New this week: ‘Lost Daughter,’ NYE in Nashville, Boba Fett
By The Associated Press Christmas may be over, but a feast of movies and television shows arrive next week. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s critically…
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Many US churches canceling in-person Christmas services
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the surge of coronavirus cases across the U.S., numerous churches have canceled in-person…
Continue Reading San Francisco board OKs mayor’s emergency order over opioids
By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an emergency order the mayor wants to tackle an…
Continue Reading Rudolfo Anaya weaved bilingual holiday tale for children
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An author known as the father of Chicano literature has left behind a bilingual children’s…
Continue Reading Middle man: Petersen poised to play key role in Va. Senate
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Republican victories last month in Virginia gave the GOP control of the governor’s…
Continue Reading 3rd Florida-based ship has outbreak, state cases hit record
Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A COVID-19 outbreak has taken place on a South Florida-based cruise ship for the third time this week. At the same…
Continue Reading Biden, first lady visit hospitalized kids on Christmas Eve
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are bringing Christmas Eve cheer to…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What next as high court wades into COVID mandate?
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Jan. 7 on whether the Biden administration can…
Continue Reading Police: 2 killed in restaurant shooting in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say they have arrested one person after two men were shot and killed at a busy restaurant in Kentucky. The Louisville…
Continue Reading Heavy rains, flooding in Bolivia kill at least 12 this month
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Heavy rains in Bolivia this month have killed at least 12 people, flooded crops and damaged roads, according to authorities.…
Continue Reading Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew tests positive for COVID-19
ISTANBUL (AP) — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Are more defendants testifying at trial?
By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Defendants spoke directly to jurors in a series of recent high-profile trials, defying…
Continue Reading Missouri boarding school doctor accused of child sex crimes
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The doctor for a private Christian boarding school that has been the focus of an abuse investigation in Missouri has been…
Continue Reading Sweet repeat: Brothers regift same hard candy for decades
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Two New Hampshire brothers have gotten their holiday regifting skills down to an art by passing the same hard candy back…
Continue Reading Dutch court jails man over pre-dawn gunfire at Saudi Embassy
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has imposed a four-year prison sentence on a 41-year-old man convicted of attempted murder for firing…
Continue Reading Police search for gunman in Chicago-area mall shootout
OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — Police say a suspected gunman was among four people who were wounded during a shootout at a suburban Chicago shopping mall…
Continue Reading On Broadway, a playwright becomes an actor, saving a show
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Keenan Scott II made his Broadway acting debut this week in “Thoughts of a Colored…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: What COVID-19 therapies are available in US?
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two antiviral pills are the latest additions to the handful of therapies to treat COVID-19 in…
Continue Reading US to lift omicron-linked travel ban on southern Africa
By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries that it imposed to…
Continue Reading Kremlin expects US answer on security guarantees next month
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says it expects the U.S. to respond next month to Moscow’s request for security…
Continue Reading How can I protect a child too young for a COVID-19 vaccine?
By The Associated Press Children younger than 5 can’t get COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. yet, but there are steps you can take to protect them from…
Continue Reading Turkey freezes assets of 770 people for alleged terror links
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has frozen the assets of 770 Turkish nationals and a Chicago-based foundation it accuses of having links to terror groups. A…
Continue Reading TSA officer saves infant who stopped breathing at airport
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newly released video shows a security officer leaping over conveyor belt rollers and saving a 2-month-old boy who stopped…
Continue Reading Russian court slaps Google, Meta with massive fines
By ULIANA PAVLOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has fined Google nearly $100 million and Facebook’s parent company Meta $27…
Continue Reading Iran says it fired 16 ballistic missiles during annual drill
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired more than a dozen of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. The Friday…
Continue Reading UK Queen’s Christmas speech set to be particularly personal
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II is expected to offer a particularly personal Christmas Day message to the nation…
Continue Reading Groups call for protests against Libya’s poll cancellation
By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds took to the streets in several Libyan cities to protest the cancellation of Friday’s…
Continue Reading Germany anticipates big omicron rise over holiday period
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says the proportion of coronavirus infections with the new omicron variant will increase sharply in the…
Continue Reading Airlines cancel flights due to COVID staffing shortages
By DAVID McHUGH and TALI ARBEL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights as the omicron variant jumbled schedules…
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