By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country’s largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs, has offered to buy the local newspaper chain Lee Enterprises for about $141 million. Alden said in a Monday press release that it sent Lee’s board a letter
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By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country’s largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs, has offered to buy the local newspaper chain Lee Enterprises for about $141 million. Alden said in a Monday press release that it sent Lee’s board a letter
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By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country’s largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs, has offered to buy the local newspaper chain Lee Enterprises for about $141 million. Alden said in a Monday press release that it sent Lee’s board a letter
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Senate Judiciary Committee is keeping the pressure on the FBI and the Justice Department Inspector General to take additional actions to address the mishandling of the FBI’s probe of Larry Nassar. On Monday, the committee made public a letter a bipartisan group of senators sent to FBI Director Chris Wray,
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conservative Kansas legislators are struggling to build support among Republicans for a proposal to provide unemployment benefits to workers who lose their jobs for refusing COVID-19 vaccines. The GOP-controlled Legislature opened a special session Monday. The measure on unemployment is tied to another proposal to make
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By Sara Murray and Michael Warren, CNN Laurie Snell — the estranged wife of Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Sean Parnell — was awarded primary physical custody and sole legal custody of the couple’s three children, according to a judge’s order that was made public Monday. The decision comes amid a contentious divorce and custody proceedings
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man is set to be sentenced Monday for his role in a shooting along West Broadway in May. Dequan Hughes, 22, was found guilty of second-degree assault and armed criminal action in early October. Dequan Hughes After being found guilty of both charges, the jury recommended a total of three
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By STEPHEN BOROWY Click here for updates on this story DAVISON TOWNSHIP, Michigan (WNEM) — A Davison school board member has pleaded guilty to his charge in a threatening phone call incident. Matthew Smith is charged with one count of malicious use of telecommunication services. He pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal during
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Trendy soaps brand Lush Cosmetics is quitting Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat on Friday in a radical move to draw attention to how those platforms are damaging people’s mental health. The company said Monday that its accounts will be deactivated on Nov. 26, the day after Thanksgiving, when most other
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By Ehsan Popalzai, CNN Women will be barred from appearing in television dramas in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s new media restrictions, in the latest rollback of women’s freedoms since the militant group seized power three months ago. All dramas, soap operas and entertainment shows featuring women are prohibited, according to the government guidelines issued to
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press BIELSK PODLASKI, Poland (AP) — A Kurdish doctor working at a Polish hospital has been treating Iraqi and Syrian migrants who have entered Poland from Belarus and gotten trapped in a dank forest. He has treated them for hypothermia, pneumonia, broken bones and severe dehydration. Hoping to stop what has
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) — The French military has denied injuring civilians in Burkina Faso when firing warning shots to disperse protesters who had blocked its military convoy. Many people in Burkina Faso are angry that the former colonial power is not doing more to protect them in the West
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Former President Barack Obama’s foundation says it has received a $100 million donation from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that it says is the largest individual contribution it has received to date. Separately, New York University Langone Health said it has received a $166 million gift from Bezos and his
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Former President Barack Obama’s foundation says it has received a $100 million donation from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that it says is the largest individual contribution it has received to date. Separately, New York University Langone Health said it has received a $166 million gift from Bezos and his
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Nota del editor: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat), colaboradora habitual de CNN Opinion, es profesora de historia y estudios italianos en la Universidad de Nueva York y autora de “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”. Publica el boletín Lucid sobre las amenazas a la democracia. Las opiniones expresadas aquí son suyas. (CNN) — Al reunirnos
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Thanksgiving this year will be much different than last year, but far from risk-free, as Covid-19 cases continue to rise across the country and millions of Americans remain unvaccinated. The daily case rate in the United States is about half of what it was at this time last year, according to
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LONDON (AP) — Romelu Lukaku is set to return from a month out with an ankle injury in Chelsea’s Champions League match against Juventus. Lukaku has been in full training since Sunday and Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel says the Belgium striker could be selected in the squad if he is deemed fit after meeting with
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — Amnesty International is urging Pakistani authorities to stop forcibly disappearing suspected militants for years without trial, calling the practice “abhorrent.” In a report entitled “Living Ghosts” released on Monday, the rights group describes the difficulties faced by the families of the disappeared in obtaining information about their detained relatives. It says that
Continue Reading By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of residents in the southeast English coastal resort of Southend have paid their respects to their longtime member of Parliament. David Amess was stabbed to death last month while meeting with his constituents. Amess’ coffin was taken by a horse-drawn hearse after a funeral service in
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court has rejected a claim that the Memphis, Tennessee, area has been taking water that belongs to Mississippi from an underground aquifer that sits beneath parts of both states. The high court’s first decision of the term came in a case argued in October, deflating expectations that the justices
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