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By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tens of thousands of Las Vegas hotel workers set a deadline Thursday for a sweeping strike, threatening major disruptions to the city’s economic backbone that could coincide with the Strip’s inaugural Formula 1 races later this month. The Culinary Workers Union said about 35,000 members whose
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tens of thousands of Las Vegas hotel workers set a deadline Thursday for a sweeping strike, threatening major disruptions to the city’s economic backbone that could coincide with the Strip’s inaugural Formula 1 races later this month. The Culinary Workers Union said about 35,000 members whose
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Florida (WSVN) — Sunny Isles Beach Police have arrested a 29-year-old woman, who they describe as a monster, accused of pushing, kicking and throwing her 3-year-old son down a hallway because, she claims, he wasn’t listening. 7News cameras captured Yulia Storozhuk as
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s lawmakers have approved the new government’s first supplemental budget, which includes huge allocations for SUVs and houses for the president, his wife and other public officials, sparking anger and criticism from citizens in one of the world’s poorest countries. Already, the country’s National Assembly recently
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — After a season filled with absorbing storylines, the top players on tour will converge at the WTA Finals this week with the year-end No. 1 ranking and $9 million in prize money at stake. A different player has won each grand slam this year and, reflecting the lack of
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington wants to build an economic relationship with Beijing that takes into account national security and human rights and is fair to both sides. In laying out the Biden administration’s economic approach toward the Indo-Pacific region, Yellen says Washington does not seek
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Bob Goldberg, chief executive officer of the National Association of Realtors, the nation’s largest trade association, is stepping down, the organization announced Thursday. Earlier this week, a federal jury in Missouri found NAR and two brokerages conspired to keep real estate agent commissions artificially high and determined
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A newly unredacted portion of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon says the company used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites. It also alleges Amazon executives intentionally deleted internal communication during the agency’s investigation into the company by using
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Everything about “All the Light We Cannot See” – from the World War II backdrop to the starry supporting players to having a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel as source material – screams prestige, which makes the lifelessness of this four-part Netflix limited series more pronounced. Handsomely done and strangely
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Northfield, Minnesota (CNN) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a key Muslim American ally of President Joe Biden, said Wednesday it would be helpful for the president to speak out more forcefully about the imperative of protecting civilians in Gaza. “I think it would help a lot,” Ellison told CNN on
Continue ReadingBy Aileen Graef and Kaanita Iyer, CNN Washington (CNN) — The White House announced Wednesday the administration will develop a National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia in the United States. “President Biden ran for office to restore the soul of our nation. He is unequivocal: There is no place for hate in America against anyone. Period,” White
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Trump, one of two sons entrusted to run Donald Trump’s real estate empire, swore Thursday that he was never involved with financial statements that New York state lawyers say fraudulently puffed up the ex-president’s wealth and the worth of the family
Continue ReadingBy Robert Ristaneo Click here for updates on this story FOLEY, Alabama (WALA) — Foley Police are wanting the public to be aware of an arrest they made on Thursday, Oct 26 involving a scam with fake gold bars. Dylan Thomas Jemison, 20, from Sylacauga has allegedly sold several fake gold bars to local residents
Continue ReadingBy Brendan Kirby Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A man who commented on a social media livestream of a traffic stop earlier this year pleaded guilty Tuesday to threatening a police officer. Jamarcus Manuel, 20, of Mobile, pleaded guilty to threatening interstate communications. As part of the plea bargain,
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By Elizabeth Wolfe and Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Cornell University has canceled classes Friday to acknowledge the “extraordinary stress” its campus has been under as one of its students is accused of making violent antisemitic threats against Jewish people at the college, where unease over the Israel-Hamas war has been escalating for weeks. A
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, Jennifer Hansler and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — The breakthrough that allowed an initial group of foreign nationals, including US citizens, to depart Gaza on Wednesday came together after weeks of intensive, multi-party diplomatic efforts, sources familiar with the negotiations told CNN. The agreement to allow foreign passport holders and a group
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER Washington (KPTV) — The 28-year-old Vancouver man charged with the March 2023 deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old daughter, has been subsequently charged with the rape of a child, according to court documents obtained by FOX 12 on Wednesday. Kirkland C. Warren faces
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal investigators say they found no evidence of a mechanical failure before an Oct. 1 plane crash that killed a North Dakota state senator, his wife and their two young children. The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report into the crash on Thursday. State
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York jury has begun deliberating whether FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was guilty of fraud in the disappearance of billions of dollars from his customers’ accounts on the cryptocurrency exchange. The jury began deliberating in Manhattan federal court on Thursday afternoon after a judge explained
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer, raised questions in October about a $200,000 check that one of Joe Biden’s siblings wrote to Biden in March 2018 with the words “loan repayment” written on the front. Though the available evidence suggests that James Biden was
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