CNN, WKYT By Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN Once again, Americans who don’t even have coronavirus are suffering the consequences of Covid-19 patients filling up hospitals. More than 101,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data Thursday from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Now, some patients wanting urgent care
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN Once again, Americans who don’t even have coronavirus are suffering the consequences of Covid-19 patients filling up hospitals. More than 101,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data Thursday from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Now, some patients wanting urgent care won’t get
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una vez más, los estadounidenses que ni siquiera tienen coronavirus están sufriendo las consecuencias de que los pacientes con covid-19 llenen los hospitales. Actualmente hay más de 101.000 personas hospitalizadas con covid-19, según datos del jueves del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE.UU. Ahora, algunos pacientes que desean recibir
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Big league home run leader Shohei Ohtani is unbeaten in his last 13 starts going into this outing for the Los Angeles Angels against the AL West-leading Astros in Houston. Ohtani is 8-0 since his last loss. Considered by many the leading candidate for AL MVP, he has struck out 135
Continue ReadingBy ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Jalen Tolbert showed up at South Alabama as a low-rated recruit. When he leaves, the NFL more than likely will be his next stop. Tolbert is the NFL prospect spotlighted this week by The Associated Press with help from Reese’s Senior Bowl executive director and former NFL scout
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business China is starting to sell off some of the oil it keeps in strategic reserve in a bid to lower prices in the market, a historic first for the world’s biggest importer of oil and its second largest consumer. The State Bureau of Grain and Material Reserves said late Thursday
Continue ReadingBy STACEY PLAISANCE and JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is showing signs of making a comeback nearly two weeks after Hurricane Ida blasted coastal Louisiana. Supply trucks are once again delivering beer on Bourbon Street. And the landmark Cafe Du Monde is serving fried pastries covered with white sugar even
Continue ReadingBy STACEY PLAISANCE and JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is showing signs of making a comeback nearly two weeks after Hurricane Ida blasted coastal Louisiana. Supply trucks are once again delivering beer on Bourbon Street. And the landmark Cafe Du Monde is serving fried pastries covered with white sugar even
Continue ReadingBy ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer The state of Iowa is college football central this week with the Big Ten’s Iowa coming into the Cy-Hawk game in Ames ranked No. 10 and the Big 12′s Iowa State at No. 9. Never before have the teams met when both were ranked. The Big Ten and
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — When a 20-year-old Wyoming soldier was among the last U.S. casualties in the Afghanistan war, it released one of the biggest outpourings of grief and sympathy since a 20-year-old Wyoming soldier was among the war’s first casualties. Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, of
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN More than 700,000 people die by suicide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Translated: Every 40 seconds, someone in the world takes their own life. That’s a sobering statistic to ponder today, on 2021’s World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide rates have been climbing for years in some parts of
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press The new federal vaccine requirement for large companies has raised concerns over whether it will now be even harder to retain workers or find new ones. President Joe Biden announced sweeping new orders Thursday requiring employers with more than 100 workers to mandate vaccinations against COVID-19 or
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press The new federal vaccine requirement for large companies has raised concerns over whether it will now be even harder to retain workers or find new ones. President Joe Biden announced sweeping new orders Thursday requiring employers with more than 100 workers to mandate vaccinations against COVID-19 or
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER, JULIE WATSON, BERNARD CONDON and PADMANANDA RAMA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. veterans, lawmakers and others say the relaunch of evacuation flights from Kabul has done little to soothe fears that the U.S. might abandon countless Afghan allies who risked their lives working alongside American troops. An estimated 200 foreigners, including
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A strong typhoon has skirted past most of the Philippines but appears to be continuing to gain strength as it heads directly for Taiwan this weekend. The Philippines meteorological agency said Friday that Typhoon Chanthu was on the cusp of becoming a category 5 “super typhoon” with
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During a U.S. House Natural Resources Committee markup meeting Thursday for a roughly $31.7 billion portion of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget resolution, Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., “offered three amendments aimed at refocusing federal priorities and redirecting funding from President Biden and Speaker Pelosi’s liberal wish list to ongoing natural disasters and real-world needs in communities across the American West,” his office said in a news release.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and PAUL WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.” The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Texas, asks a federal judge to declare that the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Jonquel Jones had 21 points and 14 rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun beat the Los Angeles Sparks 75-57 to secure a double bye to the semifinals of the WNBA playoffs. Connecticut won its 11th straight game, having not lost since the season resumed from the Olympic break. The Sun sit atop
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Hoping to prevent another school year from being upended by the pandemic, President Joe Biden visited a Washington middle school Friday to promote his new plan to require vaccinations for up to 100 million Americans. In remarks at Brookland Middle School, he said that with shots and regular virus
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and JOE McDONALD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke with China’s Xi Jinping on Thursday amid growing frustration on the American side that high-level engagement between the two leaders’ top advisers has been largely unfruitful in the early going of the Biden presidency. The call comes at a moment
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