Rocío Muñoz-Ledo Nueva York (CNNBusiness) — ¿Cuál escasez de trabajadores? Un propietario/operador de Chick-fil-A en Miami recibió una avalancha de solicitudes después de acortar la semana laboral a tres días y 14 horas para sus empleados. Justin Lindsey buscaba una forma novedosa de recompensar a los empleados que “trabajaban literalmente 70 horas a la semana,
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Greater Palm Springs Pride kicks off this week with a variety of events leading up to Sunday’s parade and this year’s theme is political. It’s “Say Gay,” which is in response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law affecting schools in that state. Check Out: Grand Marshals announced for Palm Springs Pride Parade Pride events include
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the water in Mississippi’s capital city is now safe to drink, following months of sampling at a water treatment plant overwhelmed by late August flooding. Officials announced Monday that water samples taken at the O.B. Curtis water treatment
Continue Reading By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Seoul police assigned 137 officers to manage a crowd of Halloween revelers anticipated to number more than 100,000 over the weekend — a decision that has come under intense criticism following the deaths of more than 150 people when the group surged. By comparison, nearly
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster. The judge issued a brief ruling Monday, agreeing with the Justice Department that the joining of two of the world’s biggest publishers could “lessen competition” for “top-selling books.” Much of U.S.
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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred thinks the Oakland Athletics made a good decision to explore a possible new ballpark in Las Vegas, expressing frustration their stadium situation remains unsolved in an industry just shy of $11 billion in revenue this year. The A’s have played at the
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– La presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, dijo este lunes que su esposo Paul “está logrando un avance constante en lo que será un largo proceso de recuperación”, tras el ataque él sufrió en su casa en San Francisco el viernes. “Desde el horrible ataque contra Paul el viernes por
Continue Reading By AJIT SOLANKI, AIJAZ HUSSAIN, KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press MORBI, India (AP) — Police in western India have arrested nine people as they investigate the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge. The collapse Sunday evening in Gujarat state plunged hundreds of people into a river, killing at least 134. As
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By David Williams, CNN Members of a Red Oak, Iowa, family were able to escape their burning home after a driver, who’d wound up on their street by mistake, saw the flames and rushed to wake them up. Brendon Birt told CNN that he was giving a friend a ride home early on October 23
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed A federal judge on Monday night dismissed the challenge former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows brought to a House January 6 select committee subpoena. US District Judge Carl Nichols wrote that the Constitution’s Speech or Debate clause, which shields legislators from being targeted by certain legal actions in circumstances
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster. The judge issued a brief ruling Monday, agreeing with the Justice Department that the joining of two of the world’s biggest publishers could “lessen competition” for “top-selling books.” Much of U.S.
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman testified Monday that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a hotel room during the Toronto Film Festival in 1991, then did it again when she went to confront him in the same hotel during the same festival 17 years later. Kelly Sipherd told
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman testified Monday that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a hotel room during the Toronto Film Festival in 1991, then did it again when she went to confront him in the same hotel during the same festival 17 years later. Kelly Sipherd told
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Agentes federales de EE.UU. dispararon proyectiles de “gas de pimienta” a migrantes venezolanos que protestaban a lo largo de la frontera internacional del Río Grande, cerca del centro de El Paso, este lunes, después de que un funcionario resultara herido, informó la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de EE.UU. (CBP,
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Despite gains in employment over the past two years, the 2022 Greater Palm Springs economic report shows other challenges still affecting the Coachella Valley, including income inequality. However – the report says the possibility of a recession in the near future is unlikely. Experts presented the findings today at a summit organized by the Coachella Valley
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner won Major League Baseball’s Roberto Clemente Award for character, community involvement and philanthropy on Monday. Turner was presented the award at the World Series shortly before Game 3 was rained out, two years after he was criticized by the commissioner’s office for violating coronavirus protocols
Continue Reading By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Research in Africa found a one-time dose of an experimental drug protected adults against malaria for at least six months, the latest approach in the fight against the mosquito-borne disease. Malaria killed more than 620,000 people in 2020 and sickened 241 million, mainly children under 5 in Africa.
Continue ReadingBy Manveena Suri, Swati Gupta and Hira Humayun, CNN Nine people have been arrested over the collapse of a suspension bridge in India’s western Gujarat state that killed at least 134 people on Sunday, police said. The suspects are all associated with Oreva, a Gujarat-based electrical appliances manufacturer that performed maintenance on the 230-meter long
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Twitter está considerando ofrecer cuentas verificadas para los usuarios que estén dispuestos a pagar US$ 19,99 al mes por un servicio de suscripción, y podría quitar las codiciadas marcas de verificación azules a los perfiles que ya las tienen si no empiezan a pagar por el producto en
Continue Reading By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Hoopa Valley Tribe alleged in a lawsuit Monday that the federal government is violating its sovereignty and failing to collect money from California farms that rely on federally supplied water to pay for damages to tribal fisheries. The tribe, which has a reservation in northwest
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