Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/07/2024 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Google's preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition, Justice Department lawyers argued at the closings of a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/07/2024 - 2:00am
WASHINGTON — Two Democratic U.S. senators announced Thursday they plan to introduce a piece of legislation that would require large companies to disclose quota practices to workers and prevent those quotas from interfering with a worker’s health.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/07/2024 - 1:00am
If all goes well late on May 6, 2024, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast off into space on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Launching from the Kennedy Space Center, this last crucial test for Starliner will test out the new spacecraft and take the pair to the International Space Station for about a week.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 6:00am
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s auto safety agency is investigating whether last year’s recall of Tesla’s Autopilot driving system did enough to make sure drivers pay attention to the road.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 5:00am
There was a time during our lifetimes when a childhood diagnosis of diabetes was considered a death sentence. Though this is no longer the case, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes remains a life-altering event. Nearly 1.5 million Americans suffer from Type 1 diabetes, and one in 10 Americans are affected by Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes attacks a person’s heart, kidneys, vision and nervous system, and it is the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 4:00am
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 3:00am
Most American workers are hired “at will”: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship except earned wages, and employees are at liberty to quit at their option. As the rule is generally stated, either party may terminate the arrangement at any time for a good or bad reason, or none at all.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 2:00am
NEW YORK (AP) — Alphabet and Microsoft are leading the U.S. stock market on Friday toward the finish of its first winning week in the last four.
The S&P 500 was 1.1% higher in afternoon trading and on track for its best week since November. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 166 points, or 0.4%, as of 12:29 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.1% higher.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/30/2024 - 1:00am
The fashion sector is in crisis. It’s hard to get through a month without hearing about another fashion company issuing profit warnings – even Swedish-owned H&M, for a long time seen as the industry’s success model, is hurting. In January, it lost 12% in market value and abruptly changed CEO. The firm has been struggling with weak sales and stockpiling for years, mostly as a result of inefficient supply chains.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 04/23/2024 - 12:07am
DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers’ ambitious drive to expand its reach to nonunion factories across the South and elsewhere faces a key test Friday night, when workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will finish voting on whether to join the union.