By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business If you’re among the millions of people who use payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Square, and other third-party electronic payment networks, you could be affected by a tax reporting change that goes into effect in January. Payment app providers will have to start reporting to the IRS a user’s business
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The bizarre nature of the college football season in the Big 12 can be summed up by the fact that TCU and Texas Tech, both having already fired their coaches, could be headed to bowl games in a few short weeks. In fact, half
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Mexico’s president is warning that the world is sliding from “civilization to barbarity.” Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for the thousand richest people, the thousand largest private corporations and the 20 major economies to improve life for the 750 million people now existing on less
Continue ReadingBy ROB POLANSKY Click here for updates on this story NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut (WFSB) — Efforts are underway to diversify Connecticut’s teacher workforce. Gov. Ned Lamont and state education officials highlighted those efforts during a news conference Tuesday morning at the Northend Elementary School in New Britain. Lamont discussed his administration’s ongoing initiatives to recruit
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Mobile Police arrested a UPS driver charged with causing a crash that killed a one-year-old boy and his mother. It happened on April 14 on Moffett Road at Wolf Ridge Road. Investigators said Deidreana Ariel Jasper, 28, and her son, Noah
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Tim Cook is a cryptocurrency owner. But don’t call him a bitcoin bull. “I don’t want to put any labels on me, it’s just that it’s something, from a personal point of view, I’m interested in,” the Apple CEO told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times DealBook
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press People streaming live video have become ubiquitous at protests, seeking to provide an unedited view into the most violent clashes. A number of people caught video snippets of Kyle Rittenhouse, a tumultuous demonstration against police brutality and the 17-year-old aspiring police officer firing an assault-style rifle during a chaotic night
Continue ReadingBy AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Officials say a journalist and her child have been killed in an explosion that targeted her family’s vehicle in Yemen’s southern city of Aden. They say the explosion took place Tuesday when the journalist and her family were heading to a doctor. The woman, who works
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Catoura, Karyn Greer Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — It was a tragic case that captured national headlines, a violent murder that left a woman and her dog stabbed to death in Atlanta’s popular Piedmont Park. Katie Janness’ partner, Emma Clark, was the one who found the bodies and called
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The number of students pursuing degrees in fall term at Oregon State University–Cascades increased 2% over the previous year, and students are taking significantly more courses, the Bend school reported Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The ripples created by massive cosmic collisions have reached Earth after traveling across the universe for billions of years. Scientists have detected the largest number of these gravitational waves since the cosmic events were first discovered in 2015, according to new research. Astronomers made 35 new detections of gravitational waves, or
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he canceled a trip to an international climate conference so he could take his kids trick-or-treating on Halloween. The United Nations’ climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was supposed to provide a global stage for Newsom to tout the state’s work on
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN A radio host says she wakes up every morning wondering if her mom is alive. A man who came to the US to escape political persecution says the country he now calls home is empowering the very people he fled. A health care worker says she fears her family may
Continue ReadingBy ALEJANDRA MOLINA Religion News Service From toppling statues to setting churches ablaze, anti-Catholic vandalism is on the rise. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is trying to understand why and has started to document and track vandalism at Catholic sites across the country. The organization has logged news reports of such incidents dating back
Continue ReadingFLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Italy forward Ciro Immobile has become the latest player to withdraw from the Azzurri squad ahead of Friday’s World Cup qualifier against Switzerland in Rome. Immobile has a muscular injury to his left leg and will be replaced by Sassuolo’s Gianluca Scamacca. There are injury concerns with other players and Inter
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi and Mostafa Salem, CNN The United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdallah bin Zayed met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Tuesday, in the most senior Emirati visit to the country since the start of Syria’s war in 2011. The visit is the biggest signal of a normalization of regional ties
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration announced a new set of immediate and short-term actions Tuesday aimed at alleviating supply chain issues at the nation’s ports, waterways and freight networks as the administration takes steps to implement the newly passed, but not yet signed, bipartisan infrastructure bill. The goals and actions, the White House
Continue ReadingBy KMOV Staff Click here for updates on this story WENTZVILLE, Missouri (KMOV) — A locally-owned brewery has crafted a limited edition beer to honor Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz. Schmitz was one of 13 service members who died during the evacuations in Kabul, Afghanistan in late August. In honor of his legacy, the Friendship Brewing
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Family Access Network has received a $2,500 grant from the Pacific Power Foundation to support services for high schools in Crook County. FAN advocates in Crook County are working every day to make sure students and their families have access to assistance, including rent relief, utility assistance, nourishing food, warm clothing
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press People streaming live video have become ubiquitous at protests, seeking to provide an unedited view into the most violent clashes. A number of people caught video snippets of Kyle Rittenhouse, a tumultuous demonstration against police brutality and the 17-year-old aspiring police officer firing an assault-style rifle during a chaotic night
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