Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list inclu...
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Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods up 0.9% in November
WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticketed manufactured goods rose a moderate 0.9% in November with a key category that tracks business investment plans showing a gain. The November gain i...
Dec 23, 2020
Consumer spending drops 0.4%, first decline since April
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer spending fell 0.4% in November, the first decline since April, as Americans confronted a newly resurgent virus. The decline followed a 0.3% gain in October and even bigger i...
Dec 23, 2020
Novelist Yu Miri: Olympics not helping Fukushima rebuilding
TOKYO - Yu Miri, who won this year's National Book Award for translated literature, says Tokyo's Ueno Park, where a homeless man kills himself in her award-winning story, looks very clean ahead of nex...
Dec 23, 2020
US layoffs remain elevated as 803,000 seek jobless aid
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the coronav...
Dec 23, 2020
Gunman kills 3 French police in domestic abuse standoff
PARIS - A heavily armed gunman in southern France killed three police officers responding to a domestic violence call at his house and then fled, and he was found dead nearby Wednesday after an appare...
Dec 23, 2020
A look at pardons, clemency in waning weeks of Trump tenure
WASHINGTON - In the waning weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump has issued a slew of pardons and commutations, including former members of Congress convicted of corruption charges, two people charged...
Dec 22, 2020
Trump threatens COVID relief bill, testing loyalty of GOP
WASHINGTON - Threatening to tank Congress' massive COVID relief and government funding package, President Donald Trump's demand for bigger aid checks for Americans is forcing Republicans traditionally...
Dec 22, 2020
In South Africa, child homicides show violence 'entrenched'
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - At night, Amanda Zitho worries her little boy is shivering and cold in his coffin and yearns to take him a blanket. She knows Wandi's dead and gone and it's senseless, but th...
Dec 22, 2020
New round of Trump clemency benefits Manafort, other allies
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest ...
Dec 22, 2020
Performing in the pandemic, by zoom, drive-in and doorstep
NEW YORK - A good way to hear what we've missed this year is to listen to Sam Cooke's landmark live album, "Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963." On a warm January night in downtown Miami, Cooke was ...
Dec 22, 2020
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