By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon is barring off-duty warehouse workers from the company’s facilities, a move organizers say can hamper union drives. Under the policy shared with workers on Amazon’s internal app, employees are barred from accessing buildings or other working areas on their scheduled days off, and before or after their shifts.
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Derek Jeter’s first significant hire when he was leading the Miami Marlins is no longer with the club. The Marlins said they parted ways with Gary Denbo, who had been the team’s vice president of player development and scouting. The move happened earlier this week. Jeter left the Marlins in February after
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s office says the new Gulf coast refinery is “a dream come true” for the country. On Friday, López Obrador “inaugurated” the partially finished Olmeca refinery in Dos Bocas, which is a city in his home state of Tabasco. The project, when finished, is expected to
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s office says the new Gulf coast refinery is “a dream come true” for the country. On Friday, López Obrador “inaugurated” the partially finished Olmeca refinery in Dos Bocas, which is a city in his home state of Tabasco. The project, when finished, is expected to
Continue ReadingBy Gabby Orr, CNN A push by major US companies to help employees gain access to reproductive services following the US Supreme Court’s ending of federal abortion rights has rankled prominent Republicans and could deepen the GOP’s disaffection with corporate America as the party finds itself on the brink of winning back the US House
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN A leading Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, continues to put lies about the 2020 presidential election at the center of her campaign — this week calling it “disqualifying” and “sickening” for a rival candidate not to say that the election was stolen, though it wasn’t stolen. Lake’s strong
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Redmond Fire & Rescue said Friday it is currently accepting applications for the immediate hiring of 8 -11 entry-level or lateral firefighter paramedics. The deadline for application submission is Friday, August 12 at noon. Details on the position and the application can be found at Redmond Fire & Rescue | Career Opportunities
Continue ReadingBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska over the next five years. Friday’s announcement goes against the Democratic administration’s promises to end new drilling on public lands and
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Cuatro ocupantes de un avión Learjet 35A fallecieron este viernes luego de que cayera a tierra durante las maniobras de despegue en el aeropuerto de Río Grande, en Tierra del Fuego, según reportó la agencia estatal Télam. Los fallecidos eran integrantes del Cuartel Central de Bomberos de la jurisdicción fueguina,
Continue ReadingMEBANE, N.C. (AP) — Police say a 1-year-old infant has died in North Carolina after being left inside a hot car by the father after he went to work. Police in the community of Mebane told local media outlets officers got a call shortly after midday Friday about a child in a car at a
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Steve Almasy, CNN The suspect in an hourslong shooting that killed three law enforcement officers and injured several others in eastern Kentucky was charged Friday with several counts of murder, including murder of a police officer, and assault on a service animal, officials said. Lance Storz, 49, was arraigned in Floyd
Continue ReadingBy Adrienne Broaddus and Jason Kravarik, CNN Steps from an interstate and minutes from an airport sits a nondescript building with a tenant never more in demand. Whole Woman’s Health is one of the nation’s largest independent abortion providers, and the location of its Minnesota clinic is no accident. “Some patients may fly, some may
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and their aligned groups raised more than $80 million in the week after the Supreme Court stripped away a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion. The flood of cash offers one of the first tangible signs that the ruling may energize voters. But party officials
Continue ReadingBRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a toddler has been found dead in a canal near a Florida apartment complex. Bradenton police say someone called 911 Friday morning to report what appeared to be a child in a canal near the Carlton Arms Apartments. The person pulled the child from the water and waited for
Continue ReadingBy STEVE REED AP Sports Writer The Los Angeles Police Department says Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges has been charged with felony domestic violence. Bridges was arrested Wednesday for “intimate partner violence with injury,” which is a felony. The incident occurred two days earlier in West Los Angeles. He was released on $130,000 bond. He
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration released a proposed plan on Friday for where the federal government intends to hold offshore oil and gas lease sales in federal waters for the next five years. The plan would mainly limit drilling to the Gulf of Mexico, with one proposed lease sale in waters off Alaska.
Continue ReadingBy Cynthia Yip Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU, Hawaii (KITV) — About 129,000 people in Hawaii, or more than 11 percent of the adult population, are diagnosed with diabetes. The Diabetes Association of America in Hawaii reports, an additional 39,000 people in The Islands, have diabetes but don’t know it, greatly increasing
Continue ReadingBy Bridget Chavez Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Those who knew and loved Kevin McDowell said he was a light and lived his life in a way that always uplifted others. “Eloquent, loving, giving, patient, he was, as he would say, ‘Mom it’s everything, it’s all love,’” Rhonda Jackson,
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Friday that setbacks for President Joe Biden’s climate efforts at home have “slowed the pace” of some of the commitments from other countries to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuels, but he insisted the U.S. would still achieve its own ambitious climate goals
Continue ReadingBy Jonny Hallam, Josh Pennington and Arnaud Siad CNN Pro-Russian investigators in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) on Friday said they have charged another two British citizens with being “mercenaries,” according to the Donetsk News Agency. “An investigation is now underway against British mercenaries Dylan Healy and Andrew Hill. They are charged under the
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