By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers are expected to spend between $10.2 billion and $11.3 billion on Monday, making it once again the biggest online shopping day of the year, according to Adobe Digital Economy Index. Still, spending on what is known as Cyber Monday could drop from last year’s
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers are expected to spend between $10.2 billion and $11.3 billion on Monday, making it once again the biggest online shopping day of the year, according to Adobe Digital Economy Index. Still, spending on what is known as Cyber Monday could drop from last year’s
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By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack says football coach Dino Babers will return for a seventh season in 2022. The announcement comes a day after Babers fired three assistants, including offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert, who was on staff for just two seasons. Syracuse finished 5-7 overall and 2-6 in the
Continue ReadingCNN By Kate Bennett, CNN The White House unveiled its holiday decorations on Monday, going along with the theme selected this year by first lady Jill Biden, who titled her inspiration “Gifts from the Heart.” East Wing communications director Elizabeth Alexander told CNN the idea for Biden’s theme was to showcase “things that unite and
Continue ReadingBy Kate Bennett, CNN The White House unveiled its holiday decorations on Monday, going along with the theme selected this year by first lady Jill Biden, who titled her inspiration “Gifts from the Heart.” East Wing communications director Elizabeth Alexander told CNN the idea for Biden’s theme was to showcase “things that unite and heal,
Continue Reading By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world’s desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines. The
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks with the governors of Germany’s 16 states amid growing concern about the steep rise in new coronavirus cases in the country. The video call between Merkel and the governors will take place Tuesday after Germany’s highest court rules on complaints filed against nationwide restrictions to curb
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks with the governors of Germany’s 16 states amid growing concern about the steep rise in new coronavirus cases in the country. The video call between Merkel and the governors will take place Tuesday after Germany’s highest court rules on complaints filed against nationwide restrictions to curb
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El CEO de Twitter, Jack Dorsey, dejará su cargo pero seguirá siendo miembro de la junta directiva de la red social, según anunció la compañía este lunes en un comunicado. Dorsey será sucedido por Parag Agrawal, director de tecnología de Twitter. ¿Quién es Parag Agrawal, el nuevo CEO de Twitter? “He
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks are edging higher on Wall Street Monday as markets regain their footing following a big stumble on Friday on worries about the spread of the new variant of the coronavirus. Signs of fear in the market also ebbed as traders regained their appetite for riskier assets. The
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks are edging higher on Wall Street Monday as markets regain their footing following a big stumble on Friday on worries about the spread of the new variant of the coronavirus. Signs of fear in the market also ebbed as traders regained their appetite for riskier assets. The
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Henrik Pettersson and Lauren Kent, CNN Swedish lawmakers have again elected Magdalena Andersson to the role of prime minister — days after she resigned from the post — and she is set once more to become the first female leader in the country’s history. Andersson was first chosen to be prime minister
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Twitter says co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of the social media platform. He will be succeeded by Twitter’s current Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal. Dorsey will remain on the board until his term expires in 2022. Agrawal has been CTO since 2017 and at Twitter since
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Twitter says co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of the social media platform. He will be succeeded by Twitter’s current Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal. Dorsey will remain on the board until his term expires in 2022. Agrawal has been CTO since 2017 and at Twitter since
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Twitter says co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of the social media platform. He will be succeeded by Twitter’s current Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal. Dorsey will remain on the board until his term expires in 2022. Agrawal has been CTO since 2017 and at Twitter since
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business So much for a year-end Santa Claus rally? The broader market has pulled back in the past week as worries about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 have rattled investors’ confidence. These latest coronavirus concerns have traders wondering if this is finally the end of the long
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CNN By Melissa Alonso and Keith Allen, CNN A University of Nevada Las Vegas student died just days after participating in a fraternity’s charity boxing match where he collapsed soon after the fight, according to statements from the university and his family’s attorney. In what the school described as “a tragic incident,” Nathan Tyler Valencia,
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African doctors say the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases attributed to the new omicron variant is resulting in mostly mild symptoms. Dr. Unben Pillay, a general practitioner in Gauteng province where 81% of the new cases have been reported, said so far the cases have been
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The US intelligence community “struggled” to brief President-elect Donald Trump in 2016, achieving “only limited success” in educating and developing a relationship with the incoming president, according to a newly released unclassified history of the transition period published by the CIA’s in-house academic center. Although Trump spent substantial time with
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of the social media platform.
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