By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new $56,000-a-year Alzheimer’s medication that’s leading to one of the biggest increases ever in Medicare premiums is highlighting the limitations of President Joe Biden’s strategy for curbing prescription drug costs. The medication known as Aduhelm would be protected from Medicare price negotiations for more than a
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new $56,000-a-year Alzheimer’s medication that’s leading to one of the biggest increases ever in Medicare premiums is highlighting the limitations of President Joe Biden’s strategy for curbing prescription drug costs. The medication known as Aduhelm would be protected from Medicare price negotiations for more than a
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By Brian Fung The Federal Aviation Administration announced a new rule on Tuesday that forbids pilots from using auto-landing and other certain flight systems at low altitudes where 5G wireless signals could interfere with onboard instruments that measure a plane’s distance to the ground. The rule, which affects more than 6,800 US airplanes and dozens
Continue Reading BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government has eased the current lockdown for vaccinated people and those who have recovered from COVID-19. Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky says starting on Friday, all shops will reopen for those two groups people, including services such as hairdressers. Ski resorts and fitness centers will also be open for a limited
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SEATTLE (AP) — Mark Giordano has rejoined the Seattle Kraken following 10 days in a Florida hotel following a positive COVID-19 test. Giordano tested positive on Nov. 26 as Seattle was beginning a road trip at Tampa Bay. Giordano says he had a little bit of congestion and lost his sense of taste for a
Continue ReadingBy MARISSA SULEK Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — After a deadly car crash Friday afternoon, a Metro council member is looking into how to make the entrance into Edwin Warner Park safer. Edwin Warner Park is a nature escape but getting past the stone column entrance is a challenge.
Continue Reading RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Disassembly work on an enormous pedestal that until recently held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has commenced in Virginia’s capital city. A crew atop scaffolding and a large crane truck worked to dislodge and lift away a hunk of the stone pedestal Wednesday morning in Richmond. It marked
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By Michael Conte, CNN The US will provide new funding to protect reporters targeted because of their work and support independent international journalism, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday at the opening of the virtual Summit for Democracy. The new “liability fund” will support “reporters and news organizations that are targeted with litigation as
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says travel was strong over Thanksgiving and that momentum is carrying into December. The airline said Wednesday that as a result, it’s offering a better forecast for fourth-quarter revenue — although the current quarter will still be weaker than the same period in 2019, before the pandemic hit. Southwest offered
Continue Reading NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts cannabis company is celebrating National Brownie Day with what it believes is the “largest THC-infused brownie ever made.” MariMed Inc. said the massive confection is 3-feet-by-3-feet square and 15 inches tall, weighs 850 pounds and contains 20,000 mg of THC. In additional to National Brownie Day on Wednesday, the
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Australia’s foreign minister has started a European tour in Athens. Marise Payne on Wednesday welcomed a recent initiative by the European Union to boost its presence in the Indo-Pacific region despite a spat with EU member France over the cancellation of a major submarine order. The initiative was announced in September
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Australia’s foreign minister has started a European tour in Athens. Marise Payne on Wednesday welcomed a recent initiative by the European Union to boost its presence in the Indo-Pacific region despite a spat with EU member France over the cancellation of a major submarine order. The initiative was announced in September
Continue Reading RIVERVIEW, Fla. (AP) — A body camera video shows that a Florida deputy who fatally shot an 88-year-old man while checking on his welfare repeatedly identified herself, telling him to put his gun down and firing only after he advanced on her and threatened to shoot her. The video released by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Outrage is spreading on social media in Myanmar over images and accounts of the alleged killing and burning of 11 villagers captured by government troops in the country’s northwest. Photos and a video of charred corpses in a village in Sagaing region have circulated widely. They are
Continue ReadingBy DANIELLE JACKSON Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Parents are concerned about the number of times guns have been found in schools within the Metro Public School District this school year. “It’s very scary as a parent just letting your kids go to school every day only not knowing
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — “Si las personas no tienen más hijos, la civilización colapsará”, sentenció Elon Musk, CEO de Tesla y SpaceX, en un evento organizado el lunes por The Wall Street Journal. “Recuerden mis palabras”, enfatizó. Musk, de 50 años, tiene seis hijos fruto de dos matrimonios, y agregó que intenta “predicar con
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — A junior finance minister has quit the French government after being convicted of failing to declare all his wealth and income. The office of Alain Griset said in a statement Wednesday that he has appealed the court decision. But he submitted his resignation pending the appeal. The unusual conviction is a stain
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Presenting a far richer story than a simple biopic, “Being the Ricardos” turns writer-director Aaron Sorkin loose again on the medium of television and produces one of the year’s most satisfying movies. That it was made for a streaming service, Amazon, is a wrinkle even the legendarily foresighted Desi Arnaz
Continue ReadingBy KENDALL KEYS, JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story OXFORD, Michigan (WNEM) — Across the state, residents continue to show support for the victims of the Oxford High School shooting and the community at large. What happened in Oxford last week hits close to home for Chelsea Pfeiffer. “I was terrified. It
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Thorbjorn Olesen’s lawyer says the Danish player’s golf career would be “over” if he is found guilty of sexual assault and assault. Olesen is facing allegations he grabbed a woman’s breast, pushed a member of the cabin crew and urinated on a first-class passenger’s seat on a flight to Britain in 2019.
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