By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada wildflower it plans to list as endangered. The move comes amid a conflict over the flower and a mine to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles critical to the Biden administration’s plans
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s jobs recovery got an unexpected boost in January despite the Omicron variant spreading rapidly throughout the country. The economy added 467,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, significantly better than most economists had expected. Restaurants and bars added more than 100,000 jobs. Positions in retail,
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN And just like that, another chapter of “Sex and the City” is over. Simply put, this HBO Max revival — which was minus one Samantha and added a lot of new faces — has divided a fandom. (HBO Max, like CNN, is owned by WarnerMedia.) “And Just Like That…” was never
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers stepped up hiring in January, adding 467,000 jobs despite a wave of omicron inflections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed. The Labor Department’s Friday report also showed the unemployment rate ticked up
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By Liz Stark, CNN The Biden administration will implement new updates to school nutrition standards for the coming academic years, the US Department of Agriculture announced Friday, as part of an effort to make school meals healthier while schools also work to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. These transitional nutrition standards — set to be
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By Liz Stark, CNN The Biden administration will implement new updates to school nutrition standards for the coming academic years, the US Department of Agriculture announced Friday, as part of an effort to make school meals healthier while schools also work to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. These transitional nutrition standards — set to be
Continue Reading By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A plan to temporarily dismantle a historic bridge in the heart of Dutch port city Rotterdam so that a huge yacht, reportedly being built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, can get to the North Sea is unlikely to be plain sailing. Reports this
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BEIJING (AP) — President Xi Jinping stood and waved as the Chinese delegation entered the Bird’s Nest to complete the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Games. The host nation always is the last team announced in the parade, and there were loud roars and flag-waving throughout the stadium as the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Business) — La recuperación de los empleos en Estados Unidos recibió un impulso inesperado en enero, a pesar de que los casos de la variante ómicron del coronavirus se extendieron rápidamente por todo el paÃs. La economÃa sumó 467.000 puestos de trabajo el mes pasado, una cifra significativamente mejor de lo
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has suspended an order by Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister to halt border checks on goods from the rest of the U.K. that were imposed under the Brexit agreement struck between the U.K. and the European Union. High Court judge Adrian Colton made the interim order
Continue Reading By Jamie Crawford, National Security Producer An Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia expects a special grand jury for the case to see a lot of activity in June and July, according to reporting from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday. CNN reported last week
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — During the COVID-19 pandemic, strapping on a face mask to head out for the day has become second nature for many — but not every face mask fits every face the same way, leading some to come up with tricks
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Otis Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — The ongoing trucker convoy protest has brought downtown Ottawa to a standstill. Amid the DIY signs and banners decrying Canada’s COVID-19 response, demonstrators have also been waving factory-made flags that bear obscene political slogans. These flags and other offensive merchandise are
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Saudi Arabia has made its first appearance at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony after alpine skier Fayik Abdi qualified to compete. Its small delegation hoisted the Middle East kingdom’s green and white flag while wearing what appeared to be cold-weather versions of the country’s traditional ankle-length national dress. Also making its first
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN It’s cute when your sleeping puppy does it. It’s not so cute when you are having a serious conversation with a friend post-feast and you just can’t stop. It’s the hiccups. Along with “Covid-19,” “vaccinations” and “helping one another,” “hiccups” appeared as one of the most searched terms on Google for
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Candace Cameron Bure and Bob Saget were like father and daughter to the end. Bure told “Today” that she had been scheduled to get together with Saget prior to his death in January at the age of 65. The pair, who starred as father and daughter on “Full House” and
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Jacqui Palumbo and Christiane Amanpour, CNN | Henry Hullah, CNN As the Beijing Winter Olympics gets underway, artist Ai Weiwei is once again criticizing China’s ruling Communist Party — and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which he said is “ignoring” the safety of the country’s athletes by prioritizing business and “standing next to the authoritarians.”
Continue Reading By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A law requiring most adults in Austria to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is ready to take effect, but the sense of urgency that accompanied its announcement in November has largely evaporated. Few other countries look likely to go as far as Austria as attention
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