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…
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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”…
Continue Reading Bayern Munich’s AGM ends in tumult over Qatar sponsorship
By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer Bayern Munich’s annual general meeting ended in tumult with members yelling and booing the club’s directors for…
Continue Reading Will flight restrictions help as new virus variant emerges?
By MARIA CHENG and HALELUYA HADERO A coronavirus variant recently identified in South Africa is leading to a new round of travel restrictions just as…
Continue Reading EU orders travel ban on South Africa to halt variant spread
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union nations have agreed to impose a ban on travel from southern Africa to counter the spread of a new COVID-19…
Continue Reading Argentine movement tries to make Black heritage more visible
By CHRISTIANA SCIAUDONE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A growing movement in Argentina is fighting the persistent myth that there…
Continue Reading Biden sets out oil, gas leasing reform, stops short of ban
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has recommended an overhaul of the nation’s oil and gas leasing…
Continue Reading South Carolina abortion appellate hearing moved to January
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Appellate arguments over a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s abortion law have been…
Continue Reading Chris Diamantopoulos builds a hot career, on screen and off
By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you get a sense of déjà vu when you see actor Chris Diamantopoulos on screen, but…
Continue Reading US, 6 other nations urge tight ban on arms sales to Myanmar
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The United States and six other nations are calling on the international community to suspend all…
Continue Reading Hundreds of FedEx packages are found in Alabama woods
HAYDEN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities are trying to figure out how hundreds of FedEx packages ended up dumped in the woods in Alabama. The Blount County…
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