DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it wants to add more than 8,000 technical workers this year. The Detroit automaker is looking for software, computer, mechanical and electrical engineers, as well as battery engineers, cybersecurity experts and others. GM says it’s expanding teams that develop vehicle software, engineer hydrogen fuel cells for non-automotive uses, and
Continue Reading By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer The Los Angeles City Council has approved a measure to ban new oil and gas wells and phase out existing ones. The measure would shut down oil and gas fields in the city after a decade of complaints from residents about health problems — nosebleeds, wheezing, coughing — they
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The Federal Reserve is getting ready to raise interest rates, the central bank said in its monetary policy update Wednesday. But it kept rates near zero for now. “With inflation well above 2% and a strong labor market, the Committee expects it will soon be appropriate to raise the target
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — African Cup of Nations organizers have announced they are changing the venues for two quarterfinal games and one of the semifinals. One of the quarterfinals scheduled for Sunday was moved from the Olembe Stadium in Yaounde across town to the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium after eight people were killed in a crush
Continue Reading BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lawyers for an associate athletic director who filed a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit against Louisiana State University say she has been fired in retaliation. Her lawyers asked the federal court in Baton Rouge on Wednesday to add that claim to the suit. They tell news outlets that Sharon Lewis
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Muchos de los muebles y prendas de vestir resistentes al agua y a las manchas que compramos pueden contener sustancias quÃmicas tóxicas “para siempre”, denominadas sustancias perfluoroalquiladas y polifluoroalquiladas (PFAS, por sus siglas en inglés), que están relacionadas con numerosos problemas de salud, como daños en el hÃgado y el corazón,
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By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer Don’t judge Jabari Smith by his most recent game. The 6-foot-10 freshman missed 13 of 15 shots in No. 1 Auburn’s one-point victory at Missouri on Tuesday night, but it was clearly just an off night for one of college basketball’s top newcomers. Smith finished with five points, 10
Continue Reading By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer Don’t judge Jabari Smith by his most recent game. The 6-foot-10 freshman missed 13 of 15 shots in No. 1 Auburn’s one-point victory at Missouri on Tuesday night, but it was clearly just an off night for one of college basketball’s top newcomers. Smith finished with five points, 10
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Bad news for coffee lovers: Climate change will make it much harder to grow Arabica coffee in the coming years, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Plos One. The study examined how coffee-growing conditions will change by 2050 based on projections from several global climate models.
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By Rosa Flores and Amir Vera, CNN The man suspected of killing a Harris County, Texas, deputy during a traffic stop over the weekend was wanted for crimes committed in 1996 in the county and also wanted for murder in El Salvador, the Harris County district attorney said Thursday. The announcement came during a multi-agency
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it will likely begin a series of interest-rate hikes in March. That would reverse pandemic-era low-rate policies that have fueled hiring and growth — and stock market gains — but also high inflation. Chair Jerome Powell said at a news
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have won six straight AFC West titles, something never before accomplished, and will be hosting a record fourth consecutive conference championship game when Cincinnati visits Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. They’ve been to the past two Super Bowls. Won a championship.
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have won six straight AFC West titles, something never before accomplished, and will be hosting a record fourth consecutive conference championship game when Cincinnati visits Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. They’ve been to the past two Super Bowls. Won a championship.
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have won six straight AFC West titles, something never before accomplished, and will be hosting a record fourth consecutive conference championship game when Cincinnati visits Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. They’ve been to the past two Super Bowls. Won a championship.
Continue Reading DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — Mohamed Salah has scored the decisive penalty as Egypt beat Ivory Coast 5-4 in a shootout to reach the quarterfinals of the African Cup of Nations. Salah sent his spot kick into the bottom right corner and then ran off and jumped on the back of Egypt substitute goalkeeper Mohamed Abou
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Some unusual creatures have an innate ability to regrow a limb: salamanders, starfish, crabs, lizards and newts. Such extraordinary powers elude most animals, including humans, although scientists have long sought to understand and replicate them in a quest to regenerate limbs for millions of patient amputees, including diabetics and victims of
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — ¿Por qué construir un superyate que solo se mueva sobre el agua cuando puedes crear uno que también vuele? La empresa de diseño Lazzarini Design Studio, con sede en Roma, ideó un nuevo concepto llamado Air Yacht que tiene la capacidad de “navegar en el cielo” y en el océano.
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Formula One says preseason testing will begin in Spain next month followed by a session in Bahrain in early March The oft-used Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on the outskirts Barcelona will host the first test from Feb. 22-25. The second test will be held in Bahrain from March 10-12 ahead of the season-opening
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Boone County health officials will pare back the coronavirus data they’re reporting amid record numbers of cases and hospitalizations, the health department said Wednesday.
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of convicted DC-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo. Personal Birth date: February 18, 1985 Birth place: Kingston, Jamaica Birth name: Lee Boyd Malvo Father: Leslie Malvo Mother: Una James Marriage: Wife’s name unavailable publicly (2020-present) Other Facts Currently in prison awaiting resentencing for multiple charges stemming from
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