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In February, newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took the unprecedented step of signing a memo directing commanding officers across the military to institute a one-day stand-down to address extremism within the nation's armed forces. The stand-down came in response to the participation and the subsequent arrests of several veterans and at least one active [...]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden insists that he strongly believes in the rights spelled out in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that are now under the most dire threat in decades. But he barely even uses the word "abortion" and when his administration has been asked about what it can do to protect [...]
Holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years, even as shoppers grappled with higher prices, product shortages and a raging new COVID-19 variant in the last few weeks of the season, according to one spending measure. Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks all kinds of payments including cash and debit cards, reported that holiday sales [...]
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (AP) — Erland Suppah Jr. doesn't trust what comes out of his faucet. Each week, Suppah and his girlfriend haul a half-dozen large jugs of water from a distribution center run by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to their apartment for everything from drinking to cooking to brushing their teeth for [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Malara, a Brooklyn teacher, lingered on a street last week, filled with dread about going to her job. "I'm sitting in my car terrified to walk into school," she wrote on Twitter just before taking a deep breath and heading to her classroom. "Cases exploding. People I really care about [...]
Veterans from AMVETS posts throughout Ohio last week pooled their efforts to transport everyday provisions and monetary donations totaling $9,500 to western Kentucky residents affected by the E4-rated tornado that tore through the region a week earlier. Founded at the close of World War II as a service organization for both veterans and the communities [...]
DETROIT (AP) — While restaurants are open without restrictions and often bustling, they are entering their second winter of the coronavirus pandemic anxious about what's ahead: They're squeezed by labor shortages and skyrocketing food costs and the omicron variant is looming. "I'm extremely worried. I've never felt like we were out of the woods," said [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) —Homebuilder stocks have outpaced the broader market this year, and analysts are bullish on the prospects for more gains in 2022, despite expectations of continued supply chain woes. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders exchange-traded fund is up 45 percent this year. Two of the biggest builders by homes sold, D.R. Horton and Lennar, [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Soon after losing his trucking job amid the pandemic, Freddie Davis got another blow: His landlord in Miami was almost doubling the rent on his Miami apartment. Davis girded for what he feared would come next. In September he was evicted — just over a month after a federal eviction moratorium ended. [...]
Facing rising infections and a new COVID-19 variant, colleges across the country have once again been thwarted in seeking a move to normalcy and are starting to require booster shots, extend mask mandates, limit social gatherings and, in some cases, revert to online classes. The threat of the omicron variant comes as a gut punch [...]