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Bird scooters are parked on West Le Moyne Street in the Noble Square neighborhood of Chicago on June 15, 2019.

Bird, an electric scooter company, files for bankruptcy

December 20, 2023 at 11:53 a.m.

The electric scooter company Bird said Wednesday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, another sign that the shine on this once buzzy part of personal transportation has begun to...

Stephanie Scanlan, who earlier this year had to continue treatment without two of the three drugs typically used for her rare form of bone cancer, adjusts a scarf, in Tallahassee, Fla., Sept. 30, 2023.

Behind the shortage keeping cancer patients from chemo

December 19, 2023 at 7:44 a.m.

Stephanie Scanlan learned about the shortages of basic chemotherapy drugs last spring in the most frightening way. Two of the three drugs typically used to treat her rare bone cancer...

Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks says it's committed to bargaining with unionized workers and reaching labor agreements next year.

Federal regulators seek to force Starbucks to reopen 23 stores, including one in Chicago

December 14, 2023 at 2:06 p.m.

Federal labor regulators accused Starbucks on Wednesday of illegally closing 23 stores to suppress organizing activity and sought to force the company to reopen them. A complaint issued by a...

Casey Grogan, owner of Silver Bells Tree Farm and president of the Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Association, trims a noble fir at his 400-acre Christmas tree farm in Silverton, Ore., in Nov. 2018.

How Christmas tree farms can help wildlife

December 13, 2023 at 9:52 a.m.

A few years after the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests started a Christmas tree farm, Nigel Manley, who oversaw the operations, began noticing some interesting developments among...

Artist Isabelle Brourman, shows a mixed media work she created at the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump, in her apartment in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Dec. 6, 2023.

At Donald Trump’s fraud trial, courtroom artist takes a different view

December 13, 2023 at 9:11 a.m.

When former President Donald Trump's eyes drifted shut as his former accountant testified during his civil fraud trial in New York State Supreme Court this fall, no photographers captured the...

Red Lobster’s popular endless shrimp deal ate into its profits

November 30, 2023 at 8:42 a.m.

Red Lobster's "irresistible" all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion has indeed proved hard to resist. The Ultimate Endless Shrimp deal has been so popular that it helped cause a drop in third-quarter profit...

Polling station at Mequon City Hall in Ozaukee County, Mequon, Wis., Aug. 11, 2020.

Wisconsin judge dismisses felony charge in ‘ballot selfie’ case

November 29, 2023 at 7:22 a.m.

A Wisconsin judge on Monday dismissed a felony charge against a school board candidate who had posted a photograph on Facebook of a ballot with his name filled in. In...

A female wild turkey, dubbed Lucy by the neighbors in this Bartlett subdivsion, has been a good neighbor since early last year, Nov. 15, 2010 in Bartlett.

Turkeys were a marvel of conservation. Now their numbers are dwindling.

November 23, 2023 at 9:44 a.m.

When researchers started trapping and putting radio trackers on female turkeys in the thick woods of southeast Oklahoma, they hoped to learn how hens were successfully raising their young. Two...

"Friends" episode "The One With The Rumor" aired Nov. 22, 2001. Pictured, left to right, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Brad Pitt as Will Colbert, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller.

Best Thanksgiving episodes to stream: ‘Friends,’ ‘Succession’ and more

November 23, 2023 at 9:41 a.m.

Preparing for the big binge? Whether you call the upcoming holiday Friendsgiving, Slapsgiving, the Feast of Feasts — or just, you know, Thanksgiving — this year, you can be thankful...

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, right, after he received Abbott's endorsement at the South Texas International Airport, Nov. 19, 2023, in Edinburg, Texas.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott endorses Donald Trump, lauding his border policies

March 11, 2024 at 12:21 p.m.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas endorsed former President Donald Trump on Sunday in an appearance near the southern border, echoing Trump's talk about an existential crisis of illegal immigration. "I'm...

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