By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $10,000 in an unrelated campaign finance case. Igor Fruman pleaded guilty in September to charges that he solicited
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK Associated Press The Biden administration has announced policy changes to attract international students specializing in science, technology, engineering and math. It’s part of the broader effort to make the U.S. economy more competitive. Senior Biden administration officials say the State Department will let eligible visiting students in those fields complete up to
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By Paul P. Murphy, CNN The Prince Andrew High School in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, will be renamed as the sex abuse civil case against the British royal continues moving forward in the United States, school officials say. “We are changing the name to move in a different direction due to the negative reports about Prince
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By David Shortell, CNN A Texas federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine mandate for federal employees, dealing another blow to President Joe Biden’s campaign to increase the country’s lackluster vaccination rate. Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown called the mandate an overstep of presidential authority and cited the recent Supreme Court
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Opinion by Karin Kimbrough for CNN Business Perspectives Entering year three of the pandemic, the labor market today looks markedly different from when we entered this crisis. At LinkedIn, my team of data scientists and economists has a unique view into how ways of working have shifted — through the lens of over 180 million
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business The percentage of the adult population not working because of Covid-related reasons tripled between December and January, according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street bank, citing the latest Household Pulse Survey of roughly 75,000 respondents from the Census Bureau, said the share of adults not working due to virus-related reasons
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By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business The past 22 months of the pandemic have forced many companies to recruit, work and retain talent remotely. And that means some workers just entering the labor force have never worked in an office, met any colleagues in-person or commuted farther than a few feet. ‘A happier employee’ Morgan Tolles
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By Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN Democrats are substantially tamping down their ambitions after failing to pass their top priorities, turning their attention to keeping the lights on and passing narrowly targeted legislation while scrambling to salvage aspects of their sprawling economic agenda. In the past month, Democrats failed to pass a $1.75 trillion
Continue Reading By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Total Energies and Chevron, two of the world’s largest energy companies, are planning to exit Myanmar. The companies are citing rampant human rights abuses and deteriorating rule of law since the country’s military overthrew the elected government. The announcement came Friday just a day after Total called
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Stocks are off to a tough start this year. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is already in a correction, a more than 10% drop. And if one the most influential hedge fund managers is to be believed, this could be only the beginning of a very painful time for investors.
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Starbucks workers at a store in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize on Thursday, the latest sign that the labor movement is stirring after decades of decline. The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that workers voted 19-8 in favor of a union
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The first look at Peacock’s Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin limited series can only be described with one word: paw-some. In the series “Joe vs. Carole,” out March 3, John Cameron Mitchell and Kate McKinnon play the dueling big cat advocates (cat-vocates?). According to Peacock, the drama “takes a comprehensive dive
Continue Reading By Breana Albizu Click here for updates on this story New Mexico (KOAT) — Cynthia Chavez Lamar has been named director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She is the first Native woman and first New Mexican to be named as a Smithsonian museum director in its history. “Yesterday was pretty exciting
Continue Reading By Orko Manna Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO COUNTY, California (KCRA) — Loved ones of a 17-year-old girl killed in a Sacramento County shooting gathered Thursday evening to remember her. Family members tell KCRA 3 17-year-old Alynia Lawrence, nicknamed “Lena,” was shot and killed last Thursday, Jan. 13, while in a car
Continue Reading By Josh Haskell Click here for updates on this story HANCOCK PARK, Los Angeles (KABC) — Exactly one week from when Brianna Kupfer’s life was cut short, friends, family, co-workers and many who didn’t know the 24-year-old UCLA student gathered Thursday to honor her memory in front of the Hancock Park furniture store where she
Continue Reading By Liz Nagy Click here for updates on this story AURORA, Illinois (WLS) — Another Aurora police officer has died from COVID-19, marking the second COVID-related death in the department within days. Flags outside the Aurora Police Department were already flying at half-staff for the death of an officer just last week. Now, that symbol
Continue Reading By Erin Coogan Click here for updates on this story KAHULUI, Hawaii (KITV) — In an effort to combat the ill-effects of climate change, one local organization has made it its mission to tackle the issue from the ground up. The Maui based group: “Re-tree Hawaii” has now planted more than 16,000 plants and trees
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in say a couple found dead in their West Des Moines home were killed in a murder-suicide. Police were called to the home Wednesday morning to conduct a welfare check and found the bodies of 52-year-old Dana Fortugno and 59-year-old Justine Fortugno. Police have not said how the
Continue Reading By MARISSA SULEK Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Marshall County woman says her life turned upside down when she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder months after she had a mild case of COVID-19. The disorder is called ITP, or Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. It destroys platelets in your
Continue Reading In a story published Dec. 9, 2021, and in prior stories on the same topic, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a Starbucks store in Buffalo was the first to unionize in the company’s history. The United Food and Commercial Workers union represented workers at six stores in the Seattle area for several years in
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