These cities want to give grocery store workers hazard pay
Large grocery chains stopped giving their workers hazard pay for showing up to the job last year. Now, some cities on the West Coast are starting to…
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Court docs: Man facing bias crime charges after repeatedly using racial slur toward Portland police officer
Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A 57-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon after he…
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Biden tells House Democrats to ‘stick together’ in Covid-19 relief push, signals willingness to narrow stimulus checks
President Joe Biden told House Democrats on a conference call Wednesday he is open to narrowing the distribution of $1,400 stimulus checks in his…
Continue ReadingAstraZeneca vaccine appears to substantially reduce transmission of the coronavirus, study shows
The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine appears to substantially reduce transmission of the virus, rather than simply preventing symptomatic…
Continue ReadingTrash, debris pile up in NE Portland as more homeless settle along NE 33rd Drive
Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Along Portland’s Northeast 33rd Drive near Sunderland…
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Two Ohio GOP lawmakers are proposing an annual state holiday in honor of Trump
Two Ohio Republican state lawmakers want to designate June 14 as an annual state holiday honoring former President Donald Trump. In a memo sent last…
Continue ReadingJeff Bezos has been halfway out the door for a while
“Jeff is not leaving.” That is what Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky told analysts on the company’s earnings call…
Continue ReadingJeff Bezos has been halfway out the door at Amazon for a while
“Jeff is not leaving.” That is what Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky told analysts on the company’s earnings call…
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She was stunned by Biden’s inauguration. How this South Carolina mom escaped QAnon
Ashley Vanderbilt says her four-year-old daughter Emmerson knew “something was wrong with her mom.” “I wasn’t one hundred…
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What makes Ford’s new F-150 Raptor pickup truck special isn’t under the hood
Ford revealed a redesigned version of its F-150 Raptor high-performance pickup truck Wednesday with a more squared-edged looks and a wider…
Continue ReadingElon Musk admits Tesla has quality problems
Critics have slammed Tesla for Model 3 quality issues for years. And now CEO Elon Musk is admitting even his harshest critic was right. In early 2018…
Continue ReadingAlabama Senate Committee moves to allow home delivery of distilled spirits
Click here for updates on this story MONTGOMERY, Alabama (WALA) — The Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday…
Continue ReadingAmerica’s inequality problem isn’t new. The pandemic is just emphasizing it
The pandemic is shining a spotlight on America’s inequality problem, but the nation’s economic playing field was far from level long…
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Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will not need a vaccine to participate, organizers say
Athletes and officials will not be required to receive a Covid-19 vaccine in order to take part in this year’s Tokyo Games, organizers…
Continue ReadingThere are no Black execs at the top of Britain’s biggest companies
The number of Black executives at the very top of the biggest companies on the London Stock Exchange has fallen to zero. There are no Black CEOs,…
Continue ReadingChina’s big tech companies are now fighting with each other
As China sharpens its antitrust crackdown on the country’s massive tech companies, two of the industry’s biggest players are taking the…
Continue ReadingKia stock soars on talk of Apple car deal
Kia Motors’ stock just had its best day in more than two decades after news media in South Korea reported that it was closing in on a major…
Continue ReadingAmazon gets court to block $3.3 billion retail deal involving India’s richest man
Amazon has been handed a major legal victory in its fight to block a multibillion-dollar deal between two of India’s biggest retailers. A court…
Continue Reading‘You got to be an idiot’: Reaction to snowmobilers speeding on interstate during snowstorm
Click here for updates on this story KENOSHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Police are asking the public for information to help…
Continue ReadingGov. Evers grants 37 more pardons; ‘make peace with their pasts’
Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday, Feb. 3, that he…
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