By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer By offering its existing delivery platform technology to food banks for free, DoorDash, like a growing number of companies, is providing something that many nonprofits say is even more valuable than cash – knowhow. Project DASH has already made more than a million deliveries, the equivalent of about 21
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NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winner of the National Book Award for poetry, Martín Espada, is among 20 Puerto Rican writers chosen as the inaugural fellows for a program co-founded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund. The Letras Boricuas Fellows are a blend of new and established voices
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By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer By offering its existing delivery platform technology to food banks for free, DoorDash, like a growing number of companies, is providing something that many nonprofits say is even more valuable than cash – knowhow. Project DASH has already made more than a million deliveries, the equivalent of about 21
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution has sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $43.2 million, a record price for a document or book sold at auction. Sotheby’s announced Friday that the buyer was hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin. He will loan the Constitution
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jeff Merkley on Friday came out against to keeping Jerome Powell at the helm of the Federal Reserve due to what they see as his insufficient response to the climate crisis. The opposition further complicates the imminent decision by President Joe Biden on whether to
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says Kevin De Bruyne contracted the coronavirus while on international duty with Belgium and is isolating. Guardiola says De Bruyne found out on Wednesday that he had tested positive. He is back in England and is vaccinated. The midfielder will miss the Premier League game against
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By Jamie Gumbrecht, Jacqueline Howard, Maggie Fox and John Bonifield, CNN US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed the use of Covid-19 vaccine boosters Friday for all adults. Walensky made her recommendation just hours after CDC vaccine advisers voted unanimously to recommend booster doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Photographer Mick Rock, whose iconic portraits of rock stars saw him dubbed “the man who shot the 70s,” has died. He was 72. A statement posted Friday on Rock’s official social media accounts said: “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic
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CNNEE (CNN) — La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA) autorizó este viernes refuerzos de las vacunas contra el covid-19 de Pfizer / BioNTech y Moderna para todos los adultos. La FDA enmendó la autorización de uso de emergencia existente para dosis de refuerzo de las vacunas de ARNm. Los refuerzos se autorizaron
Continue Reading By Jamie Gumbrecht, Jacqueline Howard, Maggie Fox and John Bonifield, CNN US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed the use of Covid-19 vaccine boosters Friday for all adults. Walensky made her recommendation just hours after CDC vaccine advisers voted unanimously to recommend booster doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Now that the United States has rolled out Covid-19 booster shots for all fully vaccinated adults, some parents have been wondering if or when their vaccinated teenagers might need to get a booster dose of vaccine — and researchers are working to have an answer soon. Currently, a booster dose of
Continue Reading ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials say an earthquake with magnitude 5.1 has jolted Erzurum province in eastern Turkey, demolishing a number of houses in some villages. At least two people were extracted alive from beneath fallen rubble but there were no immediate reports of deaths or other people being trapped. Turkey’s disaster management agency said
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — An organization of more than 100 Olympic and non-Olympic sports bodies has told members it is preparing to shut itself down within months. The Global Association of International Sports Federations also organizes multi-sport events including the World Urban Games and World Combat Games. Those are outside the formal control of the
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Después de vencer la leucemia cuando era adolescente y unirse al periódico de su universidad cuando el covid-19 cambió la vida en el campus, Raquel Coronell Uribe ahora está haciendo historia en Harvard. Coronell Uribe, de 23 años, será la primera presidenta hispana de Harvard Crimson, el periódico universitario diario más
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD, MATTHEW PERRONE and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is opening COVID-19 vaccine boosters to all adults, and urging them for anyone 50 and older. The decision Friday seeks to simplify what has been a confusing list of who’s eligible. Now for anyone 18 or older, the only requirement
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD, MATTHEW PERRONE and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is opening COVID-19 vaccine boosters to all adults, and urging them for anyone 50 and older. The decision Friday seeks to simplify what has been a confusing list of who’s eligible. Now for anyone 18 or older, the only requirement
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Chelsea’s striker crisis is starting to ease. Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner are back in training and expected to return soon though the English Premier League game at Leicester on Saturday is too soon. Lukaku, who was Chelsea’s record signing, and Werner have been out since sustaining injuries in the team’s 4-0
Continue Reading By ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are trying to locate a group of Dutch tourists who left a hotel where they were quarantined after testing positive for coronavirus. Seven of nine of the infected tourists vanished, according to local authorities. Police are searching for them and airports are on full alert
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities said Friday there are no more migrants camping along the Belarus side of the European Union’s eastern border, but attempts at illegally crossing into the bloc’s territory are continuing and becoming more aggressive. Hundreds of Iraqis flew back home Thursday from Belarus after abandoning their hopes of reaching the
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business In spring 2020, in the depths of coronavirus lockdowns, investors couldn’t dump Macy’s stock fast enough. Shares fell as low as $4.38 apiece. That was then. On Thursday, Macy’s stock jumped 21% after the company reported better-than-expected earnings. That brought gains so far this year to more than 230%. A
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By Amanda Davies and Jack Bantock, CNN There are just three races to go in one of the hardest fought, most closely contested Formula One championships in recent history — and Valtteri Bottas believes he knows where the drivers’ title is headed. His Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton trails Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by 14 points
Continue Reading Amanda Davies sits down with Valtteri Bottas at the Qatar GP to discuss the Mercedes/Red Bull rivalry and the drivers’ title race between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A lucky break has kept Collin Morikawa on course to become the first American to win the Race to Dubai. A sloppy finish has cost Rory McIlroy the chance of a second straight day in the outright lead at the DP World Tour Championship. The drama in the second
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews — but New York City residents could soon have more say over the computers making behind-the-scenes decisions about their careers. A bill passed by the city council in early November would
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The longtime girlfriend of slain Memphis rapper Young Dolph has broken her silence following his death. Mia Jaye, the mother of his daughter Aria and son Tre Tre, expressed her grief in a series of posts shared on her Instagram Stories, a day after he was gunned down in a cookie
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A Hawaii couple charged with the murder of their adopted 6-year-old daughter was indicted by a grand jury and faces additional charges in her death, authorities said. Lehua Kalua, 44, and Isaac “Sonny” Kalua, 52, each were indicted and charged with one count of second-degree murder, one count
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews — but New York City residents could soon have more say over the computers making behind-the-scenes decisions about their careers. A bill passed by the city council in early November would
Continue Reading By David Close, CNN Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown has been accused of owning fake Covid-19 vaccination cards in an attempt to usurp NFL protocols. The accusations are made by Steven Ruiz, Brown’s former at-home chef in a Tampa Bay Times exclusive report. The NFL’s Vice President of Communications Brian McCarthy told CNN,
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KTRK) — A statewide Texas Amber Alert was issued early Friday morning for a missing 13-year-old San Antonio girl. Law enforcement officials believe Bella Martinez is in grave or immediate danger, according to ABC affiliate KTRK. Police are looking for 17-year-old Aryel Moreno in connection with her abduction. Bella is described as
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The British government says it intends to ban the Palestinian militant group Hamas as a terrorist organization. The military wing of Hamas has been outlawed in the U.K. since 2001 but the organization as a whole is not proscribed. Home Secretary Priti Patel said Friday that she would she would proscribe the
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