By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting and consulting giant, will allow all its 40,000 US-based service employees to work virtually from anywhere in the United States, the company confirmed to CNN Friday. The company said this is the first announcement of its kind from a professional services firm in the US, marking a
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — It took Oklahoma quarterback Spencer Rattler’s best performance of the season, a big game on the ground from Kennedy Brooks and some big plays on defense for the sixth-ranked Sooners to finally beat Kansas State. Oh, and a couple crucial calls that were overturned in
Continue ReadingTonight: Winds continue out of the south with scattered showers and storms remaining throughout the duration of the night. The main threat for these storms will be brief downpours and lightning. Storms begin to die off and turn into showers the later we get through the night. Tomorrow: Showers taper off mid-morning on Sunday with
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Un grupo de migrantes (68 cubanos y una persona de Sri Lanka) fue rescatado en una zona rocosa del pacÃfico panameño, en la región del Darién, luego de ser abandonado, según su testimonio, por coyotes que los dejaron en la playa Cucaracha, en Colombia, informó la tarde del
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Merck y Ridgeback Biotherapeutics anunciaron el viernes un resultado temprano que indica que su fármaco antiviral oral experimental molnupiravir podrÃa reducir a la mitad el riesgo de muerte u hospitalización por covid-19. En un comunicado de prensa, la compañÃa dijo que el 7,3% de los 385 pacientes que recibieron el
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The move by Texas and Oklahoma to the Southeastern Conference is generating plenty of chatter in the Big 12. Now the Longhorns and Sooners are finally playing road games in the league they’re leaving. Plenty of things were the same in the 40th trip
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ABOARD THE SEABIRD (AP) — An Italian offshore supply vessel has rescued 65 migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe on a crowded, wooden boat. The migrant boat was drifting after its engine stopped working and was spotted by the Seabird, an NGO monitoring aircraft flying over the central Mediterranean. Those on board
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The move by Texas and Oklahoma to the Southeastern Conference is generating plenty of chatter in the Big 12. Now the Longhorns and Sooners are finally playing road games in the league they’re leaving. Plenty of things were the same in the 40th trip
Continue Reading By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged members Saturday at a church conference to listen to the faith’s leaders when they seek “pure truth.” Church President Russell M. Nelson thanked members who have followed church guidance, which has been to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A rally was held Saturday at the Boone County Courthouse for reproductive rights. Women’s March and more than 90 other organizations were at the rally to defend reproductive rights ahead of the Supreme Court reconvening on Monday. Organizers from CoMo for Progress, Mid-Missouri Peaceworks, and Planned Parenthood called on the community to
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City, Missouri, police are investigating the death of someone whose body was found in the Missouri River. WDAF-TV reports that kayakers found the body Saturday near the Bond Bridge. Authorities have not identified the victim or determined the victim’s gender. Authorities have not determined if foul play was involved.
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are investigating a fatal shooting. The shooting was reported just before noon Saturday. Officers called to the scene found a man with an apparent gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital where he died. The victim’s name and have not been released. Police say
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials have suspended nine firefighters without pay in connection with a string of racist messages and memes they shared on their phones, including ones that mocked the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. That’s according to a report in The New York Times’ Friday editions.
Continue Reading RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With Brazil’s presidential election one year away, tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and dozens of other cities around the country to protest President Jair Bolsonaro and call for his impeachment over his government’s handling of the pandemic. The protests, smaller than those
Continue Reading By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Authorities say an electrician who got in an angry dispute with a supervisor attacked his coworkers at the Florida home they shared, killing two and critically injuring a third victim who is not expected to survive. Sheriff Grady Judd says Shaun Runyon and his colleagues were living in Florida’s Polk
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Durante sus cinco años trabajando en varios roles como asesora principal de Donald y Melania Trump, Stephanie Grisham tuvo quizás el punto de vista más Ãntimo de su tiempo en la Casa Blanca. Grisham describe esas conclusiones en detalle en sus próximas memorias, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now”. El libro,
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By Alaa Elassar and Maya Brown, CNN A man in New York City died early Saturday morning while subway surfing on top of the J-train on the Williamsburg Bridge. The 32-year-old man lost his footing, fell from the train onto the tracks, and was struck by an incoming train, the New York Police Department (NYPD)
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By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A third Alaska hospital has instituted crisis protocols that would allow it to ration care if needed as the state recorded the worst COVID-19 diagnosis rates in the U.S. in recent days. According to data collected by Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering,
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The death of an Illinois State Police trooper on a Chicago expressway has been ruled a suicide. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said Saturday that an autopsy found 35-year-old District Chicago Trooper Gerald Mason died of a gunshot wound to the head a day earlier. The 11-year state police veteran died
Continue Reading By NATHAN HOWARD and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two salmon species have all but disappeared from Alaska’s Yukon River this year, prompting the state to shut down fishing in an effort to save them. The ban on salmon harvests has created desperation in tribal communities that stockpile the migratory fish
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