, It's Organizations: Service, Mexico International, Associated Press, AP, Passengers, Flightradar24, Business, Southwest Airlines Locations: Mexico, Mexico City, Guatemala, Louisiana

(AP) — A driver backed through the wall of a Missouri nail salon, killing a woman and injuring three other people, authorities said. The crash happened Saturday afternoon in Pacific, a town about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of St. Louis, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Killed was Jill Goddard, 61, of Pacific, who was in the salon, the patrol said. Emergency crews also took the 57-year-old driver and two people inside the salon to hospitals with minor injuries. The youngest of the injured salon patrons was 17.

Persons: Louis, Jill Goddard Organizations: Highway Patrol Locations: Mo, Missouri, Pacific, St

☆ South Gaza battles rage as heavy rain hits displaced people further north
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Displaced Palestinian children walk on a hill facing their makeshift camp in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt on January 19, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Residents reported heavy aerial and tank fire across Khan Younis, an area of southern Gaza that has become the focus of Israel's ground offensive against Hamas, and around two main hospitals there. The Gaza Health Ministry said Israeli strikes hit the vicinities of Al-Amal Hospital and the largest functioning medical facility in the south, Nasser Hospital. Israel launched its air, sea and land offensive after militants from the Hamas group that rules Gaza stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and abducting 253. It says it has killed at least 9,000 Gaza militants so far, a figure that Hamas has dismissed.

Persons: Israel, Gaza's Khan Younis, Khan Younis, Al, Ashraf Al, Benjamin Netanyahu, Zainab Khalil Organizations: Hamas, Islamic, Gaza Health Ministry, Amal, Nasser Hospital, Court, International, West Bank Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Egypt, Israel, Khan, Nasser, Israeli, Jenin

LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined a march in southern England on Saturday to protest the use of private jets and the expansion of an airport. Hundreds of local residents and activists holding banners and placards that read “Ban Private Jets" marched to Farnborough Airport, which mostly serves private aircraft. Groups working to fight climate change, including the organizer of Saturday's protest, Extinction Rebellion, say private jets are much more polluting than commercial passenger airliners. “It is clear that private jets are incompatible with ensuring present and future living conditions on this planet," Thunberg said in a video that Extinction Rebellion posted on social media. ___Follow AP's coverage of climate change at https://apnews.com/climate-and-environment.

Persons: Greta Thunberg, Thunberg, We're Organizations: —, Jets, Farnborough Airport, Farnborough, Energy Intelligence Locations: England, Hampshire County, London, Swedish

☆ 10 of our stocks report earnings next week. Here's what we want to see from each
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

All three major averages posted gains for the third consecutive week, lifted by solid quarterly earnings and positive economic data. Earnings season ramps up next week, with five of the Super Six mega-cap stocks delivering results. Employment numbers are the most important economic data, with Friday's January nonfarm payrolls report carrying the most weight. The January ISM Manufacturing report on Thursday and December's factory orders report Friday are expected to show the sector still in contraction mode. But earnings and commentary this week from peer Sartorious made us encouraged about a return to growth in 2024.

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☆ ‘The enemy is amassing forces, they assault every day.’ Ukrainian army officials give unvarnished account of the battlefield
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Andrew Carey | Maria Kostenko | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Earlier this week, Ukraine announced it had withdrawn its forces from the village of Krokhmalne to take up more advantageous defensive positions on higher ground. Reports suggest Russian forces continue to press in the area. A readout from the Army General Staff on its Facebook page said Ukrainian forces had faced down 13 attacks on the settlements of Tabaiivka and Stelmakhivka, to the northwest and south, respectively, of Krokhmalne. A Ukrainian serviceman prepares 155-mm artillery shells near the front line in Zaporizhzhia, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on January 14, 2024. ReutersFurther southeast, the area around Bakhmut, which was the overwhelming focus of Russia’s winter offensive exactly a year ago, Ukrainian forces also report coming under increased pressure.

Persons: spokespeople, Sergeant Oles Maliarevych, …, Oleksandr Shtupun, “ Organizations: CNN, Russian, Army, Staff, Land Forces Command, Ukrainian, Reuters, 92nd Separate Brigade Locations: Kharkiv, Luhansk, Ukraine, Krokhmalne, Tabaiivka, Ukrainian, Zaporizhzhia, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Kyiv, Orikhiv, Tokmak, Crimea, Russia

NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue Airways warned that it may end its bid to acquire low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines as soon as this weekend after a federal judge blocked the deal, sending Spirit shares sharply lower Friday. “Spirit believes there is no basis for terminating the Merger Agreement," Spirit wrote. Both JetBlue and Spirit have struggled financially and have been slower than some other airlines to recover from the pandemic. Since the start of 2020, JetBlue has lost $2.1 billion, and Spirit has lost $1.7 billion. Spirit tried to merge with Frontier Airlines, another low-cost carrier, in early 2022, but JetBlue won a bidding war to push Frontier aside.

