Yellen warns US may hit debt limit in October
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning Congress that she will run out of…
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Afghanistan’s last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover
By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The last member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community has left the…
Continue ReadingLawyer whose son and wife killed has law license suspended
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended the law license of prominent…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court hanging up phone, back to in-person arguments
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The justices are putting the “court” back in Supreme Court. The high court announced…
Continue ReadingLouisiana revokes licenses of 7 nursing homes that evacuated patients to a warehouse ahead of Hurricane Ida
CNN, WVUE, WDSU, WAFB, LA GOV OFFICE, GETTY IMAGES, AP IMAGES By Keith Allen, Rebekah Riess and Jason Hanna, CNN Louisiana’s health department…
Continue ReadingLouisiana revokes licenses of 7 nursing homes that evacuated patients to a warehouse ahead of Hurricane Ida
By Keith Allen, Rebekah Riess and Jason Hanna, CNN Louisiana’s health department on Tuesday revoked the licenses of seven nursing homes that…
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 deaths overwhelm morgue in Cowlitz County
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A recent increase in COVID-19 deaths has overwhelmed a southwest Washington county’s storage capacity, prompting the…
Continue ReadingTaliban gives thousands of Kandahar residents three days to leave their homes, protesters say
CNN By Sarah Dean and Ingrid Formanek, CNN Hundreds of people protested in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Tuesday, against what they say are…
Continue ReadingTaliban fighters use whips against Afghan women protesting the all-male interim government
By Masoud Popalzai, Laura Smith-Spark and Tim Lister, CNN Taliban fighters used whips and sticks against a group of women protesting in Kabul on…
Continue ReadingToday is International Literacy Day. Here are key facts to know
By Sam Romano, CNN The need for a literate world is more important than ever. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the meaning of literacy…
Continue ReadingAlabama trying to revive lawsuit over Confederate monument
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama attorney general’s office is trying to revive its lawsuit over the removal of a Confederate monument from…
Continue ReadingEthel Kennedy: RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan shouldn’t be freed
BOSTON (AP) — The wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy says assassin Sirhan Sirhan should not be released from prison. The statement from 93-year-old…
Continue ReadingOne dead, several feared missing in Indian ferry collision
GAUHATI, India (AP) — One person has died and several are feared missing after two passenger ferries collided Wednesday in northeastern India. An…
Continue ReadingPrivate expedition to dive into wreck of M/S Estonia ferry
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A privately-funded expedition, commissioned by the relatives of the victims of the M/S Estonia…
Continue ReadingPrivate expedition to dive into wreck of M/S Estonia ferry
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A privately-funded expedition, commissioned by the relatives of the victims of the M/S Estonia…
Continue ReadingImmigrant Sept. 11 cleanup crews seek residency as a reward
By CLAUDIA TORRENS The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Immigrant workers who helped clean up buildings in lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11…
Continue ReadingImmigrant Sept. 11 cleanup crews seek residency as a reward
By CLAUDIA TORRENS The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Immigrant workers who helped clean up buildings in lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11…
Continue ReadingCourt weighs drug distributor’s insurance coverage fight
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court is deciding whether the insurance company for a drug…
Continue ReadingCourt weighs drug distributor’s insurance coverage fight
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court is deciding whether the insurance company for a drug…
Continue ReadingVatican says 6th Chinese bishop consecrated under 2018 deal
ROME (AP) — The Catholic diocese of Wuhan, China — where the coronavirus was first detected — has a new bishop. The Vatican says he was…
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