High court to hold special session on vaccine requirements
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will hold a special session in just over two weeks to hear arguments…
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House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn reports COVID infection
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says he has tested positive for COVID-19, though he is fully vaccinated with a booster and has no…
Continue Reading Chile’s tattooed president-elect honors homeland in ink
By PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — When Gabriel Boric is sworn in as Chile’s president he’ll not only be the youngest to…
Continue Reading Texas man gets 12 years on terrorism charge at resentencing
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man convicted of providing material support to the Islamic State group was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in federal prison…
Continue Reading ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ actor Sally Ann Howes dies at 91
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sally Ann Howes, who played as a child actor before she later starred in the 1968 film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” with Dick…
Continue Reading Court upholds US cockfighting ban, rejects challenge in Guam
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has affirmed a ban against cockfighting in U.S. territories. The…
Continue Reading Californian pleads guilty to punching attendant on flight
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman who punched a flight attendant in the face and broke her teeth during a flight has pleaded guilty to a federal…
Continue Reading Feds: Missouri gun law poses `clear and substantial threat’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal authorities argue that new state law forbidding local police from enforcing federal gun laws is hampering efforts…
Continue Reading US House shuffle continues with California districts in play
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Young Kim is running for reelection in a newly redrawn district in…
Continue Reading Prosecutors: Kansas lawmaker shouldn’t get diversion
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas prosecutors say a 21-year-old Democratic state lawmaker who is charged with domestic battery in a disturbance involving…
Continue Reading Interior Department reaffirms status of tribe’s reservation
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts tribe’s long-disputed reservation was reaffirmed by the Biden administration on Wednesday. The decision by the…
Continue Reading Australian state reimposes masks after major spike in cases
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia has reported a major spike in coronavirus infections, prompting the worst-hit state of New South Wales to reimpose mask…
Continue Reading 6.0 quake hits off Mexico’s Pacific coast; no damage reports
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 has struck in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s western coast, but…
Continue Reading Omicron less likely to put you in the hospital, studies say
By LAURA UNGAR and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers Two new British studies provide some early hints that the omicron variant of the coronavirus may be…
Continue Reading US Rep. Scanlon carjacked in Philadelphia park, uninjured
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint by two men in a south Philadelphia park but wasn’t injured, police and…
Continue Reading Prosecutors want 4 years for convicted Chicago banker
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a Chicago banker should spend at least four years in prison after he was…
Continue Reading What’s in the box? Mystery alum gifts $180K to City College
NEW YORK (AP) — Christmas came early — or really late, depending how you look at it, when a professor at the City College of New York in Harlem…
Continue Reading US designates 3 men in Brazil as affiliated with al-Qaida
By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has designated three men in Brail as being affiliated with…
Continue Reading Parents charged in Oxford school shooting seek lower bail
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The parents of a teenager charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school are asking for a…
Continue Reading Spain to adopt mask-wearing outdoors amid record virus surge
MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is convening a special Cabinet meeting Thursday to pass a decree-law that makes it mandatory to…
Continue Reading Coyotes among organizations hiring “Angels” as greeters
By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Angels for Higher is giving people with Down syndrome opportunities to work as greeters at…
Continue Reading Authorities: Carbon monoxide caused deaths of 7 in Minnesota
By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say seven members of an immigrant family from Honduras whose bodies were found…
Continue Reading EPA plans to revisit state request for tribal land oversight
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it plans to reconsider a decision made…
Continue Reading Michigan prosecutors lose appeal in key Nassar-related case
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — State prosecutors have lost their bid to reinstate charges against the former president of Michigan…
Continue Reading Joel Coen distills ‘Macbeth’ down to the bone
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” is an intoxicatingly expressionist Shakespeare…
Continue Reading Research: Wreck of last US slave ship mostly intact on coast
By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship on the Alabama coast have made…
Continue Reading Foxconn qualifies for Wisconsin tax breaks for first time
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group has qualified for nearly $30 million in Wisconsin tax credits. That marks the first time the…
Continue Reading White House downplays Secret Service estimate of COVID fraud
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The White House is downplaying a statement by the U.S. Secret Service that nearly $100 billion at minimum has…
Continue Reading Israeli says Palestinian man killed in shootout with troops
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says troops have fatally shot a Palestinian man who it says opened fire at them from a passing…
Continue Reading Jan. 6 panel seeks interview with Trump ally Rep. Jim Jordan
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection…
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