• Big balloons, wet weather and 21 protesters arrested at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

    Big balloons, wet weather and 21 protesters arrested at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

    Nov 28, 2024 02:23 PM EST

    ... The latest edition of the annual holiday tradition featured new Spider-Man and Minnie Mouse balloons, zoo and pasta-themed floats, an ode to Big Apple coffee and bagels, performances from Jennifer Hudson, Idina Menzel and Kylie Minogue, and more. The lineup was a far cry from the parade's ...

  • How political upheaval inspired the French Impressionists

    How political upheaval inspired the French Impressionists

    Nov 26, 2024 11:25 PM EST

    ... after the long dark winter. Jeffrey Brown:  In fact, many were scenes of recent horror, now of newly planted samplings, as in Alfred Sisley's Apple Trees in Flower. Kimberly Jones:  It's a site that has suffered, that has gone through its own trauma. And the fact you have ...

  • 'Whose side are you on?' Sen. Brown says Democrats must focus on working class to win

    'Whose side are you on?' Sen. Brown says Democrats must focus on working class to win

    Nov 21, 2024 11:40 PM EST

    ... about NAFTA. I grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, where I went to school with the sons and daughters -- name of my junior -- I was Johnny Appleseed Junior High with the sons and daughters of machinists and electricians and steelworkers and autoworkers and rubber workers. And those jobs first went south ...

  • Feds push Google to sell Chrome browser to break search monopoly

    Feds push Google to sell Chrome browser to break search monopoly

    Nov 21, 2024 11:30 PM EST

    ... asked a judge to force Google to divest from its Android mobile operating system. It also wants the company to stop paying phone makers like Apple to keep Google Search the default on their devices. Google, for its part, called the DOJ's approach unprecedented government overreach and said it ...

  • DOJ seeks to break up Google, forcing web browser Chrome sale as monopoly punishment

    DOJ seeks to break up Google, forcing web browser Chrome sale as monopoly punishment

    Nov 21, 2024 04:03 PM EST

    ... Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Kanter took a get-tough stance against Big Tech that triggered other attempted crackdowns on industry powerhouses such as Apple and discouraged many business deals from getting done during the past four years. Trump recently expressed concerns that a breakup might destroy Google but ...

  • Hong Kong ex-publisher Jimmy Lai testifies he didn't ask Pence, Pompeo to take action against city

    Hong Kong ex-publisher Jimmy Lai testifies he didn't ask Pence, Pompeo to take action against city

    Nov 20, 2024 05:31 PM EST

    ... the media world "to participate in delivering freedom." "The more you know, the more you are free," he said, adding that the core values of Apple Daily were the core values of the people of Hong Kong, including the rule of law, freedom and the pursuit of democracy. In May ...

  • A look at Dr. Oz's health care record as he's nominated to key post by Trump

    A look at Dr. Oz's health care record as he's nominated to key post by Trump

    Nov 19, 2024 11:50 PM EST

    So he has a lengthy track record of that kind of dubious statement, to put it mildly. He once even got in trouble with the Food and Drug Administration for suggesting that common brands of apple juice have unsafe levels of arsenic. So, as you can imagine, there's a ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on the 'chaos' surrounding Trump's Cabinet picks

    Brooks and Capehart on the 'chaos' surrounding Trump's Cabinet picks

    Nov 15, 2024 11:30 PM EST

    ... So take some time to really think through this. But the one thing I would say not to do is to respond to every shiny apple, that Trump is going to do an outrage du jour. And if they think, oh, all we have to do is hit him on ...

  • How Wall Street is reacting to a second Trump term in 8 different sectors

    How Wall Street is reacting to a second Trump term in 8 different sectors

    Nov 12, 2024 10:10 PM EST

    ... in a sign of tech’s more conciliatory attitude, Trump’s election was greeted by congratulatory posts from most of the industry’s luminaries, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. — Michael Liedtke Retail Trump’s victory brings a big dose of uncertainty ...

  • Congo wants UN peacekeepers to leave, but endless war complicates that

    Congo wants UN peacekeepers to leave, but endless war complicates that

    Oct 29, 2024 06:23 PM EST

    ... substantial gold, diamond, copper and cobalt reserves. In May, M23 fighters seized the town of Rubaya, which holds deposits of tantalum — used in electronics, including Apple devices —and extracted from coltan. The area is estimated to supply more than 15% of global production of tantalum and now generates about $300 ...