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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest food and retail union is urging more than 60 retail and grocery chains to implement stronger measures to help protect hourly workers amid a surge of virus infections and the new variant omicron. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which has
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have shared a statement about their son’s conviction on child pornography charges. On Thursday, Josh Duggar, 33, was found guilty of downloading and possessing child sex abuse images. His parents called the experience “grievous.” “This entire ordeal has been very grievous,” their statement read. “Today, God’s grace,
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By KAREN MATTHEWS, MARINA VILLENEUVE and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Facing a cold-weather surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. Hochul said Friday the decision to impose a mask
Continue Reading By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has agreed to buy 64 Lockheed Martin fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of combat planes in an $11.3 billion deal that represents the Finnish military’s largest ever purchase. Finland picked the American company’s F-35A fighters from among five contenders, which also included the Boeing
Continue Reading By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has agreed to buy 64 Lockheed Martin fighter jets to replace its aging fleet of combat planes in an $11.3 billion deal that represents the Finnish military’s largest ever purchase. Finland picked the American company’s F-35A fighters from among five contenders, which also included the Boeing
Continue ReadingCNN, WSBT, WFAA, KEYE, KHOU By Tierney Sneed, CNN The anti-abortion movement has won its biggest returns yet on its decades-long investment on reshaping the courts, with a Supreme Court order that allowed the country’s second most populous state to cut off almost all access to the procedure. For a generation, abortion foes have employed
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos dejó este viernes en vigor una ley de aborto de Texas que prohíbe el procedimiento después de alrededor de seis semanas de embarazo, pero los jueces dijeron que los defensores del derecho a abortar pueden desafiar la ley en una corte federal. La decisión
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was just another job for child actor Karolyn Grimes. She was 6 and had already done four movies by the summer of 1946 when filming began on “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The only thing she recalls about the biggest movie of her career was
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By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Only 18 of the 56 assistant coaches (32%) Bill Belichick has employed in full-time roles during his 22 years in New England have been minorities. Excluding strength and conditioning coaches, the number drops to 13, or just 25%. Both fall below the 35.6% of minority
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Dole was being honored with a private service at Washington National Cathedral and a public one at the World War II Memorial on Friday, a day after lying in state at the U.S. Capitol. President Joe Biden and top leaders from both parties on Thursday saluted
Continue Reading By MANUEL DE LA CRUZ and EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Rescue workers arriving at a road accident in southern Mexico found a truck jammed with as many as 200 migrants crashed into the base of a steel pedestrian bridge, killing 54 and injuring dozens. The migrants inside the tractor
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — The child killed when a car struck a school bus in Southern California and then plowed into a group of walking children has been identified as a 9-year-old girl. Two other children were injured, one seriously, in the crash Thursday in the Riverside County town of Desert Hot Springs.
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish junior minister and valuable ally of the governing right-wing coalition says he is temporarily stepping aside from his cabinet duties to defend himself against allegations over his past business dealings. Deputy Sports and Tourism Minister Lukasz Mejza, who is an independent lawmaker in Poland’s parliament, said on Twitter Friday
Continue ReadingBy Walé Azeez and Martin Goillandeau, CNN Business A man who slipped down the stairs and broke his back while walking from his bed to home office can file a claim on his employer’s insurance after a court in Germany ruled that he was commuting at the time. The ruling by Germany’s federal social court
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns have signed veteran punter Dustin Colquitt after placing regular Jamie Gillan on the COVID-19 reserve list. Colquitt, who spent 15 seasons with Kansas City, was released by Atlanta earlier this week. He averaged a career-best 47.7 yards per punt in six games. The 39-year-old
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Consumer prices in the United States continued to surge in November, exacerbating anxiety about rising inflation among Americans. The consumer price index rose by 6.8% last month, the highest its been since June 1982, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Biden administration was already trying to tamp down
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — A large majority of Spain’s soccer clubs have ratified an investment plan with a private equity CVC firm to inject 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) into the competitions, although Real Madrid of Barcelona were the notable exceptions. The league said that 37 of 42 clubs making up Spain’s first and second divisions
Continue Reading By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state’s ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect. The court acted Friday, more than a month after hearing arguments over the law that makes abortion illegal
Continue Reading By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The heads of Mercedes and Red Bull have shaken hands and wished one another good luck as drivers Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen head into the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff and Red Bull principal Christian Horner
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A Swiss museum to which the late collector Cornelius Gurlitt bequeathed an art trove he amassed at his home says it will relinquish ownership of works where no specific evidence has been found they were looted under Nazi rule but research points to “conspicuous circumstances.” The reclusive Gurlitt, who died in 2014,
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