Month: November 2021

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marvel’s new film “Eternals” broke the mold in an area the studio has conspicuously avoided for years: Sex between superheroes. It’s the first time in 26 Marvel cinematic universe films that an intimate conjugal moment was visibly shown between two characters. The scene —

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Crafts vendors are returning to Havana’s streets. Transport between provinces is gradually returning to normal. And crowds once again line the seafront Malecon boulevard as night falls over the Cuban capital. The characteristic bustle of the Caribbean nation is gradually rebounding after 20 months of pandemic restrictions.

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Only five shows into his rookie season at “Saturday Night Live,” comic James Austin Johnson has attracted attention for his mimicry. Most recently it was Johnson’s impersonation of Donald Trump on last weekend’s show, a performance hailed by many critics for nailing the cadences and

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gun maker Remington Firearms will move its headquarters from upstate New York to Georgia, with plans to open a factory and research operation there. The company announced Monday that it would invest $100 million in the operation in LaGrange, Georgia, southwest of Atlanta, hiring 856 people over

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to six more associates of former President Donald Trump who were involved in his efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. Among those newly subpoenaed are Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien, senior

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Consumer advocates are asking the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to reopen one of its audits of Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. after discovering evidence that the first review didn’t look at whether money the company has admitted funneling into a $60 million bribery scheme came from

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega holds a commanding lead in preliminary results from Sunday’s election against a field of little known challengers. Ortega’smost potent would-be rivals remain jailed. A victory would give Ortega his fourth consecutive five-year term as president. His government has grown increasingly heavy-handed since

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Biden administration is framing its vaccine mandate for private employers in life-and-death terms in a legal filing that sought to get the requirement back on track after it was halted by a federal court. Its filing in response to a stay issued over the weekend said there is no

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of protesters are rallying in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi to demand the release of the country’s jailed former President Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili has remained behind bars since his arrest on Oct. 1 after he returned from Ukraine, aiming to bolster opposition forces ahead of nationwide municipal elections. Saakashvili left

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A woman who was pushed to safety as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has recounted a scene of “complete terror.” Marissa Blair testified Monday in the third week of a civil trial of a lawsuit that

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts are back on Earth after a 200-day space station mission. They rode home Monday in a SpaceX capsule, parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida, in darkness. The astronauts from the U.S., France and Japan departed the International Space Station

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a Brightline commuter train hit a car carrying a woman and her grandchild on the higher-speed line’s first day back in operation since the coronavirus pandemic began. The crash happened Monday morning in Pompano Beach. Fire rescue officials told news outlets that the 71-year-old woman suffered some broken

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Egypt are putting a brave face on strains in their relationship as domestic Egyptian developments and regional crises test long-standing ties between the countries. With Egypt’s human rights record posing a significant irritant amid concern over flashpoint situations in both Egypt and

DAMSCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israel has carried out airstrikes on central and western provinces wounding two soldiers and causing material damage. The military said Israeli warplanes fired the missiles while flying over neighboring Lebanon on Monday night. It added that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the Israeli missiles without elaborating.

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have announced a month-long cease-fire with a key militant group behind numerous attacks on security forces and civilians over the last 14 years. A government spokesperson says the Taliban government in Afghanistan helped facilitate the cease-fire between the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan and

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is pitching in on the White House charm offensive aimed at French President Emmanuel Macron. The vice president arrives in Paris on Tuesday for a four-day visit. It’s the latest move in a concerted effort by the Biden administration to shore up the

LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will launch an independent inquiry into how a hospital electrician was able to sexually abuse at least 100 corpses in hospital mortuaries. David Fuller, 67, admitted last week that he murdered two women in 1987. Prosecutors said he had sexually assaulted the two women after killing them.

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another major railroad has gone to court to determine whether it has the authority to require all its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. BNSF railroad filed a lawsuit Sunday against its major unions over its mandate. It joins Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific,