Los Angeles schools mandate vaccines for students 12 and up
By AMY TAXIN and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Unified School District has ordered all students ages 12 and…
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From 9/11’s ashes, a new world took shape. It did not last.
By CALVIN WOODWARD, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and DAVID RISING Associated Press The terrorist attacks on the United States nearly 20 years ago brought…
Continue ReadingUN report: Afghanistan teeters on brink of universal poverty
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations development agency says Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of…
Continue ReadingLaQuan Smith throws a fashion party at Empire State Building
By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Where the party girls at? On Thursday night, some were on top of the Empire State Building…
Continue ReadingVirus claims Black morticians, leaving holes in communities
By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer MULLINS, S.C. (AP) — About 130 Black morticians have died of COVID-19 across the United States. The deaths are…
Continue ReadingVirus claims Black morticians, leaving holes in communities
By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer MULLINS, S.C. (AP) — About 130 Black morticians have died of COVID-19 across the United States. The deaths are…
Continue ReadingOlaf weakens after hitting Mexico’s Los Cabos as Cat 2 storm
By IGNACIO MARTÍNEZ DE JESÚS Associated Press CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Olaf has slipped back to tropical storm force after…
Continue ReadingCanada Conservative leader questioned about moderating party
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s Conservative party says he is personally “pro choice” and voters can…
Continue ReadingCalifornia moves to return beach seized from Black couple
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are unanimously moving to allow the return of prime beachfront…
Continue ReadingEndo latest company to settle with New York over opioids
NEW YORK (AP) — The drugmaker Endo International is the latest company to settle a New York case over opioids. The Dublin-based company will pay…
Continue ReadingReport of gunshot triggered lockdown at Air Force base
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base went into lockdown for several hours while security officials…
Continue ReadingHong Kong Tiananmen vigil leaders charged with subversion
HONG KONG (AP) — The group that organized annual Tiananmen candlelight vigils and three of its leaders have been charged with subversion under Hong…
Continue ReadingMan guilty of hate crime in attack on Black man sentenced
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Colorado trucker who nearly killed a Black man by slashing his neck in an unprovoked attack at an eastern Oregon truck stop…
Continue ReadingBiden calls Xi as US-China relationship grows more fraught
By AAMER MADHANI and JOE McDONALD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke with China’s Xi Jinping on Thursday amid growing…
Continue Reading‘Paradise’: Australian states free of COVID resist opening
By TRISTAN LAVALETTE and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press PERTH, Australia (AP) — Anyone could be forgiven for forgetting a pandemic ever happened on…
Continue ReadingPetersen and Fox brush off rust for ‘CSI: Vegas’ reunion
By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Petersen and Jorja Fox are reuniting to solve crimes in “CSI: Vegas.” The CBS series…
Continue ReadingPuppies, giraffes and bears — Oh My! — on Moschino runway
By ARON RANEN and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The weather was not exactly cooperating, but Moschino had the antidote for a gray…
Continue ReadingTony Award-winning producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann dies
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-winning producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann has died. McCann helped mount an…
Continue ReadingUN envoy: World must prevent Afghanistan economic collapse
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan is urging the world to unite to prevent the…
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