After unrelenting summer, Biden looks to get agenda on track
By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hoping to turn the page after a summer of unrelenting crises and refocus…
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In NYC after Ida, Biden calls climate ‘everybody’s crisis’
By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Surveying storm damage, President Joe Biden has declared climate change…
Continue ReadingAndrea Constand writes of Cosby trial, #MeToo in new memoir
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand has penned a memoir out Tuesday that offers a view from…
Continue ReadingBolsonaro supporters force entry into Brazil capital’s mall
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have broken through police roadblocks that sought to prevent access to the…
Continue ReadingVenezuela gov’t, opposition pledge to address people’s needs
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Representatives of Venezuela’s government and opposition say they have agreed to find ways to deal with the pressing needs of…
Continue ReadingHaiti pledges to crack down on gangs, fight rise in crime
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government is warning about a spike in kidnappings and…
Continue ReadingFirebrand Myanmar monk Wirathu released from prison
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A nationalist Buddhist monk in Myanmar notorious for his anti-Muslim remarks has been freed from…
Continue ReadingAmnesty: Syria refugees suffered abuse, torture upon return
By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Amnesty International says Syrian security forces have subjected Syrians who return home to…
Continue ReadingActor Michael K. Williams, Omar on ‘The Wire,’ dead at 54
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ANDREW DALTON NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Michael K. Williams, who played the beloved character Omar Little on “The Wire,”…
Continue ReadingJobless Americans will have few options as benefits expire
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two critical jobless benefit programs have expired, leaving only a handful of economic options for…
Continue ReadingChile authorizes Sinovac vaccine for kids of 6 and older
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean health authorities have approved the use of Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus for 6-year-old children and…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: Argentina soccer chaos over Brazil quarantine row
By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer The pitch intruders claimed to have very good reason to be confronting players only seven minutes into…
Continue ReadingComedian Fuquan Johnson 1 of 3 dead from suspected overdose
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say stand-up comedian Fuquan Johnson was among three people who died of a suspected overdose at a Los Angeles party.…
Continue ReadingVirginia is set to remove Richmond’s Lee statue on Wednesday
By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is about to be…
Continue ReadingBiden marks Labor Day delivering sandwiches to union members
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked Labor Day by delivering deli sandwiches to union…
Continue ReadingUK delays post-Brexit border checks, seeks new talks with EU
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it is postponing the start of post-Brexit border checks on goods going to Northern…
Continue ReadingLife is still a beach for Maine lifeguard in his 50th season
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Greg Wilfert remembers his first visit to Scarborough Beach State Park as a teenager like it was yesterday. Decades…
Continue ReadingFrench giant signs mega deals with Iraq for oil, gas, water
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — French energy giant Total has signed mega contracts with Iraq worth $27 billion to develop oil…
Continue ReadingMyanmar court extends pre-trial detention of US journalist
BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar extended for two weeks the pre-trial detention of Danny Fenster, an American journalist in the military-led…
Continue ReadingNew Jersey’s largest dairy farm nearly destroyed in tornado
By CHRISTINA PACIOLLA Associated Press The morning after one of the most intense tornadoes recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the…
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