Year: 2021

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike Parson has condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security numbers. Parson’s criticism of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday came even though

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators say they are cracking down on what they’re calling an explosion of businesses’ use of fake reviews and other misleading messages to promote their products and services on social media. The Federal Trade Commission says it has warned hundreds of major corporations and smaller

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — Republican Adam Laxalt hopes to win the race for Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat by drawing stark contrast between his positions and the direction he says Democrats and their allies in Big Tech, Hollywood and the media are taking the country. He launched his

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University has removed the chair of its Department of French Studies. The Advocate reports that the move comes after six women filed a lawsuit accusing LSU of doing little to address allegations of sexual harassment and assault against a French graduate student. An email from an LSU official

BROWNING, Mont. (AP) — Blackfeet Chief and former tribal chairman Earl Old Person has died of cancer. He was 92. The tribe announced Old Person died Wednesday at Blackfeet Community Hospital. Old Person was elected to the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council in 1954 and served for over 60 years. He was chairman for over 50

CUAUTLA, Mexico (AP) — In a story published Oct. 14, 2021, about the search for missing people in Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously reported the title of Angélica Durán-Martínez. She is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, not an assistant professor.

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A Coast Guard official says the amount of crude oil spilled in an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California is believed to be close to 25,000 gallons, or only about one-fifth of what officials initially feared. The worst-case scenario for the leak off the coast

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will ask its outside experts to review Merck’s pill to treat COVID-19 at a meeting in late November. Regulators announced the Nov. 30 meeting on Thursday. It’s a signal they will conduct a detailed review of the drug’s safety and

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Domino’s Pizza says shortages of cooks, drivers and other staff are pinching sales at its U.S. stores. The world’s largest pizza chain said Thursday its same-store sales __ or sales at stores open at least a year __ dropped 1.9% in the July-September period.