Month: November 2021

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is marking the 61st anniversary of the integration of its public schools by four 6-year-old girls. Weekend events began with a Friday morning news conference at New Orleans City Hall and an evening screening of a video tribute to the four. A special church

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Some Catholic bishops in the United States are persisting with criticism of President Joe Biden for his support of abortion rights. But the bishops’ conference, as a whole, is likely to avoid direct criticism of him at its upcoming national meeting. The highest-profile agenda item is a proposed “teaching

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are set to host the first tribal nations summit since 2016. The White House expects leaders from more than 570 tribes to join the two-day event that opens on Monday. Nearly three dozen leaders are scheduled to address the

BERLIN (AP) — A young man has been severely injured when he fell off a slab that’s part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust. The 21-year-old tourist, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, fell several meters (feet) early Sunday and was

By TRISHA THOMAS and FRANCES D’EMILIO ROCCELLA JONICA, Italy (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland. One rescue, of 303 migrants, began Saturday night and ended early Sunday

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain’s foreign minister has summoned Cuba’s top diplomat in Madrid to explain why Havana has revoked the press credentials of five journalists on the island working for Spanish state news agency Efe. Spanish diplomatic sources told The Associated Press on Sunday that the Spanish embassy in

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media says two strong earthquakes have struck the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, leaving one person dead. Iran’s Seismological Center said that the quakes of magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 struck Qeshm island in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday afternoon, some 1000 kilometers (640 miles) south of the Iranian capital of

GENOA, Neb. (AP) — Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the discovery comes as ground-penetrating radar has been used in recent weeks to search for a cemetery once used by the school that operated

By HOPE YEN, TOM BEAUMONT and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden gets set to sign a $1 trillion infrastructure package, many eyes are turning to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The bill will make the 39-year-old former mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate one of the more powerful brokers in