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GOP senators: Computer chip money underwriting 'woke' agenda 03/02/2023 01:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Republican senators are accusing the Biden administration of using $39 billion meant to build computer chip factories to further ���woke��� ideas such as requiring some recipients to offer child care and encouraging the use of union labor. The administration has countered that th Lufthansa flight shows turbulence still causing injuries 03/02/2023 01:44pm • Turbulence remains a major cause of injuries to flight passengers and crew, even as U.S. airlines have made steady improvements in their overall accident rate in recent years. A Lufthansa flight from Texas to Germany is the latest example. The Airbus A330 reported severe turbulence over Tennessee o Baby's death tied to contaminated breast pump, CDC says 03/02/2023 01:12pm • Federal health officials are warning parents of newborns to sterilize equipment used for both bottle- and breast-feeding after a baby died last year from a rare infection tied to a contaminated breast pump. The infant, a premature boy, was infected with the bacteria Cronobacter sakazakii, the same Pennsylvania unseals more search warrant in Idaho killings 03/02/2023 12:22pm • STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Law enforcement officials have revealed more details regarding items seized from the Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. Additional court documents made public Thursday stated that a k Macy's, Best Buy 4Q reports underscore consumer slowdown 03/02/2023 11:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Quarterly earnings from Macy's and Best Buy show how Americans have pulled back their spending on clothes and gadgets as inflation strains household budgets. Macy's profit and sales in the holiday quarter slid, though it beat Wall Street expectations and its outlook for 2023 didn't Target, Macy's and Best Buy see consumers cut back, search for discounts 03/02/2023 11:38am • Big retailers say consumer demand is starting to buckle from the strain of inflation and customers are making changes in how they shop.Target, Best Buy, Macy's and other chains say shoppers have pulled back on discretionary goods like clothing, electronics and home improvement. They have shifted the US downhiller Ganong retires, plans include even more skiing 03/02/2023 11:28am • As a kid, American downhill racer Travis Ganong had an enchanting view of the mountains from his bedroom window. So it's really no surprise the snow-covered hills cast such a powerful spell over him. The mountains, his playground only steps from his home in Alpine Meadows, California, became the pa Nurse faces legal action for 'faking' Spanish kids' vaccines 03/02/2023 11:17am • MADRID (AP) ��� Forty-two families in Spain are pursuing legal action against a nurse whom they allege faked the process of administering routine vaccines to their children, their lawyer said Thursday. The nurse worked for 18 months at a government clinic in Santurtzi, near the city of Bilbao in th Abortion opponents seek smaller changes in Kansas after vote 03/02/2023 10:00am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Seven months after a decisive statewide vote affirmed abortion rights in Kansas, the Republican-controlled Legislature���s annual session in some ways looks a lot like previous ones, with multiple anti-abortion proposals. But key players are focusing on incremental changes, ins Applications for jobless claims fall for 3rd straight week 03/02/2023 08:52am • The number of people applying for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell for third straight week. That's good news for American workers, but potentially bad news in the fight against inflation by the Federal Reserve, which has been ratcheting up its benchmark interest rate for a year in an effort to One more man arrested in case of slain Hong Kong model 03/02/2023 08:24am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong police on Thursday arrested a man accused of assisting another suspect in the gruesome killing of model Abby Choi, whose dismembered body parts were found in a refrigerator. The arrest of the 41-year-old man brought the total number of people allegedly involved in the ca 23% in Germany are immigrants, children of immigrants 03/02/2023 06:15am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Some 18.9 million people, or 23% of Germany's population, either immigrated to the country since 1950 or are the children of immigrants, Germany's Federal Statistics Office said Thursday. It's the first time the statistics office has analyzed the country's population based on migrati WWE Intercontinental Champion Gunther is ready for 'SmackDown' at Capital One Arena 03/02/2023 04:52am • Hear our full conversation on my podcast ���Beyond the Fame.��� Gunther is the longest-running reigning WWE Intercontinental Champion of the 21st century. You can witness him on Friday on "WWE SmackDown" at Capital One Arena in D.C. Last week, the Scottish Warrior Drew McIntyre appe War, anger cloud Ukrainian athletes' path to Paris Olympics 03/02/2023 03:00am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian diver Stanislav Oliferchyk proudly bears the name of his late grandfather, who died in brutalized Mariupol. Russia's troops turned the Ukrainian port city into a killing zone in the process of capturing it. The elder Stanislav could no longer get the cancer treatment McCarthy, GOP introduce measure to protect 'parents' rights' 03/01/2023 08:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans pressed ahead Wednesday with one of the central planks of their midterm election campaign, introducing legislation to give parents more of a say in school curriculum. ���That���s what today is all about: It���s about every parent, mom and dad, but most important