Data: Axios reporting; Chart: Jared Whalen/AxiosGoogle is plowing ahead with a $5.4 billion acquisition as it fends off a Justice Department lawsuit charging monopolistic practices and inquiries by lawmakers who argue the search giant is already too big.Why it matters: An increasingly hostile regulatory climate over the past five years hasn’t stopped Big Tech giants…Continue Reading
Even if you are not a basketball fan, there’s a good chance you knew something about Brittney Griner before the news broke last week that she had been detained by Russian authorities and was facing drug-smuggling charges.At 6-foot-9, Griner is a dominant force in women’s basketball, both for the Phoenix Mercury and the U.S. national…Continue Reading
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Javier Silva and Jaime Nazar became the first two men to tie the knot in the South American country’s history on Thursday after a law allowing same-sex marriage went into effect.In December, Congress approved legislation guaranteeing legal rights for same-sex couples in a milestone for the conservative nation after a decade-long battle…Continue Reading
This season’s flu vaccine offers meager protection against mild cases of influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.Against the most common flu strain circulating this season, the flu shot reduced a person’s chance of getting a mild case by 16 percent, which is “considered not statistically significant,” the CDC authors wrote, though…Continue Reading
March 10, 2022, 5:59 PM UTCMariupol has been crushed by Russia’s war.Its streets have been pounded by shells and airstrikes, its people left without water or heat in the freezing winter and its leaders forced to plead for aid that can’t make it through.The deadly Russian strike on a children’s and maternity hospital in the…Continue Reading
Anna Sorokin has seen parts of the Netflix series inspired by her antics, and thinks the fictional version of her is more “brazen” than the real her.”I think I’m more self aware of the way I come across, not all of the time, but I just don’t think that I’m so brazen and shameless,” Sorokin…Continue Reading
A Springfield, Missouri, woman who ran an unlicensed day care out of her home was arrested after an 8-month-old boy died, police said. Deborah Lundstrom, 47, was charged Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death, endangering the welfare of a child resulting in substantial risk, and operating a child…Continue Reading
The straight, cisgender frontman of a rock band may not be the first person you’d expect to be an outspoken advocate and ally for the LGBTQ community.But then there’s Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds.Imagine Dragons has become one of this generation’s most popular music groups, boasting nearly 57 million monthly listeners on Spotify. In 2018, it…Continue Reading
The cold case murder of a Washington woman has been solved over two decades later thanks to DNA evidence from a cigarette butt left at the scene, authorities announced Wednesday.Douglas Keith Krohne, who died in 2016 of accidental causes, has been identified as the suspect in the 1995 killing of Patricia Lorraine Barnes, Kitsap County…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is extending the mask mandate on public transportation until April 18, according to a White House official and a TSA official. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will work with government agencies to help inform a revised policy framework for when the mask rules can be lifted during…Continue Reading
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