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Bay Area adds jobs in November, powered by big gains in South Bay

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

The Bay Area added thousands of jobs in November, an upswing fueled by big job gains in the South Bay that produced a welcome respite from recent months of employment losses for the nine-county region.The employment gains in the Bay Area suggested that the region has been able to ward off — for now — at least some of the effects of relentless layoffs in the tech industry that began at the start of 2022 and that worsened in 2023.The Bay Area added 5,800 jobs in November, government officials reported on Friday. The November gains mean the region gained employment over the two most recent months, ending three straight months of job losses in July, August and September.The South Bay added 3,800 jobs in November, snapping a string of three consecutive months of employment losses in August, September and October, the new labor agency report determined.Related ArticlesEconomy | Tech company plans big-time upgrade of San Jose campus Economy | Californ...

Donald Trump recorded pressuring Michigan county canvassers not to certify 2020 vote

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

By Craig Mauger | The Detroit NewsThen-President Donald Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News and revealed publicly for the first time.On a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, which also involved Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Trump told Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, the two GOP Wayne County canvassers, they’d look “terrible” if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the county’s election results, according to the recordings.“We’ve got to fight for our country,” said Trump on the recordings, made by a person who was present for the call with Palmer and Hartmann. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.”McDaniel, a Michigan native an...

FDA warns against counterfeit Ozempic

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

(KRON) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Novo Nordisk are investigating counterfeit Ozempic (semaglutide). Ozempic is an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ozempic also is used to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events.  Senators say diabetes and obesity epidemics are harming health of millions of Americans and costing billions of dollars The manufacturer of Ozempic Novo Nordisk and the FDA are testing the seized products and do not yet have information about the drugs’ identity, quality, or safety.The counterfeit drug has non-serious but adverse reactions that are common with the authentic Ozempic, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and constipation.According to the entities’ analysis, the needles in the inauthentic Ozempic are also counterfeit and the sterility cannot be confirmed. This is imperative for patients’ risk of infection. The pen label of the seized coun...

Bay Area city makes list of most dangerous in the US, study finds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

(NEXSTAR) – While violent crime has dropped to pre-pandemic levels nationwide, the FBI announced, changes weren't the same across the board. The crime rates remained elevated in dozens of cities around the country.Personal finance site MoneyGeek used the FBI crime data to look at crime rates in 302 large cities and 1,010 small cities and towns around the country. They looked at both violent crime and property crime, and used research by the University of Miami and the University of Colorado Denver to determine the cost of crime in each area. After crunching the numbers, the large city with the highest cost of crime was Birmingham, Alabama. The violent crime rate – which includes instances of murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault – in Birmingham was 1,682 per 100,000 residents. The property crime rate – which includes burglary, larceny, and vehicle theft – was 4,173 per 100,000 residents.Birmingham didn't have the highest rate of violent crime, however. Memp...

NBA scheduling quirk has Bucks making extended holiday trip to New York

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis says he didn’t even bother getting a Christmas tree for his home this year.There was no need. He and his teammates are making an extended holiday visit to New York.NBA players have become accustomed to the possibility they’ll be working away from home on Christmas. But no team’s ever had a holiday trip quite like the one the Bucks are experiencing.“Obviously I ain’t going to be able to open no presents under my tree,” Portis said earlier this week, pointing out the team is leaving Friday. “They’d be sitting at the crib under the tree for five or six days after Christmas.”The Bucks have consecutive early afternoon games with the New York Knicks on Saturday and again on Christmas Day before visiting the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this marks just the second time an NBA team has played three straight road games in the New York metro area, and the first time that it’s coincided with C...

Police seek a motive as Prague mourns the 14 people killed in the nation’s worst mass shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police investigated Friday why a student went on a dayslong violent rampage culminating in a shooting at the university he attended in Prague that left 14 dead and dozens wounded.Investigators believe the gunman in the mass shooting Thursday in a philosophy department building at Charles University also killed his own father earlier in the day, and another man and a baby last week.Residents meanwhile were grappling with the nation’s worst mass shooting in the heart of the historic capital city. Political leaders, students, friends of the victims and others came together to light candles during an impromptu vigil for the victims.“A few of my friends study at the philosophy faculty at Charles University,” said Kristof Unger, a student who attended the vigil. “They have been really traumatized by the shooting there and I just wanted to make them feel a little bit better.”Robert Hanus, another of the vigil’s attendees, said everyone should com...

Alabama lineman Justin Eboigbe returns from neck injury better than ever and ready for CFP semifinal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

Justin Eboigbe says he just wanted to come back as “a better version of myself.”It’s the goal that helped push the Alabama defensive end through all the rehab from an injury that ended his 2022 season, the weeks in a neck brace and numerous hours wearing a bone stem device.Eboigbe has come back better than ever. He returned from a neck injury that sidelined him for most of last season with easily his best year, earning individual accolades and helping to give himself and the Crimson Tide chances for a happier ending.“During the whole rehab, I just kept knowing that I was going to show a better version of myself than what I last did,” said Eboigbe, who also recently received a master’s degree in sports management. “That was my whole focus, my whole goal, my whole mind-set each day attacking rehab. And I just hoped that I could prove what I’ve been saying and telling myself.”He has been a key part of a defense that has helped propel the Tide to a Southeastern Conference champion...

Correction: Wisconsin-Abortion Referendum story

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In a Dec. 21 story about Wisconsin abortion law, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Roe v. Wade only allowed states to regulate abortion after the point of fetal viability. It allowed states to regulate abortion under certain circumstances before that point. The AP also reported that viability is typically around the 24th to 28th week of pregnancy. Although that was once the case, doctors and researchers now generally consider it to be around the 23rd or 24th week.Source

Cortland quarterback Zac Boyes and North Central RB Joe Sacco lead AP Division III All-America team

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

Quarterback Zac Boyes, who led Cortland to its first national championship, and running Joe Sacco from national runner-up North Central highlighted The Associated Press Division III All-America Team announced Friday.Boyes had 349 yards passing and 123 rushing in Cortland’s 38-37 victory against North Central in the title game last week. He was joined on the first team by teammates Cody Aikey, an offensive lineman, and Cole Burgess, a wide receiver.North Central, which won national titles in 2022 and 2019, had five players chosen first-team All-America, more than any other school. Joining Sacco, who ran for 1,661 yards, were offensive linemen Jeske Maples and Jarod Thornton, receiver DeAngelo Hardy and receiver Joey Lombardi, who was selected as an all-purpose player.Maples and Hardy are All-Americans for the second straight season, along with Mount Union receiver Wayne Ruby and defensive end Rossy Moore and Saint John’s tight end Alex Larson.North Central quarterback Luk...

Vincent Cavin hired as assistant to US coach Gregg Berhalter

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:48:46 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Vincent Cavin was hired Friday as an assistant to U.S. men’s head coach Gregg Berhalter.The 48-year-old Cavin had been with the Swiss soccer association as an assistant coach on the men’s national team since 2014.Cavin joins a staff that includes assistant coaches B.J. Callaghan and Mikey Varas and goalkeeper coach Fabian Otte.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource