Last parent of a child killed in 1963 church bombing dies
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The last living parent of any of the four Black girls killed in a 1963 Alabama church bombing has died. She was 93. Maxine…
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Brazil health agency confirms COVID-19 cases in cruise ship
By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Passengers on the cruise ship MSC Preziosa had to wait more than six hours to…
Continue Reading Brown walks away from Bucs; Brady rallies team past Jets
By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Antonio Brown was kicked off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after a bizarre,…
Continue Reading Deputies kill Florida man who shot father, fired at deputies
PINE HILLS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say sheriff’s deputies in Florida killed a man who shot his father then began firing at the deputies after a…
Continue Reading Chelsea takes a stand, pioneers end to all-seater EPL games
By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — For the first time since top-tier English soccer stadiums were ordered to be all-seater in…
Continue Reading Snow storms and pandemic ground flights, delay holiday’s end
By MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the…
Continue Reading 2021 box office closes with more fireworks for ‘Spider-Man’
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood closed out 2021 with more fireworks at the box office for “Spider-Man: No Way Home,”…
Continue Reading Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey dies at 77
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, known for his fossil-finding and conservation work in his native Kenya, has died at 77.…
Continue Reading Biden vows US to act decisively if Russia invades Ukraine
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden has conferred with Ukraine’s leader over the…
Continue Reading Mexican fish extinct in wild successfully reintroduced
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — There once was a small fish called “tequila splitfin” or “zoogoneticus tequila” that…
Continue Reading Illinois’ law ending immigration detention in 2022 hits snag
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ plan to end federal immigration detention in the New Year has hit another legal…
Continue Reading Sudan’s PM announces resignation amid political deadlock
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has announced his resignation amid political deadlock and…
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Twitter bans Rep. Greene’s personal account for COVID claims
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter says it’s banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the…
Continue Reading Fauci: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic
By HOPE YEN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal…
Continue Reading Drew Peterson to ask judge to toss out murder conviction
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Chicago-area police sergeant Drew Peterson is getting another chance to argue that his murder conviction in the death of his…
Continue Reading UK makes omicron contingency plans for hospitals, schools
By MIKE FULLER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has been making contingency plans in case hospitals, schools and other workplaces…
Continue Reading Suez Canal revenues hit all-time record at $6.3 billion
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Suez Canal says its annual revenues reached $6.3 billion last year, the highest in the crucial waterway’s history.…
Continue Reading Hong Kong news outlet to close amid crackdown on dissent
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong online news site says it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms,…
Continue Reading Lebanese Christian leader: alliance with Hezbollah imperiled
By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The head of Lebanon’s largest Christian parliamentary bloc says a 15-year-old alliance with…
Continue Reading Jake’s mice: Searching for answers to the puzzle of autism
By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 16-year-old with autism recently got the chance to meet the first mice in the world engineered…
Continue Reading Tutu remains interred amid call to rename Cape Town airport
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The remains of South African archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu…
Continue Reading Police struggle to deter rising catalytic converter thefts
By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — States across the country are taking steps to try to deter the thefts of catalytic…
Continue Reading Mali junta defies mediators with 5-year transition plan
By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military junta wants to extend its rule for five more years and put off the next…
Continue Reading Schools adapt for return from break as COVID-19 cases surge
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them. Some are planning to vastly ramp…
Continue Reading EU draft on financing nuclear and gas plants raises ire
By RAF CASERT and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain…
Continue Reading Thousands gather to oppose Dutch virus measures despite ban
By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Thousands of people in the capital of the Netherlands have defied a ban and…
Continue Reading 4 Syrians die after burning coal for heat in south Lebanon
By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An official in a Lebanese rescue group says a mother and her three children died in their sleep…
Continue Reading Overnight storms bring damage to parts of US South
HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (AP) — A line of severe storms damaged homes, knocked out power and downed trees in parts of the southern United States late…
Continue Reading Egypt pushes for calm after flare-up in Gaza hostilities
By ILAN BEN ZION and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Egyptian officials are pushing for Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza…
Continue Reading Bus with mourners veers off Nepal highway, killing 7
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus has veered off a mountain highway in Nepal, leaving at least seven dead and about a dozen injured. A government…
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