Month: August 2021

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it will require service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine now that…

DENVER (AP) — Denver police say a shooting on a street corner in a nightlife district just as bars closed left one man dead and five others…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States has imposed new sanctions over Ethiopia’s deadly Tigray conflict. The…

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died in Minnesota. He was 38. His family says the…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in July for the second month in a row, though they only increased…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Defense Ministry says it plans to build a fence 2.5 meters (8 feet) high along…

LONDON (AP) — A British judge has ruled that songs by punk trailblazers the Sex Pistols can be used in a forthcoming TV series despite the…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched the construction of new nuclear submarines and…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has given full approval to the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer.…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — All New York City public school teachers and other staffers will have to get vaccinated against…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s microblogging platform Sina Weibo has closed 145 accounts, some of which had defended pop star Kris Wu over his rape…

By TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press WAVERLY, Tenn. (AP) — Search crews with dogs continued the grim work of going door-to-door…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has opened a facility in Tokyo to provide oxygen for up to 130 coronavirus patients with mild…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A lag in routine school immunizations is threatening a smooth start to the school year…

RISHABH R. JAIN and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans living in India are taking to the streets to ramp up…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The messy exit of Western military forces from Afghanistan and the swift takeover of the country by…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A new poll finds that a majority of Americans support mask and vaccine…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An online account describing itself as a group of hackers has shared footage of…

TOKYO (AP) — The Afghanistan flag will be displayed in Tuesday’s opening ceremony of the Paralympics even though the country’s athletes were…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for two U.S. Park Police officers told a judge that local prosecutors are not…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Having a good grasp of your expenses and budget is the best preparation for a drop in income. But if that ship has…

By HAU DINH Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s largest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City, has begun a tightened lockdown to battle the…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — International aid groups are warning that millions of people in Syria and Iraq are losing access to…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Officials say Egypt has closed its main border crossing point with the Gaza Strip amid tensions with…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police say they have arrested two people for allegedly hurling tear gas cannisters during a concert by a Bosnian…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s anti-graft court has sentenced a former Cabinet minister to 12 years in…