NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Southern Baptist Convention official is resigning amid internal rifts over how to handle an investigation into the SBC’s response to sexual abuse. It’s a decision that underscores the broader ongoing turmoil in the nation’s…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A prominent Bill Cosby accuser has filed suit Thursday against the actor over a 1990 hotel room encounter in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Lili Bernard's lawsuit comes just before the state’s two-year window to file older sexual…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court is once again allowing Texas to continue banning most abortions. The decision Thursday night keeps the law known as Senate Bill 8 in place as the Justice Department tries halting the law.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Bill Clinton says the former president is in a hospital in California being treated for a non-COVID-related infection. Spokesman Angel Ureña says Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center on…
(AP) -- A panel of U.S. health advisers has endorsed booster shots for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. The advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to recommend a lower-dose booster shot for seniors and other high-risk groups. Already millions…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in inflation as the economy struggles to shake off the drag of…
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an…
MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — More than 10,000 Deere & Co. workers went on strike Thursday after the United Auto Workers union said negotiators couldn't deliver a new agreement that would meet the “demands and needs” of workers. The vast majority…
VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Hollywood’s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, has blasted into space and safely returned to Earth in a convergence of science fiction and science reality. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="4b562d8008970995ce9674363844feae09ee4f96" vtitle="William Shatner, TV's Capt. Kirk, blasts into space"…
NEW YORK (AP) — Food companies are coming under renewed pressure to use less salt. U.S. regulators on Wednesday spelled out long-awaited guidelines aimed at reducing sodium levels in dozens of foods including condiments, french fries and potato chips. The…
