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Toyota is planning to offer a new, large SUV with three rows of seats, and will add 1,400 jobs to an Indiana plant in order to build it. The still-unnamed vehicle will have both a Toyota version and a Lexus version, the company said. The announcement of the plans, the new jobs and an $800
Continue ReadingMichael Collins, the NASA astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, has died at age 90 after battling cancer. His family shared the news Wednesday after his passing on Collins’ Facebook page. “We regret to share that our beloved father and grandfather passed away today, after a
Continue ReadingIt’s time for a little game of I Spy on Mars. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter in the last week has aced all three of its planned test flights so far, with each one a little longer, farther and faster than the last. During each flight, the Perseverance rover has been perched on an overlook at
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Microsoft had another blowout quarter, a massive acquisition and a noteworthy investment in Georgia, which just passed a controversial bill that restricts voting rights for minorities. The company also announced a major initiative to help disabled people get jobs. First Move’s Julia Chatterley spoke to Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, about the company’s news Wednesday. Digital
Continue ReadingNew York is the latest state to allocate Covid-19 vaccine doses directly to primary care doctors as part of an initiative to reach people who may be reluctant to be inoculated. A group of primary care doctors in New York City vaccinated patients at their own offices for the first time Tuesday. Primary care doctors
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — After working with federal partners, the health district has identified 11 probable cases of acute non-viral hepatitis linked to the consumption of “Real Water” brand alkaline water in Clark County. In March, the Southern Nevada Health District announced it was working with its federal
Continue ReadingAmerica can’t get enough chicken sandwiches. That’s great news for KFC, which launched a new one earlier this year. KFC’s parent company Yum Brands said Wednesday that the sandwich — which is made with an extra crispy chicken filet on a buttered brioche bun with pickles and spicy or classic mayonnaise — has been a
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — Three of more than 40 people, part of a big lawsuit, have different stories about drinking Real Water. “I had the water for all of 11 days. And I was in the hospital for nine,” Tino Hartshorn said. “I was shipped out to California,
Continue ReadingJudge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick to fill a vacancy on a powerful DC-based appellate court, said at a Senate hearing Wednesday that her race doesn’t play a role in her work as a judge, but that her experience as an African American jurist “might be valuable” should she be confirmed to the
Continue ReadingThe Three Rivers Fire has grown from burning 4,000 to 12,000 acres in New Mexico, according to a press release on the New Mexico Fire Information site. As of late Tuesday, the fire, which is burning about 60 miles northeast of White Sands National Park and about three hours south of Albuquerque, was 5 percent
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Republicans will not provide an official Spanish response to President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress on Wednesday night, breaking a modern tradition that has become standard with the annual address. Instead, the Republican National Committee will translate the English response from GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, and — most-likely — release it after
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said it has been “heartbreaking” to witness the pandemic’s devastating impact on India, which is experiencing the world’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow Wednesday, Pichai discussed the unfolding situation, how his company is responding and what others can similarly do to lend support.
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First things first: Joe Biden isn’t going to take away your hamburgers. There’s a bizarre rumor going around in right-wing circles — and being spread by Fox News and Republican members of Congress — that President Biden is scheming to come into your kitchen and pry the cold, dead beef out of your hands. Rep.
Continue ReadingTesla’s $1.5 billion bitcoin bet from early this year had already increased in value by more than $1 billion by the end of last month. The company disclosed in February that it used some of its available cash to invest $1.5 billion in bitcoin. Tesla on Monday reported a record quarterly profit, disclosing it had
Continue ReadingVivid images and testimony from the trial against Derek Chauvin are now seared into the memory of Brandon Mitchell, one of the jurors who convicted the former police officer of murdering George Floyd. Inside the Minneapolis courtroom, “it was just dark. It felt like every day was a funeral and watching someone die every day,”
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden has a lot on his plate right now. But he’ll soon need to make an important decision about the future of the Federal Reserve — a choice that will help shape his administration’s economic policy in the coming years. Current Fed chair Jerome Powell’s four-year term as the head of the central
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Samsung is bringing some of the strengths of its flagship Galaxy smartphones over to its notebook line. The company announced on Wednesday four mobile-first PCs that combine the power of a laptop with the responsiveness of its smartphones: the Galaxy Book, Galaxy Book Pro, Galaxy Book Pro 360 and Galaxy Book Odyssey, all of which
Continue ReadingThe New York Post temporarily deleted, and then edited and republished, a debunked article that falsely claimed that copies of Vice President Kamala Harris’ book were being included in “welcome kits” given to migrant children at a shelter in Long Beach, California. The reporter who wrote the article, Laura Italiano, tweeted late Tuesday afternoon that
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Andrew Brown Jr.’s moving vehicle made contact with law enforcement officers twice during the encounter in which deputies shot him dead in North Carolina last week, a district attorney said Wednesday. Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble said this during a court hearing that will determine whether body camera footage of April 21’s shooting in
Continue ReadingUK media outlets from across the political spectrum are engaged in an unusually direct confrontation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson over incendiary comments he allegedly made about the coronavirus pandemic. The right-leaning tabloid The Daily Mail was first to report that the prime minister said last October that he would rather see “bodies pile high
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