By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. House committee is demanding that the company in charge of the transmission and distribution of power in Puerto Rico release key data amid widespread outages in the U.S. territory that have outraged and frustrated many. The Committee on Natural Resources on Friday
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Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Occidental Petroleum, Chubb rise; Allogene, Oshkosh fall.
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By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Big Ten officials want to make mental health a priority for its athletes. The topic was discussed this week at basketball media days. Michigan State forward Malik Hall thought COVID-19 impacted the Spartans on the court. Coach Tom Izzo was more concerned it was impacting other
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By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Big Ten officials want to make mental health a priority for its athletes. The topic was discussed this week at basketball media days. Michigan State forward Malik Hall thought COVID-19 impacted the Spartans on the court. Coach Tom Izzo was more concerned it was impacting other
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — La recuperación económica de Estados Unidos se ha topado con un obstáculo: los empleadores estadounidenses agregaron solo 194.000 empleos en septiembre, otra señal preocupante de que el covid-19 está perturbando la economía. Fue el segundo mes consecutivo en el que la economía estadounidense agregó muchos menos puestos de trabajo de lo esperado.
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business America added far fewer jobs in September than expected, but investors didn’t seem too disappointed: Stocks were mostly unchanged Friday as Wall Street took solace that the unemployment rate continues to drop after the pandemic-fueled spike last year. The Dow finished the day down nearly 10 points, but
Continue Reading SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Billboards that are popping up around Springfield say its time to “Get Off Your Butt!” and “Get. To. Work” as jobs go unfilled. KYTV reports that the billboards tell job seekers that they can “Apply Anywhere.” Brad Parke, the General Manager of Greek Corner Screen Printing and Embroidery, went in on
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ main human rights body has overwhelmingly voted to recognize the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right, and to appoint an expert to monitor human rights in the context of climate change. The Human Rights Council passed the clean-environment resolution, which also calls
Continue Reading By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Teddy Bridgewater is trending toward starting Sunday against the Steelers one week after suffering a concussion in the Denver Broncos’ loss to Baltimore. He could be without his top target, however. Wide receiver Courtland Sutton turned an ankle at practice Friday and was added
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have labeled nine more journalists and three media organizations as “foreign agents,” part of official efforts to sideline critics — just as a Russian journalist won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Dmitry Muratov, and fellow journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines, won the prize Friday for their fight for freedom
Continue ReadingBy KCAL/KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story CARSON (KCAL, KCBS) — Residents and people near the Dominguez channel in Carson are reporting a pungent smell currently wafting out of it. “For lack of a better word, rotten eggs,” Tiffany Davis said. Davis and her four-year-old son C.J. live right behind the channel.
Continue Reading TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal agent shot and killed while questioning a passenger on an Amtrak train in Arizona is being remembered as a venerated leader and mentor with an unparalleled work ethic. Dozens of family, friends and colleagues filled Calvary Chapel in Tucson on Friday to honor Michael Garbo, a longtime Drug Enforcement
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers U.S. stock indexes are mixed in afternoon trading Friday after a weak jobs report raised questions about the Federal Reserve’s timeline to pare back its immense support for the markets. The S&P 500 rose 0.1% after wavering between small gains and losses. Government
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers U.S. stock indexes are mixed in afternoon trading Friday after a weak jobs report raised questions about the Federal Reserve’s timeline to pare back its immense support for the markets. The S&P 500 rose 0.1% after wavering between small gains and losses. Government
Continue ReadingBy Jack Fink Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH (KTVT) — The morning after a federal judge temporarily halted the new Texas abortion law, Whole Woman’s Health announced it has resumed providing abortion care for clients in Fort Worth and at three other clinics in Texas. Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of Whole
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By Noah Sheidlower and Justin Lear, CNN Swimming deep in the Pacific Ocean, a group of little-known killer whales that eat large sea mammals including grey whale calves has been found, researchers say. In a recently-published catalog, researchers from the University of British Columbia examined 13 years of photo-identification data and more than 100,000 photographs
Continue ReadingBy Dave Savini, Chris Hacker, Michele Youngerman Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — In January 2019, a cell phone video from inside Marshall High School on Chicago’s West Side was posted to Facebook. It shows a student, then-16-year-old Dnigma Howard, at the bottom of a staircase, and two Chicago Police officers
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state news agency says the country’s air defenses have responded to missiles flying over the central Homs province. The SANA agency didn’t name the source of the Friday night attack. Israel is believed to have been behind many of the strikes inside government-controlled parts of Syria. Israel has acknowledged it is
Continue ReadingBy Cheryl Fiandaca Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — The I-Team has uncovered new video and spoke exclusively to a man involved in a fight between an off-duty Massachusetts State Police trooper and a group of people in Boston. The man, who did not want to be identified, tells WBZ-TV it
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By Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN For nearly six hours on Monday, the world experienced a forced break from Facebook’s social networking tools. We lived to tell the tale. But how did we feel in the process? Although relatively short, the Facebook outage showed “how reliant we are on social media in different ways to distract ourselves,
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