Florida makes quarantine optional for exposed students
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s new surgeon general has signed new protocols allowing parents to decide whether…
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Thousands fight wildfires threatening California’s sequoias
THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Growing armies of firefighters are battling wildfires in the heart of California’s sequoia country. A big increase in…
Continue ReadingTonywatch: Playwright Katori Hall ‘reaching for humanity’
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most playwrights who dip their toes into musical theater for the first time go small. Not…
Continue Reading‘I’m just proud of myself’: K Kristie Elliott makes history
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Kristie Elliott of Simon Fraser University is enjoying her milestone in college football. Earlier this month,…
Continue ReadingAnalysis: A ‘United’ Nations, navigating a fractured world
By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is unfolding this week under a thundercloud of deep pessimism.…
Continue ReadingFeeling trapped, migrants’ fears grow in Mexican border city
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico (AP) — An informal camp of migrants is slowly growing along the banks of the Rio Grande.…
Continue ReadingFendi, Del Core lead Milan fashion’s runway return
By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Italy’s fashion capital is again alive with the sound of shoppers swarming boutiques and editors…
Continue ReadingBritney Spears court filing says conservatorship should end
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears said in a court filing that she agrees with her father that the…
Continue ReadingSaudi king expresses hope for the direct talks with Iran
By AYA BATRAWY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s monarch expressed hope that the…
Continue ReadingTexas murder conviction overturned for improper legal work
By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction has been overturned because a prosecutor in…
Continue Reading12th inmate dies as New York City’s jail crisis grows
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An inmate on a New York City jail barge died Wednesday after an apparent medical emergency,…
Continue ReadingClosing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingA school employee in Oregon has been placed on leave after showing up to work in blackface, officials say
By Nicole Chavez and Jennifer Henderson, CNN A school board in Oregon is holding a special meeting just days after a school employee was placed on…
Continue ReadingOfficials free man accused of hiring hitman to kill wife
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in Virginia have dropped all charges against a man charged with hiring a hitman to kill his ex-wife after…
Continue ReadingMonument honoring abolition of slavery unveiled in Richmond two weeks after Robert E. Lee statue was removed
By David Williams, CNN A monument honoring the abolition of slavery was dedicated on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia, just two miles from where a…
Continue ReadingTexas doctor fired for using leftover Covid-19 vaccine doses sues county for discrimination
By Carma Hassan, CNN A Texas public health doctor fired earlier this year for using leftover doses of Covid-19 vaccine on eligible individuals is…
Continue ReadingFederal judge: Florida immigration law racially motivated
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down part of a Florida immigration enforcement law as…
Continue ReadingPulitzer-winning reporter Jim Sheeler dead at 53
NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Sheeler, a former Rocky Mountain News journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his extensive and compassionate reporting on the…
Continue ReadingUK coroner asks for public inquiry into Novichok poisonings
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A coroner presiding over an inquest into the death of British woman who was poisoned by a…
Continue ReadingHigh school goes remote again, blames student misbehavior
By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press A Connecticut high school that recently resumed full in-person learning for the first time since the pandemic hit…
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