GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has given emergency approval to a coronavirus vaccine made by U.S.-based Novavax, paving the way for its inclusion into the U.N.-backed program to get such vaccines to poorer countries around the world. The vaccine, known as CovavaxTM, becomes the ninth vaccine to be granted an emergency use authorization
Continue ReadingLight snow fell on the northern Cascades early this morning, but even that is likely to break up through the day. Skies will be partly to mostly cloudy for all the resorts. Hoodoo opens today and will be open through the holiday season. Willamette Pass Ski Resort will be open Saturday and Sunday. Weekday operations
Continue ReadingWINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Winnipeg Jets coach Paul Maurice has resigned in a surprise move in his ninth year with the team. The team says the move is effective immediately. Dave Lowry has been elevated to interim coach. The Jets have lost four of their last five games and are 13-11-5 after falling 5-2 to
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president will have the final decision on a controversial media bill seen as targeting a U.S.-owned TV network that’s often critical of the Polish government, after lawmakers overturned a Senate veto on the proposed legislation. The lower house unexpectedly returned to the law that seemed
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business After three months of testimony from 32 witnesses, the criminal fraud case of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has made its way to the jury of eight men and four women who will decide her fate. In dueling closing arguments spanning two court days, the prosecution and defense put forth
Continue ReadingBy Walé Azeez, CNN Business A billionaire British aristocrat is taking the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail Online private after agreeing to buy out minority shareholders in a deal valuing the company at £885 million ($1.2 billion). Lord Rothermere, whose great grandfather founded the newspaper empire in 1896, announced the buyout bid for
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN US cybersecurity officials on Friday issued an “emergency directive” ordering all federal civilian agencies to quickly address a critical software flaw that is impacting big tech firms around the world. The order from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency gives federal agencies until December 23 to document internet-facing installations of
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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… We will stay chilly today, but we are looking at a nice break between systems. Skies will be partly cloudy and highs will be in the mid 30’s to low 40’s. Breezes will be light out of the south. Under partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies, tonight’s lows will range from
Continue ReadingBy FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency says the number of cases of child abuse and exploitation it has handled in Lebanon has nearly doubled in the past year amid the Mideast country’s economic meltdown. Lebanon in struggling with the worst economic crisis in its history, with inflation and unemployment
Continue ReadingHOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Sears plans to sell the sprawling suburban Chicago corporate headquarters that has been the struggling retailer’s home for three decades. Sears’ parent company, Transformco, confirmed this week that in early 2022 it plans to market the 273-acre corporate headquarters in the northwest suburb of Hoffman Estates. Transformco has been downsizing
Continue ReadingHOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Sears plans to sell the sprawling suburban Chicago corporate headquarters that has been the struggling retailer’s home for three decades. Sears’ parent company, Transformco, confirmed this week that in early 2022 it plans to market the 273-acre corporate headquarters in the northwest suburb of Hoffman Estates. Transformco has been downsizing
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The developer of Russia’s Sputnik V says its vaccine provides the best protection against the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The Gamaleya Institute said in a statement on Friday that a preliminary laboratory study showed Sputnik V had “the best virus neutralization results against omicron in comparison with other vaccines.” The claim
Continue ReadingBy Brian Lowry, CNN For those needing additional evidence that streaming has thrown a lifeline to movies for grownups, look no further than this weekend, which brings three of them, with two hitting theaters for reasons that have more to do with award requirements than commerce. Each of those films come with the pedigree of
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Lowry, CNN For those needing additional evidence that streaming has thrown a lifeline to movies for grownups, look no further than this weekend, which brings three of them, with two hitting theaters for reasons that have more to do with award requirements than commerce. Each of those films come with the pedigree
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business The nation’s labor shortage just cost FedEx $470 million in its most recent quarter. But its executives believe the hiring situation is going to get better soon. Although FedEx’s revenue was up nearly $3 billion to $23.5 billion in the quarter ended November 30, its adjusted income was essentially unchanged.
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Una tendencia vaga y viral de TikTok que advierte sobre violencia escolar en todo Estados Unidos este viernes ––que las autoridades han desestimado como no creíble–– causa cierres generalizados de escuelas. También ha acaparado los recursos de las fuerzas de seguridad y ha generado preocupación entre las familias antes de una temporada
Continue ReadingVAL D’ISERE, France (AP) — Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the next four World Cup races in France. The Swiss team says Gut-Behrami is now in isolation after taking a PCR test in Switzerland. She and two team officials who also now tested positive had left French resort
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the departed United Kingdom are showing that their relationship remains on the rocks even if last year’s Brexit trade deal was supposed to have ended the acrimony between them. On Friday, they postponed talks on their continued deep-seated differences into the New Year.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The NHL has postponed all games for the Colorado Avalanche and Florida Panthers through at least the Christmas weekend amid worsening COVID-19 test results across the league. The NHL cited “concern with the number of positive cases within the last two days as well as concern for continued COVID
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press An 11-day war between Israel and Gaza’s ruling Hamas militant group in May left over 260 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. On the sixth day, the Israeli air force bombed a 12-story tower roughly an hour after ordering all occupants to evacuate. No one was injured, but the building was destroyed.
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