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New study finds connection between COVID and Type 2 diabetes in young people 10/15/2024 05:00am • A connection has been uncovered between COVID-19 and Type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers, according to researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. The study, published in the JAMA Network Open medical journal, relied on electronic health records of mo Stellantis CEO says carmaker is on pace to fix sales problems after poor performance this year 10/14/2024 05:44pm • DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is fixing its slowing U.S. sales at the right pace after fumbling a marketing plan earlier this year, CEO Carlos Tavares told reporters Monday. Tavares, who last week pushed out the carmaker's chief financial officer and the chief operating officers for both North America Florida neighbors band together to recover after one-two punch from hurricanes Helene and Milton 10/13/2024 09:20pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — When ankle-deep floodwaters from Hurricane Helene bubbled up through the floors of their home, Kat Robinson-Malone and her husband sent a late-night text message to their neighbors two doors down: “Hey, we're coming.” The couple waded through the flooded street to the elevat Eggnog before Thanksgiving? Shoppers eager for a new season scramble retail calendars 10/13/2024 07:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — After sipping pumpkin spiced lattes in August and putting up Halloween decorations in late September, Samantha Kowalczyk already looks forward to drinking eggnog-flavored coffee and filling her Wilmington, Delaware, home with cinnamon and sugar cookie scented candles and other holi Vance says ‘childless cat ladies’ comment was ‘dumb’ but his point stands 10/12/2024 10:52am • (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said the way he phrased his criticism of “childless cat ladies” — comments that took on new life when Donald Trump tapped the Ohio senator as his running mate — was “dumb.” “I certainly wish that I had said it differently,” V Pink Tax: What Does Price Discrimination Cost Women? 10/10/2024 08:00pm • The pink tax refers to gender-based price discrimination. Originally used to describe the sales taxes women pay for feminine hygiene products, the term has expanded. Now it refers to the practice of charging women more than men for consumer items and services that are essentially the same -- althoug Why free COVID tests from the government are expiring so soon 10/10/2024 10:25am • ▶ Watch Video: Officials monitoring new COVID-19 variant While none of the free COVID-19 tests being shipped by the U.S. Postal Service this year will have already expired, officials acknowledge many now arriving in mailboxes will likely see their shelf life ru Bacon hogs the spotlight in election debates, but reasons for its sizzling inflation are complex 10/10/2024 09:46am • She blames greedy companies for price-gouging. He blames the Biden administration’s economic policies. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump agree on one thing: Tapping into sour consumer sentiment about high grocery prices is one way to court voters. Bacon prices have been a particular focus for Trump. AP Elections Top 25: The people, places, races, dates and things to know about Election Day 10/08/2024 04:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans will cast roughly 160 million ballots by the time Election Day comes to a close — in several different ways, including many submitted a few weeks before polls even open. They will choose a president, members of Congress and thousands of state lawmakers, city council m How AP VoteCast works, and how it's different from an exit poll 10/08/2024 03:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to understanding elections, it's not just about who won and lost. To explain what really happened, it's important to understand who voted and how, what they cared about and how they felt about important issues facing the country. At The Associated Press, AP VoteCast 5 takeaways from Kamala Harris’ one-on-one interview with ‘60 Minutes’ 10/08/2024 09:49am • (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions about how she’d pay for her economic plans, whether Democrats were too slow to enact border security measures, how she’d confront Russia over its war in Ukraine and more in a wide-ranging “60 Minutes” interview that aired Monday. Senior member of Myanmar's former ruling party dies while serving prison sentence 10/07/2024 04:15am • BANGKOK (AP) — Zaw Myint Maung, a senior member of Myanmar’s former ruling party arrested during the 2021 military takeover, died Monday while serving a prison sentence that was considered politically motivated. He was 72. He was a close colleague of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and spokespers Collapse of national security elites' cyber firm leaves bitter wake 10/04/2024 12:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The future was once dazzling for IronNet. Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked with elite members of the U.S. intelligence establishment, IronNet promised it was going to revolutionize the way governments and corporations combat cyberattacks. I How Trump credits an immigration chart for saving his life and what the graphic is missing 10/03/2024 07:03am • Ever since the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump has professed a unique fondness for a bar chart he credits for saving his life. Trump was addressing the crowd in Butler about illegal immigration and reviewing a chart that detailed U.S.-Mexico border crossings during h Last call at 4 a.m. in California? Governor says yes for one private club in LA Clippers' new arena 10/02/2024 06:49pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The last call for drinks is 2 a.m. in California, but the state will soon carve out an exception to allow alcohol to be served until 4 a.m. for one private, members-only club located in the Los Angeles Clippers’ new state-of-the-art arena. The new law signed by Gov. Ga