Dire US labor shortage provides opportunity for ex-prisoners
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — When Antonio McGowan left the Mississippi State Penitentiary at…
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Bank earnings could be ugly. Here’s what to look for
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Earnings season is upon us once again! It’s just like the holiday season except instead of presents and sweets…
Continue Reading Why Bluetooth remains an ‘unusually painful’ technology after two decades
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business In the two decades since it was first included in products available to the general public, Bluetooth has become…
Continue Reading Canada to release equipment for Russia-Germany gas pipeline
BERLIN (AP) — The Canadian government says it will allow the delivery to Germany of equipment from a key Russia-Europe natural gas pipeline that…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka opposition meets to name new gov’t amid turmoil
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s opposition parties met Sunday to agree on a new government a day after…
Continue Reading Balkan activists keep fighting for Europe’s last wild rivers
by SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — It took a decade of court battles and street protests, but Balkan activists…
Continue Reading Macao to shutter casinos for a week in COVID-19 outbreak
BEIJING (AP) — The Asian gambling center of Macao will close all its casinos for a week starting Monday. It will also largely restrict people to…
Continue Reading Anger simmers for Dutch farmers who oppose pollution cuts
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) — Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because…
Continue Reading Indonesian Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha amid FMD outbreak
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A foot-and-mouth disease outbreak is disrupting ritual slaughter of animals to mark…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Why Sri Lanka’s economy collapsed and what’s next
By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister said late last month that the…
Continue Reading Report: WWE boss McMahon’s hush cash bill over $12 million
NEW YORK (AP) — A report says World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon agreed to pay more than $12 million over the past 16 years to…
Continue Reading Production resumes at troubled Abbott baby formula factory
By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Production of baby formula has resumed at the Abbott Nutrition factory in Michigan whose February shutdown over…
Continue Reading US ports saw record imports this spring, as port workers’ contract expires
by Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Another record breaking number of imports passed through the US’s major container ports this spring — showing…
Continue Reading Mobile, internet service mostly back in Canada after outage
TORONTO (AP) — Rogers Communications Inc. says it has restored mobile and internet service for “the vast majority″ of customers after an…
Continue Reading Gas lines and scuffles: Sri Lanka faces humanitarian crisis
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A few years ago, Sri Lanka had an economy strong enough to…
Continue Reading Estonian PM reaches coalition deal for majority government
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s governing center-right Reform Party has reached a tentative deal to form a coalition…
Continue Reading Why Campbell Soup hated, then embraced, Andy Warhol’s soup can paintings
by Alexandra Peers, CNN Business Sixty years ago today, the pop artist Andy Warhol unveiled a wall of 32 Campbell Soup can paintings at a Los Angeles…
Continue Reading Nobody likes self-checkout. Here’s why it’s everywhere
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business “Unexpected item in the bagging area.” “Please place item in the bag.” “Please…
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Nearly half of all women live in areas where abortion access will likely become more restrictive
Stacker analyzed data from the Guttmacher Institute and the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the number of women who live in areas where abortion…
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State-by-state prevalence of the 5 most common types of cancer
Stacker analyzed data from the National Cancer Institute and CDC to find out where common cancers are most prevalent in the U.S. Stacker also looked…
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States with the most CO2 emissions
Due to residential, commercial, and industrial use of fossil fuels, each state within the U.S. reports varying numbers behind their carbon…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka president, PM to resign after tumultuous protests
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister agreed to resign Saturday after the…
Continue Reading Choose your reality: Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Daniel Charles Wilson believes the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were an inside job. The war in Ukraine is “totally…
Continue Reading Incomplete grade? Columbia loses ranking over dubious data
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges. The publisher said in a…
Continue Reading Moody’s downgrades Mexican government’s debt rating
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Mexican government debt from Baa1 to Baa2, citing concerns about debt servicing costs…
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El Paso ISD and city to celebrate new Roddenberry Planetarium opening
EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District will officially celebrate the opening of the new Roddenberry Planetarium with the city in a…
Continue Reading Feds nudge airlines to let families sit together on planes
By The Associated Press The Biden administration is nudging airlines to make it easier for families to sit together on planes at no extra charge. On…
Continue Reading Court blocks Pennsylvania’s carbon emissions plan
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A state court has blocked Pennsylvania from participating in a regional carbon pricing program to combat climate…
Continue Reading Musk abandons deal to buy Twitter; company says it will sue
By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Elon Musk announced Friday that he will abandon his tumultuous $44 billion…
Continue Reading Musk tells Twitter he wants out of deal to buy it. Twitter says it will force him to close the sale
By Clare Duffy, Brian Fung and Rachel Metz, CNN Elon Musk moved Friday afternoon to terminate his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter — the latest…
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