Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/14/2024 - 12:00am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — About 700 workers walked off the job at a hotel-casino near the Las Vegas Strip Friday morning in what union organizers said would be a 48-hour strike after spending months trying to reach a deal for new five-year contract with Virgin Hotels.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/07/2024 - 6:00am
KASHAN, Iran (AP) — The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk carpets known the world over. But for the weavers trying to sell their rugs under its ancient arches, their world has only unraveled since the collapse of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers and wider tensions with the West.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/07/2024 - 5:00am
Thirty years ago this summer, on a cool evening in the Brentwood community of Los Angeles, California, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were brutally murdered. The evidence pointed to just one suspect – Nicole’s ex-husband and NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson.
Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 05/07/2024 - 4:00am
When their first child was born with serious disabilities, Nick Smith and his wife Desiree moved to Nebraska to live closer to family.
Originally from Holdrege, Smith went to school and met his wife in Texas. Both were licensed teachers with four years of classroom experience. None of that mattered when they moved to Nebraska in 2021.
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.