
UK scientists urge more restrictions to fight omicron surge
LONDON (AP) — British scientists are warning that the government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the omicron…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British scientists are warning that the government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the omicron…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision to forego a third term has sparked a scramble among…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press For many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, self-incriminating messages, photos and videos that…
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Police in Croatia say they found the body of a 10-year-old Turkish girl who was swept away while her family tried to cross a…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After prosecutors spent nearly a day reconstructing the moments after a…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italy’s La Scala has postponed its ballet season premiere after a coronavirus outbreak in its ranks. At least one of the four…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Authorities in France want to accelerate vaccinations against the coronavirus before Christmas as infections surge and more people…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described social media as one of the main threats to democracy. Erdogan discussed the…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A consortium of Catholic women’s groups is calling on the Holy See to join the Council of Europe…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Palestinian Hamas group says that explosions that shook a refugee camp in southern Lebanon were…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people have lined up in the English city of Bristol to get the latest work by elusive street artist Banksy. It’s a…
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has given a mandate to form a new government to the prime minister-designate of a centrist party that…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer NFL great Michael Strahan has rocketed into space on a Jeff Bezos rocket. The Amazon founder’s space company…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Health officials say Taiwan has recorded its first case of the omicron variant in a passenger who recently traveled to the…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven nations were meeting in Liverpool…
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC Associated Press LAJKOVAC, Serbia (AP) — A Cuban couple and their daughter have resettled in a small Serbian town after fleeing Cuba…
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say gunmen attacked two police providing security for polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan, shooting…
Continue ReadingBy RISHI LEKHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are clearing protest sites along the capital’s fringes and…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health experts still don’t know if the omicron variant is causing milder COVID-19, but…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fellow Kansans have celebrated Bob Dole as a tough but compassionate patriot shaped by…
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PEREZ D. and MANUEL DE LA CRUZ Associated Press CHEPOL, Guatemala (AP) — Anxiety is high in Guatemala amid uncertainty about loved ones…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Masayuki Uemura, a Japanese home computer game pioneer whose Nintendo consoles sold millions of…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California man who sold $1.1 million in forged art has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. Prosecutors say…
Continue ReadingBy CHARLOTTE ANTOINE-PERRON Associated Press NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — Voters in the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia are set to…
Continue ReadingSEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Sequoia National Park is reopening its Giant Forest area, three months after extraordinary efforts saved the…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say a U.S. Navy commander has been fired from his job as the executive officer of…
Continue ReadingAURORA, Colo. (AP) — For at least two days, residents of a Denver suburb worried a black cat named Panther who somehow got himself stranded atop a…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University police have arrested a 38-year-old homeless man they say is…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…
Continue ReadingPLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A father and son charged with starting a massive California wildfire earlier this year pleaded not guilty in court…
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