Starbucks CEO replaced by Brian Niccol, a fixer who revived Chipotle when the chain was in distress
Starbucks named Chipotle's Brian Niccol to be its new chairman and CEO on Tuesday. The Seattle coffee giant has been struggling with fading sales and hopes Niccol can engineer a turnaround. Niccol joined Chipotle in 2018 on the heels of a food poisoning crisis. Niccol — who previously led Taco Bell — beefed up Chipotle's marketing and product innovation and increased digital sales. Starbucks shares jumped more than 24% Tuesday, recapturing all of the losses they suffered this year. But Chipotle shares fell 7.5%. Niccol replaces Laxman Narasimhan, a longtime PepsiCo executive who became Starbucks’ CEO in March 2023.
A burglary is reported at a Trump campaign office in Virginia
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — A Northern Virginia sheriff’s office is investigating a burglary over the weekend at a campaign office for former President Donald Trump. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office says it happened Sunday at an Ashburn office being leased by the Trump for President 2024 campaign. It also serves as the headquarters of the Virginia 10th District Republican Committee. The sheriff's office says it has surveillance video that shows someone wearing dark clothing with a dark cap with a backpack breaking in and going through the office. It isn't clear whether anything was stolen, but an investigation continues. The campaign and the Republican committee have not commented.
Banksy London Zoo mural offers clue to why wild animals have been appearing all over city
LONDON (AP) — Workers arriving at the London Zoo were surprised to discover an unexpected exhibit that suggested the animals were being set free. A mural by elusive street artist Banksy showed a gorilla holding up the entrance gate as birds took flight and a sea lion waddled away. Three sets of eyes peered out from the darkness inside. The painting may explain why Bansky-created creatures — from a mountain goat perched on a building buttress to a rhinoceros mounting a car — have been showing up in the most unlikely places around London for nine straight days.
Ford, Mazda warn owners to stop driving older vehicles with dangerous Takata air bag inflators
DETROIT (AP) — Ford and Mazda are warning the owners of more than 475,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them because they have dangerous Takata air bag inflators that have not been replaced. The warning issued Tuesday covers more than 374,000 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles from the 2004 through 2014 model years and nearly 83,000 Mazdas from the 2003 through 2015 model years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the inflators can explode with too much force in a crash, blowing apart a metal canister and shooting fragments that can severely injure or kill people. All were recalled previously but repairs have not been completed. The government says 27 people have been killed in the U.S. by the inflators.
Jets GM Joe Douglas says the team won't honor Haason Reddick's request to be traded
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Haason Reddick’s holdout from the New York Jets has gotten ugly as it enters its third week. Shortly after a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that the star edge rusher requested a trade Monday, Jets general manager Joe Douglas said the team told Reddick it has no intention of granting him his wish. Reddick was acquired by New York from Philadelphia in the offseason after asking to pursue a trade from the Eagles over his contract situation. He wanted a new deal then and the Eagles weren’t going to give him one.
The Berlin Zoo is hoping for more German-born giant pandas as scans confirm a pregnancy
BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Zoo has much anticipated news: Meng Meng the panda is pregnant again, months after the first giant pandas born in Germany were sent to China. The zoo said Tuesday that ultrasound scans over the weekend showed Meng Meng is expecting two cubs. It says they still have plenty of growing to do but it expects the birth at the end of August, if all goes well. Giant pandas have difficulty breeding and births are particularly welcomed. There are about 1,800 pandas living in the wild in China and a few hundred in captivity worldwide.
Jordan Chiles medal inquiry: USA Gymnastics says arbitration panel won't reconsider decision
USA Gymnastics officials say an arbitration panel won’t reconsider a decision asking gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze medal she was awarded in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics. USA Gymnastics says it will continue efforts to let Chiles keep the medal. CAS voided an on-floor appeal from Chiles’ coach that vaulted her to third, saying the appeal came 4 seconds beyond the one-minute time limit for scoring inquiries. USA Gymnastics disputed the timing, saying in a statement Sunday that the agency submitted video evidence to CAS that showed Team USA coach Cecile Landi first appealed 13 seconds before the deadline.
Musk's interview with Trump marred by technical glitches
Elon Musk’s much-awaited interview with former President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Monday, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform. The interview, which was supposed to start at 8 p.m. EDT. Eighteen minutes in, Musk posted on X that the platform was under a “massive” DDOS, or denial-of-service attack, which is a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline. Outage tracker Downdetector reported a spike in reports of X being inaccessible to users but it could not be immediately verified whether this was due to a malicious attack.
Quake felt from LA to San Diego, swaying buildings and knocking items off shelves but no big damage
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 4.4 magnitude earthquake has struck the Los Angeles area. The U.S. Geological Survey said it struck shortly after noon Monday. It was centered near the city’s Highland Park neighborhood, about 7.5 miles below the surface. The epicenter was about 6.5 miles northeast of Los Angeles' City Hall. People reported feeling it strongly across Southern California. A medical building shook, a live interview on ESPN was interrupted, some plumbing broke at Pasadena's City Hall and the ground swayed in Anaheim, home to Disneyland. The quake served more as a reminder of what could happen in a state where a huge population lives above active fault lines.
Before lobster, Maine had a thriving sardine industry. A sunken ship reminds us of its storied past
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An 83-foot motor boat is going to be scrapped that was one of the first refrigerated sardine carriers during the heyday of Maine’s booming industry. The Coast Guard last week led a recovery operation to retrieve the Jacob Pike, which sank last winter. The 21-year-old great-great-grandson of the vessel’s namesake wants the wooden vessel to be preserved, and formed a nonprofit that would use the vessel as an educational platform. But any new owner could be on the hook for up to $300,000 for environmental remediation.
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