Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/17/2024 - 5:00am
Albertsons announced on Dec. 11, 2024, that it had called off an attempted merger with Kroger and would sue Kroger for breach of contract. The US$25 billion deal, first announced in 2022, would have combined Cincinnati-based Kroger, already the largest traditional U.S. supermarket chain, with Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons, which is currently the third-biggest grocer.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/17/2024 - 3:00am
NASARAWA, Nigeria (AP) — Dressed in a faded pink dress, 6-year-old Juliet Samaniya squats under scorching skies to chip at a jagged white rock with a stone tool. Dust coats her tiny hands and her hair as she works hour after hour for less than a dollar a day. The landscape around her is dotted with active and abandoned mineshafts, farmland that may soon be cleared in search of more rich ore, and other mine workers — many of them children.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/10/2024 - 7:00am
Norah Sis and Kendra Wait hoped to break a streak stretching back decades. But in a battle of two top-10 teams, Creighton University’s volleyball team lost another one to the University of Nebraska.
Creighton head coach Kirsten Bernthal Booth put it bluntly in a post-match press conference: “We’re mad, OK?”
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/10/2024 - 6:00am
If you have a pulse, I am sure you have either seen, heard or read a political ad this past year. With the plethora of TV, radio, newspaper and social media entities paid to run them, they would be pretty hard to miss.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/10/2024 - 4:00am
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Richard Andre Newman thought he would live the rest of his life in his quiet, leafy neighborhood in suburban Virginia. He was born and raised in Bren Mar Park, where children ride their bikes and neighbors wave hello.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/10/2024 - 3:00am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA announced more delays Thursday in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo.
Administrator Bill Nelson said the next mission in the Artemis program -- flying four astronauts around the moon and back – is now targeted for April 2026. It had been on the books for September 2025, after slipping from this year.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 12/10/2024 - 2:00am
One of the country’s largest health insurers reversed a change in policy Thursday after widespread outcry, saying it would not tie payments in some states to the length of time a patient went under anesthesia.
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said in a statement that its decision to backpedal resulted from “significant widespread misinformation” about the policy.