By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. competition regulators have mounted an effort to tighten enforcement against illegal mergers, in line with President Joe Biden’s mandate for greater scrutiny to big business combinations. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced they are seeking public comment on how current merger guidelines
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially launch. The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for “every home in the U.S.” to order four tests, to
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Brown Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Mayor Quinton Lucas will get his first taste of Pittsburgh barbecue. Mayor Lucas won a friendly bet with his counterpart in Steelers’ territory. Lucas wagered Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que with Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey that the Chiefs would beat the
Continue ReadingCNN By Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN As the US has been warning the world of a potentially “imminent” Russian invasion of Ukraine, one foreign leader in particular has not been convinced: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Tension has been building between Zelensky and Biden administration officials, sources told CNN, amid a disagreement over how
Continue ReadingCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Harvard Law School clinic has sued federal immigration officials for failing to release records about the use of solitary confinement in detention facilities. The lawsuit filed by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program in Boston federal court asserts that it submitted records requests to federal agencies but they haven’t
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Johnson, Shain Bergan Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY METRO (KCTV) — Multiple Kansas City area schools canceled class for the middle of this week because of mass staff shortages caused by COVID. The Olathe School District and Kansas City, KS, Public Schools are among the districts that have shut
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge has heard arguments on whether an elite public high school in northern Virginia discriminated against Asian American families when it overhauled its admissions policies amid a push to increase Black and Hispanic representation there. The hearing Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria debated the
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Cate Blanchett dressed up as her daughter’s teacher during the early months of the pandemic in order to get homeschooling done. When Blanchett’s 7-year-old daughter began staying home in March 2020 due to Covid-19, Blanchett had to take on the role of teacher, which, she tells the BBC, wasn’t easy. She said
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El derrame de petróleo en el mar de Ventanilla, en la provincia del Callao en Perú, se encuentra bajo control, informó este lunes el Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil de Perú (Indeci). La agencia también indicó que continúan las labores de control y limpieza del litoral en coordinación con las autoridades locales.
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A coalition of media groups says restrictions on access to the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s death amount to an unconstitutional closing of the courtroom. Citing the risks of the pandemic, Judge Paul Magnuson has restricted the number
Continue ReadingBy Spencer Thomas Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — A Vancouver woman along with her father and 8-month-old unborn child, survived a hit and run accident last Friday. FOX 12 spoke with the mother of two, Alexis Collins, who talked about the harrowing experience that she labeled as “a mother’s
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story BELLEVUE, Washington (KPTV) — Two people and their dog are safe after escaping their home after it slid off its foundation and collapsed near Seattle. It happened early Monday morning in Bellevue. The home ended up angled on a hillside after being moved off its
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The Biden administration plans to significantly expand efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires that have torched areas of the U.S. West by more aggressively thinning forests around areas called “hotspots” where nature and neighborhoods collide.
Continue ReadingBy Andrew James Click here for updates on this story HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Work to clear roads and parking lots continues in Henderson County after a weekend snow storm. Emergency officials said many secondary roads are still covered with snow and ice. “We’ve been at it since about 7 o’clock,” Andrew Rhodes said
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Jonathan M. Katz’s lively, deeply researched “Gangsters of Capitalism” tracks the blood-soaked transformation of Smedley Butler, a Philadelphia mainline Quaker and congressman’s son, from his role as spearhead of U.S. imperialism beginning in 1898 as a swashbuckling Marine officer to repentant antiwar activist. The author, a former Associated Press foreign
Continue ReadingBy Kristy Kepley-Steward Click here for updates on this story FAIRVIEW, North Carolina (WLOS) — No injuries were reported after a fire destroyed a 100-year-old home in Fairview Monday. Crews with the Fairview Volunteer Fire Department report that the homeowners lost all their belongings and that they were not home when the fire started. Fire
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — California prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot who ran a red light, slammed into another car and killed two people in 2019. The defendant appears to be the first person to be charged with
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — California prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot who ran a red light, slammed into another car and killed two people in 2019. The defendant appears to be the first person to be charged with
Continue ReadingBy Kristy Kepley-Steward Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Asheville authorities are searching for their suspect after a teenager was shot over the weekend at a “Sweet 16” birthday party. Officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Livingston Street on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, at around 10 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, yet COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing. Modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the omicron wave subsides this spring. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the
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