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Edgelea Elementary first grade class hosting health fair with a twist Its all about health and safety this week for a class of Edgelea Elementary first graders. Theyre hosting a health fair for the school, which is looking a lot different compared to prior years. Posted: May 24, 2021 5:55 AM Updated: May 24, 2021 11:38 AM Posted By: Micah Upshaw LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) -- Its Health Fair week for one class of Edgelea Elementary first graders. Starting Monday, May 24, and ending Friday, May 28...

Retailers, Restaurants and Theme Parks Lift Mask Rules: Live Updates RIGHT NOW Source: Factset Starbucks has announced that masks will be optional for vaccinated customers as of Monday, unless local regulations require them.Credit...Eze Amos for The New York Times Target on Monday joined a growing list of retailers, restaurants and theme parks that will allow fully vaccinated customers to go mask free, following new coronavirus safety guidance from the federal government last week that said vac...

May 7, 2021 Germany is known for luxury cars, machine tools and other goods that have protected the overall economy from the worst effects of the pandemic. But Germany is also a nation of shopkeepers, small operations whose employees are often from the same family. These businesses have been pushed to the brink of existence by lockdowns, quarantines and other restrictions that often change from day to day. Vaccines are in short supply and intensive care units are filling up, prompting Chancello...

Billie Blair Pratt Tribune A new twist to an annual tradition that came to a halt last year because of COVID-19, is back in Pratt.  The Pratt Faith Partnership (PFP), formerly the Ministerial Alliance, has planned community luncheons during the month of May to compensate for Lenten Luncheons that were cancelled in 2020 and before Easter in 2021.  The Christian Church is in the season of Eastertide now and according to the Rev. Karen Lemon, All Saints Episcopal Church, “Easter is a more joyf...

Opposition to Net Neutrality Was Faked, New York Says: Live Updates S&P 500 Source: Factset Protesters removed props after a 2017 protest in Washington against repealing net neutrality rules.Credit...Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Internet service providers funded an effort that yielded millions of fake comments supporting the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of so-called net neutrality rules in 2017, the New York attorney general said on Thursday. Internet providers, working through...

Erkans Field Diary Primary Menu AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not announce a stimulus package to offset the economic impact of the new shutdown. Bianet :: English Ruhsar Pekcan was dismissed as the minister of trade after it was revealed that the ministry bought nine million lira worth of disinfectants from her company. Surreal: A young Turkish woman and man make satirical video about how "useless" a Turkish passport is–using ...

Live Updates: Biden to Toughen Tax Enforcement to Help Pay for His Economic Agenda President Biden is seeking $80 billion to strengthen I.R.S. enforcement, which administration officials believe will raise at least $700 billion over a decade. Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will travel the country this week to promote the administration’s agenda. RIGHT NOW Video President Biden will deliver remarks on the coronavirus response. He is expected to speak about outdoor mask mandates.Cre...

Justice Dept. Asked to Examine Whether Swiss Bank Kept Helping Tax Dodgers Credit Suisse had admitted to helping American clients evade taxes in 2014 and was fined $2.6 billion, but it avoided even higher fines because of its vow that it had stopped the practice. A senator pressed the Justice Department on whether Credit Suisse continued to help Americans evade taxes even after the bank vowed to stop the practice.Credit...Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters April 27, 2021Updated 11:14 a.m. ET WASHINGTON — ...

Biden to Create Task Force to Help Workers Join Unions: Live Updates RIGHT NOW Source: Factset President Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris will promote unions through a White House task force.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times President Biden will sign an executive order on Monday creating a task force to promote labor organizing, according to a White House fact sheet. The task force, to be led by Vice President Kamala Harris and populated by cabinet officials and top White House advi...

Around the world, auto assembly lines are going quiet, workers are idle and dealership parking lots are looking bare. A shortage of semiconductors, the tiny but critical chips used to calibrate cars’ fuel injection, run infotainment systems or provide the brains for cruise control, has upended automaking. A General Motors plant in Kansas City closed in February for lack of chips, and still hasn’t reopened. Mercedes-Benz has begun to hoard its chips for expensive models and is temporarily sh...