By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks says its U.S. workers must be fully vaccinated by Feb. 9 or face a weekly COVID testing requirement. The Seattle-based coffee giant said Monday it was acting in response to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which issued a vaccine-or-test requirement for companies with more than 100 employees
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: Tesla, ODP rise; Applied Therapeutics, Newmont fall.
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By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials say they have almost completed a lengthy project to dig up and remove radioactive and hazardous waste buried for decades in unlined pits at an eastern Idaho nuclear facility that sits atop a giant aquifer. The U.S. Department of Energy announced last week that
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville plans to retire the No. 2 jersey number of former All-America guard and fifth-highest scorer Russ Smith, who led the Cardinals to the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball championship that was later vacated. Smith’s jersey will be retired at halftime of Louisville’s game against Notre Dame on Jan. 22. His number
Continue Reading EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Former University of Evansville basketball coach Walter McCarty is suing the school, saying it owes him more than $75,000 under the terms of the contract he signed four years ago. The federal lawsuit alleges the university didn’t fulfill its contractual obligations to the longtime Boston Celtics forward under a five-year contract
Continue Reading EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Former University of Evansville basketball coach Walter McCarty is suing the school, saying it owes him more than $75,000 under the terms of the contract he signed four years ago. The federal lawsuit alleges the university didn’t fulfill its contractual obligations to the longtime Boston Celtics forward under a five-year contract
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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON (KTRK) — As we at ABC13 prepare to say goodbye to one of our beloved news anchors’ remarkable careers, we have the chance to send him off in a very special way. Art Rascon announced back in September that he would be stepping aside
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TONIGHT: Mostly clear skies this evening will persist through the night into Tuesday morning. Temperatures return to sub-freezing territory, meaning what melted today will re-freeze. TUESDAY: Temperatures climb back into the mid 40’s (a few degrees above average) on Tuesday, further thawing any lingering snow and ice. Sunshine dominates early, with added clouds returning in
Continue Reading By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal review has been launched into the actions of a special Customs and Border Protection unit that used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including an Associated Press reporter. CBP spokesperson Luis Miranda says the review is
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street got 2022 off to a solid start with more record highs for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Monday, a day after closing out 2021 with big gains for the third year in a row.
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street got 2022 off to a solid start with more record highs for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Monday, a day after closing out 2021 with big gains for the third year in a row.
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By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Facebook has blocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from posting on its platform for 24 hours, the Georgia Republican said Monday. The congresswoman reacted to the temporary Facebook ban through her Telegram account, writing, “Facebook has joined Twitter in censoring me.” A spokesperson for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said Facebook removed one
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Facebook has blocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from posting on its platform for 24 hours, the Georgia Republican said Monday. The congresswoman reacted to the temporary Facebook ban through her Telegram account, writing, “Facebook has joined Twitter in censoring me.” A spokesperson for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said Facebook removed one
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is reporting a record seven-day average for new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases as one of the state’s largest hospitals struggles to treat an influx of patients. State health department data released Monday shows Kansas reported an average of 3,134 new COVID-19
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants New York to impose term limits on her office and other statewide elected officials and ban them from earning an outside income. Those changes are an implicit rebuke of her predecessor Andrew Cuomo. Hochul is a Democrat who took office in
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Once Ricky Rubio was lost for the season with a knee injury, the Cleveland Cavaliers knew it would take someone special to take his spot. They needed a playmaking guard with experience, intelligence and competitive toughness. Rajon Rondo checked every box. Cleveland finalized its trade for
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By Marianne Garvey Whoopi Goldberg has tested positive for Covid-19, “The View” co-host Joy Behar announced on Monday’s episode of the talk show. Behar told viewers that Goldberg’s case was mild thus far. “They say there’s no place like home for the holidays and that’s exactly where we are this year,” Behar said of the
Continue Reading By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A coalition of community groups is demanding that a special prosecutor be appointed in the case of a Black youth who died following a physical altercation with staff at a Kansas juvenile center. In a Wichita rally and letter to local officials, community activists also called Monday for the release
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Start the year how you intend to spend it, right? For the Dow, that means at all-time highs. The index finished up 0.7%, or nearly 250 points, on Monday, logging a new record high on the first trading day of 2022. Similarly, the S&P 500, the broadest measure of Wall
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