By Gabe Cohen, CNN Laurie Bedell feels trapped inside her home and her ailing body. “I pretty much live here in the living room,” Bedell said from her house near Pittsburgh. “I feel like I’ve lost the life that I had.” Last November, she and her family contracted Covid-19. The virus killed her father. Nearly
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DENVER (AP) — A North Dakota-based organization representing Native Americans has sued Colorado for a measure banning American Indian school mascots. The law was passed last year amid a nationwide push for racial justice following George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis. The Native American Guardian’s Association’s lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court and names
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa’s Rising Star cave. The skull, from a child that was 4 to 6 years old at the time of death, is the first known to belong to an ancient human
Continue Reading SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber has posted a big rebound in third-quarter revenue thanks to riders and drivers returning from pandemic lockdowns, but its bottom-line loss was wider than Wall Street expected. The San Francisco-based company said Thursday its third-quarter loss widened to $2.42 billion, or $1.28 per share. The quarter included stock-based compensation costs
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By The Associated Press No. 20 Houston is back in the Top 25 for the first time in three years. The Cougars have won seven straight games for the first time since putting together an eight-game streak spanning the 2015 and 2016 seasons. Coach Dana Holgorsen’s team will try to stay unbeaten in American Athletic
Continue Reading By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints have learned this week that they’ll be without starting quarterback Jameis Winston and top receiver Michael Thomas for the rest of the season. Yet New Orleans enters a Week 9 clash with Atlanta in the Superdome trying to move into a
Continue Reading By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Tennessee won’t self-impose a postseason bowl ban after wrapping up its investigation into the recruiting issues that led to the firing of football coach Jeremy Pruitt and nine others in January. The university cited NCAA bylaws for preventing it from sharing details of what it found. It issued
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By The Associated Press No. 19 Iowa looks to stop a two-game losing streak when it visits Northwestern. The Hawkeyes were rolling at 6-0 for the third time coach Kirk Ferentz’s 23 seasons and jumped to No. 2 in the AP poll following a win over then-No. 4 Penn State. They then got outscored by
Continue Reading By The Associated Press No. 19 Iowa looks to stop a two-game losing streak when it visits Northwestern. The Hawkeyes were rolling at 6-0 for the third time coach Kirk Ferentz’s 23 seasons and jumped to No. 2 in the AP poll following a win over then-No. 4 Penn State. They then got outscored by
Continue Reading FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) — State officials say a case of Legionnaires’ disease has been confirmed in a patient at a mental health center in Farmington. A spokeswoman for the Department of Mental Health says a patient from the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center was taken to a hospital, which discovered the Legionnaires’ case on Wednesday.
Continue Reading By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil is holding its much-anticipated auction for build-out of the nation’s fifth-generation wireless network — with the open question of whether China’s Huawei telecommunications company eventually ill be involved despite U.S. opposition. The technology promises faster speeds, less lag when connecting to the network and
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of senior members of a Russian-speaking ransomware gang that forced major US fuel operator Colonial Pipeline to shut down in May. The announcement Thursday from State Department spokesperson Ned Price also included an
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers have won three straight heading into a visit from the Chicago Bears. Pittsburgh’s recent surge has coincided with improved play from an offensive line featuring two rookies in left tackle Dan Moore Jr. and center Kendrick Green. The Steelers have gone over 100
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scientists say recent pledges by nations at the Glasgow climate talks will pay off but only just a bit. Two new analyses Thursday trim projections of future global warming by a few tenths of a degree. However, they look at optimistic scenarios that might not come true. The
Continue Reading By ANDREW DeMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general are forming a wall of opposition to President Joe Biden’s plan to require vaccinations or COVID-19 testing at all private employers of 100 workers or more. They have adopted laws to exempt employers in their state,
Continue Reading By ANDREW DeMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general are forming a wall of opposition to President Joe Biden’s plan to require vaccinations or COVID-19 testing at all private employers of 100 workers or more. They have adopted laws to exempt employers in their state,
Continue Reading By ANDREW DeMILLO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general are forming a wall of opposition to President Joe Biden’s plan to require vaccinations or COVID-19 testing at all private employers of 100 workers or more. They have adopted laws to exempt employers in their state,
Continue Reading By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities say are run by foreign cartels are living in squalid conditions and are sometimes being cheated by their gangland bosses. The situation is so extreme in the rural region amid an increase in
Continue Reading By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities say are run by foreign cartels are living in squalid conditions and are sometimes being cheated by their gangland bosses. The situation is so extreme in the rural region amid an increase in
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