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  • Child tax credit starts hitting US families' bank accounts

    July 16, 2021 - 12:35 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The child tax credit had always been an empty gesture to millions of parents like Tamika Daniel.

  • Amazon's mission: Getting a 'key' to your apartment building

    July 22, 2021 - 11:05 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells.

  • 'United Pingdom:' Firms in England fret over staff shortages

    July 19, 2021 - 4:08 AM

    LONDON (AP) — Businesses in England warned Monday that a “pingdemic” of people receiving notifications on their phones telling them to self-isolate because of contact with coronavirus cases threatens to lead to widespread staff shortages and mayhem across the economy just as lockdown restrictions are lifted.

  • Jimmy, Rosalynn Carter mark 75 years of ‘full partnership’

    July 04, 2021 - 7:47 AM

    ATLANTA (AP) — The young midshipman needed a date one evening while he was home from the U.S. Naval Academy, so his younger sister paired him with a family friend who already had a crush.

  • Millions skipped church during pandemic. Will they return?

    June 29, 2021 - 12:46 PM

    WALDOBORO, Maine (AP) — With millions of people having stayed home from places of worship during the coronavirus pandemic, struggling congregations have one key question: How many of them will return?

  • Fearing COVID, struggling Malawian women forgo prenatal care

    June 29, 2021 - 12:13 AM

    BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Prenatal services at the health clinic were free, but the motorcycle taxi fare cost more than Monica Maxwell could afford. Just four weeks before delivering her baby, she cobbled together 1,400 kwacha ($1.75) for the 50-kilometer (31-mile) round trip. It was only her third visit -- fewer than her first two pregnancies. The money she made selling tomatoes at the local market dried up due to the pandemic. Her husband’s income selling goat meat also dwindled.

  • Fearing COVID, struggling Malawian women forgo prenatal care

    June 28, 2021 - 11:47 PM

    BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Prenatal services at the clinic were free, but the motorcycle taxi fare cost more than Monica Maxwell could afford. Just four weeks before delivering her baby, she cobbled together 1,400 kwacha ($1.75) for the 50-kilometer (31-mile) round trip. It was only her third visit -- fewer than her first two pregnancies. The money she made selling tomatoes dried up amid the pandemic. Her husband’s income selling meat also dwindled.

  • As pandemic restrictions wane, hopes rise for Europe travel

    June 24, 2021 - 7:43 AM

    SWANSEA, Wales (AP) — When Sierra Schade booked a trip from Atlanta to Greece, she hoped more European countries would follow Greece’s lead and open to U.S. travelers.

  • Senate GOP hails new Interior deputy as 'voice of reason'

    June 17, 2021 - 2:58 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate easily confirmed former Obama administration official Tommy Beaudreau as deputy secretary at the Interior Department on Thursday, a rare bipartisan moment in an increasingly bitter fight over President Joe Biden's policies on energy production and climate change.

  • Impatient Democrats prepare to go-it-alone on infrastructure

    June 15, 2021 - 9:09 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Patience running thin, Democratic leaders are laying the groundwork for a go-it-alone approach on President Joe Biden's big jobs and families infrastructure plans even as the White House continues negotiating with Republicans on a much more scaled-back $1 trillion proposal.
  • 2019 Hyperdrive Wine of the Week: Rigour & Whimsy 2019 Hyperdrive
    Rigour & Whimsy is a micro winery in Okanagan Falls featuring hand crafted small lot wines. Costa and Jody Gavaris are the very cool husband and wife team behind the label that have brought a very colourful wave to our wine industry. Cr

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