Alabama capital strips Confederate president’s name off road
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The first capital of the Confederacy has renamed a street honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Now it honors a…
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Flush with COVID-19 aid, schools steer funding to sports
By COLLIN BINKLEY and RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A growing number of school districts in the U.S. are using federal…
Continue ReadingEviction confusion, again: End of US ban doesn’t cause spike
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Long delayed evictions are rolling out more than a month after the end of a federal moratorium…
Continue ReadingNorth Macedonia: Overheated cable caused fatal hospital fire
By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Authorities in North Macedonia say a fire in a COVID-19 field hospital…
Continue ReadingRuth Bader Ginsburg tribute required innovative donations
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer The upcoming world premiere at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra of a new classical music piece inspired by the late…
Continue ReadingCyprus FM urges Lebanon to implement reforms to unlock aid
The foreign minister of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is urging the new Lebanese government to implement reforms quickly, in order for the…
Continue ReadingAustrian media: Ruling center-right party’s offices searched
BERLIN (AP) — Austrian media have reported that investigators have searched the offices of the country’s governing People’s Party in connection…
Continue ReadingAmazon opens general store in UK, first outside the US
LONDON (AP) — Amazon has opened its first general store outside the United States in a mall in Britain. It will sell the online retailer’s most…
Continue ReadingRussian paper shuts Belarus branch after journalist’s arrest
By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A popular Russian newspaper has shut down its branch in Belarus after one of its local…
Continue ReadingScandinavians curb Moderna shots for some younger patients
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Scandinavian authorities have suspended or discouraged the use of Moderna’s COVID-19…
Continue ReadingSought-after blast suspect found dead in Swedish harbor
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The tenant who is suspected in the huge Swedish apartment building explosion and fire last month that injured 16 people has been…
Continue ReadingBelarus opposition leader warns of border migration crisis
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called for the global community to…
Continue ReadingCongress foresees short-term debt fix amid perilous standoff
By KEVIN FREKING and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic senators have edged back from a perilous standoff over…
Continue ReadingEdmunds: Nissan Frontier vs. Toyota Tacoma in 2022
By TRAVIS LANGNESS Edmunds The 2022 Nissan Frontier is completely redesigned with more power than any other midsize pickup truck and bold new looks…
Continue Reading‘Lizard King’ charged with trafficking Florida turtles
MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors have brought another case against the so-called “Lizard King” of Florida, accusing him of scheming to…
Continue ReadingIn brazen attack by settlers, Palestinians see larger threat
By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press Al-MUFAGARA, West Bank (AP) — Residents of a small Palestinian shepherding village in the occupied West Bank say…
Continue ReadingGerman factory orders register sharp decline in August
BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany plummeted 7.7% in August compared with the previous month, led by much lower…
Continue ReadingFrance moves toward ban on so-called gay conversion therapy
PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers have unanimously backed proposed legislation that would ban so-called LGBT conversion therapy. Parliament’s lower…
Continue ReadingUkraine’s Holocaust center names Nazi Babi Yar killers
YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Holocaust memorial center has revealed the names of 159 Nazi SS troops who took…
Continue ReadingNew HUD rule aimed at preventing public housing evictions
By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to prevent evictions from public housing for nonpayment of…
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