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Comic-Con to remain virtual in 2021, cites financial strain
The Associated PressSan Diego Comic-Con will remain virtual for the July event, but organizers are planning for a smaller-scale gathering later in 2021.Comic-Con announced...
Deal reached to get California children back in classrooms
Adam BeamThe Associated PressThe majority of California’s 6.1 million public school students could be back in the classroom by April under new legislation announced...
House passes Equality Act, adding sexual orientation and gender identification as protections
Kevin FrekingThe Associated PressThe Democratic-led House passed a bill Thursday, Feb. 25, that would include LGBTQ protections in the nation’s labor and civil rights...
Minimum wage hike all but dead in big COVID-19 relief bill
Alan FramThe Associated PressFour days after the chamber’s parliamentarian said Senate rules forbid inclusion of a straight-out minimum wage increase in the relief measure,...
NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’
Marcia DunnAP Aerospace WriterNASA released the first high-quality video Monday, Feb. 22, of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous...
Unfriended no more: Facebook to lift Australia news ban
Rod McGuirkThe Associated PressFacebook announced Tuesday, Feb. 23, that it would lift a ban on Australians viewing and sharing news on its platform after...
House passes Equality Act, adding sexual orientation and gender identification as protections
Feb 25, 2021 3:25PMÂ By KEVIN FREKINGÂ
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-led House passed a bill Thursday that would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the nation's labor...
President Biden breaks Trump peacetime record: Launches air strikes against Syria
LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) —President Biden broke the Trump peacetime record and launched air strikes against Syria.The United States...
Suspected hypothermia deaths in homes mount in Texas
Feb 20, 2021 10:55AM
JAMIE STENGLE and MARION RENAULT DALLAS (AP) — With the snow and ice clearing in Texas after days of unusually cold temperatures, bodies are...
Debris falls from plane during emergency landing near Denver
By GILLIAN FLACCUSDebris from a United Airlines plane fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing Saturday, with one very large piece that appears...