Macao detains Suncity boss on China gambling charge
BEIJING (AP) — Macao police have detained the head of Macao’s biggest casino junket organizer and others after Chinese authorities issued an…
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South African scientists brace for wave propelled by omicron
By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread across the…
Continue Reading Japan PM vows to step up defense amid China, NK threats
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at his first troop review, has renewed his pledge to…
Continue Reading At least 1 injured in shooting at mall in Tacoma, Washington
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say shots were fired near a food court at a shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington. Pierce County Sheriff’s Sgt.…
Continue Reading Widow of SKorean dictator issues apology over brutal rule
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The widow of South Korea’s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over…
Continue Reading Hawaii city worker stuck in sewage treatment plant tank dies
HONOLULU (AP) — A Honolulu city worker has died after being trapped in a tank at a sewage treatment plant. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports…
Continue Reading Saudi-led coalition launches airstrikes on Yemen’s capital
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched airstrikes targeting the country’s…
Continue Reading UN cites ‘almost total’ impunity in Mexico disappearances
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The president of the U.N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances says there is an “almost total, structural” lack of…
Continue Reading Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…
Continue Reading In Nantucket, Biden shops, attends Christmas tree lighting
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden is back at his rental home on the Massachusetts island of…
Continue Reading New this week: ‘Power of the Dog,’ ‘Annie’ live and Kenny G
By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from saxophone legend Kenny G, a documentary about the 12 young…
Continue Reading Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim had to endure a public fuss when a…
Continue Reading Towering musical theater master Stephen Sondheim dies at 91
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second…
Continue Reading Towering musical theater master Stephen Sondheim dies at 91
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second…
Continue Reading Police chief: 3 shot in fight at North Carolina mall
By TOM FOREMAN Jr. and JONATHAN DREW Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A police chief says three people were shot and wounded Friday during an…
Continue Reading Stray bullet kills Pennsylvania man at Thanksgiving dinner
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) — Authorities say a man eating Thanksgiving dinner inside a home in the Philadelphia suburbs was killed by a stray…
Continue Reading WTO delays key meeting amid COVID variant concerns
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization is postponing its conference set to open Tuesday after Switzerland…
Continue Reading Gunman opens fire on bus in Kosovo, killing 3, wounding 1
By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Police and media reports say an unknown gunman has opened fire on a…
Continue Reading Nigeria designates gunmen in troubled north as terrorists
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria has designated the armed groups blamed for hundreds of abductions and killings in…
Continue Reading Rare coin minted in Colonial New England sells for $350,000
BOSTON (AP) — One of the first coins minted in Colonial New England has sold at auction for more than $350,000, more than it was expected to get.…
Continue Reading Argentina squeezes foreign travel to protect its dollars
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s government has launched measures to discourage foreign travel as a way to protect the country’s thin…
Continue Reading Omar seeks action over House colleague’s remarks on Muslims
By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Minnesota’s Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is calling on House leaders to take “appropriate…
Continue Reading New variant hits sports just as they were nearing normality
By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Golf, cricket and rugby have become the first major sports to be affected by the…
Continue Reading Paris archbishop offers to resign over ‘ambiguous’ relations
PARIS (AP) — The archbishop of Paris has offered to resign after admitting to having had an “ambiguous” relationship with a woman in 2012. The…
Continue Reading Big flotilla of illegal gold miners splits up in Brazil
EDMAR BARROS, SILAS LAURENTINO and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press ON THE RIO MADEIRA, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of barges of illegal gold miners are…
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World races to contain new COVID threat, the omicron variant
By RAF CASERT and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The world is racing to contain a new coronavirus variant that is potentially…
Continue Reading 19 dead, 32 injured in Mexico pilgrimage bus crash
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nineteen people are dead and 32 more are injured after a bus apparently carrying pilgrims to a religious site in central Mexico…
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Black Friday is back but it’s not what it used to be
By TALI ARBEL and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On this year’s Black Friday, things almost seem normal. Malls and…
Continue Reading Georgia outlines plans to improve slow pace of rental help
By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials struggling to distribute federal funds to prevent evictions have outlined…
Continue Reading Flooding fears hit Northwest due to ‘atmospheric river’
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Flood watches were issued for much of western Washington as storms associated with multiple “atmospheric rivers”…
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