CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, the university’s highest governing body announced this week. “Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal court jury has decided that Google’s Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire. The unanimous verdict reached this week came after just three hours of deliberation following a [...]
F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. (AP) — The control stations for America's nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles have a sort of 1980s retro look, with computing panels in sea foam green, bad lighting and chunky control switches, including a critical one that says "launch." Those underground capsules are about to be demolished and the missile [...]
More Americans are expected to fly or drive far from home over Christmas than they did last year, putting a cap on a busy year for travel. Auto club AAA forecasts that 115.2 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home during the 10 days between Dec. 23 and New Year's Day. That's [...]
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Gerston Miranda and his wife were among thousands of migrants recently arriving at this remote area on Arizona's southern border with Mexico, squeezing into the United States through a gap in the wall and walking overnight about 14 miles with two school-aged daughters to surrender to Border Patrol agents. "There is [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Littlejohn remembers the days when lots of people had a couple of dollars to spare to buy a copy of Street Sense, the local paper that covers issues related to the homeless and employs homeless individuals as its vendors. Today, he's finding fewer people are walking around with spare change. Even [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said it would provide $35 million to BAE Systems to increase production at a New Hampshire factory making computer chips for military aircraft, including F-15 and F-35 jets. It is the first allocation of incentives from last year’s bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which provides more than $52 billion [...]
NEW YORK — The day before Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy he was asked if he would return to LSU for another season next year. "I can't," he said. Oh, right. The careers of college quarterbacks might feel endless these days, but even with the bonus COVID year the NCAA handed out for those [...]