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United Airlines will require US employees to be vaccinated
United Airlines will require employees in the U.S. to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by late October, perhaps sooner, joining a rising number of big corporations that are responding to a surge in viru...
Syndicated Author Aug 06, 2021

Meghan McCain makes low-key exit from ‘The View’
NEW YORK (AP) - Meghan McCain made a low-key departure from "The View" after four years on Friday, joking that she wanted to apologize to show producer Brian Teta "for making his blood pressure rise a...
Syndicated Author Aug 06, 2021

Pause on student loan payments extended through January
The Biden administration on Friday announced that federal student loan payments will remain suspended through January 2022, extending a pause that began at the start of the pandemic and was scheduled ...
Syndicated Author Aug 06, 2021

GOP leaders reverse push for California recall endorsement
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two powerful California Republicans urged members of the state GOP Friday to withhold an endorsement in the upcoming recall election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom f...
Syndicated Author Aug 06, 2021

Vaccination form for federal workers adds penalties for lies
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal employees who need to certify their vaccination status under a new policy instituted by President Joe Biden intended to encourage COVID-19 shots will face disciplinary action...
Syndicated Author Aug 06, 2021

Retired marine whose troops planted US flag on Iwo Jima dies
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Dave Severance, a retired U.S. Marine colonel whose troops were the first to plant an American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 102. Sev...
Syndicated Author Aug 06, 2021

Lawmakers give Cuomo deadline in impeachment probe
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State lawmakers told Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday that their ongoing impeachment investigation is almost done and gave him a deadline of Aug. 13 to provide additional evidence.Sin...
Syndicated Author Aug 05, 2021

Schumer: Longtime AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has died
WASHINGTON (AP) - Richard Trumka, the powerful president of the AFL-CIO labor union, has died, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer, an ally of the union boss, announced Trumka's...
Syndicated Author Aug 05, 2021

US to require COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration is taking the first steps toward requiring nearly all foreign visitors to the U.S. to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, a White House official said Wednesda...
Syndicated Author Aug 04, 2021

California Republicans head to first debate in Newsom recall
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Republican candidates heading into their first televised debate Wednesday in California's looming recall election face a gamble: whether to pile up on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom o...
Syndicated Author Aug 04, 2021
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