Poignant return for Met Opera after 18-month pandemic pause
By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera returned to its home after an 18-month absence caused by the coronavirus…
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Poignant return for Met Opera after 18-month pandemic pause
By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera returned to its home after an 18-month absence caused by the coronavirus…
Continue ReadingOrban gives Pope a loaded gift during visit to Hungary
By Delia Gallagher, Jessie Gretener and Hannah Ryan, CNN Pope Francis urged Hungarians to be more “open” and “considered”…
Continue ReadingWinner DQ for wearing wrong shoes at Vienna Marathon
VIENNA (AP) — Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa has been disqualified for wearing the wrong shoes after winning the Vienna Marathon. The 24-year-old…
Continue ReadingSyria city back to a kind of normalcy after cease-fire
By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DARAA, Syria (AP) — The badly damaged old section of the southern Syrian city of Daraa, which until recently was…
Continue ReadingThe vaccine mandate may not apply to your driver or server
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Some 80 million private sector employees will be required to get a Covid vaccine or weekly Covid test under the…
Continue ReadingOne teen killed and another wounded in shooting at Haunted Hills Hayride in Pennsylvania
By Deanna Hackney, CNN A 15-year-old boy was killed and another was wounded in a shooting at the Haunted Hills Hayride in North Versailles,…
Continue ReadingMan shot by Portland police after reportedly stealing truck
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police say a man who stole a pickup truck and drove at high speeds through the metro area and briefly into…
Continue ReadingNorthern Idaho’s anti-government streak hampers COVID fight
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Northern Idaho has a long and deep streak of antigovernment activism…
Continue ReadingNorthern Idaho’s anti-government streak hampers COVID fight
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Northern Idaho has a long and deep streak of antigovernment activism…
Continue ReadingTurkey talks with UN over returning Syrian refugees
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says his country is working with the U.N.’s refugee agency to repatriate Syrians to their home…
Continue ReadingTropical Storm Nicholas threatens Gulf Coast with heavy rain
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Nicholas is expected to strengthen as it heads for the Gulf Coast. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in…
Continue ReadingCalifornia voters: Less Republican and white than in 2003
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is again choosing whether to recall a governor. But the electorate…
Continue ReadingInternet funding rule could favor rural areas over cities
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Officials in some urban areas are raising concerns about a federal rule limiting how federal coronavirus relief…
Continue ReadingActivists hail Lee statue removal, say more work remains
By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When an enormous statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off a pedestal in…
Continue ReadingKabul flag shop that started in Soviet era retools yet again
By BERNAT ARMANGUE Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A small flag shop, tucked away in the courtyard of a Kabul market, has documented…
Continue ReadingPolice: 5 in Italy slashed with knife; suspect arrested
ROME (AP) — Italian police are investigating a Somali man for attempted murder after he allegedly slashed two bus ticket controllers in the beach…
Continue ReadingGreek leader vows crackdown against migrant traffickers
BY COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has promised to “break and smash” the…
Continue ReadingDeath and suffering in Iraq a painful legacy of 9/11 attacks
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Not long after 9/11, the Bush administration shifted its attention to Iraq,…
Continue ReadingIda deals new blow to Louisiana schools struggling to reopen
By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer LULING, La. (AP) — Louisiana students were just getting back to class after a year and a half of COVID-19…
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