Mexico welcomes 124 Afghan refugee journalists, families
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has welcomed a group of 124 Afghan media workers and their families who fled their country after the Taliban takeover.…
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Man protecting his baby fatally shot in Florida restaurant
By TERRY SPENCER and DAVID FISCHER MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A gunman walked into a Miami Beach restaurant and fatally shot a tourist who was…
Continue ReadingSpain tightens fertilizer rules after dead fish clog lagoon
MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are expanding a ban on harmful fertilizers around a saltwater lagoon on the country’s Mediterranean coast,…
Continue ReadingWomen’s rights activist recounts pain of leaving Afghanistan
By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A former mayor of a central Afghanistan city is in Germany after having fled her…
Continue ReadingReport: Most federal election security money remains unspent
By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent…
Continue ReadingSecond beluga in failing health after move to Connecticut
By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Mystic Aquarium says that a second of the five beluga whales it imported in May from a marine park in Canada is in…
Continue ReadingNew NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally
By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s new governor is acknowledging that the state has had nearly 12,000 more…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: What’s happening with Afghanistan evacuations?
By BEN FOX and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 82,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban…
Continue ReadingJersey Shore landmark Lucy the Elephant to get new skin
MARGATE, N.J. (AP) — The beach-side landmark, Lucy the Elephant, is having all of its metal skin replaced because more than 50% of the exterior has…
Continue ReadingExperts on WHO team say search for COVID origins has stalled
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The international scientists dispatched to China by the World Health Organization to look for the…
Continue ReadingFeds report most rental assistance has still not gone out
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Only 11% of the tens of billions of dollars in federal rent assistance meant to help tenants around…
Continue ReadingDelta will charge unvaccinated employees $200 per month
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines won’t force employees to get vaccinated, but it’s going to make unvaccinated workers…
Continue ReadingOnlyFans reverses explicit content ban after outcry
By TALI ARBEL and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers OnlyFans says it has suspended a plan to ban sexually explicit content following an outcry…
Continue ReadingMasks ordered for most Florida students, defying DeSantis
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Just over half of Florida’s 2.8 million public school students now face mandates to…
Continue ReadingGerman show traces Nazi-era artists’ success after the war
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A new show examining how some of the Nazis’ favorite visual artists were able to…
Continue ReadingFeds eye new rules to protect right whales from fishing gear
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal ocean regulators are considering new rules to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear. The…
Continue ReadingFukushima nuclear water to be released via undersea tunnel
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it plans to build an undersea tunnel…
Continue ReadingNew Asian American bakeries find bicultural sweet spot
By TERRY TANG Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — From ube cakes to mochi muffins, bakeries that sweetly encapsulate what it is to grow up…
Continue ReadingPentagon: US troops must get their COVID-19 vaccines ASAP
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Military service members must immediately begin to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Defense…
Continue ReadingClosure of popular wilderness area extended because of fires
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials have extended the closure of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness after Minnesota’s…
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