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Updated 17 hours, 4 minutes ago

Skills on display

MOSES LAKE — Dylan Sanders credits Job Corps with showing him a path forward. “I graduated high school and I wa…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Wildfires again threaten business in California wine country

HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — With an early harvest already underway, a wildfire a few miles west of John Bucher's ranch added new urgency to getting his pinot noir grapes off the vine. If flames didn't do any damage t…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
VIRUS DIARY: She has her cake, but others can't eat it, too

PHOENIX (AP) — When my birthday rolled around in June, I had to face the fact that, thanks to COVID-19, I would not be having cake with anyone. Yet I went ahead and made the cake I really wanted — a three-layer, na…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
After nearly 200 years, Lord & Taylor goes out of business

NEW YORK (AP) — Lord & Taylor, one of the country's oldest department store chains, is going out of business after filing for bankruptcy earlier this month.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
US now using several hotel chains to detain migrant children

HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government has detained children at several major hotel chains — more than previously known — during the coronavirus pandemic instead of transferring them to government-funded shelters, acco…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
What happens when pandemic locks down a globe-trotting pope?

ROME (AP) — On the March day that Italy recorded its single biggest jump in coronavirus fatalities, Pope Francis emerged from lockdown to offer an extraordinary prayer and plea to his flock to reassess their priori…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Ready, set, go! Virtual Boston Marathon is about to be run

BOSTON (AP) — Missing: Boston’s raucous crowds and smiles for miles. Still there, sort of: Wellesley College’s iconic “scream tunnel” and the thunderous cheers along the finish line on Boylston Street.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Borgata: Ocean Casino is poaching our execs, trade secrets

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) —

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Case by case: How nations are going back to school -- or not

PARIS (AP) — The U.N. says it's urgent to get kids back to schools after months-long coronavirus lockdowns, but with the virus still raging in parts of the United States and resurging in countries from South Korea …

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Does a face mask protect me, or just the people around me?

Does a face mask protect me, or just the people around me?

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Tokyo transparent toilet's walls go opaque when door closed

TOKYO (AP) — Now you see them, now you don’t.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
VIRUS DIARY: She has her cake, but others can't eat it, too

PHOENIX (AP) — When my birthday rolled around in June, I had to face the fact that, thanks to COVID-19, I would not be having cake with anyone. Yet I went ahead and made the cake I really wanted — a three-layer, na…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Book-publishing exec Dawn Davis is new Bon Appetit editor

Book-publishing executive Dawn Davis is Bon Appetit's new top editor, taking the helm following a reckoning on race and culture at the food magazine.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
After nearly 200 years, Lord & Taylor goes out of business

NEW YORK (AP) — Lord & Taylor, one of the country's oldest department store chains, is going out of business after filing for bankruptcy earlier this month.

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
What happens when pandemic locks down a globe-trotting pope?

ROME (AP) — On the March day that Italy recorded its single biggest jump in coronavirus fatalities, Pope Francis emerged from lockdown to offer an extraordinary prayer and plea to his flock to reassess their priori…

Updated 5 years, 8 months ago
Amazon has a new fitness tracker and wants to get personal

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon, the company that made shopping from a La-Z-Boy possible, is going into the fitness-tracking business.