Boston makes final push to clear out homeless encampment
By RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Workers have started removing the last tents from a homeless encampment at a Boston intersection…
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Swiss cut self-isolation, quarantine times as omicron rises
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s government is halving the quarantine and self-isolation times required of people who test positive for the…
Continue ReadingJudge agrees to delay state trial for 3 cops in Floyd death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has agreed to delay a state court trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged in George…
Continue ReadingHezbollah hosts conference in Beirut for Saudi opposition
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group has hosted a conference for Saudi opposition figures in its…
Continue Reading10 years later, Costa Concordia disaster vivid for survivors
By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship…
Continue ReadingInvestigators probe wreckage of crashed medical helicopter
UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Federal investigators have been poring over the wreckage of a medical helicopter a day after it crash-landed without loss…
Continue ReadingMan charged with giving Olympic athletes performance drugs
By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Texas man with providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes…
Continue ReadingPortugal lets in Moroccan workers, hopes to stop traffickers
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal and Morocco have signed an agreement setting out legal guidelines for Moroccans to live and work in the European…
Continue ReadingPolice find no evidence Dayton mass shooter targeted sister
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Authorities who investigated a 2019 mass shooting that left nine dead in Dayton, Ohio, say they found no evidence…
Continue ReadingMonkey business: Antwerp zoo put kids at ease for virus jab
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — The Belgian city of Antwerp has put its faith in monkey business to put kids at ease for their first COVID-19 jab. With the…
Continue ReadingHow new Robin Hood CEO Buery plans to fight NYC poverty
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Richard R. Buery, Jr., is starting his first full year as CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, but he is no stranger…
Continue ReadingUS hits NKorean officials with sanctions after missile test
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it’s seeking new U.N. sanctions against North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s latest…
Continue ReadingMexico: Citibank sale poses ‘delicate’ antimonopoly issues
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say they are going to keep a close eye on Citigroup’s proposed sale of its Mexico subsidary,…
Continue ReadingKids’ low COVID-19 vaccination rates called a ‘gut punch’
By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Distrust, misinformation and other factors have combined to produce what authorities say are alarmingly low…
Continue ReadingPipeline spills 300,000 gallons of diesel near New Orleans
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal records show a severely corroded pipeline ruptured and spilled…
Continue ReadingThousands jailed long periods before trial in Mississippi
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Thousands of people in Mississippi continue to be jailed for long periods while…
Continue ReadingBiden to hold wind power auction off NY, New Jersey coast
By MATTHEW DALY and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Biden administration says it will hold its first offshore wind auction…
Continue ReadingMan arrested in deaths of victims found in Kansas, Oklahoma
LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been arrested in the 2019 robbery, kidnapping and shooting deaths of two men whose bodies were found hours…
Continue ReadingChicago teachers accept COVID deal, keeping kids in school
By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Teachers Union has narrowly backed an agreement dictating COVID-19…
Continue ReadingMan arrested for damaging American jet in Honduras released
By The Associated Press A passenger arrested in Honduras for damaging the cockpit of an American Airlines jet during boarding has been released by…
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