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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Priming itself for the age of Internet-delivered video, AT&T Inc. said it would buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion in cash and stock, or $95 per share. While DirecTV doesn’t help the telecom company compete in the online video space immediately, cost savings from the merger and the extra cash flow will […]
NORTHFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Kraft Foods Group is recalling some of its cottage cheese products, company officials announced Saturday. Some ingredients used in Knudsen Cottage Cheese, Breakstone’s Cottage Cheese, Simply Kraft Cottage Cheese and Daily Chef Cottage Cheese were not stored in accordance with proper temperature standards at a Tulare, California, manufacturing facility, they said. […]
Doris Lewis (pictured) has a massive and painful benign abdominal growth in her upper torso that has now inched its way to her heart. Desperate, she tried seeking…
GALENA, Kan. (AP) — An 8-year-old southeast Kansas girl is being hailed for her quick, calm thinking after she grabbed the steering wheel and drove the family’s SUV when her mother fell unconscious on their highway ride to school. Abby Porter and her mom, Shelly, were on Kanas 66 headed to her school in Riverton […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will observe the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision Friday by meeting with families of the plaintiffs in the case as well as the lead attorneys and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Obama will host the group, including lawyers Jack […]
Using a concept known as Virotherapy, a woman with an incurable cancer is now in remission, all thanks to a highly concentrated dose of the measles virus. CNN reports: For 10 years, Stacy Revolts, 49, battled multiple Myeloma, a deadly cancer of the blood. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic say she had received every type of chemotherapy […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates fell in nearly all U.S. states last month, and half the states now have rates below 6 percent. The figures are a sign of widespread, if slow, improvement in the nation’s job market. The Labor Department says unemployment rates fell in 43 states in April, rose in two states and […]
Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Department of Justice released reports regarding accomplishments in various areas of the department. On Monday, the DOJ’s Civil…
The U.S. Transportation Department says it will make a major announcement Friday on its investigation into General Motors safety issues. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Acting Administrator David Friedman are scheduled to attend a press briefing. The agencies have been investigating GM’s delayed recall of 2.6 million small cars due […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Darden Restaurants says it entered an agreement to sell its Red Lobster chain to investment firm Golden Gate Capital in a $2.1 billion cash deal. The move comes as Darden, which also owns Olive Garden, fights to improve its financial performance. Olive Garden and Red Lobster have been losing customers in […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Amid apparent security concerns, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan cancelled a trip Friday to the traumatized town from which Islamic extremists abducted more than 300 schoolgirls a month ago. It would have been the first reported visit by the president to the scene of an attack in the northeastern region that has […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, who has said he would “have to think long and hard” before letting a son play football because of the risk of head injuries, is planning a summit this month on youth sports safety and concussions. The White House announced the May 29 conference Thursday and said it will […]
