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Kaval thinks the A’s move could be one of the biggest developments in sports history.

Two detectives looking for 43 students who went missing almost ten years ago have themselves disappeared in Mexico's Pacific coast state of Guerrero. 

Stocks rallied to records after some influential Big Tech companies got back in their groove. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% Tuesday to top its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 1.5%. All three indexes started the day with losses after a highly anticipated report showed inflation was worse than expected. Treasury yields rose. But the inflation figures weren’t far off expectations, and traders still hope the Federal Reserve will begin cutting interest rates in June. Читать дальше...

Republican Rep. Ken Buck has announced that he’ll resign next week.

A total solar eclipse is coming to North America. On April 8, the sun will pull another disappearing act across parts of Mexico, the United States and Canada, turning day into night for as much as 4 minutes, 28 seconds. That’s twice as long as the total solar eclipse that darkened U.S. skies in 2017. This eclipse will take a different and more populated route, entering over Mexico’s Pacific coast, dashing up through Texas and Oklahoma, crisscrossing the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England, before exiting over eastern Canada into the Atlantic.

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Boeing received bad grades in a government audit of manufacturing quality, and the company says it's making changes to address the situation. The president of the company's commercial aircraft division detailed the latest steps to correct lapses in quality in a memo to employees on Tuesday. He says Boeing will work with employees found to have violated company manufacturing procedures to make sure their understand their instructions. The memo went out after the Federal Aviation Administration identified... Читать дальше...

Brazilian police say several passengers are being held hostage in a bus in Rio de Janeiro, and two were injured from gunshots. A police statement released Tuesday afternoon said an elite police team is currently negotiating at the scene. The bus is parked inside the Sao Cristovao terminal, in the city center. Police cars and ambulances could be seen waiting near the bus, while thousands of passengers are stranded waiting for information on scheduled travel. Several people interviewed on Brazilian TV news channel Globo News... Читать дальше...

A former Las Vegas-area elected official accused of killing an investigative journalist will not go on trial next week. A Nevada judge on Tuesday postponed Robert Telles' trial but did not immediately set a new date. Telles has pleaded not guilty in the September 2022 stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German. Prosecutors say more time is needed to review key cellphone and computer records for evidence in the case. Telles, a Democrat, previously served as the Clark County administrator of estates. Читать дальше...

The ex-presidential contender threw his support behind five candidates nationwide.

Republicans who control the state Senate have fired eight more of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointees, including two Universities of Wisconsin regents who voted against a deal that limited campus diversity efforts. The Senate voted Tuesday to reject confirming regents Dana Wachs and John Miller. Both voted twice in December to reject a deal UW officials brokered with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos that called for limiting diversity work in exchange for funding for building projects and staff raises. Читать дальше...

Kara Swisher's book and good-vibes book tour are letting tech's workers down.

A 2-year-old was among those who survived a small plane crash in Mendocino County.

Pakistani authorities have barred visitors to the country’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan after receiving intelligence about a possible attack on the prison where he is held. Under a government order, no visitors will be allowed to meet with Khan or other inmates at the Adiala prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi for two weeks for security reasons. The order came days after authorities increased security at the prison. It is unclear whether the intelligence obtained by authorities... Читать дальше...

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Two top Kansas Republican Party officials are facing internal calls to resign over a viral online video showing people at a fundraiser kicking and beating a mannequin wearing a mask of President Joe Biden. Kansas GOP State Chair Mike Brown and Johnson County GOP Chair Maria Holiday distanced themselves from the display at a Friday evening fundraiser for the county party in the Kansas City area. In a Facebook post, the state GOP blamed an outside vendor who rented space at the event to promote a martial arts school. Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden has met with the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters and reminded its leaders and members of his record on unions as likely Republican challenger Donald Trump tries to make gains among blue-collar workers. Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said after Tuesday's meeting that Biden has been “great” for workers but stressed that “there’s still a lot of work to be done” to bolster unions. O'Brien and other Teamsters members met with Trump in January, and the group... Читать дальше...

Authorities say a massive explosion killed two people and destroyed a house in the Pittsburgh area near the Ohio River. Allegheny County emergency dispatchers say the blast in Crescent Township in the northwest Pittsburgh suburbs was reported shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday. Aerial images from the scene show smoking ruins with the structure reduced to rubble and some large pieces lodged in trees above. The Crescent Township fire chief says a man and woman were found dead at the scene. The county medical... Читать дальше...

"It was a significant amount of merchandise," the Alameda police chief said.

The National Small Business Association has won a court challenge against the Corporate Transparency Act, a law designed to combat money laundering. A federal court in Alabama on Friday ruled the legislation unconstitutional. The Corporate Transparency Act requires businesses to report owners and beneficial owners to an agency called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. But small business advocates say it’s too onerous to report the information required. Businesses with more than 20 employees... Читать дальше...

A senior U.S. official will visit Kosovo in the next days to put “back on track” talks on normalizing ties between Kosovo and Serbia, after tensions escalated over Kosovo’s decision to ban the use of the Serbian dinar. Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar said he would discuss with Kosovo authorities a possible resolution of the “uncoordinated decision” to ban Serbia’s dinar in ethnic Serbian-dominated areas, especially in Kosovo’s north. The decision angered both Kosovo Serbs and Serbia, and... Читать дальше...

Drew Magary is pretty sure he knows what's become of the Princess of Wales.

The expansion would bring new lands, restaurants and hotels to Disneyland.