As the pandemic drags on, big chains like Target and Nordstrom are looking for ways to keep consumers coming back to their stores. One go-to strategy is the store-within-a-store concept. It’s a way for one retailer to join forces with another by setting up a pop-up shop within their stores. Industry analysts say the approach
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After applying to more than 20 colleges, one high school senior from Philadelphia has been offered a total of over $1 million in scholarship money. Shanya Robinson-Owens, 17, applied to somewhere between 25 to 30 different colleges, hoping to find the school best suited for her. As her acceptance letters came rolling in, her family
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Robert Lewandowski took a step closer to breaking a legendary scoring record after netting a hat trick in Bayern Munich’s 4-2 win over rivals Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. The Poland international is chasing Gerd Muller’s tally of 40 goals in a single Bundesliga season, which has now stood for 49 years. After his three goals
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President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats are racing to prove a counterintuitive lesson: with congressional majorities, sometimes less can be more. The new President holds a slim House advantage and even slimmer Senate edge — 51-50, and then only if he holds every Democrat and allows Vice President Kamala Harris to break ties. Yet passage
Continue ReadingSome financially struggling Americans who owe back taxes will miss out on stimulus payments unless the Internal Revenue Service decides to change its rules. The problem is hitting an estimated 8 million households that didn’t get the money sent directly to them, most commonly because the IRS didn’t have their correct information on file. Even
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order Sunday expanding voting access in what the White House calls “an initial step in this Administration’s efforts to protect the right to vote and ensure all eligible citizens can freely participate in the electoral process.” The move comes just three days after the House of
Continue ReadingA third female former staffer has come forward with accusations of inappropriate conduct by embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday night. The Democratic governor already stands accused of sexual harassment by two women and unwanted advances against him by a third. A former aide for
Continue Reading It’s been nearly a year since the coronavirus pandemic ended the S&P 500’s longest-ever bull run and sent stocks everywhere into a violent nosedive. The turmoil was a fitting start to a year of frenzied activity. The virus continues to wreak havoc on our daily lives, but markets have long since forgotten the painful reckoning.
Continue ReadingThe message to White House senior staff as President Joe Biden’s cornerstone legislative proposal nears completion is simple, if blunt: there is “absolutely no room for complacency.” A two-page memo, drafted by White House senior adviser Anita Dunn and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and obtained by CNN, hails the work that has been
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Made redundant from her job at Lockheed Martin at the age of 55, Clemmie Perry started thinking she needed to find a hobby. She turned to golf, but was immediately struck by the lack of diversity. So ever since Perry picked up her first set of clubs in 2013, she has made it her mission
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With each day and each vaccination, the US inches closer to the finish line of what has been a brutal battle against Covid-19. But it’s not over just yet. Infection numbers, after weeks of declines, now seem to have plateaued at high levels. The US has averaged more than 60,000 Covid-19 cases daily in the
Continue ReadingVoting rights groups led bus tours, knocked on 1 million doors and gave out food at community events to achieve an unprecedented Black voter turnout in Georgia. The organizations have been credited with helping Democrats win both the White House and control of the US Senate in the last election cycle. Their efforts, however, could
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Debra Barnes Wilson was 8 on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama. She and her grandmother, Julia Barnes, joined the voting rights marchers, filing in at the back of the column, but turned back because the elder, an asthmatic, grew short of breath. The girl’s grandmother, who raised her, lived in George Washington Carver Homes, across
Continue Reading They say a dog is a man’s best friend. For one New Jersey man, his rescue dog has become much more than that. Sadie, a 100-pound German Shepherd, had been turned away by three shelters by the time she arrived at the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge in Oakland, New Jersey, in early 2020. Sadie was very
Continue Reading One person was shot to death Saturday night in Minneapolis at the same intersection where George Floyd died last year — an area that has since become a memorial site. “The victim and the suspect had a verbal disagreement, and the suspect shot the victim,” Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder said. Police responded to
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(CNN Español) — El presidente de Paraguay Mario Abdo Benítez anunció este sábado el cambio de cuatro miembros de su gabinete, incluyendo al de Salud, en medio de una crisis desatada tras las protestas por el manejo de la crisis del covid-19 que este viernes dejaron una veintena de heridos en Asunción. Abdo dijo que
Continue Reading (CNN) — El gobierno de Joe Biden se enfrenta a un número cada vez mayor de niños migrantes sin compañía que cruzan a Estados Unidos, lo que aumenta la presión sobre un sistema que funciona con una capacidad limitada debido a la pandemia del coronavirus. La Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de EE.UU. ha
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Throughout the weekend dozens of parachutists will take over the sky above the city of Felicity, just 20 minutes west of Yuma.
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Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he plans to campaign against GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska next year when she’s up for reelection, intensifying his pledges to oppose GOP lawmakers who have bucked him. “I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski,” Trump
Continue ReadingThe US Chamber of Commerce will not suspend financial contributions to members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a memo released Friday. “We do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the election certification,” Chamber of Commerce National Political Director
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