Parents, students and teachers outraged after school relaxes mask mandate
By Jenna Rae, News 4 Reporter Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Speechless, scared and…
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3 ways executives hold Black women back at work
Opinion by Denise Hamilton for CNN Business Perspectives Despite promises from across the corporate world to diversify leadership and give people of…
Continue ReadingRomania hits record infections, deaths amid vaccination lag
By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania has hit daily records of both coronavirus infections and deaths as the…
Continue ReadingAlabama veterans board wants inquiry into chemical exposure
ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s veterans affairs board is pushing for the creation of a program to aid veterans who have health problems that…
Continue ReadingUS home construction declines 1.6% in September
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — U.S. home construction fell 1.6% in September as builders continue to be tripped up by…
Continue ReadingThree charged with murder of Alabama teen playing in bedroom
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama say a third person is charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy who was…
Continue ReadingNearly 100 women sworn in as judges in Egypt judicial body
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Nearly 100 women have become the first female judges to join Egypt’s State Council, one of the…
Continue ReadingGreece vows to link Egypt’s energy grid to European Union
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has promised to link Egypt to the European Union’s energy market with an undersea cable that would carry electricity…
Continue ReadingGreece vows to link Egypt’s energy grid to European Union
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has promised to link Egypt to the European Union’s energy market with an undersea cable that would carry electricity…
Continue ReadingWalz launches reelection campaign in divided Minnesota
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has launched his campaign for a second term in an…
Continue ReadingSpain makes it easier for young migrants to legalize status
MADRID (AP) — Spain is smoothing the path for unaccompanied young migrants to obtain residence and work permits. Around 15,000 people are expected…
Continue ReadingSpain makes it easier for young migrants to legalize status
MADRID (AP) — Spain is smoothing the path for unaccompanied young migrants to obtain residence and work permits. Around 15,000 people are expected…
Continue ReadingLawyer who represented George Zimmerman arrested in Florida
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A central Florida defense attorney who briefly represented George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case is accused of witness…
Continue ReadingNew 620-mile railway connects China and Laos
By Lilit Marcus and Shawn Deng, CNN China’s intense railway expansion has marked a new milestone with the official opening of a new track that…
Continue ReadingUN: 10,000 children killed or maimed during Yemen’s long war
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says more than 10,000 children in Yemen have been killed or injured in violence linked to years of war in the…
Continue ReadingCrowds outside Myanmar’s prisons greet freed detainees
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Crowds have gathered for a second day outside prisons around Myanmar, waiting for at least a glimpse…
Continue ReadingKent police search for a suspect after dead man found in car
KENT, Wash. (AP) — Kent police are searching for a homicide suspect after a man was found dead in a vehicle. Officers responded to the Buena Casa…
Continue ReadingIn Cuba, divisions over law to allow same-sex marriage
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s socialist government recently published a draft Family Law and asked for public…
Continue ReadingJapan’s PM interrupts campaign as N Korea test fires missile
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s new prime minister has interrupted his first day of election campaigning on Tuesday, as…
Continue ReadingAs deaths rise, Russian doctors despair at low vaccine rate
By KOSTYA MANENKOV and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Facing a surge of seriously ill COVID-19 patients, the head of an…
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