By Emilie Heidemann Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — Madison biomedical giant Exact Sciences is expanding its Wisconsin presence by investing $350 million in its local campus, thereby creating 1,300 new jobs, the company said Thursday. Exact Sciences is adding a 266,000-square-foot research and development facility to its
Continue ReadingBy Eva McKend and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Biden administration is facing intense scrutiny from a small group of Senate Democrats about the administration’s Covid-19 pandemic response, mainly the testing shortage as cases of the Omicron variant have surged across the United States. In a letter to White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeffrey Zients on
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — With a state funeral, Italy has paid tribute to David Sassoli, the president of the European Union’s parliament, who died earlier in the week. An EU flag draped the coffin. Top EU and Italian authorities attended the service on Friday in a church in Rome. Sassoli died in an Italian hospital on
Continue ReadingCNN, KTVT, WSB By Marshall Cohen, CNN The Justice Department on Thursday announced the first sedition charges related to the January 6 insurrection, a watershed moment in the year-long investigation. The case revolves around the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group, and its leader Stewart Rhodes. Many of the defendants were already facing charges for
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Business) — Las personas que intentan volar de Estados Unidos a China pronto pueden enfrentarse a un escenario impensable: a partir de la próxima semana, es probable que no haya vuelos comerciales con destino a China, ya que Beijing intenta evitar las infecciones por coronavirus antes de los Juegos Olímpicos de
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans overlooked shortages, spiking prices and uncertainty over the omicron variant to break spending records during the critical holiday shopping season. But figures released Friday show that after spending robustly early in the holiday season, consumers sharply slowed their purchases from November to December. The
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans overlooked shortages, spiking prices and uncertainty over the omicron variant to break spending records during the critical holiday shopping season. But figures released Friday show that after spending robustly early in the holiday season, consumers sharply slowed their purchases from November to December. The
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe and Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Consumers are getting grumpy about inflation, Omicron and a host of other challenges. That’s not a good sign for the US economy. Americans shopped less in December, causing the first drop in retail sales since the summer. Sales dropped 1.9% compared with November, adjusted for seasonal swings,
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has strongly repeated its demand that NATO doesn’t expand eastward despite the rejection of that by the military alliance amid a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday described Moscow’s demands that NATO will neither expand nor deploy forces to Ukraine and
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Scientists believe they have identified a specific gene variant that may protect against severe COVID-19 infection, something they say could be key to developing new drugs to tackle the virus. While we know that factors such as age and chronic
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities say children aged between 5-11 will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 starting late January, as the country grapples with a virus surge and low adult vaccination rates. Parents or guardians can schedule appointments starting this week to get their children inoculated with Pfizer jabs that will be
Continue ReadingBy Omar Sachedina and Ben Cousins Click here for updates on this story Saskatoon, Sask. (CTV Network) — Dozens of Afghan women are elated to be experiencing their first Canadian winter after a harrowing journey escaping Afghanistan, where they faced retaliation for their work in education. About 200 Afghan women and their families began arriving
Continue ReadingBy ULIANA PAVLOVA and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish and Armenian envoys have met in Moscow to try to end decades of bitterness between their countries and to establish diplomatic ties. Turkey was among the first countries to recognize Armenia’s independence in 1991. But the neighbors share a bitter relationship and have
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — América Latina está experimentando un alarmante retroceso de las libertades básicas y algunos líderes elegidos democráticamente están atacando la independencia de la sociedad civil, dijo Tamara Taraciuk Broner, directora interina de Human Rights Watch para las Américas. Esa es una de las conclusiones del informe mundial sobre el estado de los derechos humanos de HRW
Continue ReadingBy ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press VALKENBURG, Netherlands (AP) — Shops, bars and restaurants in a southern Dutch town have opened in a protest action that underscored growing anger at weeks of coronavirus lockdown measures. The move Friday comes a day before some of the restrictions are expected to be eased. People are
Continue ReadingBy ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press VALKENBURG, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has eased its coronavirus lockdown, allowing non-essential stores, universities, sports clubs and “contact businesses” like hairdressers to reopen for the first time in nearly a month. But while many businesses can open Saturday until 5 p.m., bars, restaurants, museums and
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Defense Ministry says that a massive leak from a military equipment database includes only publicly available information and is not harmful. The ministry said Friday that the database found on the internet is a list coming from a body responsible for making purchases for Poland’s military. It blamed the leak
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Defense Ministry says that a massive leak from a military equipment database includes only publicly available information and is not harmful. The ministry said Friday that the database found on the internet is a list coming from a body responsible for making purchases for Poland’s military. It blamed the leak
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Tech stocks have been plunging as Wall Street obsesses over the Federal Reserve’s next moves and how aggressively it will hike borrowing costs over the next 12 months to rein in inflation. But attention could soon shift elsewhere as corporate earnings season arrives, delivering a distraction from the economy and
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, Sharon Braithwaite, Amy Cassidy, Lauren Kent and Radina Gigova, CNN Of all the recent revelations of lockdown-busting parties held by Britain’s top officials, the latest report may be the most damaging yet. On the night before Prince Philip’s funeral last April, with the nation in official mourning and Queen Elizabeth preparing to
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