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By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Work less, get more. A trial of a four-day workweek in Britain, billed as the world’s largest, has found that an overwhelming majority of the 61 companies that participated from June to December will keep going with the shorter hours and that most employees were less stressed
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By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — As one of the game’s top prospects, Grayson Rodriguez will probably make his debut for the Baltimore Orioles pretty soon, and then the 23-year-old right-hander can begin adjusting to the big leagues. In one respect, he has a critical head start: Rodriguez has plenty of
Continue Reading By ANDREEA ALEXANDRU and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital agreed Tuesday to extend social media influencer Andrew Tate’s detention on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking by another 30 days, an official said. Tate, 36, a British-U.S. citizen known for misogynistic views who has 5.1 million
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Da Brat once famously rapped that she was here to “represent for the rest of the family” and now her family is growing. On Tuesday, the 48-year-old recording artist revealed that she is expecting her first child. “I never thought I was going to have kids,” the “Funkdafied” rapper told
Continue Reading CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Midfielder Tyler Boyd signed a one-year contract with the LA Galaxy on Monday. This will be Boyd’s first time in Major League Soccer after playing in New Zealand, Portugal and Turkey. He had two goals and one assist in 10 appearances for the U.S. from 2016-19. The 28-year-old winger had four
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — To ask Michelle Wie West what she is up to these days is not likely to yield a short answer. When she is not chasing around 2-year-old daughter McKenna or learning to grow vegetables in her garden, the former U.S. Women’s Open champion is keeping
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Parecía imposible que el Nuevo START, el más ambicioso tratado de control de armas nucleares entre Estados Unidos y Rusia, sobreviviera a la tensión entre estas dos potencias que llegó con la guerra en Ucrania. Que el tratado, que pone límites al total de armas nucleares desplegadas y habilita inspecciones
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation’s housing slump deepened in January as home sales fell for the 12th month in a row to the slowest pace in more than a dozen years. The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that existing U.S. home sales fell to a seasonally adjusted
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — First baseman Luke Voit and outfielder Tyler Naquin agreed to minor league contracts with the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday and will report to major league spring training. Voit, 32,hit .226 with 22 homers, 69 RBIs, a .308 on-base percentage and a .402 slugging percentage in 135 games with San Diego and Washington
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NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC says former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki will debut a Sunday political show on the network next month. Her show, “Inside with Jen Psaki,” will air at noon each Sunday and feature newsmaker interviews and policy discussions. She will also profile newsmakers, showing them going about their daily lives.
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You can forgive John Larroquette for thinking he’d entered a time machine when he stepped onto the sound stage of the rebooted NBC sitcom “Night Court.” The sets for the arraignment courtroom, chambers and hallways where he had first made people laugh as prosecutor Dan
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest grantmaker, announced Tuesday that 2022 was another record-setting year, with $11.2 billion in grants awarded by its donor-advised fund holders, up 9% over 2021. What makes the new record even more notable was that the donations came during a year of high inflation and
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest grantmaker, announced Tuesday that 2022 was another record-setting year, with $11.2 billion in grants awarded by its donor-advised fund holders, up 9% over 2021. What makes the new record even more notable was that the donations came during a year of high inflation and
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Walmart had a strong holiday shopping season, but the year ahead will be more challenging for America’s largest retailer. Walmart forecast slower sales and profit growth, disappointing investors and sending its stock down during morning trading Tuesday. However, Walmart notched an 8.3% sales increase during its latest quarter at US stores
Continue Reading By KEVIN MCGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ annual Carnival season entered its ebullient crescendo Tuesday with thousands of revelers gathering in the French Quarter and lining miles of parade routes in a citywide Mardi Gras celebration underpinned this year by violent crime concerns and political turmoil. Celebrations began before dawn in
Continue Reading By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Constant fear. Threats. Screams. Darkness. Cells measuring 6 feet by 9, with a hole in the floor for a toilet. Nicaraguan opposition prisoners have recounted the months, and sometimes years, they spent in the notorious prisons run by the regime of President Daniel Ortega. Water was in
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett. On Tuesday, the prolific novelist was one of 19 new members announced for induction this spring into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the honor society that has included luminaries from Mark Twain to
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A firefighter was recovering Tuesday morning and two people were forced out of their home after a late-night fire in Beaumont. Fire crews were called to a garage fire at 10:53 p.m. Monday along the 1400 block of Midnight Sun Drive. Two cars were burned and the flames also caused damage inside the home, according to CalFire
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips and Alicia Wallace, CNN Middle-age workers who tend to earn a low wage have an elevated mortality risk, especially when they experience unstable employment, according to a study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA. Researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health tracked employment and health metrics for about 4,000
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee on Tuesday formally launched her campaign for the Senate seat held by the retiring Dianne Feinstein, joining two fellow House Democrats in the race in the nation’s most populous state. In a video posted on Twitter, Lee ran through a
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