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Chat logs, emails show cavalier attitude by Boeing employees

NEW YORK — Internal documents reveal that Boeing employees were aware of problems with the Max 737 jet ahead of two deadly crashes, and that the compa...
23:28 10 January 2022

Pelosi to send impeachment to Senate for historic trial

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will take steps next week to transmit the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, end...
23:17 10 January 2022

Can cash buy the Dem nomination? Two billionaires are trying

WASHINGTON — Billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer are testing an unproven theory in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination: t...
22:58 10 January 2022

Neil Peart, drummer for influential rockers Rush, dead at 67

SANTA MONICA, California — Neil Peart, the renowned drummer and lyricist from the influential band Rush, has died. He was 67.
22:31 10 January 2022

Texas governor to reject new refugees, first under Trump

HOUSTON — Texas will no longer accept the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration or...
22:30 10 January 2022

White House considering dramatic expansion of travel ban

WASHINGTON — The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year ...
22:17 10 January 2022

Biden seeks to upstage Buttigieg in fight for California

LOS ANGELES — Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg chased California votes on Friday in dueling events, looking to sway Democrats in the state that delivers t...
22:06 10 January 2022

Megyn Kelly says she did ‘twirl’ before Roger Ailes, too

NEW YORK — Megyn Kelly says she did the “twirl” before Roger Ailes, too.
21:38 10 January 2022

US stocks pull back from records following jobs report

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks fell from their record heights on Friday after a report showed hiring was a touch weaker than expected last month.
21:30 10 January 2022

Challenges, distractions stymie Weinstein jury selection

NEW YORK — The already contentious jury selection at the trial of Harvey Weinstein was stymied by more challenges and distractions Friday: denied defe...
21:20 10 January 2022

Judge orders homeless women to leave house they’re occupying

SAN FRANCISCO — Homeless women who are illegally occupying a house in the expensive San Francisco Bay Area do not have the right to stay and must leav...
20:41 10 January 2022

PBS highlighting women with summer of programming

PASADENA, Calif. — The 100th anniversary of the amendment that guaranteed women's right to vote in the United States is being celebrated in a variety ...
20:21 10 January 2022

Privacy, once hidden topic, gets attention at CES tech show

LAS VEGAS — Once a hidden and under-the-radar topic, privacy got more attention at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week. Startups now volunteer ...
20:05 10 January 2022

Opioid-dependent kids’ guardians seek to form class in suit

CLEVELAND — Guardians caring for hundreds of thousands of children born dependent on opioids since 2000 should be grouped together as part of the clas...
20:01 10 January 2022

California budget plan aids teachers, those in US illegally

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to give $20,000 stipends to teachers at high needs schools and extend health care to older low...
20:00 10 January 2022

US tried to take out another Iranian leader, but failed

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military tried, but failed, to take out another senior Iranian commander on the same day that an American airstrike killed the R...
19:51 10 January 2022

Google legal chief leaving amid sexual misconduct troubles

David Drummond, the legal chief of Google parent company Alphabet, is leaving at the end of the month, following accusations of inappropriate relation...
19:50 10 January 2022

PBS to mark its 50th anniversary with ‘American Portrait’

PASADENA, Calif. — PBS will mark its 50th year with an exploration of what it means to be an American in a rancorous period.
19:49 10 January 2022

Official: DNA test to determine if coyote bit Chicago child

CHICAGO — DNA tests to determine if a coyote captured on Chicago's North Side is the same animal that attacked a 6-year-old boy will take weeks to com...
19:28 10 January 2022

A decade after Haitian earthquake, a young victim struggles

CANAAN, Haiti — Just before 5 p.m., Marie-Mislen Thomas’ house fell on top of her three children.
18:59 10 January 2022

Meghan, Harry miles apart as they start new independent life

LONDON — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were taking the first steps into their new independent life thousands of miles apart on Friday, as a friend ...
18:27 10 January 2022

Ivan Passer, a leading Czech New Wave filmmaker, dies at 86

NEW YORK — Ivan Passer, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave who with Milos Forman fled Soviet-controlled Prague and forged a celebrated career i...
18:23 10 January 2022

US announces new sanctions on Iran after missile strikes

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday announced a new wave of sanctions on Iran following this week's missile strikes by the Islamic Republi...
17:00 10 January 2022

EU ministers support Iran deal, fear IS resurgence

BRUSSELS — European foreign affairs ministers reiterated their support for the nuclear deal brokered with Iran and expressed concerns Friday that the ...
16:55 10 January 2022

Boeing travails begins to ripple, 2,800 jobs lost in Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. — Problems for Boeing and its troubled 737 Max aircraft, which appear to be growing deeper, have begun to ripple outward with a major su...
16:55 10 January 2022

US blames Iran for Ukrainian jetliner downing, pledges probe

WASHINGTON — The U.S. promised “appropriate action” Friday in response to its assessment that an Iranian missile was responsible for downing a Ukraini...
16:37 10 January 2022

Pakistan mosque blast kills senior police officer, 13 others

QUETTA, Pakistan — A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening prayers, killing a senior police officer a...
16:24 10 January 2022

Jennifer Dulos case highlights common scourge, advocates say

HARTFORD, Conn. — Long before she disappeared, Jennifer Dulos told the court handling her divorce case that her husband was verbally abusive and that ...
16:23 10 January 2022

Will Puerto Ricans new to Florida swing state to Democrats?

DAVENPORT, Fla. — When Martha Santiago moved to Polk County, Florida, from Puerto Rico in 1979 to teach in one of the county's first bilingual schools...
16:13 10 January 2022

Army Reserve leaders accused of mishandling assault claims

WOODRIDGE, Ill. — Leaders of a U.S. Army Reserve unit that controls thousands of soldiers across the western United States have mishandled at least tw...
16:01 10 January 2022