By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Airbnb has reported a strong third quarter with record profit and revenue as more people get vaccinated and return to traveling. Airbnb said Thursday that it earned $834 million on $2.2 billion in revenue during the third quarter, which is traditionally its strongest part of the year because it
Continue ReadingBy MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Buffalo’s previous trip to Jacksonville ended nearly two decades of futility. The Bills were in the playoffs for the first time since 1999 when they lost to the Jaguars in a wild-card game four years ago. It turned out to be one of the
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general and U.S. Senate candidate Eric Schmitt is considering possible criminal charges for a state lawmaker accused of having sex with a drunk woman while on duty as a cop years ago. Schmitt’s office confirmed Thursday that a local judge appointed him special
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An indictment says two guards and a jail secretary smuggled drugs, booze and cellphones to inmates at the troubled Manhattan federal jail for more than a year. Authorities on Thursday announced the arrests of the employees and eight former Metropolitan Correction Center inmates. The lockup has
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say they have referred more than three dozen airline passengers for possible criminal prosecution this year, as airlines report a surge in the number of disruptions on flights. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that it has started 227 enforcement actions against passengers this year, including the ones referred to
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say they have referred more than three dozen airline passengers for possible criminal prosecution this year, as airlines report a surge in the number of disruptions on flights. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that it has started 227 enforcement actions against passengers this year, including the ones referred to
Continue ReadingSAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Former U.S. and Costa Rica coach Steve Sampson is retiring after seven seasons leading the men’s soccer team at Cal Poly, saying the decision was made to improve his health. Sampson, who turns 65 on Jan. 19, has coached the Mustangs to 42 wins, 48 losses and 16 draws,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Maryland hasn’t played in the postseason since 2016, but the Terrapins have a chance to become bowl eligible with a victory over No. 22 Penn State this weekend. Penn State is trying to avoid back-to-back losses in a series the Nittany Lions have dominated. Maryland won last year’s meeting 35-19, but
Continue ReadingBy GENE CHAMBERLAIN Associated Press LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields is feeling a higher sense of confidence because of his own recent play and also because he has some missing pieces back: his coach, Matt Nagy, and running back David Montgomery. The Bears began a three-week period when they can
Continue ReadingCNN By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018. She didn’t consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings and cousins decorated placards and started climate protests in her home city of Kampala, the
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy, Ingrid Formanek and Angela Dewan, CNN It was energy day at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow on Thursday — and some pretty big announcements were made on the end of coal and fossil fuel financing. Here’s what happened on the fourth day of the climate summit. COP26 pledges could
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — La Fiscalía de Quintana Roo informó este jueves que se registró un enfrentamiento entre integrantes de “grupos antagónicos de narcomenudistas” en una playa de Bahía Petempich, en el municipio de Puerto Morelos. “Dos de ellos perdieron la vida en el lugar. No hay heridos de gravedad”, explicó la Fiscalía agregando que
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Chrissy Teigen dice que no tiene ni idea de si Kim Kardashian y Pete Davidson son pareja, pero tiene algo que decir al respecto. Teigen y su marido, el cantante John Legend, son muy amigos de Kardashian y Kanye West. Kardashian solicitó el divorcio en febrero. Kardashian fue vista recientemente con
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Cohen, CNN Laurie Bedell feels trapped inside her home and her ailing body. “I pretty much live here in the living room,” Bedell said from her house near Pittsburgh. “I feel like I’ve lost the life that I had.” Last November, she and her family contracted Covid-19. The virus killed her father. Nearly
Continue ReadingCNN, MAYO CLINIC, KFOX, FAMILY PHOTOS, KUSA By Gabe Cohen, CNN Laurie Bedell feels trapped inside her home and her ailing body. “I pretty much live here in the living room,” Bedell said from her house near Pittsburgh. “I feel like I’ve lost the life that I had.” Last November, she and her family contracted
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa’s Rising Star cave. The skull, from a child that was 4 to 6 years old at the time of death, is the first known to belong to an ancient human
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber has posted a big rebound in third-quarter revenue thanks to riders and drivers returning from pandemic lockdowns, but its bottom-line loss was wider than Wall Street expected. The San Francisco-based company said Thursday its third-quarter loss widened to $2.42 billion, or $1.28 per share. The quarter included stock-based compensation costs
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities say are run by foreign cartels are living in squalid conditions and are sometimes being cheated by their gangland bosses. The situation is so extreme in the rural region amid an increase in
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities say are run by foreign cartels are living in squalid conditions and are sometimes being cheated by their gangland bosses. The situation is so extreme in the rural region amid an increase in
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press No. 20 Houston is back in the Top 25 for the first time in three years. The Cougars have won seven straight games for the first time since putting together an eight-game streak spanning the 2015 and 2016 seasons. Coach Dana Holgorsen’s team will try to stay unbeaten in American Athletic
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