The Associated Press NEW YORK CITY (AP) — Google is planning to buy New York’s St. John’s Terminal for $2.1 billion, making it the anchor of its Hudson Square campus. Alphabet and Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said Tuesday that the company is looking to invest more than $250 million in its New York
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Google is planning to buy New York’s St. John’s Terminal for $2.1 billion, making it the anchor of its Hudson Square campus. Alphabet and Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said Tuesday that the company is looking to invest more than $250 million in its New York campus
Continue ReadingBy KMOV.COM STAFF Click here for updates on this story SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KMOV) — The Illinois Supreme Court has extended the temporary stay on residential evictions through Oct. 3. The extension will allow for more rental assistance to be distributed through the statewide Court-Based Rental Assistance Program (CBRAP), which was launched on Sept. 13, according
Continue ReadingCNN, HLN By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business McDonald’s pledged Tuesday to significantly reduce the use of plastics in its Happy Meal toys worldwide, two years after the fast food giant faced backlash in the United Kingdom over environmental concerns. For McDonald’s young customers, that means instead of some plastic figurines, they’ll get 3-D paper-based toys
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people will get a chance to know the shy teenager Evan Hansen this month, but Ben Platt is waving farewell. The actor and singer who originated the role of the teen in 2015 and led the stage musical “Dear Evan Hansen” to its
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster, Brian Vitagliano and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Prince Andrew was served with legal papers in a civil sexual assault case against him when the senior British royal’s US-based lawyer was sent the suit by FedEx and email on Monday, court papers show. The US court documents, seen by CNN, show the legal papers
Continue ReadingCNN By Sonia Moghe, CNN A 2009 settlement agreement between sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Roberts Giuffre — the woman who accused him of sexual abuse and of trafficking her to Prince Andrew, among others — was unsealed Monday. It shows that Epstein paid Giuffre $500,000 to drop the case without any admission of
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Surging infections are overloading hospitals and threatening to shutter classrooms around the country. But the tests have already disappeared from pharmacy shelves in many
Continue ReadingFULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — The widow of Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda has died. The team says Jo Lasorda died Monday night at her home in Fullerton, California. No cause was given. The former Joan Miller met Tommy Lasorda at a minor league baseball game in her hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, where he
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN After months of concealing her blossoming belly, Jeannie Mai Jenkins revealed Monday that she and her rapper husband Jeezy are expecting their first child together. “The Real” co-host shared the news on Monday’s episode of her show. “I can definitely say that our Real fam is growing,” she said. “It’s
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Many were hoping Michael K. Williams would score a posthumous Emmy and the man who won the award in the category he was nominated has paid tribute to him. Tobias Menzies won the outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for his role in “The Crown.” And while he wasn’t
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to choke the finances of criminal ransomware gangs by sanctioning a Russia-based virtual currency brokerage it says has been used by at least eight ransomware gangs to launder criminal proceeds. The Treasury Department sanctions aim to disrupt the economic
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to choke the finances of criminal ransomware gangs by sanctioning a Russia-based virtual currency brokerage it says has been used by at least eight ransomware gangs to launder criminal proceeds. The Treasury Department sanctions aim to disrupt the economic
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Lawsuits have been filed in several western Washington counties claiming auditors used uncertified voting equipment and manipulated thousands of ballots in an unspecified statewide race last year. The Daily Herald reports the lawsuits in Snohomish, Whatcom and Clark counties seek a “full forensic audit” conducted in the same manner as one
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hoffman, Priscilla Alvarez, Geneva Sands, Paul LeBlanc and Paul P. Murphy, CNN White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the White House is seeking more information on the “horrific” viral videos that appear to show US Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian refugees at the US border. “I’ve seen some
Continue ReadingBy ADAM DEVLIN Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Several videos surfaced over the weekend of an unidentified shirtless man hitching rides on the exterior of multiple semi-trucks Friday as they traveled down Atlanta area highways. The unidentified man was wearing a durag, had a surgical mask around his neck,
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its borrowing limit and provide federal disaster and refugee aid. Republicans in the Senate are expected to block the measure, however, as Congress works to avoid a federal shutdown at the end of the
Continue ReadingBy REBEKKA SCHRAMM Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — A new policy at Lenox Square requiring minors to have a parent or guardian present with them at the mall goes into effect at 3 p.m. The popular Buckhead shopping center announced at the start of September it will implement the
Continue ReadingBy FOX 12 STAFF Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, WA (KPTV) — Police in Vancouver are urging people to stay alert after a string of purse snatchings in parking lots. Officers have responded to multiple reports in the past week. Police say in each case, a man walked up to a woman
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has ruled that prosecutors presented enough evidence against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and two of her political allies for their trial to continue on charges of incitement. Suu Kyi and her elected government were ousted by the military in February. A special court is hearing various
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