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Another Cuomo aide accuses governor of sexual harassment
A second former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused him of sexual harassment, saying the governor asked several questions about her sex life and made her feel “horribly uncomfortable and scared.” Charlotte Bennett, who was a health policy adviser and executive assistant to the governor, made the allegations in an interview published Saturday by The New York Times. A second aide to Gov. Cuomo is accusing him of sexual harassment, saying the governor asked him several questions about her sex life. Bennett, 25, told the newspaper that Cuomo asked her if she’d ever had a relationship with an older m...
New York Daily News
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San Diego State makes it 10 consecutive wins with sweep of Boise State
SAN DIEGO — When the Mountain West agreed to a new television contract with CBS and Fox Sports, it allowed them to schedule games six days a week on one condition: Teams wouldn’t have to play twice within 48 hours except in the conference tournament. That went out the window with the global pandemic, and the result Saturday was an ugly game with a 1 p.m. tip following a taxing Thursday night overtime affair. No problem. San Diego State can win ugly, too. The No. 22 Aztecs held off Boise State, 62-58, at Viejas Arena for their 10th straight victory, putting them one win — Wednesday night at UNL...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Trump fans eager to hear what the ex-president has to say Sunday at CPAC
ORLANDO, Fla. — Anticipation for Donald Trump’s Sunday speech was palpable at CPAC in Orlando on Saturday, as speakers invoked the ex-president’s name and policies in their remarks and attendees were hopeful he’d shed light on his political future. Charlene Daniel-Greene and her husband drove from Pennsylvania. Recently retired, the couple hopes to get involved in conservative activism in the coming years. But she said she was discouraged that Trump hasn’t spoken out since Jan. 6 and feels his silence and the death of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh have left a hole in the discourse. “I’...
Orlando Sentinel
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Florida Sen. Rubio cancels speech at CPAC, citing ‘family issue’
ORLANDO, Fla. — CPAC was supposed to be headlined Saturday by remarks from U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, but the Florida Republican was removed from the agenda at the last minute, an official with the conference confirmed. The senator tweeted later that he to cancel his talk at the Orlando convention of conservatives because of “an unexpected family issue.” “I was really looking forward to it,” Rubio said in a tweet. “But as I told (CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp) they should move CPAC to Florida permanently.” Rubio wasn’t added to the speakers’ list until Friday. He has gone out of his way to stay in ex...
Orlando Sentinel
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56% of US millennials think binary gender notions are outdated, survey finds
NEW YORK — The future feels fluid. A new study released this week found that more than half (56%) of millennials in the United States see notions of binary gender as outdated. The same is true for about half of young Generation Z adults, according to a study conducted by Orlando-based advertising agency Bigeye. According to the Pew Research Center, Generation Z is defined as those born after 1996, colloquially referred to as Zoomers. Millennials, also known as Generation Y, were born between 1981 and 1996. In the Bigeye study, which was released Wednesday, researchers set out to gauge consumer...
New York Daily News
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Hot-selling 2021 Ford Bronco Sport gets second recall, this time for rollover risk
Ford Motor Co. is recalling its popular 2021 Bronco Sport for a second time, now for an incorrect lower control arm that could result in reduced vehicle stability and increase the risk of a rollover crash at maximum roof load. This recall involves 106 vehicles built on Dec. 9; Ford estimated 50% are defective. Ford Bronco Sport was just launched in November. Ford had sold 13,170 Bronco Sports in the U.S. through January, according to its sales reports. The recall is posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website dated Feb. 16 with Ford documents attached. The company did ...
Detroit Free Press
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Ford introduces first-ever Explorer King Ranch luxury package for popular midsize SUV
Customers told Ford Motor Co. they wanted more luxury. So Ford responded with a first-ever King Ranch package for its popular Explorer SUV that includes hand-stitched "premium touches" and mahogany-colored Del Rio leather trimmed seats with perforated front and second rows with the legendary King Ranch Running logo, along with leather door trim rollers, Sapele wood instrument panel appliques and leather-wrapped steering wheel with a Sapele wood insert, according to a news release last week. And there's more. Inside, it will also include multi-contour seats with massaging capabilities, a 10.1-i...
Detroit Free Press
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Costco to raise its minimum wage to $16 an hour
Costco waded into the debate over the federal minimum wage Thursday by announcing its wage floor will rise to $16 an hour. The update directly applies to about a fifth of the more than 160,000 Costco employees who work hourly, accounting for 90% of Costco's U.S. workforce, CEO Craig Jelinek said at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on how large companies pay their workers. The pay bump, which takes effect next week, pegs baseline wages at the Issaquah, Wash.-based wholesale club above those at competitors Amazon and Target, which have instituted $15 wage floors in recent years. The minimum wage ...
The Seattle Times
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Michigan attorney general will close inquiry into Larry Nassar unless MSU releases 6,000 documents
DETROIT — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel will close her office's investigation into who at Michigan State University was aware of former university doctor Larry Nassar's sexual assaults of patients unless the university releases roughly 6,000 withheld documents. Nessel acknowledged Thursday that she sent a letter to the college's Board of Trustees a day earlier, asking one last time for the board to release the documents so her team can review them. If the board doesn't agree, she said the investigation that began more than three years ago will end. The board is withholding the document...
The Detroit News
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Texas manufacturing accelerates despite uncertainty over Biden, snowstorm and oil
A key measure of Texas manufacturing suggested productivity sharply accelerated in February as it notched one of its best scores since the start of pandemic. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ latest survey of manufacturing executives across the state also found marked upticks in the number reporting increases in new orders, shipments and capacity usage after a brief dip in January that followed another uptick in December. A measure of manufacturing jobs slipped some from January, but Emily Kerr, a senior business economist at the bank, noted in an analysis that it still indicated increased h...
Austin American-Statesman
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