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CNN  —  Anne Sacoolas, the American woman accused of killing 19-year old British motorcyclist Harry Dunn in a traffic accident near a US military base, pleaded guilty to causing his death on Thursday, according to the UK’s PA Media news agency. Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity claimed on her behalf and was able to leave the UK weeks after the deadly August 2019 traffic collision outside RAF Croughton, a US military base in England where her husband worked as a US diplomat. Britain’s attempt to extradite Sacoolas to face charges of causing death by dangerous driving was declined by US authorities,…

Mayor Eric Adams has defended his late-night party lifestyle — insisting that he is helping the Big Apple economy. “My nightlife is a multi-billion dollar industry,” Adams told CNN’s Chris Wallace on an installment of “Who’s Talking with Chris Wallace” set to run Sunday. “People are afraid to go back out to restaurants; now they see our mayor going out saying ‘come back out to our city.’ That is what the whole theme is.” Hizzoner insisted that the city’s economic downturn made it more important than ever for him to show solidarity with workers around the boroughs while he paints the…

CNN  —  More than three weeks after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, Johnnie Glisson is still sleeping in his pickup truck. The storm flooded the 74-year-old’s house in Matlacha, just outside Fort Myers. Little survived beyond a damp couch he propped up on cinderblocks. He now uses it to rest his back after long days of cleaning up the wreckage he once called home. “It helps me feel like this is still a home, and it’s my home,” Glisson said about the couch. “So probably more of a symbol than anything that says I’m here and it’s coming back.”…

British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday after just 44 days in office.Rob Pinney | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday, bringing to a close a brief 44-day tenure mired by “mini-budget” chaos, economic turmoil and weeks of political infighting.Speaking outside Downing Street, Truss said she had delivered her resignation to King Charles after meeting with Graham Brady, the leader of the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee, earlier Thursday.”Given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party,” she said in a brief speech Thursday afternoon.The…

Halfpoint | Istock | Getty ImagesRetirees who rely on Social Security benefits for income will get some relief from record high inflation when an 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment kicks in next year.But two factors — the size of Medicare Part B premiums and taxes on benefits — may offset just how much bigger those monthly checks will be in 2023.The good news is that the standard monthly premium for Medicare Part B, which covers outpatient and medical coverage, is set to go down by 3% next year, to $164.90 from the current rate of $170.10. Because those premiums are typically deducted…

Bills quarterback Josh Allen and his girlfriend, Brittany Williams, took in Game 2 of the NLCS between the Padres and Phillies on Wednesday, and the cameras caught their Instagram moment. Allen — who enjoyed the game in a Bills cap during the team’s bye week — and Williams were in the midst of selfie session when Fox featured the quarterback on the broadcast. Cameras captured Allen smiling with Williams, who puckered her lips as she snapped a selfie of the two on her phone. The couple, which was decked out in Padres gear, sat in a private suite and quickly…

CNN  —  Dame Judi Dench has played a British queen before and now she is sounding off about Netflix’s popular dramatization of the royal family. In a letter to The Times, the revered actress shares her concerns about the forthcoming new season of “The Crown,” writing that “the closer the drama comes to our present times, the more freely it seems willing to blur the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism.” “While many will recognise The Crown for the brilliant but fictionalised account of events that it is, I fear that a significant number of viewers, particularly overseas, may…

On average, American workers think they’ll need $1.7 million saved for retirement, but a little less than half believe they’re likely to meet their savings goals, according to a recent Charles Schwab study.That’s understandable: Financial planners typically recommend saving between 10% and 15% of your gross annual salary for retirement, which is no small feat.But if you’re not able to save that much yet, don’t panic. Workers with employer-sponsored retirement plans only contribute around 7% of their income toward their retirement fund on average, according to Vanguard’s “How America Saves 2022” report.With this in mind, CNBC calculated how much you’d…

Just above three-quarters of surveyed Salvadorians reportedly see the adoption of bitcoin (BTC) as a failure.According to the poll by the University of Central America (UCA), as reported by Barron’s, 77% of respondents consider the BTC adoption as legal tender in 2021, alongside the dollar, “to have been a failure.”75.6% of respondents said they haven’t used crypto in 2022 at all.The UCA rector Andreu Oliva, commenting on the results of the study, was quoted as saying that,“Bitcoin is the government’s most unpopular measure, the most criticized and the most frowned upon.”The UCA study also found that 77% of Salvadorans think…