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Several states make moves to permanently allow cocktails for delivery

5:12am April 22, 2022

by Sarah Lehr

The pandemic spurred many states to temporarily relax rules for selling alcohol to give restaurants and bars short-term financial relief. In some places, those changes are becoming permanent.

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What the shutdown of CNN+ might indicate about the future of streaming TV

4:28pm April 21, 2022

by Eric Deggans

Just a month after its launch, streaming service CNN+ will shut down at the end of April. The company's president said some programming will migrate to CNN and its other networks.

Rupert Murdoch speaks in San Francisco in 2011. Murdoch's media empire has included News Corp, Fox News, Fox Sports, 21st Century Fox, HarperCollins, The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal.

In the Murdoch family succession battle, Fox News and democracy hang in the balance

1:12pm April 21, 2022

by Terry Gross

The new CNN+ docuseries The Murdochs looks inside the Fox media empire and the family's behind-the-scenes in-fighting. Journalist Jim Rutenberg says the real-life drama rivals HBO's Succession.

A U.S. Postal Service truck drives in Philadelphia. The service is about to set longer delivery standards for first-class packages, in a move that its regulator says will not have a big effect on its finances.

Why your USPS mail package delivery is about to get slower

12:21pm April 21, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Starting next month, more than 30% of first-class packages will be considered on time if they arrive within four or five days, as the Postal Service eases its standards for delivery times.

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Apple workers in Atlanta become company's 1st retail workers to file to unionize

10:22am April 21, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Communications Workers of America, the retail workers' union, said big tech companies like Apple fail to give employees who don't work in an office equal standing and respect.

Health & Safety

Why were plants like Winston Weaver allowed in neighborhoods?

8:00am April 21, 2022

by David Ford

On the evening of January 31, 2022, a fire broke out at the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant located in a business and residential area on Winston-Salem's north side.

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Calif. man loses 85 pounds while lobbying Taco Bell for Grilled Stuft Nacho's return

6:22am April 21, 2022

The item has been off Taco Bell's menu since 2015. On Jan. 4, 2021, Chris Sandberg vowed to exercise every day until it came back. He got the company's attention but there's no plan to bring it back.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pauses while speaking at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., on April 13. Yellen and other finance ministers walked out of a G20 session on Wednesday as Russian officials were speaking.

Janet Yellen and other finance ministers walk out of G20 meeting as Russia speaks

6:30pm April 20, 2022

by Scott Horsley

Yellen's counterparts from the U.K. and Canada joined the walkout to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

National

Hollywood has found a favorite new subject — the failed CEOs of tech companies

6:04pm April 20, 2022

by Linda Holmes

All of a sudden it seems like Hollywood has found a favorite new subject — the failed CEOs of tech companies with bio-pics depicting the rise and fall of the heads of Uber, WeWork and Theranos.

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Mexican Pizza, beloved by South Asian Americans, is coming back to Taco Bell

4:59pm April 20, 2022

Taco Bell announced this week the return of the Mexican Pizza to its menu, and fans are happy.