Pfizer-BioNTech ask EU agency to OK vaccine for kids 5-11
BERLIN (AP) — Pharmaceutical company Pfizer and biotechnology company BioNTech have requested to have their coronavirus vaccine licensed for…
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Nothing funny about bad year for Maine’s clownish puffins
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s beloved puffins suffered one of their worst years for reproduction in decades…
Continue ReadingLa policía de Kenya detiene al esposo de Agnes Tirop, campeona olímpica, sospechoso de haber matado a la atleta
Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La policía de Kenya detuvo al esposo de la atleta Agnes Tirop después de que fuera asesinada a puñaladas el…
Continue ReadingDutch government to lower energy taxes amid surge in prices
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Cabinet minister says the Dutch government is planning a multibillion euro package to help households cope with…
Continue ReadingDutch government to lower energy taxes amid surge in prices
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Cabinet minister says the Dutch government is planning a multibillion euro package to help households cope with…
Continue ReadingThe reason it’s so easy for wealthy Americans to hide their money — and how to stop it
Opinion by Chuck Collins for CNN Business Perspectives The revelations from the Pandora Papers have rocked the world. They showed that wealthy…
Continue ReadingCambridge college to return looted bronze statue to Nigeria
LONDON (AP) — A Cambridge University college says it will return a looted bronze cockerel to Nigeria later this month. Jesus College said Friday…
Continue ReadingSpanish court allows extradition to US of Venezuelan suspect
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Court has consented to the extradition to the United States of ex-Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez’s former nurse,…
Continue ReadingWhite House says fully vaccinated foreign visitors can start entering US on November 8
CNN By Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN Foreign visitors who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to travel to the United States…
Continue ReadingBitcoin tops $60,000 as investors bet on ETF approval
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Bitcoin prices continued their October surge on Friday, topping $60,000 on hopes that the Securities and Exchange…
Continue ReadingChicago-area man gets 3 1/2 years for stealing from charity
CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago man who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $831,000 from a charity he ran for kids with disabilities and…
Continue ReadingGoldman Sachs’ profits jump 60% helped by deal-making frenzy
By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs’ profits jumped 60% from a year earlier, as the deal-making bonanza that dominated…
Continue ReadingRussia says it pushed US destroyer from area near its waters
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry says a Russian warship has prevented a U.S. Navy destroyer from…
Continue ReadingLawsuit over Kenosha shootings: Police enabled armed militia
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest against police brutality…
Continue ReadingOR court: Illegal to deny gun sales to people 18 and 20
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out an age discrimination lawsuit against a gun…
Continue ReadingOR court: Illegal to deny gun sales to people 18 and 20
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out an age discrimination lawsuit against a gun…
Continue ReadingOR court: Illegal to deny gun sales to people 18 and 20
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out an age discrimination lawsuit against a gun…
Continue ReadingPuerto Rico ponders race amid surprising census results
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The number of people in Puerto Rico who identified as “white” in the most recent…
Continue ReadingAlice Cooper talks tap dancing, snakes onstage and his diary
By SIAN WATSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — During the pandemic, shock rocker Alice Cooper replaced touring with tap dancing. The 73-year-old…
Continue ReadingOregon set to expand hotline for bias crime reporting
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Oregon’s Bias Response Hotline went live on Jan. 2, 2020, people were able to answer about half of incoming calls…
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