Holiday staffing issues a big stressor for business owners
Oct 30, 2019
By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG NEW YORK (AP) — In the early days of Kristen David’s law firm, she told staffers they could all take off the day after Thanksgiving. But before the holiday, they learned…
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Concert promoters turn away from facial recognition tech
Oct 29, 2019
BY MATT O'BRIEN BOSTON (AP) — Concert promoters in the U.S. are stepping back from plans to scan festivalgoers with facial recognition technology, after musicians and others gave it some serious side-eye. Although it remains…
The tip, the raid, the reveal: The takedown of al-Baghdadi
Oct 28, 2019
By DEB RIECHMANN and AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — The helicopters flew low and fast into the night, ferrying U.S. special forces to a compound where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding in Syria. Half…
Esper: US troops, armored vehicles going to Syria oil fields
Oct 25, 2019
By LOLITA C. BALDOR BRUSSELS (AP) — Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Friday that the United States will leave more American troops and armored vehicles in eastern Syria to help prevent Islamic State militants from…
Wildfire rages as California hit with more rolling blackouts
Oct 24, 2019
By JOCELYN GECKER and NOAH BERGER GEYSERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California wildfire exploded in size early Thursday amid dangerous winds that prompted the state’s largest utility to impose electrical blackouts to prevent fires.…
Russian forces deploy at Syrian border under new accord
Oct 23, 2019
By SUZAN FRASER and LEFTERIS PITARAKIS AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Russian military police began patrols on part of the Syrian border Wednesday, quickly moving to implement an accord with Turkey that divvies up control of…
Jimmy Carter hospitalized after fall at Georgia home
Oct 22, 2019
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter is in the hospital again after falling and fracturing his pelvis at his home in Plains, Georgia. Carter Center spokeswoman Deanne Congileo described the fracture as minor in…
Companies reach tentative deal to settle opioids lawsuit
Oct 21, 2019
By JULIE CARR SMYTH and GEOFF MULVIHILL CLEVELAND (AP) — The nation’s three dominant drug distributors and a big drugmaker have reached a tentative deal to settle a lawsuit related to the opioid crisis just…
Syria Kurds accuse Turkey of violating cease-fire
Oct 18, 2019
By ELENA BECATOROS and SARAH EL DEEB CEYLANPINAR, Turkey (AP) — The Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria accused Turkey on Friday of violating a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight, as fighters from both sides clashed…
Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died
Oct 17, 2019
By BRIAN WITTE and REGINA GARCIA CANO BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House…