By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon, Chobani, UPS and more than 30 other companies have vowed to hire and train refugees fleeing Afghanistan for the U.S. The companies said Tuesday that they want to help the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees coming to America to integrate into the economy.
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By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon, Chobani, UPS and more than 30 other companies have vowed to hire and train refugees fleeing Afghanistan for the U.S. The companies said Tuesday that they want to help the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees coming to America to integrate into the economy.
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Toyota is dumping the big V8 engine in the latest redesign of its Tundra full-size pickup truck, a bold move in a market that likes big, powerful engines. The 381 horsepower, 5.7-liter V8 will be replaced by a base 389 horsepower 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6. There’s also an optional gas-electric hybrid system with
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — A British couple who sought justice for their 19-year-old son after he died in a vehicle crash say they have settled a civil lawsuit they filed in the United States against an American motorist. Harry Dunn died in August 2019 after his motorcycle crashed into a car being driven on the wrong
Continue Reading BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The company that operates the Dakota Access oil pipeline wants the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate ruling ordering additional environmental review. Energy Transfer says the review puts the line at risk of being shut down. A Circuit Court of Appeals panel in D.C. earlier this year supported the Standing
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a bill to increase the U.S. territory’s minimum wage for the first time in more than 12 years. The current minimum pay of $7.25 an hour will increase to $8.50 in January and to $9.50 in July 2023. A third increase to $10.50 is
Continue Reading The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Google is planning to buy New York’s St. John’s Terminal for $2.1 billion, making it the anchor of its Hudson Square campus. Alphabet and Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said Tuesday that the company is looking to invest more than $250 million in its New York campus
Continue Reading The Associated Press NEW YORK CITY (AP) — Google is planning to buy New York’s St. John’s Terminal for $2.1 billion, making it the anchor of its Hudson Square campus. Alphabet and Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said Tuesday that the company is looking to invest more than $250 million in its New York
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people will get a chance to know the shy teenager Evan Hansen this month, but Ben Platt is waving farewell. The actor and singer who originated the role of the teen in 2015 and led the stage musical “Dear Evan Hansen” to its
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe, CNN A 2009 settlement agreement between sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Roberts Giuffre — the woman who accused him of sexual abuse and of trafficking her to Prince Andrew, among others — was unsealed Monday. It shows that Epstein paid Giuffre $500,000 to drop the case without any admission of liability
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Surging infections are overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country. But the tests have already disappeared from pharmacy shelves in many
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to choke the finances of criminal ransomware gangs by sanctioning a Russia-based virtual currency brokerage it says has been used by at least eight ransomware gangs to launder criminal proceeds. The Treasury Department sanctions aim to disrupt the economic
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to choke the finances of criminal ransomware gangs by sanctioning a Russia-based virtual currency brokerage it says has been used by at least eight ransomware gangs to launder criminal proceeds. The Treasury Department sanctions aim to disrupt the economic
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Police officials say three recent killings in the St. Louis area might be connected. Law enforcement officials said during a news conference Tuesday that they have evidence a 16-year-old girl killed in St. Louis County and two other killings in north St. Louis are connected. The officials did not elaborate on
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its borrowing limit and provide federal disaster and refugee aid. Republicans in the Senate are expected to block the measure, however, as Congress works to avoid a federal shutdown at the end of the
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has ruled that prosecutors presented enough evidence against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and two of her political allies for their trial to continue on charges of incitement. Suu Kyi and her elected government were ousted by the military in February. A special court is hearing various
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Senior politicians in Germany have expressed shock over the weekend killing of a young gas station clerk who asked a customer to wear a face mask. They warned Tuesday against the radicalization of people who oppose the country’s pandemic restrictions. A 49-year-old German man was arrested in
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — The spokesperson for France’s Defense Ministry has used Twitter to offer a robust defense of the country’s submarine-making capabilities and to criticize Australia’s decision to choose the United States as a partner in a major defense deal. Defense Ministry spokesman Herve Grandjean devoted a series of tweets to tearing into the deal,
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — France’s Defense Ministry has used Twitter to offer a robust defense of the country’s submarine-making capabilities and to criticize Australia’s decision to choose the United States as a partner in a major defense deal. Defense Ministry spokesman Herve Grandjean devoted a series of tweets to tearing into the deal, which also includes
Continue Reading By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Sarah Dash, who co-founded the all-female singing group Labelle with Patti Labelle and Nona Hendryx, has died. The group was best known for the raucous 1974 hit “Lady Marmalade.” Dash was 76. Labelle and Hendryx announced Dash’s death Monday on social media. “Lady Marmalade,”
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