By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a pandemic low last week, another sign that the job market and economy continue to recover from last year’s coronavirus recession. Jobless claims dropped by 10,000 to 281,000, lowest since mid-March 2020, the Labor Department said
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison have had their first conversation since Australia pulled out of a multibillion-dollar submarine deal with France. Macron’s office said Thursday that Macron said it’s up to Morrison’s government to repair the damaged relationship between their countries. Australia last month canceled a contract
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s chief executive is calling for climate leadership ahead of two major international meetings focused on curbing global warming. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned Thursday that the world is facing “a moment of truth.” World leaders are gathering in Rome for a weekend summit of the Group
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HOISINGTON, Kan. (AP) — Police in central Kansas are investigating the shooting death of a man in Hoisington. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says in a news release that it is assisting the Hoisington Police Department in the investigation of the early Wednesday morning shooting death. Officials say police were called just after 3 a.m.
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The blockbuster cancer treatment Keytruda and the vaccine Gardasil pushed Merck well past Wall Street’s third-quarter expectations, even as COVID-19 sapped demand for another vaccine. The drugmaker said Thursday that sales of its pneumonia vaccine, Pneumovax 23, tumbled 26% in the quarter to $277 million. That was mainly because
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By Katie Hunt, CNN The great-grandson of the legendary Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull has been confirmed as his closest living relative using an innovative new DNA technique applied to hair taken from the Native American leader’s scalp lock. People had tried to question Ernie LaPointe’s relationship with Sitting Bull, who was also known as
Continue Reading By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature will convene for its second special session in a month to consider another plan for redrawing boundaries for the state’s legislative and congressional districts. The second gathering Thursday was required after the Iowa Senate rejected the first plan drawn by the nonpartisan
Continue Reading NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An Ethiopian government spokesman says a new airstrike has hit the capital of the country’s Tigray region following several days of such strikes last week, and a Tigray spokesman asserts that six people have been killed, as the year-long war intensifies. The government spokesman tells The Associated Press that Thursday’s airstrike
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has decided to keep its pandemic stimulus efforts unchanged even as consumer prices spike and central banks in other parts of the world look to dial back support as their economies bounce back from the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak. The
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has decided to keep its pandemic stimulus efforts unchanged even as consumer prices spike and central banks in other parts of the world look to dial back support as their economies bounce back from the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak. The
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business As world leaders prepare to gather in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit, an activist investor is telling one of the biggest oil and gas companies it needs to change, fast. What’s happening: Hedge fund Third Point just revealed that it has built up a stake in Shell and will
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business A prominent venture capitalist is under fire for calling new dads “losers” if they take months of paternity leave. Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale responded to a tweet Wednesday about US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who took off work to care for his twin newborns. “Any man in an important position
Continue Reading By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — How did Gordon Ramsay spend his pandemic lockdown? Getting frenetic in a kitchen, of course. The chef with a dizzying number of books, restaurants and TV shows was home in Cornwall, England, with mouths to feed last year when he did a series of lives
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Mariana Toro (CNN) — Una vacuna contra el covid-19 podría estar disponible para los niños pequeños pronto, y los líderes de salud pública dicen que vacunarlos podría ayudar a poner fin a la pandemia, pero solo si los padres en efecto los vacunan. Una nueva encuesta sugiere que, en el mejor de los casos, eso
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Des Moines have declared the death of a person found overnight with traumatic injuries a homicide. Police say officers and medics were called just before 2 a.m. Thursday to a home in a neighborhood between Interstate 235 and Easttown Park. Arriving first responders found a person suffering from
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN Español) — Sergi Barjuan tomará las riendas del Barcelona como entrenador interino, anunció este miércoles el club. “El FC Barcelona informa que Sergi Barjuan, actual entrenador del Barça B, se hará cargo de forma provisional de la dirección técnica de la primera plantilla. El interinaje en el banquillo del primer equipo cerrará en
Continue Reading By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In order to combat the struggles low-income and first-generation college students can face, former New York Mets owner and real estate developer Fred Wilpon alongside his wife Judy created the Kessler Scholars Program in 2008. The program helps scholarship recipients combat various collegiate
Continue Reading By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A program at the University of Michigan to combat struggles that low-income and first-generation college students can face is getting $40 million from the Judy and Fred Wilpon Family Foundation. Former New York Mets owner and real estate developer Fred Wilpon alongside his
Continue Reading By Marlene Leung, CTVNews.ca Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Nearly one in five Canadians resigned from their jobs during the pandemic due to increased stress at work, according to a new survey. The LifeWorks Mental Health Index is a monthly survey that asks Canadians questions about their mental
Continue Reading By Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A mysterious radio signal from a nearby star system that was detected in 2019 isn’t coming from aliens, scientists say. Instead, the signal was likely caused by interference from Earth, according to two papers published Wednesday in
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