Month: October 2021

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer’s vaccine has been authorized by U.S. regulators for younger children, and millions of teens have already safely received the shot. It’s the only one available for children in the country. The Food and Drug Administration cleared the kid-size doses Friday. Next the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say more than 160 buildings in a northwestern town, including at least two churches, have been destroyed by fires caused by government shelling. A government spokesman blamed insurgents for setting the fires. The destruction of buildings in Thantlang in Chin state appeared to be

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is among three top Republicans engaged in a hotly contested 2022 U.S. Senate primary. President Donald Trump gave U.S. Rep. Ted Budd a huge boost when he endorsed him in June. Former pastor and U.S. Rep. Mark

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese politicians are in contact with foreign officials to try to resolve a diplomatic row between Lebanon and Gulf nations led by Saudi Arabia that was triggered by a Lebanese Cabinet minister’s comments on the war in Yemen. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates followed the Saudis

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is satisfied with the timing of her departure after 16 years at the helm of the country and is now looking forward to dedicating time to things she had to neglect during her chancellorship. Weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Saturday

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press Former President Donald Trump is trying to block documents including call logs, drafts of remarks and speeches and handwritten notes from his chief of staff relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. That’s according to a filing made early Saturday by the National Archives. Trump has sued to prevent the

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Saturday reported a record number of new coronavirus infections as authorities hope to stem the rising contagion by keeping most people off work for the next week. The government’s coronavirus task force reported 40,251 new infections in 24 hours, exceeding the previous record 40,096 reported

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media says the country’s air defenses have responded to missiles that were fired from Israel toward suburbs of the capital Damascus. State news agency SANA said the surface-to-surface missiles were fired Saturday from northern Israel, wounding two soldiers and causing material damage. Israeli attacks on Syria have mostly happened during

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Quinton de Kock has returned to South Africa’s team for the T20 World Cup game against Sri Lanka in Sharjah. He also took a knee for the Black Lives Matter movement ahead of the start. De Kock refused to play in Tuesday’s game against West Indies after an order

By NICOLE WINFIELD and AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press ROME (AP) — India’s prime minister has invited Pope Francis to visit the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended an official invitation Saturday during a lengthy audience at the Vatican after plans for a 2017 papal visit fell apart. Modi is in Rome for the Group of

NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son has walked out of jail and was greeted with dancing and firecrackers, over three weeks after his arrest during a drug raid on a cruise ship party in Mumbai. The Bombay High Court granted bail to 23-year-old Aryan Khan on Thursday but he spent two

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Interior Ministry says more than 8,500 foreign fighters have been deported from Turkey since the start of the Syrian civil war 10 years ago. Terror suspects from 102 countries were expelled, including 44 from the U.S. and 1,075 from EU states, according to a statement Saturday. In the first 10

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Britain and France are facing calls to sort out their latest post-Brexit spat over fishing rights in the English Channel. The dispute threatens to escalate within days into a damaging French blockade of British boats and trucks. French President Emmanuel Macron warned Saturday that

By DAVID McHUGH, FRANCES D’EMILIO and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies have endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations as part of an agreement on new international tax rules. That step, taken on Saturday at a G-20 summit in Rome, is seen as building more fairness amid

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Lavetanalagi Seru has been watching COVID-19 case numbers rise in the U.K. ahead of the U..N climate conference beginning Sunday. It scares him — even though he’s been vaccinated and is only 29. But the campaigner from the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network is determined

By TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on a motorcycle brandished small arms and fired on a broadcast journalist in his car in the Afghan capital of Kabul, lightly wounding him. A Taliban spokesperson says the journalist for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting survived the late Friday night attack. He says: “We

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer World leaders have been trying to do something about climate change for 29 years but in that time Earth has gotten much hotter and more dangerous. The first big climate negotiations were in 1992. The world has warmed more in the past 29 years than in the previous 110

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Sudanese have taken to the streets across the country, in the largest pro-democracy protest yet since the military seized control earlier this week. A doctors’ union says three protesters were killed and dozens injured, several by live rounds, as security forces opened fire

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Memorials large and small, ephemeral and epic have cropped up across the United States in the nearly two years since the coronavirus pandemic started. In New Jersey, one woman’s simple seaside memorial to honor her late brother has grown to honor more than 4,000 lost souls. In Los Angeles, a

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Volunteers paint and repaint red and pink hearts on the 500-meter-long memorial wall that honors the at least 140,000 people killed by COVID-19 in Britain. The memorial was established in March by the COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice and campaign group Led by Donkeys as a visual

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — The Italian city that suffered the brunt of COVID-19’s first deadly wave is dedicating a vivid memorial to the pandemic dead: A grove of trees, creating oxygen in a park opposite the hospital where so many died, unable to breathe. Bergamo, in northern Italy, is among

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned attacks on schools, teachers and children and called on all parties to promote the right to education in conflicts. A resolution adopted by the council Friday by a 15-0 vote emphasized the “invaluable role” that education plays in

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Critics of President Joe Biden have come up with a cryptic new phrase to insult the Democratic president. It’s “Let’s Go Brandon.” The phrase took off after a reporter at a NASCAR race in early October mischaracterized a vulgar three-word chant against Biden as a chant in

By TOM WITHERS Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Jay-Z has added another title to a bustling resume that includes Grammy winner, songwriter, billionaire business mogul, and global icon — now, Hall of Famer. The self-proclaimed “greatest rapper alive” was inducted Saturday night as part of an eclectic 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden says international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program will resume. Biden commented as he and the leaders of Germany, France and Britain met Saturday in Rome to strategize about getting Iran to return to the talks. The leaders issued a

By ADAM BEAM and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says unspecified “family obligations” are responsible for his abrupt decision not to attend next week’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Scotland. It was announced Friday that Newsom will take part virtually while the lieutenant governor will lead California’s

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In only a handful of cases has the Supreme Court moved as quickly as it is in the fight over the Texas law that bans most abortions. The cases being argued Monday could signal how the justices will rule in an even bigger abortion case that will

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Rookie starter Ian Anderson and the Braves’ bullpen took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning, Austin Riley and Travis d’Arnaud drove in runs and Atlanta beat the Houston Astros 2-0 to grab a two games to one lead in the World Series. Anderson and four

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of relatives and dignitaries have gathered in South Korea’s capital to pay their final respects to former President Roh Tae-woo. He was a key participant in a 1979 military coup who later won a landmark democratic election before his political career ended with imprisonment

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex will begin fining shipping companies if they let cargo containers stack up as the nation’s busiest twin harbors deal with an unprecedented backlog of vessels. The Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions voted Friday to implement a joint program that sets time limits on

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The FBI has begun a campaign to use the Navajo language on social media to combat hate crimes. The federal enforcement agency said Friday that it has an ad on Facebook that encourages victims and witnesses to contact the FBI, which also has posted messages in the Navajo language against hate