Month: November 2021

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A group of migrants trying to walk across southern Mexico have pelted officers of Mexico’s National Guard with a hail of rocks, apparently injuring at least one guardsman. The guards were tailing the migrant march Thursday, when a small group of a few dozen male

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s next astronaut flight is off until at least next week as more bad weather looms. Flight surgeons, meanwhile, are continuing to monitor the “minor medical issue” affecting one of the four astronauts awaiting liftoff at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA says the astronaut

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska attorney general’s office investigation has identified 258 victims who made credible allegations of sexual abuse against 57 Catholic church officials in the state going back decades. In many cases, high-ranking church leaders knew about the abuse but didn’t report it to the authorities. Attorney

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The water system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has tested for elevated levels of lead for three consecutive years. In response, residents have been told to drink and cook with bottled water and the state has promised to spend millions of dollars replacing lead service lines.

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The trial hasn’t even started and yet issues of race are at the forefront of the case in which three white men are charged with murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery. The family of the slain 25-year-old Black man was rattled Wednesday when the jury

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two civil rights groups have filed a federal court challenge against a Tennessee law that bars transgender athletes from playing public high school or middle school sports aligned with their gender identity. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Thursday

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director. As a third-generation Mexican American, he will be the first person of color to lead the nation’s largest statistical agency on a permanent basis. The bureau conducts the once-a-decade census, often described as the nation’s largest civilian

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — News agencies report that the body of a Louisiana man who wanted it donated for science was dissected before paying viewers at an event marketed as an “Oddities and Curiosities Expo” in Oregon. His wife is aghast. Elsie Saunders of Baker calls it horrible and unethical. She says the papers