Judge begins key hearing on Boy Scouts bankruptcy plan
By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has begun a key hearing that could determine whether the Boy Scouts of…
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‘The world must wake up’: Tasks daunting as UN meeting opens
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning global leaders at the opening of the U.N.’s foremost…
Continue ReadingDems, backers face uphill immigration path after Senate blow
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are launching an uphill fight to rescue their drive to help millions of immigrants…
Continue ReadingHouse OKs debt and funding plan, inviting clash with GOP
By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend its…
Continue ReadingQ&A: America’s new COVID-19 rules for international travel
By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is rolling out new COVID-19 rules for travelers flying into the…
Continue ReadingBiden promises ‘relentless diplomacy’ to skeptical allies
By JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Joe Biden has used his first address before the U.N. General…
Continue ReadingHaitian trip to Texas border often starts in South America
By JULIE WATSON, JUAN A. LOZANO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The route for Haitian migrants camped under a bridge in a…
Continue ReadingChina keeps virus at bay at high cost ahead of Olympics
By JOE McDONALD and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate every case and…
Continue ReadingOfficials: Many Haitian migrants are being released in US
By ELLIOT SPAGAT, MARIA VERZA and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — U.S. officials say many Haitian migrants camped in a small…
Continue ReadingDown syndrome issue at center of Missouri abortion law case
By JIM SALTER Associated Press The full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis is deciding the fate of a Missouri law that puts sweeping…
Continue ReadingPackers dominate 2nd half, bounce back to beat Lions 35-17
By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Jones caught three of Aaron Rodgers’ four touchdown passes and rushed for a…
Continue ReadingThailand urged not to deport trans woman charged in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A human rights group is urging Thailand not to deport a transgender woman to her home country of Malaysia, where she…
Continue ReadingGeorge Holliday, who filmed Rodney King video, dies of COVID
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King…
Continue ReadingConsultants sued over 2018 deaths of women in sheriff’s van
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The estates of two South Carolina women who drowned while locked in the back of a sheriff’s department van during…
Continue ReadingEU official says Aussie trade deal delayed by French snub
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A European Parliament trade official says Australia’s cancellation of a French…
Continue ReadingOregon Dems void power-sharing redistricting deal with GOP
By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America The Democratic speaker of the Oregon House has rescinded a deal she made with Republicans to share…
Continue ReadingLawyer says US journalist in Myanmar jail seems disheartened
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The lawyer for U.S. journalist Danny Fenster, jailed in Myanmar for almost four months, says his…
Continue ReadingJudge sets March trial for 5 men in Michigan governor plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge has set a March 8 trial for five men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. U.S. District…
Continue ReadingPolitico pardoned by Trump accused of illegal campaign scam
By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kentucky man pardoned by President Donald Trump after his conviction in a 2012 bribery plot…
Continue ReadingColombia, Nicaragua present cases in long maritime dispute
By MANUEL RUEDA and ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia and Nicaragua have presented arguments before the International…
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