CNN By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Amtrak service will likely be reduced next year as it complies with the upcoming vaccine requirement for federal workers. Amtrak president Stephen Gardner testified before a House of Representatives committee Thursday that the passenger rail operator does not anticipate having enough employees to run all trains when the mandate
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business The independent board that oversees Facebook parent company, Meta, is once again urging the social media giant to be more transparent about its content moderation decisions. The Facebook Oversight Board on Thursday released two rulings overturning Meta’s decisions to remove user posts from its platforms, saying the content did not
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer American Chris Plys will have two chances to take home a curling medal from the Beijing Olympics. Plys is the only member of the 2022 U.S. men’s team who wasn’t a part of the gold medal-winning foursome in Pyeongchang. He also qualified for the mixed doubles field along with
Continue ReadingCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury has awarded a largely symbolic settlement of more than $301 billion in a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi bar. The suit stems from a 2017 crash that killed 59-year-old Tamra Kindred, her 16-year-old granddaughter Aujuni Anderson, and the other driver, Joshua Delbosque. Kindred’s daughters alleged Beer Belly’s
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press One casualty of this year’s congressional redistricting process across the country is the swing seat in a House district. Political lines are redrawn every 10 years to reflect population changes. Both parties, but especially Republicans, are trying to protect their congressional incumbents during the latest redistricting. To do that they’re
Continue ReadingSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera has signed a law permitting same-sex couples to marry and adopt. The ceremony came a little more than six months after the conservative leader surprised many by saying he would smooth the way for a marriage equality law that had long been stuck in the nation’s Congress.
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A fire at Tunisia’s largest Islamist party’s headquarters in the capital Tunis Thursday killed one person and injured eighteen, authorities and the party said. The latter included a former prime minister who was hurt jumping out of a window. In a statement,
Continue ReadingGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb has a core injury that will prevent him from playing Sunday and could keep him out for much longer. Packers coach Matt LaFleur says Cobb has a “pretty significant injury” and is “going to be out for a while.” The NFC North-leading Packers
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman faces criminal charges because authorities say she told her basketball player daughter “you better hit her” before the girl punched an opposing player in the head during a game. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Thursday that the mother’s words were the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman faces criminal charges because authorities say she told her basketball player daughter “you better hit her” before the girl punched an opposing player in the head during a game. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Thursday that the mother’s words were the
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Rapper Travis Scott says in an interview that he didn’t know that fans had died at his Astroworld festival in Houston until after his performance ended. In the interview with Charlamagne Tha God posted on Thursday, Scott said he paused the performance a couple of times but couldn’t hear
Continue ReadingBy JAMES FELTON, JAMES PAXSON Click here for updates on this story MICHIGAN (WNEM) — Federal help is on the way for one local hospital as Michigan continues to see a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. At the request of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a 22-person medical team is coming to Covenant in Saginaw to
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man facing two murder charges has waived his right to a preliminary hearing, which means the case will automatically move forward in court. Prosecutors have accused 56-year-old Richard Ross of killing Edwina “Eddy” Devin at her Grangeville home on Sept. 30 and then killing her adult son, Michael Devin,
Continue ReadingCNN By Thomas Lake, CNN James Brown did a lot of living in his 73 years. He threw knuckleballs from the pitcher’s mound and hard left jabs in the boxing ring. He survived beatings from an uncle and a near-electrocution by sadistic White men in the Jim Crow South. He was the Godfather of Soul,
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Zachary Avis and his wife have a long list of houses to clean with their cleaning business Sakred Space.
Continue ReadingBy Tom Seegmueller Click here for updates on this story NEWTON, Georgia (Albany Herald) — When a property has been farmed and managed by the same family for almost a century and a half, it inevitably evolves with each generation that becomes its conservators. This is certainly the case of the property in Baker County
Continue ReadingBy REBEKKA SCHRAMM Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Attorneys for the mother of a student killed by a malfunctioning elevator at an Atlanta apartment building announced Thursday they’ve filed a wrongful death lawsuit. JauMarcus McFarland, 18, a Missouri native who attended Champion Prep Academy, died on August 31 after he
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Ahmed Qorei, former prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority. Personal Birth date: March 1937 Birth place: Abu Dis, West Bank Birth name: Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qorei Other Facts His last name can be spelled Qurei, Qureia, Qrei, Qurai or Korei. It is pronounced
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis. The museum and the Sackler family jointly announced on Thursday that the institution and their once-deep
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a self-governing US territory located in the Caribbean. About Puerto Rico (from the CIA World Factbook) Area: 9,104 sq km Population: 3,098,423 (2022 est.) Median age: 43.6 years Capital: San Juan Religion: Roman Catholic 56%, Protestant 33%, other 3%, none 7% Unemployment: 10.8%
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