Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Tesla balks at touch screen recall, US agency takes action
DETROIT - Tesla Inc. is balking at recalling about 159,000 vehicles with potentially defective touch screens, so U.S. safety regulators are moving to force the company to take action. The National Hig...
Jan 13, 2021
Asia Today: China virus cases spike as WHO researchers visit
BEIJING - China is seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases in its frozen northeast as a World Health Organization team arrived to investigate the origins of the pandemic. China on Thursday also report...
Jan 13, 2021
Fed survey finds economy slowing in some areas of country
WASHINGTON - A Federal Reserve survey of U.S. business conditions has found modest economic gains at the start of the year, although some parts of the country saw slowdowns stemming from a renewed sur...
Jan 13, 2021
Cafe, croissant, worms? EU agency says worms safe to eat
ROME - The vaunted Mediterranean diet and French gastronomy are getting some competition: The European Union's food safety agency says worms are safe to eat. The Parma-based agency published a scienti...
Jan 13, 2021
US budget deficit up 60.7% in first 3 months of budget year
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government's deficit in the first three months of the budget year was a record-breaking $572.9 billion, 60.7% higher than the same period a year ago, as spending to deal with the...
Jan 13, 2021
US to block cotton from China region targeted in crackdown
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government announced Wednesday that it will halt imports of cotton and tomatoes from the Uighur region of China in its most sweeping action yet to pressure the Communist Party ov...
Jan 13, 2021
Consumer prices up 0.4% in December led by higher gas prices
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices rose 0.4% in December, led by a sharp rise in gasoline prices. Last month's increase, the largest in four months, followed a 0.2% rise in November and no change at al...
Jan 13, 2021
Japan widens virus emergency to 7 more areas as cases surge
TOKYO - Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency to seven more prefectures Wednesday, affecting more than half the population amid a surge in infections across the country. Prime Minister Yoshi...
Jan 13, 2021
Estonia's PM resigns over corruption scandal in his party
HELSINKI - Estonia's prime minister resigned Wednesday over a corruption scandal involving a key official of his Center Party suspected of accepting a private donation for the party in exchange for a ...
Jan 13, 2021
Yellen's Senate confirmation hearing set for Jan. 19
WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee announced Tuesday that it will hold a confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretary-nominee Janet Yellen on Jan. 19. The timing for the hearing will mean that Y...
Jan 12, 2021
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Sarah Mills: Tiger Woods should know better after another DUI case
Sarah Mills says Tiger Woods could easily pay for a car service, and he should also have an NDA to keep his business his...
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On today's show, Evan asks whether you really relax when you have time off, the economic impact of the industrial carbon...