By FARNOUSH AMIRI and TALI ARBEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a provision that, if it becomes law, would mark the first time the federal government has offered targeted support to local news organizations. The help would come in the form of a payroll tax credit
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI and TALI ARBEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a provision that, if it becomes law, would mark the first time the federal government has offered targeted support to local news organizations. The help would come in the form of a payroll tax credit
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has ushered in the holiday season with the arrival of a 79-foot Norway spruce that will serve at Rockefeller Center as one of the world’s most famous Christmas trees. The 12-ton tree was trucked in Saturday morning from the Price family home in Elkton, Maryland. It’s the first
Continue ReadingBy Jazmin Goodwin, CNN Business As cryptocurrency gains acceptance, more people are vying to get their paycheck and other benefits in bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital currencies. Famous athletes, politicians and everyday employees are now getting all or part of their salary this way. “Whether you’re the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, or you’re
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By JIM ARMSTRONG TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Shoma Uno landed four quadruple jumps to win the NHK Trophy and bolster his prospects for the figure skating event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. First after the short program, the Olympic silver medalist received 187.57 points for a personal-best total of 290.15. Vincent Zhou of the United
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s new Republican lieutenant governor-elect says she’s eager to get to work after a history-making campaign. Winsome Sears became the first Black woman to win statewide office in Virginia after defeating Democrat Hala Ayala as part of a GOP sweep in this month’s election. Sears
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BAY HEAD, N.J. (AP) — An elite but often-underwater beach town at the Jersey Shore is looking for its own solutions to back bay flooding, deciding it can’t wait for state and federal officials to agree on a fix. Bay Head wants to prevent or at least reduce incidents of
Continue Reading By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The recent guilty plea by the shooter in the 2018 Parkland school slayings drew some renewed attention to the anti-gun March for Our Lives student movement. It also dredged up personal trauma for many of young activists, though most are now hundreds of miles away
Continue Reading By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It’s been a bear of a year for Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the nation’s second-largest zoological park. Famous zookeeper Jack Hanna’s retirement started in January. In March, a newspaper investigation found financial abuses by top zoo executives. Resignations and investigations followed. In April, a
Continue Reading By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It’s been a bear of a year for Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the nation’s second-largest zoological park. Famous zookeeper Jack Hanna’s retirement started in January. In March, a newspaper investigation found financial abuses by top zoo executives. Resignations and investigations followed. In April, a
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By Jason Hanna and Andy Rose, CNN A fugitive accused of murder in California was killed Friday in a shootout with members of a US marshals’ task force outside Arizona’s largest airport, authorities said. The law enforcement officers were trying to arrest the suspect near an intersection outside Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport when the
Continue Reading By Hannah Ryan and Max Foster, CNN Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, visited a military base Thursday where they met Afghan refugees who had made it to the United States. The couple spoke with women recently arrived at Task Force Liberty, on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, which is home to
Continue ReadingCNN By Matthew Chance, Zahra Ullah and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN The air in the Belarusian forest is thick with the smoke from scores of small fires. People cough and choke but they keep burning the sticks of wet wood: it’s the only way to warm up as temperatures start to fall sharply. This coming week,
Continue ReadingBy Antonia Mortensen, Anna Chernova and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Saturday that Russia has “absolutely nothing to do with” the ongoing crisis at the Poland-Belarus border, where thousands of people are stranded in desperate conditions. The migrants — most of whom are from the Middle East and Asia, and who are
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of three white men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing saw graphic photos of the shotgun wounds that killed him. They heard a defendant’s description of having the 25-year-old Black man “trapped like a rat” during the chase that ended in his death.
Continue ReadingCNN By Maggie Fox, CNN Flu season may be getting under way, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. While influenza activity is very low in the United States, it’s getting started and there’s enough to indicate that there will be at least some kind of flu season this year, unlike last year,
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN As it is, holiday gatherings with loved ones can be a careful dance of dodging landmines on the way to wonderful memories — and this year, we are adding potentially explosive conversations around vaccination status. About 58.5% of the United States is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the US Centers
Continue ReadingBy Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Northern Ireland is once again at the center of post-Brexit tensions between the United Kingdom and the European Union, after both sides fired up the rhetoric in recent days before promising to intensify talks. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Brexit minister, David Frost, argue that the Northern Ireland Protocol
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN An amended lawsuit filed by the estate of Andrew Brown, Jr. alleges one of the officers who fatally shot him told investigators that he “altered” his gun after the incident and before the weapon was seized as evidence. Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was killed on April 21 by Pasquotank County
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joachim B. Hansen and Francesco Laporta share the lead heading into the final round of the Dubai Championship. Hansen got up and down for par from a greenside bunker on No. 18 to shoot a 5-under 67 in the third round and move to 19 under par overall in
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