Month: November 2021

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has suspended a Dec. 31 deadline for Chicago police officers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. But he didn’t interfere with a requirement that officers be regularly tested. Police unions had sought a restraining order against the city of Chicago. Judge Raymond Mitchell says the dispute over getting vaccinations should be

By KEN SWEET and EMILY SWANSON The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Americans’ opinions on the U.S. economy have soured noticeably in the past month, a new poll finds. Just 35% of Americans now call the national economy good, while 65% call it poor, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One of musical theater’s most exciting new writing partnerships started with a breakup song. Composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Steven Sater bonded while creating “Ready to Be Done With You,” cementing a collaboration that has now produced a 13-track concept album sung by some of

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses and officials say at least three people were killed and dozens more remain missing after the collapse of a 21-story apartment building being built in an upscale area of Nigeria’s largest city. Construction worker Eric Tetteh estimated that about 100 people were working at the

Elon Musk says he will sell $6 billion worth of Tesla stock and donate it to the United Nations’ food agency if it could show how the money would solve world hunger. The Tesla CEO made the comments Sunday on Twitter after U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley challenged Musk and other billionaires

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Subtropical Storm Wanda has formed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. That means forecasters have again reached the end of the English alphabet, with a month still to go this Atlantic hurricane season. The storm formed Saturday and remains rather weak, with top sustained winds

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi students have returned to classrooms for the first time in a year, following the prolonged closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Iraq’s Health Ministry has mandated health safety protocols that include obligatory vaccination or weekly PCR tests for teachers, social distancing among students and face masks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies with at least 100 workers will be required to give employees paid time off to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and paid sick leave if they have side effects from the shots. That’s according to a Biden administration official who spoke Monday about pending vaccine mandate rules from the Occupational Safety and

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama’s next promotion for her memoir, “Becoming,” will center on the college market. The former first lady will appear Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. with “black-ish” actor Yara Shahidi for a livestream conversations with students from 22 schools around the country. Obama and Shahidi

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Russia’s Novgorod region have ordered most residents to stay off work for one more week starting Nov. 8 as coronavirus infections and deaths remained at all-time highs. The region was Russia’s first to extend the nationwide non-working period between Oct. 30 and Nov. 7 ordered

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has authorized some 1,300 Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank days after advancing plans to build more than 3,000 housing units for Jewish settlers. The Israeli government says it is adopting a moderate approach with the aim of minimizing friction with the U.S. — which

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a man in Germany faces a murder investigation after he apparently deliberately drove into a group of schoolchildren, killing an eight-year-old girl and seriously injuring two other girls. Friday’s incident outside a day care center in Witzenhausen, near the central city of Kassel, was initially thought to be an accident.

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Audra McDonald is going from host of the Tony Awards to another stage role. The six-time Tony-winner will return to Broadway in the play “Ohio State Murders” by Adrienne Kennedy, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon. Dates and the creative team will be announced

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation at its highest point in three decades, the Federal Reserve is set this week to begin winding down the extraordinary aid it has given the economy since the pandemic recession struck early last year, a process that could prove to be a risky balancing

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former business partner of presidential son Hunter Biden who was seeking to overturn his criminal conviction for securities fraud. The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that reinstated the fraud conviction of Devon Archer. A

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a lawsuit challenging the makeup of the Ohio Elections Commission. The high court has turned away the case. As is typical, it did not comment in doing so. Ohio’s seven-member commission has three Democrats, three Republicans and one member chosen by the other members who is not

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s police chief has apologized for an incident in which officers were pictured practicing push-ups on a part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust. Pictures published by Berlin’s B.Z. tabloid on Monday showed uniformed policemen leaning onto one of the slabs that makes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a case involving transgender rights and leaving in place a lower court decision against a Catholic hospital that wouldn’t allow a transgender man to have a hysterectomy there. The high court turned away the case Monday without comment, as is typical. Conservative justices Clarence

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized the need to strengthen the country’s air defenses amid NATO’s military activities near Russia’s borders. Speaking Monday during a meeting with military officials and arms makers in the southern Russian city of Sochi, Putin specificially noted the deployment of NATO’s U.S.-led

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s President says his U.S. counterpart has told him that he would do “his best” to ensure that the U.S. Congress and Senate would approve a Turkish request to purchase American-made F-16 fighter jets. Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said that U.S. President Joe Biden warned him

MIAMI (AP) — Jon Bon Jovi tested positive for COVID-19 just before he was set to perform a concert in Miami Beach. An announcer took to the stage to give the crowd the bad news just before Saturday night’s concert at Loews South Beach. WSVN in Miami reported that the fully vaccinated singer and his

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A movement to divest from fossil fuels is gaining momentum among foundations as activists push the $1 trillion sector to shift its money away from coal, oil and natural gas. The call from activists to the charitable world and other sectors has been simple: Ditch fossil fuels and direct

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — About 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that took effect Monday and thousands of city firefighters have called out sick in an apparent protest over the requirement. Mayor

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge who oversees elections in an Alabama county was removed from office after being accused of racist, sexually inappropriate behavior that included demeaning comments about women. Talladega County Probate Judge Randy Jinks was ousted in a unanimous order filed Friday by the nine-member Alabama Court

ROME (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was both cheered and jeered as he arrived in a small northern Italian town to receive an honorary citizenship and to visit one of his ancestors’ homes. Protesters in Anguillara Veneta, a town of 4,200 near Padua, on Monday chanted “No Bolsonaro!” and held signs saying “Bolsonaro Out,”

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Tribal protesters have lifted their weekslong blockade on Sudan’s main seaport and oil pipelines, and reopened roads linking the port to the rest of the country. An official of the Baja tribal council says they have reached a deal with the military to lift the blockade on

LONDON (AP) — British authorities are investigating the crash of two passenger trains that left 14 people injured, including a train driver who was seriously hurt. The rear carriage of a train derailed Sunday after “striking an object” as it approached the station in Salisbury in southern England. Network Rail said the derailment knocked out