Lawsuit seeks to block 2 geothermal power plants in Nevada
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and tribal leaders are suing the U.S. government to try to block construction…
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Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, dies at 99
By LYNN ELBER and FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television…
Continue Reading Germany pulls honor for Israeli historian over Bosnia report
BERLIN (AP) — The German government has dropped plans to give the country’s highest honor to an Israeli historian amid criticism of his work on…
Continue Reading Party like it’s 2019: Serbia hosts raucous New Year’s Eve
By DARKO VOJINOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Boisterous New Year’s Eve celebrations have kicked off in Serbia’s capital of…
Continue Reading Governor gives ‘Jeopardy’ contestant a 2nd chance at clue
By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A New York resident and “Jeopardy” contestant who was stumped this week by a clue about his state’s governor…
Continue Reading Teen’s suit says coaches made him eat pizza despite religion
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio high school football player who says coaches forced him to eat a pizza covered with pepperoni grease in violation of…
Continue Reading Suspect in shooting of Illinois officers arrested in Indiana
CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected in the shooting of one police officer and wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel has been…
Continue Reading $15B from Gates, French Gates tops 2021 biggest gift list
By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy It was a healthy year for big gifts to charitable causes in 2021, a year…
Continue Reading Roe lawyer Sarah Weddington helped redefine abortion rights
By ACACIA CORONADO and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Sarah Weddington is being remembered this week as a champion…
Continue Reading ‘A hell of a year’: GOP eyes big 2022, but weaknesses remain
By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This time last year, the Republican Party was hitting bottom. The GOP had…
Continue Reading Wave of canceled flights from omicron closes out 2021
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Flight cancellations surged again on the last day of 2021, with airlines blaming it on crew shortages related to…
Continue Reading Should kids be vaccinated? Brazil turns to online survey
By DÉBORA ÁLVARES, MAURICIO SAVARESE and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Leaders around the world are relying on…
Continue Reading Food disruptions feared in UK as new Brexit rules kick in
LONDON (AP) — New post-Brexit custom rules for goods arriving from the European Union to Britain are taking effect on Saturday. A leading food…
Continue Reading ‘A hell of a year’: GOP eyes big 2022, but weaknesses remain
By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This time last year, the Republican Party was hitting bottom. The GOP had…
Continue Reading Denis O’Dell, worked on Beatles films, dies in Spain at 98
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Denis O’Dell, a British film producer and director who worked with The Beatles on the movie “A Hard Day’s Night,”…
Continue Reading New this Week: ‘This Is Us,’ RuPaul album, ‘The Tender Bar’
By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from drag queen titan RuPaul, the sixth and final season of…
Continue Reading Over 65 shots fired on busy Philadelphia street; 6 wounded
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say six people were shot as six gunmen fired dozens of shots on a street full of businesses late Thursday.…
Continue Reading ‘Pooh,’ ‘Sun Also Rises’ among works going public in 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — “Winnie the Pooh” and “The Sun Also Rises” are going public. A.A. Milne’s children’s book and Ernest Hemingway’s…
Continue Reading ‘Wait, what?’ quip tops school’s annual banished words list
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The judges of a Michigan university’s cheeky annual “Banished Word List” have a message for texting and…
Continue Reading Putin wishes Russians happier new year, hails their strength
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is wishing Russians a happier new year, hailing their solidarity and…
Continue Reading 2 killed when train hits car going around crossing gate
AVENTURA, Fla. (AP) — Police say two people died when a higher speed commuter train hit their car as the driver tried to make it around the…
Continue Reading Party-goers urged not to travel across UK as omicron surges
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Officials have warned revellers in Scotland and Wales to think twice before travelling to England to…
Continue Reading Yemen officials: Saudi airstrike kills 12 troops by mistake
By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni military officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has mistakenly hit a…
Continue Reading France urges green habits with new car ads, bans on plastic
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French customers will be encouraged to adopt more environmentally friendly habits under a series of…
Continue Reading US Postal Service recovers from poor holiday showing in 2020
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service pulled out all the stops to avoid a repeat of the 2020 holiday…
Continue Reading New laws take effect across US on abortion, policing, taxes
By WILSON RING Associated Press From minimum wage increases to animal protection to police accountability to both cutting and increasing taxes a…
Continue Reading Europe’s shared notes and coins turn 20 at New Year’s
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — This New Year’s the European Central Bank is celebrating the 20th anniversary of…
Continue Reading Media reps say 45 reporters, staffers died at work in 2021
BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists says that 45 reporters and media workers were killed doing their jobs over the last…
Continue Reading Israel: Palestinian shot, killed in alleged stabbing attempt
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says troops shot and killed a Palestinian man as he ran toward a bus stop in the occupied West Bank…
Continue Reading Germany shuts down half of its 6 remaining nuclear plants
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation. It comes a year…
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