A million empty spaces: Chronicling COVID’s ruthless US toll
By ADAM GELLER, CARLA K. JOHNSON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the…
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A million empty spaces: Chronicling COVID’s cruel US toll
By ADAM GELLER, CARLA K. JOHNSON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the…
Continue ReadingWisconsin Supreme Court justices question ballot drop boxes
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are questioning whether state law allows for voters…
Continue ReadingSouthwest pilots’ union says fatigue is a safety problem
DALLAS (AP) — Pilots at Southwest Airlines say fatigue from poor scheduling is a growing problem and is raising safety concerns. Leaders of the…
Continue ReadingPolice: LA street gangs behind brazen ‘follow-home’ holdups
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say street gangs are behind brazen robberies in which people are followed home from fancy locations, tackled…
Continue ReadingWH environmental justice advisors press for Justice40 action
BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Key members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council say they plan to use $14 million from the…
Continue ReadingEmaciated mountain lion cub rescued, treated at Oakland Zoo
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An orphaned and emaciated mountain lion cub spotted by hikers in the San Francisco area was brought to the Oakland Zoo, where…
Continue ReadingUkrainian in Japan returns home to help parents, country
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Millions of Ukrainians have fled their country, but Sasha Kaverina did just the opposite. She has…
Continue ReadingFuture liability releases at center of Boy Scouts bankruptcy
By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for the Boy Scouts of America say protecting local BSA councils and troop sponsoring…
Continue ReadingFormer executive gets prison for $1 billion solar fraud
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former energy executive in California  who took part in $1 billion solar power fraud that bilked Warren Buffett’s…
Continue ReadingJudge won’t jail men accused of impersonating federal agents
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied the government’s request to detain two men accused of posing as…
Continue ReadingTexas prosecutor pushes back on pleas to stop execution
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Members of a Texas House committee repeatedly pressed a prosecutor to stop the April 27 execution…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Lula takes aim at Bolsonaro’s decrees on Indigenous
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that if he wins the October…
Continue ReadingSlain Nevada woman’s brother seeks a positive from her death
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) — A Navy veteran who served as an engineer on a nuclear submarine is on a more important…
Continue Reading‘Wrong’: Dem candidates blast PAC influence in new district
By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The battle over who represents Oregon’s new congressional district has become heated as six…
Continue ReadingUN: COVID plunged 77 million into poverty before Ukraine war
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. report says the pandemic plunged 77 million more people into extreme poverty last…
Continue ReadingElon Musk accused of breaking law while buying Twitter stock
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s huge Twitter investment took a new twist Tuesday with the filing of a…
Continue ReadingFreight railroads work to resolve service problems, delays
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Some grain elevators are so full that farmers trying to sell their crops are being turned away.…
Continue ReadingBodies of 5 men, 1 woman found dumped on road in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in Mexico have found the bodies of five men and one woman dumped on a roadside in the north-central state of Zacatecas.…
Continue ReadingCalifornia woman admits she faked 2016 kidnapping
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman is admitting that she faked her own kidnapping more than…
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