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'A Room With a View' actor Julian Sands is missing after he went on a hike

9:39pm January 18, 2023

by The Associated Press

Search and rescue crews looked for Sands in the area of the San Gabriel Mountains, but had to suspend the ground search because of trail conditions and avalanche risks.

With limited paid family leave offered by her job, Ruby B. Sutton, an environmental engineer at a mining site in northeastern Nevada, decided to stay home with her new baby full time.

With less access to paid leave, rural workers face hard choices about health, family

7:14pm January 18, 2023

by Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez

Coastal and politically progressive states have passed stronger paid sick and family leave policies than many states with larger rural populations.

Bank of America customers reported major issues with their accounts and Zelle on Wednesday.

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Bank of America says the problem with Zelle transactions is resolved

5:33pm January 18, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

The website Downdetector reported spikes in outages involving Bank of America and payment platform Zelle starting Wednesday morning.

People light candles at the funeral. Hundreds of people came to the cemetery to pay their respects.

World News

Funerals begin for dozens of people killed in an attack on a Dnipro apartment complex

4:06pm January 18, 2023

Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of Mykhailo Korenovsky, a beloved boxing coach and father who was killed in a missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Nemat Shafik, pictured at a Eurogroup meeting at the EU Council in Brussels on May 16, 2011, will be the first woman to serve as president of Columbia University.

Nemat Shafik is named the first woman to be president at Columbia University

3:30pm January 18, 2023

by Kaitlyn Radde

Shafik, who was born in Egypt and grew up in the United States, has extensive experience across global financial institutions and higher education.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen listens to President Biden during an October 2021 meeting with Cabinet members and corporate chief executives to discuss the looming federal debt limit. Two years later, the debt limit is once again an economic threat.

4 ways around a debt ceiling crisis — and why they might not work

1:46pm January 18, 2023

by Danielle Kurtzleben

From an obscure congressional maneuver to a trillion-dollar coin, there are many ideas out there to help the U.S. avoid debt default, but they are untested and have major potential problems.

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Brian Walshe, center, listens during his arraignment Wednesday at Quincy District Court, in Quincy, Mass., on a charge of murdering his wife Ana Walshe.

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The husband of a missing woman sought info on dismembering a body, prosecutors say

1:43pm January 18, 2023

by The Associated Press

At a hearing, lawyers said that in the days after his wife's disappearance, Brian Walshe did searches on "dismemberment and best ways to dispose of a body" and "hacksaw best tool to dismember."

Politics & Government

How will the hard-right Republicans in Congress wield their newfound power?

1:31pm January 18, 2023

by Terry Gross

New York Times journalist Catie Edmondson says the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives will likely leverage their subpoena power to enact vengeance on the Biden administration.

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In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis in 2021. An attorney for Chauvin asked an appeals court on Wednesday to throw out his convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that numerous legal and procedural errors deprived him of his right to a fair trial.

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Derek Chauvin's lawyer asks a Minnesota appeals court to toss his murder convictions

1:24pm January 18, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Chauvin is currently serving concurrent state and federal sentences in an Arizona prison. The three-person Court of Appeals says it will issue its opinion within 90 days.

With COVID, flu and cold viruses spreading widely this winter, researchers looked into whether you can get infected with more than one at once.

Health & Safety

Can you get COVID and the flu at the same time?

12:32pm January 18, 2023

by Rob Stein

And what about a cold or RSV? With all the illness spreading, it's virus soup out there these days. Some people feel so sick they're wondering if they're fighting more than one germ at once.

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