Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange levels.
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Bolsonaro insinúa que la variante ómicron es ‘bienvenida’ en Brasil
Sol Amaya (CNN) — En una entrevista en video con el sitio web Gazeta Brasil, el presidente Jair Bolsonaro minimizó la amenaza de la variante ómicron, incluso insinuando que es “bienvenida”. “Ómicron se ha extendido por todo el mundo, como dicen los mismos que realmente saben que tiene una gran capacidad de propagación pero con
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Duke: Krzyzewski sidelined by illness for Wake Forest game
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski won’t coach in Wednesday night’s game at Wake Forest due to an undisclosed illness. The school announced that the retiring Hall of Famer won’t be on the sideline due to a “non-COVID-related virus.” Associate head coach Jon Scheyer will be acting head coach for the eighth-ranked Blue Devils
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10 years later, Costa Concordia disaster vivid for survivors
By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster with a daylong commemoration on Thursday. The events include a Mass and will end with a candlelit vigil near the moment of impact: 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 13, 2012. That’s
Continue Reading Not-guilty plea entered for teen in Michigan school shooting
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A Michigan teenager charged in a mass shooting that left four students dead at his high school and others wounded has made his first appearance in trial court. Fifteen-year-old Ethan Crumbley was arraigned Wednesday in Oakland County Circuit Court via video from the jail where he’s being held on first-degree
Continue Reading Haiti honors victims of massive earthquake 12 years later
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Flags at half-mast are flapping in the wind as Haiti honors the estimated 316,000 people who died in a devastating earthquake that hit 12 years ago. Prime Minister Ariel Henry and other government officials clad in black suits on Wednesday visited the monument topped by a
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Domino’s is giving customers fewer wings as prices surge
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Domino’s Pizza customers ordering chicken wings will soon get fewer of them for the same price. The pizza chain said it’s cutting the number of wings in its $7.99 carry out offer from 10 pieces to just eight because of rising food and labor costs. Wings will also become an
Continue Reading Key dates in Costa Concordia shipwreck, trial and cleanup
By Associated Press (AP) — Italy on Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio. There are some key dates in the saga, including the trial of the captain and the remarkable engineering feat to right the liner from its side so it could be
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Freddy Krueger embrujó esta casa, y se acaba de vender por casi US$ 3 millones
Sol Amaya (CNN) — La casa de Los Ángeles mejor conocida como la morada de Nancy Thompson en “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, la vivienda “embrujada” por Freddy Krueger, se vendió por US$ 2,98 millones. No dejes que la fachada soleada te engañe: los fanáticos del terror conocen bien esta casa. Es un punto brillante
Continue Reading Deja vu? Roethlisberger hoping for Bettis-style send-off
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers are rallying around quarterback Ben Roethlisberger heading into the playoffs. The 39-year-old Roethlisberger is likely to retire at the end of the season. The team made the playoffs as a wild card and is hoping to follow the route the 2005 team did
Continue Reading Women’s hockey league shifts All-Star Showcase to Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Premier Hockey Federation is shifting its 2022 All-Star Showcase to Buffalo, New York, as a result of COVID-19 restrictions in Toronto, which would have severely limited the number of fans being able to attend. The showcase is still scheduled to be played on Jan. 29. The PHF said Toronto will
Continue Reading Puede que haya llegado el momento de renovar tu mascarilla
Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Si sigues usando una mascarilla de tela o quirúrgica cuando sales a la calle, es hora de replantearte tu protección facial. Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) van a actualizar esta semana sus recomendaciones sobre mascarillas para reflejar mejor
Continue Reading UK: Sculpture by controversial artist attacked with hammer
LONDON (AP) — British police have cordoned off an area outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House in central London after a man was spotted scaling the building and using a hammer to attack a statue by controversial sculptor Eric Gill. Officers and ambulance workers attended the scene after receiving reports that a man used a ladder
Continue Reading Fed survey finds economy growing modestly despite COVID
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says the economy was growing at a modest pace at the end of 2021 but was still being held back by ongoing supply-chain disruptions and labor shortages. In its latest survey of business conditions around the country, the Fed said its 12 regional
Continue Reading Fed survey finds economy growing modestly despite COVID
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says the economy was growing at a modest pace at the end of 2021 but was still being held back by ongoing supply-chain disruptions and labor shortages. In its latest survey of business conditions around the country, the Fed said its 12 regional
Continue Reading IRS is in ‘crisis,’ facing massive backlog as new tax season starts
By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service had more than 11 million unprocessed tax returns left over from the “most challenging year” taxpayers ever experienced and will begin the upcoming filing season already behind, according to a report from the National Taxpayer Advocate released Wednesday. “There is no way to sugarcoat the year 2021
