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By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business America faces a growing risk of a crippling national freight rail strike in two weeks. The rank-and-file members of the nation’s largest rail union, which represents the industry’s conductors, rejected a tentative labor deal with freight railroads, the union announced Monday. The nation’s second-largest rail union, which
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By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say suspected Kurdish militants in Syria have fired rockets into a border town in Turkey, killing two people and wounding 10 others. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said a teacher and a five-year-old boy were killed in Monday’s attack in the town of Karkamis. A
Continue ReadingBy Heather Middleton Click here for updates on this story HENRY COUNTY, Georgia (Henry Daily Herald) — An argument that started inside the Kroger grocery store on Fairview Road in Ellenwood ended in death. Henry County police report the dispute escalated in the store’s parking lot where guns were pulled killing one person. Damage to
Continue Reading BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden is sending federal aid to western New York to help state and local authorities clean up from the massive storm that dumped as much as 6 feet of snow in western and northern New York. The emergency declaration announced Monday authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Problems with FIFA’s mobile application for World Cup tickets caused hundreds of fans to miss the start of England’s match against Iran on Monday. Fans said their tickets had disappeared from their phone apps and lines began to form outside the Khalifa International Stadium about
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Before a ball was even kicked in Iran’s World Cup opener against England on Monday, Iran’s players made a powerful statement. In what seemed to be a show of solidarity with those protesting back home, the players stood silent as the Iranian national anthem played out around the Khalifa International Stadium
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts. It’s the first time a capsule has visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo, CNN Laid-off employees at Twitter’s Africa headquarters are accusing Twitter of “deliberately and recklessly flouting the laws of Ghana” and trying to “silence and intimidate” them after they were fired. The team has hired a lawyer and sent a letter to the company demanding it comply with the West African nation’s labor
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By DAVID SHARP Associated Press The nation’s major shipping companies are in good shape to get shoppers’ packages delivered on time this holiday season. Carriers like the U.S. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx are expected to have excess capacity after struggling under a crush of holiday packages in 2020 and 2021. There are several factors
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN The NASA Orion spacecraft, the core of the Artemis I mission, is making a farewell pass by the moon on its historic journey before heading home to Earth. The capsule, which has spent the past 15 days traveling into deep space and making an unprecedented trek beyond the moon, fired
Continue ReadingBen Church, CNN The accommodation is in tents or prefabs, there’s no beer in the stadiums, the temperatures are uncomfortably hot and the whole event is mired in controversy over alleged human rights abuses. While that’s not enough to deter hardcore football fans from traveling to Qatar to support their national teams in the World
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Bob Iger, the enterprising entertainment executive who brought Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel under the Disney marquee and challenged the streaming dominance of Netflix, will replace his handpicked successor, CEO Bob Chapek, whose two-year tenure has been marked by clashes, missteps and a weakening financial performance. The stunning development comes two
Continue Reading BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Bob Iger, the enterprising entertainment executive who brought Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel under the Disney marquee and challenged the streaming dominance of Netflix, will replace his handpicked successor, CEO Bob Chapek, whose two-year tenure has been marked by clashes, missteps and a weakening financial performance. The stunning development comes two
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Millions of applicants for the Biden Administration’s Student Loan Relief Program received notices on Saturday saying they were approved for the program, despite the distribution of funds being held up by courts. The program hopes to offer up to $20,000 of debt relief to qualified borrowers. About 26 million people applied for student loan relief
Continue Reading By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — To 27-year-old Mariam, the World Cup match ticket was a precious gift. A sports fanatic, she traveled to the World Cup in Qatar from Tehran to catch Iran’s opening game Monday against England, her first live soccer match. Women are banned from attending men’s matches in
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street is following global stock markets lower to open a holiday-shortened week as anxiety over Federal Reserve plans for more interest rate hikes continues to weigh on investors. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.2% early Monday and futures for the S&P 500
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Financial technology company Credit Karma is probably best known for giving Americans regular access to their credit scores, but the company also acts as a starting place to shop for a loan, bank account or mortgage. Roughly 76 million Americans have used Credit Karma, giving
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business NASA’s Orion capsule passed about 80 miles (130 kilometers) above the lunar surface early Monday, a monumental achievement in the mission designed to test the US space agency’s ability to one day return astronauts to the moon. After its lunar flyby, Orion — which is designed to fly astronauts but
Continue Reading KKTV, CNN, COURTESY TREY DEABUENO, By Ray Sanchez and Emma Tucker, CNN Once again, a mass shooting has rocked Colorado — this time, in Colorado Springs. A 22-year-old gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in the city shortly before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others before patrons
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Forgive AMC, at least a little bit, for almost drunkenly celebrating “The Walking Dead” in its heyday by feeding audiences as much content related to the zombie drama as they possibly could. Yet as the series comes to an end, finally, after 11 long seasons, it seems obvious that the
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