Lions, tigers and an unbearable year at Jack Hanna’s zoo
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It’s been a bear of a year for Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the…
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Arbery trial: Grim photos, police testimony dominate Week 1
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of three white men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing saw graphic photos…
Continue Reading Russia’s COVID-19 deaths set daily record
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is reporting a new daily high number of COVID-19 deaths, while the total number of coronavirus…
Continue Reading Anti-racism activists stage demo against Dutch ‘Black Pete’
By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press BREDA, Netherlands (AP) — About 100 anti-racism protesters have chanted “Kick Out Black Pete” at an…
Continue Reading Italian city defies China, opens exhibit by dissident artist
By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press BRESCIA, Italy (AP) — A provocative exhibit by dissident Chinese artist Badiucao has opened in the industrial…
Continue Reading Government-allied forces leave Yemeni city, rebels re-enter
By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials and the U.N. say forces loyal to the country’s internationally…
Continue Reading Merkel calls on all to get shots to avoid bad virus winter
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on all unvaccinated Germans to get their shots as quickly…
Continue Reading Air Force official says US to maintain presence in Mideast
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The top U.S. Air Force general in the Mideast says American airmen will…
Continue Reading Sudanese rally against army tightening grip on power; 5 dead
By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudanese security forces have fired live ammunition and tear gas to…
Continue Reading Duterte’s daughter to run for VP with ex-dictator’s son
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter has registered her candidacy for vice…
Continue Reading Police: India rebels kill 5 troops, 2 others in border state
By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GAUHATI, India (AP) — Indian police say at least five Indian soldiers and two civilians have been killed in an…
Continue Reading Israeli couple arrested in Turkey on espionage charges
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s official news agency says an Israeli married couple have been arrested for espionage after taking photographs of the…
Continue Reading 7 Cambodians die after drinking alcohol disinfectant
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Health Ministry says seven laborers have died after drinking alcohol they were given as a disinfectant…
Continue Reading Roadside bomb kills 2 policemen in northwestern Pakistan
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities say a roadside bombing in a district that borders Afghanistan has killed two policemen. The district…
Continue Reading Polish police find body of young Syrian near Belarus border
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police say the body of a young Syrian man has been found in the woods near the border…
Continue Reading Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement
By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Almost 200 nations have accepted a compromise deal aimed at keeping…
Continue Reading Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ shifts focus to hold off desert
By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press KEBEMER, Senegal (AP) — The Great Green Wall that was once envisioned as a way for Africa to fight climate…
Continue Reading Hong Kong authorities deny visa to Economist journalist
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have declined to renew a visa for a foreign journalist working for The Economist without any explanation.…
Continue Reading Inside DNC chair’s ‘challenging’ bid to avert midterm defeat
By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer Jaime Harrison is a man leading a party in peril. A year after seizing total control of Washington,…
Continue Reading Inside DNC chair’s ‘challenging’ bid to avert midterm defeat
By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer Jaime Harrison is a man leading a party in peril. A year after seizing total control of Washington,…
Continue Reading With Dems’ prized bill at stake, a numbers game looms ahead
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ $1.85 trillion package of social and climate initiatives seems afflicted by a…
Continue Reading Federal court declines to lift stay on vaccine mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more…
Continue Reading Bannon indicted on contempt charges for defying 1/6 subpoena
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, has…
Continue Reading Britney Spears got all to agree she needed to be freed
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — For one day at least, everyone with power over Britney Spears was in agreement. She…
Continue Reading Dozens of armed farmers reject ruling on Mexico land dispute
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of Mexican farmers armed with rifles and shotguns have gathered in a pocket of mountain forest in southern Mexico to…
Continue Reading EXPLAINER: Conservatorships and how Britney Spears was freed
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ended the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears’ life…
Continue Reading Federal court declines to lift stay on vaccine mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more…
Continue Reading CEO who threw chair inside Capitol on Jan. 6 gets jail time
By JACQUES BILLEAUD and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A former tech company CEO from suburban Chicago who lost his job after he threw a chair…
Continue Reading OAS assembly condemns Nicaragua’s election as ‘not free’
NEW YORK (AP) — The General Assembly of the Organization of American States has voted to condemn Nicaragua’s Nov. 7 presidential vote, saying…
Continue Reading UC Davis says baseball team hazed students with alcohol
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California state university says its varsity baseball team engaged in an…
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