Year: 2021

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Chinese broadcaster and NBA partner Tencent has deleted all references to the Boston Celtics from its platforms, in apparent response to comments Celtics center Enes Kanter made to advocate Tibetan independence. Kanter, as part of a series of social media posts, also called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator.”

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced that millions of lower- and medium-income motorists will each be given 100 euros ($116) in one-off financial assistance to help them cope with rising gasoline prices. Castex said on TF1 television Thursday that it was “an exceptional response to an exceptional situation.” The measure will

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is tying his legislative priorities on voting rights, police reform and climate change to Martin Luther King Jr.’s push for racial justice. Biden spoke Thursday while marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of the civil rights leader’s memorial on the National Mall. With

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has awarded a prestigious prize in the study of science and technology to two physicists based in the United States. Harvard University physics professor Cumrun Vafa received The Mustafa Prize in science and technology. Vafa, an Iranian-American, said the award reminds him “that there is no border for science and

By EMMA H. TOBIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Government forecasters say that they expect two-thirds of the U.S. to have a warmer winter than normal. The South will more likely be drier than usual this season, and the north will be wetter. The National Weather Service announced Thursday its winter weather outlook for

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ social spending and climate change bill would put the United States back on a path to reducing its persistent pool of uninsured people. Estimates range from 4 million to 7 million Americans gaining health coverage as a result of the legislation. One analysis says that

STOWE, Vt. (AP) — In an obituary published Oct. 21, 2021, about Eleonore “Lorli” von Trapp Campbell, The Associated Press erroneously reported an element of her family relationship. She was a half-sibling to the children depicted in “The Sound of Music,” not a stepsibling.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Supreme Court won’t reconsider its decision to allow the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was cut into pieces and hauled away from Richmond’s Monument Avenue weeks ago. On Thursday, the court denied a motion for rehearing and a motion for clarification and all relief

ROME (AP) — Lawyers for Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian premier, say he has been acquitted by a court in Italy of corruption. Italian media quoted the billionaire media mogul’s lawyers as saying the court in Siena, Tuscany, acquitted him of judicial corruption, ruling Thursday that there was no evidence of that. Prosecutors had alleged

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Salvadoran immigrant has agreed to plea guilty to all crimes in the killing of four Nevada residents during a two-week rampage in January 2019. The unexpected deal a Washoe County judge certified Thursday spares Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman from two death penalty trials. It puts