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IRS is in ‘crisis,’ facing massive backlog as new tax season starts
CNN, SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE, POOL, IRS By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service had more than 11 million unprocessed tax returns left over from the “most challenging year” taxpayers ever experienced and will begin the upcoming filing season already behind, according to a report from the National Taxpayer Advocate released Wednesday. “There is no
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Another Game Commission member gone amid stream access fight
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has dismissed another member of a state commission that oversees wildlife conservation and hunting and fishing regulations as a dispute simmers over public access to streams and rivers that flow through private property. Jeremy Vesbach was among those on the state
Continue Reading A winter storm will swing through the East. Does Atlanta get snow? Nashville? Washington? It’s still up in the air
By Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN If you live in the heart of the South, you might be dreaming of a rare snowy weekend. Don’t get the snow sleds out quite yet. Yes, a winter storm could bring snow to Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and into the Northeast beginning over the
Continue Reading US posted smallest monthly deficit in 2 years in December
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government last month posted its smallest monthly budget deficit in two years. That was thanks to a rebounding economy that helped boost tax receipts, coupled with slower spending as some COVID relief programs ended. The Treasury Department reported that the December deficit
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US women’s team focus on emerging talent for upcoming camp
By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Several prominent U.S. women’s national soccer team veterans were left off coach Vlatko Andonovski’s January training camp roster as the squad focuses on preparing its younger players for World Cup qualifying this summer. Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Christen Press and Tobin Heath were not named to the 25-player
Continue Reading US women’s team focus on emerging talent for upcoming camp
By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Several prominent U.S. women’s national soccer team veterans were left off coach Vlatko Andonovski’s January training camp roster as the squad focuses on preparing its younger players for World Cup qualifying this summer. Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Christen Press and Tobin Heath were not named to the 25-player
Continue Reading Fact check: Right-wing figures falsely describe CDC director’s comments about Covid-19 deaths
CNN By Daniel Dale Prominent right-wing figures have been falsely describing a comment the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made last week about Covid-19 deaths — taking Dr. Rochelle Walensky out of context to wrongly claim she had delivered a dramatic new admission about the 840,000-plus Americans who have died
Continue Reading Fact check: Right-wing figures falsely describe CDC director’s comments about Covid-19 deaths
By Daniel Dale Prominent right-wing figures have been falsely describing a comment the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made last week about Covid-19 deaths — taking Dr. Rochelle Walensky out of context to wrongly claim she had delivered a dramatic new admission about the 840,000-plus Americans who have died of
Continue Reading Key dates in Costa Concordia shipwreck, trial and cleanup
By Associated Press (AP) — Italy on Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio. There are some key dates in the saga, including the trial of the captain and the remarkable engineering feat to right the liner from its side so it could be
Continue Reading Soaring COVID-19 cases renew US debate over mask mandates
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Officials across the U.S. are again weighing how and whether to impose mask mandates as COVID-19 infections soar and the American public grows weary of pandemic-related restrictions. Much of the debate centers around the nation’s schools, some of which closed due to infection-related staffing issues. Yet in a variety of
Continue Reading Indianapolis denies FedEx shooting victims’ payout request
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Indianapolis has effectively denied a request for over $2 million in compensation made by three members of the Sikh community affected by a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility. The victims of the April 15 attack each requested $700,000 in damages from the city. They claimed that local
Continue Reading Trump slams politicians who won’t say they got booster shots
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says politicians who refuse to say whether they’ve received COVID-19 booster shots are “gutless.” In an interview with the conservative One America News Network on Tuesday night, Trump didn’t name names when he said some politicians have been afraid to admit they
Continue Reading Blood donations are critically needed as Red Cross faces worst shortage in a decade
By Megan Marples, CNN If you’ve ever considered donating blood, now is the time to take action. Blood donations are absolutely critical right now as the United States faces the worst blood shortage in over a decade, according to the American Red Cross website. Know your blood type? Type O-positive, Type O-negative and platelets are
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Blood donations are critically needed as Red Cross faces worst shortage in a decade
By Megan Marples, CNN If you’ve ever considered donating blood, now is the time to take action. Blood donations are absolutely critical right now as the United States faces the worst blood shortage in over a decade, according to the American Red Cross website. Know your blood type? Type O-positive, Type O-negative and platelets are
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