Month: September 2021

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker has submitted his…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Retired Roman Catholic Bishop John McCormack has died after a career in which he faced…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Once hailed as a prototype for a new kind of federal jail and the most…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-monopoly commission has fined 17 soccer teams for conspiring to impose a cap on the salaries of female…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say they have broken a gang that smuggled more than 100 migrants from Bosnia into Croatia and on toward…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Washington National Cathedral says an artist renowned for his works depicting African American life will design new…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the Boy Scouts of America moves through its complex bankruptcy case, it’s encountering…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press Millions of people have found solace during the pandemic in cuddling a dog or cat. For a…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a law aimed at limiting the influence of oligarchs on politics. The move comes a day after…

By KHADIJA KOTHIA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police investigating the killing of a 28-year-old woman in London say they are probing…

By MARÍA VERZA and JUAN LOZANO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — A camp where almost 15,000 migrants had waited along the Texas border just…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN, MATTHEW LEE, DANICA COTO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press U.S. officials say the Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has gone to court in the Netherlands to get permission to receive a COVID-19 vaccine so he can…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press WOODLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey plans to restore vast tracts of a coastal tree species threatened by…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, got a hawk’s-eye view of New York…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week for a second straight…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has unexpectedly cut the main interest rate by one percentage point, bowing to President Recep Tayyip…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has closed its airspace to all Moroccan planes in the latest escalation of diplomatic tensions between the two…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press STILLWATER, N.Y. (AP) — Veterans are helping with an archaeological dig at the Saratoga National Historical Park…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A woman with Down syndrome has lost a court challenge against the British government over a law…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is unveiling plans that would require smartphone makers to adopt a single…

BANGKOK (AP) — An Australian economist arrested when Myanmar’s military seized power in February has made a court appearance in the capital where…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England kept its main interest rate at the record low of 0.1% but warned that inflation is…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize ceremonies will be reined in for a second year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The winners of this year’s…

BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union legal adviser says software installed in Volkswagen cars to alter the amount of pollutants coming out of their…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — With increasingly strong talk in support of Taiwan, a new deal to supply Australia with nuclear…