By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The US jobs recovery has picked up steam again in the final months of the year, bringing some good news in the face of persistently rising prices and a new Covid variant. Economists polled by Refinitiv expect another sizable jobs gain in Friday’s November employment report — 550,000 positions. If
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By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business Home health provider Interim HealthCare of the Upstate currently has 51 open positions it’s looking to fill. Since September, 17 candidates have canceled their interviews and 20 didn’t even show up. Recruitment and retention tends to be difficult in the home health care industry, but it’s been even tougher over
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BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel is being treated to a traditional sendoff involving a military ceremony with a brass band playing her choice of music. The pieces are reported to include a Nina Hagen punk song from the 1970s. The military tattoo performed in Merkel’s honor will take place Thursday evening at
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By Clare Foran, Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN President Joe Biden signed a stopgap bill on Friday to avert a government shutdown just hours ahead of a midnight deadline, the White House announced. Congress acted to prevent a shutdown Thursday evening when both chambers voted to pass a stopgap bill to extend
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BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a police detective and a suspect he was trying to stop have both died in a head-on collision of their vehicles near St. Louis. Police say the crash happened Wednesday afternoon after police tried to stop a car that had been reported stolen. The car fled, and police
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El papa Francisco aceptó la renuncia de Michel Aupetit al cargo de arzobispo de París, según anunció este jueves el Vaticano en un comunicado. Su dimisión se produce después de que los medios de comunicación franceses informaran de que mantuvo una “relación íntima” consentida con una mujer. “Por supuesto, me
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business SPACs started out the year with a bang that soon became a fizzle. But don’t count the Wall Street fad out just yet. What’s happening: Grab is set to start trading Thursday on the Nasdaq after raising $4.5 billion, giving the Singaporean startup a market value of nearly $40 billion.
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Turnbull, CTVNews.ca Producer Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — The first cases of COVID-19 in Canadian wildlife have been discovered in three white-tailed deer, a press release from Environment and Climate Change Canada reports. The National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease confirmed the detections on Nov. 29
Continue ReadingBy Christy Somos, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Many Canadians are delaying their plans to have children or planning to have fewer kids due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new analysis from Statistics Canada. Using data from the first series of the Canadian Social Survey
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By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Everton slumped to its heaviest home loss to fierce rival Liverpool in 39 years on Wednesday and the atmosphere turned toxic. “Sack the board” was the predominant chant that swirled around the storied stadium. The boos at the final whistle of the 4-1 defeat might have been the loudest
Continue Reading By MILES BRANMAN Edmunds After a 25-year hiatus, the Ford Bronco is back. This new 2021 Bronco SUV pays homage to its predecessors via boxy proportions, round headlights and short overhangs while introducing the latest in convenience and technology features. It’s generated plenty of excitement and serves as an intriguing alternative to a well-known off-roading
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By MILES BRANMAN Edmunds After a 25-year hiatus, the Ford Bronco is back. This new 2021 Bronco SUV pays homage to its predecessors via boxy proportions, round headlights and short overhangs while introducing the latest in convenience and technology features. It’s generated plenty of excitement and serves as an intriguing alternative to a well-known off-roading
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By Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler, Niamh Kennedy and Anna Chernova, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden, amid growing concern among Western powers that Russia is seeking to invade Ukraine. Blinken said he and Lavrov would report the details of their meeting back to
Continue Reading MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ralf Rangnick has been granted a work permit to start his interim tenure as Manchester United manager. The 63-year-old German will be presented as coach on Friday and take charge of the team for the first time in the Premier League game against Crystal Palace on Sunday. United announced Monday the
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By Amanda Davies and Jack Bantock, CNN Mercedes entered the 2021 Formula One season seeking an eighth-consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ championship double. That double is still possible but with two races to go, Red Bull and Max Verstappen have proven quite the irritants to Mercedes during 2021. While Mercedes leads the constructors’ championship, Verstappen holds
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s air regulator has cleared the Boeing 737 Max to return to flying with technical upgrades more than two years after the plane was grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes. China is the last major market where the Boeing 737 Max awaited approval after the United
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s air regulator has cleared the Boeing 737 Max to return to flying with technical upgrades more than two years after the plane was grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes. China is the last major market where the Boeing 737 Max awaited approval after the United
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Some 73 feet below the traffic and bustle of London’s Piccadilly lies a silent warren of corridors and pitch-black rooms, rarely seen, rarely visited, but which played a vital role in the course of 20th-century history. Now, the opportunity has come round again to slip behind the door of the abandoned
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The top adviser to the European Union’s highest court says the principle of linking the bloc’s budget disbursements to respect for rule of law is compatible with the bloc’s laws and that a challenge by Hungary and Poland should be dismissed. The right-wing governments of both nations
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The top adviser to the European Union’s highest court says the principle of linking the bloc’s budget disbursements to respect for rule of law is compatible with the bloc’s laws and that a challenge by Hungary and Poland should be dismissed. The right-wing governments of both nations
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