DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen Group is recalling more than 240,000 Audi vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because an electric cable problem can cause a computer to disable the passenger air bag. The recall covers certain 2017 through 2020 Audi A4, RS5, A5, S4 and S5 models. VW says in documents filed with the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy JAMES FELTON, ANNA MUCKENFUSS Click here for updates on this story MIDLAND, Michigan (WNEM) — Local hospitals are battling overcrowded facilities and staffing shortages. Now, they’ve even been forced to divert ambulances to other healthcare facilities. “It feels like failure to us,” said Danny Greig, the medical director of the emergency department at MidMichigan
Continue ReadingBy ERIN EDWARDS, ANDREW MASSE, ROGER SUSANIN Click here for updates on this story SOUTHINGTON, Connecticut (WFSB) — Brazen thieves caught on camera stealing expensive merchandise from stores are following a pattern, according to police. The suspects were recorded loading up their carts with items such as laundry detergent and flat screen TVs in towns
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — Venezuela celebra este domingo elecciones regionales y municipales. Estos comicios volverán a tener observadores de la Unión Europea tras 15 años de ausencia de misiones internacionales. Más importante aún, contarán con el retorno de la oposición, que no participaba desde 2018. ¿Qué es lo que se elige exactamente en Venezuela?
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) ha anunciado un nuevo marco sobre los atletas transgénero, afirmando que ningún atleta debe ser excluido de la competición por suponer que tiene una ventaja debido a su género. Las nuevas directrices son el resultado de un proceso de consulta de dos años con más
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator says it received an application from Novavax to authorize the American biotechnology company’s coronavirus vaccine. In a statement on Wednesday, the European Medicines Agency said it had begun evaluating data submitted by Novavax for its two-dose vaccine. The agency says an expedited review process could produce a
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator says it received an application from Novavax to authorize the American biotechnology company’s coronavirus vaccine. In a statement on Wednesday, the European Medicines Agency said it had begun evaluating data submitted by Novavax for its two-dose vaccine. The agency says an expedited review process could produce a
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A new lawsuit contends that construction of a luxury building next door triggered the collapse of an already fragile Florida condominium that killed 98 people in June. The lawsuit was filed late Tuesday on behalf of Champlain Towers South victims and family members. It contends that work on
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN HBO has a storied history with female quartets, from “Sex and the City” to “Girls.” Yet “The Sex Lives of College Girls” carves out its own niche with a distinct voice and plenty of very funny material, capturing four young women from diverse backgrounds thrown together as roommates while coming
Continue ReadingBy KANDRA KENT Click here for updates on this story CLARK COUNTY, Washington (KPTV) — A brand-new health clinic on wheels hit the road Tuesday to help people experiencing homelessness in Clark County get the basic care – or specialized treatment — that might keep them out of emergency rooms or jails. The mobile care
Continue ReadingBy BETSY WEBSTER Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Kansas (KCTV) — Exactly one week since a student at Schlagle High School stabbed another student with scissors at the start of the school day, leaders in education, law enforcement, mental health and more spilled into a KCK church at the invitation of
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to five years in prison for his conviction on charges that rights advocates have decried as baseless and politically motivated. The court found former lawmaker Zyad el-Elaimy guilty of conspiring to commit crimes with an outlawed group. That’s a reference to the
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban foreign ministry is urging the U.S. Congress to release Afghanistan’s assets, which were blocked after the takeover. The militant group’s acting foreign minister calls the sanctions against the Doha agreement signed on February 2020. The country also is facing an economic crisis that has alarmed international organizations. The World Food
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Ahead of the “Dancing With the Stars” live finale, judge Derek Hough has announced he has a breakthrough case of Covid-19. Hough posted a video on his verified Instagram account to share with his followers he had contracted the virus. “Hey everyone I have some news to share and I
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s fraud and extortion trial have accused prosecutors of again withholding pieces of evidence, including an alleged interrogation of Pope Francis. The allegation brought the pontiff’s own role in a flawed London property investment back before a Vatican city-state tribunal. The court’s
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s fraud and extortion trial have accused prosecutors of again withholding pieces of evidence, including an alleged interrogation of Pope Francis. The allegation brought the pontiff’s own role in a flawed London property investment back before a Vatican city-state tribunal. The court’s
Continue ReadingOpinion by Mark Zandi for CNN Business Perspectives We can’t catch a break. Since the Covid-19 pandemic struck in the spring of 2020, the United States has suffered hundreds of thousands of deaths due to the virus and lost millions of jobs. There was much hope the pandemic would soon be behind us when the
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN KIRBY Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — With inflation rising and the holidays approaching, hundreds of thousands of low-income Alabamians still have not received pandemic food assistance they expected in September. Mobile resident Catheryn Neese, a single mother of five, is one of them. “I really want to
Continue ReadingBy Emerson Lehmann Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday, Nov. 16, that the state Department of Justice has filed civil enforcement action against Yousseff ‘Joe’ Berrada and Berrada Properties Management, Inc., following an investigation by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. The
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Apple plans to give customers the ability to repair their own devices amid growing pressure from regulators and consumers around the world for manufacturers to ease restrictions on fixing products. The company on Wednesday announced a new program that will make spare parts for Apple products available to purchase starting
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