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Two missiles apparently targeting a ship off Yemen exploded Friday, though they caused no damage or injuries, the British military said. The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Operations, which oversees Mideast waterways, said the attack happened southwest of the Yemeni city of Aden, in the Gulf of Aden. No group immediately claimed responsibility. Suspicion immediately fell on Yemen’s Houthi rebels amid their campaign targeting shipping over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Persons: Suspicion, Yemen’s Organizations: JERUSALEM, United, Maritime Operations, Associated Press Locations: Yemen, British, Yemeni, Aden, Gulf, Gaza

☆ Why airlines plug up emergency exits
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Amy Fraher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

However, as a former United Airlines pilot now lecturing in Yale University’s School of Management, I believe the wrong questions are being asked about what happened on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282. The question we need to ask is: Why wouldn’t an airline use all of an aircraft’s emergency exits? Others, such as emergency exits, are more opaque to travelers. NTSB/Handout/ReutersWhy you get more emergency exits in IndonesiaIn the US, airlines must comply with federal aviation regulations, which dictate aircraft maintenance procedures and in-flight personnel assignments – and minimum standards for emergency exits. That’s precisely what happened with Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 – and how “door plug” suddenly entered the American vernacular.

Persons: –, Amy Fraher Organizations: CNN, Boeing, Federal Aviation Administration, Alaska Airlines, United Airlines, Yale University’s School of Management, National Transportation Safety, Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, Alaska Airlines Max, FAA, Southwest Airlines, Ryanair, United, Yale University Locations: Alaska, Portland , Oregon, Indonesia, Jakarta, United States, Ireland, U.S, American, Southwest

☆ Microsoft's $3 trillion market cap milestone is the latest in a string of wins for Big Tech's elder statesman
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at Microsoft notching another big win by briefly reaching a $3 trillion valuation. It's an impressive run for a company often viewed as the least sexy in Big Tech. 3 things in marketsInstagram/grandmabetty33The stock market is looking gray, and that's a bad thing. A famed economist said you shouldn't confuse a booming stock market with a strong economy. Nobel economist Paul Krugman recently wrote about how consumers feel too optimistic about the economy due to the current stock market rally.

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☆ Southwest Airlines takes Boeing Max 7 out of 2024 plans because of certification delays
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Southwest Airlines has taken the Boeing 737 Max 7 out of its fleet plans as regulators haven't yet certified the smallest model of the manufacturer's best-selling plane. Southwest became the latest of the major airlines this week to rethink its fleet plans because of certification delays at Boeing. Earlier this week, United Airlines said it was removing the the 737 Max 10, the largest model of the Max family, from its internal fleet plans after delays with certification. Scrutiny on Boeing has mounted in recent weeks after a door panel blew out midflight from a 737 Max 9 that was operated by Alaska Airlines on Jan. 5, prompting the FAA to ground that model. FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker told CNBC earlier this week that even before the Alaska Airlines incident, the agency had concluded it needed a more "hands-on approach" with the certification of the Max 7 and Max 10 aircraft.

Persons: Max, Mike Whitaker, Whitaker Organizations: Southwest Airlines, Boeing, Max, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, FAA, CNBC Locations: Alaska

☆ American Airlines posts narrow fourth-quarter profit
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Laya Neelakandan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, from American Airlines company, taking off from Barcelona airport, in Barcelona on 24th February 2023. American Airlines on Thursday posted a $19 million profit for the last three months of 2023, topping Wall Street estimates on the top and bottom lines. 29 cents adjusted vs. 10 cents per share expected. For the last three months of 2023, American Airlines reported net income of $19 million, down from $803 million the year prior. "The American Airlines team produced an exceptionally strong performance in 2023," CEO Robert Isom said in a statement Thursday.

Persons: Robert Isom Organizations: Boeing, American Airlines, LSEG, Revenue, United Airlines, Max, Federal Aviation Administration, Alaska Airlines Locations: Barcelona, Southwest, Alaska

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