OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Department of Health recommended a third dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for people with severely weakened immune systems. The recommendation Saturday comes as the delta variant surges in the country. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that immunocompromised Americans can get an extra dose
Continue ReadingBy Katharina Krebs, Zahra Ullah and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN A BBC journalist working in Moscow said Saturday that she felt shocked she was being expelled from Russia and said she had been told she could never return to the country, in what her employer, the UK’s public broadcaster, described as a “direct assault on media
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Being better on defense shouldn’t be that challenging for the Tennessee Titans following a season where it would be tough to be much worse. The Titans looked like a completely different unit in their preseason opener after an offseason makeover. Two of their top
Continue ReadingBy John Sinnott, CNN The reviews are in for Arsenal’s performance against Brentford in the English Premier League’s opening match on Friday and they make for grim reading if you’re a Gunners fan. “Weak and bullied,” was how Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher described Arsenal’s defending when Brentford scored its second goal in the newly
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Will Power took the lead early Saturday, then watched it shrink over the final half of the race before holding on to win another Indianapolis Grand Prix. The Australian, who started second, beat Romain Grosjean to the yard of bricks by 1.1142 seconds for his first
Continue ReadingNORWICH, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah set up two goals and scored himself for a fifth straight year in the opening round of a Premier League season to lead Liverpool to a 3-0 win at Norwich. The hosts were in celebratory mood ahead of kickoff after clinching the second-tier Championship title in May but Juergen
Continue ReadingBy JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi smiled and looked transfixed as Paris Saint-Germain fans chanted his name before the 4-2 win against Strasbourg in the French league. PSG’s latest signing joined four other recruits who were presented to almost 50,000 fans at Parc des Princes ahead of Saturday’s kickoff. Messi
Continue ReadingGeorge Engels, CNN The United Kingdom hasn’t had the sunniest of summers, but that didn’t stop Banksy from dropping by seaside towns and leaving his mark. In a video clip posted to Instagram, the enigmatic street artist confirmed he is responsible for several artworks that have recently appeared in British coastal communities. The video titled
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The return of near-capacity crowds fueled a barrage of goals and a bunch of home wins on the first Saturday of the English Premier League season. Fans at Old Trafford particularly enjoyed themselves. More than 72,000 spectators saw Bruno Fernandes’ hat trick and Paul Pogba’s four assists sweep Manchester
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN The US remains among nations with the highest rate of new Covid-19 cases, driven mostly by a surge in the South, where many states are lagging in getting people vaccinated against the coronavirus. “This is starting to look really ominous in the South. … If you look at rates of transmission
Continue ReadingSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Wisconsin transfer Jack Coan is Notre Dame’s starting quarterback. Fighting Irish coach Brian Kelly announced the choice Saturday in a Twitter post after suggesting for the last week that a decision would be coming soon. Coan started for Wisconsin in 2019, leading the Badgers to the Big Ten title game.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NASCAR drivers got their first laps on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course in practice — and it opened to mixed reviews. Previous race winners Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch made it clear they’d rather be racing on the traditional oval. Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson didn’t
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High Desert Chamber Music has canceled Saturday afternoon’s event at the Old Mill District due to poor air quality in the region.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Several thousand LGBT supporters took to the streets in the Romanian capital of Bucharest Saturday for a gay pride parade that resumed after a year’s pause due to the pandemic. Marchers young and old walked through the capital’s streets, with many waving colorful flags and blowing
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has tossed most of the civil claims brought in a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of an Arizona rancher who served as spokesperson for the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in early 2016. Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, 54, was fatally shot by Oregon state troopers
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa voting rights advocate Deidre DeJear has announced she is running for governor. The 35-year-old Democrat gained attention in 2018 when she became the first Black candidate in Iowa to win a statewide primary election ahead of her unsuccessful campaign for secretary of state. DeJear
Continue ReadingCNN By Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business The heads of some of the largest minority business advocacy groups on Capitol Hill are praising key elements of the latest infrastructure bill, which is currently being debated in the House after passing with bipartisan support in the Senate on Tuesday. “This was a win for us in a
Continue ReadingBy Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business The heads of some of the largest minority business advocacy groups on Capitol Hill are praising key elements of the latest infrastructure bill, which is currently being debated in the House after passing with bipartisan support in the Senate on Tuesday. “This was a win for us in a big
Continue ReadingBy JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi smiled and looked transfixed as Paris Saint-Germain fans chanted his name before the 4-2 win against Strasbourg in the French league. PSG’s latest signing joined four other recruits who were presented to almost 50,000 fans at Parc des Princes ahead of Saturday’s kickoff. Messi
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Foreign Ministry says it could renew a visa for a BBC journalist to let her resume work in Moscow if British authorities give a visa to a Russian journalist. Moscow has refused to renew a visa for BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford in an effective expulsion
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