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Opinion by Dana Peterson for CNN Business Perspectives Most recessions in US history have been accompanied by severe job losses and high unemployment rates, but this time may be different. Should a recession take hold in the US, the ongoing labor shortage may be the key to protecting vulnerable workers in what may prove to
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By Rachel Fadem, CNN Research on ancient footprints has previously challenged what’s known about when people arrived in North America, and a new discovery could shed more light on the story. Scientists have found 88 fossilized prints belonging to adults and children, likely dating back 12,000 years, in shallow riverbeds on the US Air Force
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk’s legal team on Friday made public its official response to Twitter’s lawsuit attempting to force him to complete their $44 billion acquisition deal. In the answer to Twitter’s complaint, which includes counter-claims against the company, Musk’s team attempts to refute the company’s allegations that the Tesla CEO is
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Tesla officially announced a three-for-one stock split, meaning the company’s stock price — which has jockeyed between $600 and $1,000 for a year — is about to get more affordable for investors. The stock will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis on August 25th. Tesla shareholders approved the split Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Mary Alice Royse Click here for updates on this story WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tennessee (WSMV) — The Williamson County Rescue Squad worked to help a horse get out of a pool Thursday afternoon. The Tennessee Equine Hospital and Williamson County Animal Control responded to calls for assistance after Tonto the horse refused to come out
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By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man arrested early Friday in the killing of one person and wounding of two others during a family argument in a Las Vegas Strip hotel room has a criminal history including felony convictions dating to 1987 and served several years in Nevada state prisons, records
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN Albuquerque police and the FBI are investigating three recent murders of Muslim men for “possible ties to the same offender,” according to Albuquerque police. Two members of the same mosque, Muhammed Afzaal Hussain, 27, and Aftab Hussein, 41, both from Pakistan, were murdered in southeast Albuquerque in the past week, police
Continue Reading By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Everett Police in Washington state is hoping the public can help identify the man that stiffed an 11-year-old boy with a fake $100 bill to buy lemonade from his stand. “Over the summer, an 11-year-old Jeremy spent his allowance money to set up a lemonade stand on Beverly Blvd. As he
Continue Reading By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State regulators have approved an application from Dominion Energy Virginia to build an enormous offshore wind farm off the coast of Virginia Beach and recover the cost from ratepayers. The State Corporation Commission issued its order in the case Friday. The 176-turbine project is slated to
Continue ReadingCNN, WDJT, WCVB, KTLA By Pete Muntean, CNN Massive flight cancellations have spilled over into a second day after thunderstorms pounded major airports on the East Coast on Thursday. As of 9:30 p.m. ET Friday, flight tracking site FlightAware showed more than 1,500 flights in the United States had been canceled. Once again, New York’s
Continue Reading By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Democratic lawyer who pledged to make abortion prosecutions under Tennessee’s “trigger law” an extremely low priority in the county that includes Memphis has defeated the incumbent Republican district attorney who refused to say whether she would go after doctors who perform the procedure. Steve Mulroy
Continue Reading NESCOPECK, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a fast-moving fire killed seven adults and three children in northeastern Pennsylvania. One of the firefighters responded to the blaze early Friday only to find that the victims were his family. A criminal investigation is underway into the fire in the community of Nescopeck. Pennsylvania State Police say the
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By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested a driver after she allegedly sped through a red light Thursday and plowed into other vehicles in a crowded intersection, killing a pregnant woman, a child and three other adults in a fiery crash. The California Highway Patrol on Friday said Nicole Lorraine
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested a driver after she allegedly sped through a red light Thursday and plowed into other vehicles in a crowded intersection, killing a pregnant woman, a child and three other adults in a fiery crash. The California Highway Patrol on Friday said Nicole Lorraine
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Borowy Click here for updates on this story CARROLLTON TWP., Michigan (WNEM) — A mother and her 4-year-old daughter are in critical condition after they were struck by a vehicle Wednesday night. Officers were sent to the crash at 10:32 p.m. on Aug. 3 on N. Michigan Avenue north of Stoker Drive in
Continue Reading GRANGER, Ind. (AP) — The funeral for Indiana Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski will be held next week in her home state of Indiana, where she and three other people were killed in a head-on highway collision. Palmer Funeral Homes says on its website that the funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at
Continue ReadingBy Crystal Bui and Miles Montgomery Click here for updates on this story SOUTH FULTON, Georgia (WGCL) — An unprovoked racial attack was caught on camera. A man soliciting for AT&T directed a racial slur at a South Fulton family’s teenage son. The man was going door-to-door soliciting customers on Concord Loop in South Fulton.
Continue ReadingBy Joyce Lupiani Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A 69-year-old bus driver is dead and two elementary school students are injured after a crash involving a school bus this morning. According to a Facebook post, a Thomaston-Upson County school bus was involved in a crash with a utility truck on
Continue Reading SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors in Northern California filed murder charges against the parents of a 15-month-old toddler who died in May after she ingested fentanyl authorities believe her mother had been using. Prosecutors on Thursday also charged Evan Frostick, 26, and Madison Bernard, 23, with child cruelty and tacked on a sentence-enhancing charge
Continue Reading By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans have unanimously chosen Milwaukee in swing state Wisconsin to host the 2024 national convention, beating out Nashville in deep-red Tennessee. The decision, announced at the Republican National Committee’s summer meeting on Friday in Chicago, follows months of wrangling by both states to land the convention
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