CNN By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Spotify has had a rough couple of weeks. Its stock took a big hit Wednesday because of a slowing growth forecast, and the company has seen creators from the music and podcasting world desert the platform because of comments by comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan. While the departures
Continue ReadingBy KTRK Staff Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A senior police officer with the Houston Police Department credits training he learned from Memorial Hermann Life Flight crews for saving the life of his K9 partner. K9 officer Nate was injured when a robbery suspect stabbed him during a chase
Continue ReadingBy Brooke Taylor Click here for updates on this story HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A chase that started in southwest Houston ended with officers opening fire and hitting a robbery suspect on Westheimer Road, according to police. Police said officers started pursuing a suspect at about 3:40 p.m. around Leawood Boulevard and Bissonnet Street. It
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As Oregon lawmakers return to the state Capitol Tuesday for the 2022 legislative session, their list of priorities range from affordable housing, bolstering the state’s workforce and a $500 million cushion for the next biennium to tax cuts and limiting the emergency power of
Continue ReadingBy Michael Raimondi Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO) — A Phoenix teacher is organizing a walk-in protest Monday morning to get more support for public education. Chico Robinson says some parents, teachers, and students will wear all black Monday morning. Before classes at Kenilworth Elementary begin, the group will stand on
Continue ReadingBy Jared Dillingham Click here for updates on this story MESA, Arizona (KPHO) — A unique gem mine in the mountains northeast of Mesa is in the process of rebuilding after a wildfire wiped it out in 2020. “The fire came roaring up the mountain. It was so intense,” the mine’s owner, Kurt Cavano said,
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Sarah Michelle Gellar may have given her share of stellar performances during her acting career — but even she probably couldn’t pull off playing rapper Big Sean. The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star had a hilarious reaction to the moment celebrity couple Big Sean and his girlfriend Jhené Aiko were mislabeled
Continue ReadingBy BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A landslide election victory has opened the door for Portugal’s Socialists to start spending a huge financial windfall from the European Union, though the center-left party faces plenty of challenges. The Socialists collected 41.7% of the vote and a majority 117 seats in the 230-seat parliament
Continue ReadingBy JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer Canadian forward Sarah Fillier and United States defenseman Carolina Harvey are considered to be among women’s hockey’s next generation of stars in preparing to make their Olympic debuts at the Beijing Winter Games. Both are the youngest players on their respective teams. The 21-year-old Fillier is a dynamic skater
Continue ReadingATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia has hired assistant coach Bryan McClendon to return to his alma mater less than a month after he took a job with Miami. McClendon had been on new Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal’s staff at Oregon, and he followed Cristobal to Miami, taking a job early this month as receivers coach
Continue ReadingATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia has hired assistant coach Bryan McClendon to return to his alma mater less than a month after he took a job with Miami. McClendon had been on new Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal’s staff at Oregon, and he followed Cristobal to Miami, taking a job early this month as receivers coach
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators have given full approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine after reviewing additional data on its safety and effectiveness. The decision Monday by the Food and Drug Administration comes after many tens of millions of Americans have already received the shot under its original emergency
Continue ReadingA stripped-back report into gatherings held at the heart of the UK’s government while the country was under strict Covid-19 restrictions has now been published. In her findings, senior civil servant Sue Gray highlights “failures of leadership,” poor judgment and heavy alcohol consumption in Johnson’s administration during the pandemic. Read the full text here: The-CNN-Wire™
Continue ReadingOpinion by Asutosh Padhi for CNN Business Perspectives As the managing partner for McKinsey in North America, I talk to CEOs every week, and I keep hearing the same thing across all industries and regions of the US: We’re in one of the most bewildering labor markets in a generation. Job openings remain dramatically higher
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — An Amnesty International delegation is in Malta this week. They’re calling for charges to be dropped against three rescued migrants accused of commandeering a merchant ship in 2019 and forcing it to go to Europe rather than back to Libya. The Amnesty delegation plans to
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN Within weeks of a Tennessee school district moving to ban “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel depicting the horrors of the Holocaust, readers are propelling it to the top of best seller lists more than 30 years after it was first published. The hardcover edition of “The Complete Maus,” which includes
Continue ReadingCNN By Scottie Andrew, CNN Within weeks of a Tennessee school district moving to ban “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel depicting the horrors of the Holocaust, readers are propelling it to the top of best seller lists more than 30 years after it was first published. The hardcover edition of “The Complete Maus,” which
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and ROB HARRIS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soccer coach Avram Grant will be investigated by FIFA after being accused in a new investigative report of sexually harassing multiple women. Israel’s Channel 12 TV on Sunday broadcast a series of interviews with women saying that Grant had made unwanted advances while
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A plaque honoring baseball legend Jackie Robinson that was vandalized in Georgia is coming to Kansas City’s Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to be put on display. The sign was erected in 2001 outside the birthplace of Robinson near Cairo, Georgia. Community members there discovered last year that someone had shot
Continue ReadingSnow showers on Mt. Bachelor will last into tonight. There will be a short break Tuesday morning, but more snow is expected Tuesday into Tuesday night. Highs will be in the low 20’s, but this will be a wind-driven snow, so watch for sub-zero wind chill factors. Skies will clear mid-week. Temperatures will stay cold
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