Month: December 2021

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has written a children’s book about dyslexia. The book is…

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Workshops where non-professionals with a bug for fixing things can share equipment and…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $67.1 billion in October, the lowest in six months,…

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Burundi’s government says 38 prisoners have been killed in a fire Tuesday morning in…

LONDON (AP) — Instagram has launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the photo-sharing platform and announced other tools aimed…

GENEVA (AP) — Experts at the World Health Organization have recommended against using blood plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 to…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s health ministry has given the go-ahead for children between ages 5 and 11 to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The decision…

CAIRO (AP) — A rights group says an Egyptian court has ordered the release pending trial of an activist who has been imprisoned for nearly two…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer An eight-year project to carefully repeat early but influential lab experiments in cancer research has reached…

BY KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Rohingya refugees are suing Facebook parent Meta Platforms for more than $150 billion over what…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The defense has rested in the Arkansas federal trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar after a prosecutor sharply…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press ENIWA, Japan (AP) — Japan’s military has continued with troop and tank drills on its northern island of…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union drug regulator has given its backing to mixing different types of vaccines in initial vaccination…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday charged that Russia is sending tanks and snipers to the…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Aquarium is treating 40 endangered sea turtles that stranded in Massachustts when the water cooled down so…

By DAVID EGGERT and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general says her office will review events that…

The Associated Press A Canadian drugmaker says its plant-based COVID-19 vaccine showed strong protection against the coronavirus. Medicago said…

By COURTNEY JESPERSEN of NerdWallet It’s December, and we’re weeks away from Christmas. But the 2021 holiday shopping season may feel anything…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A mass trial of critics and opponents of Cambodia’s government has resumed amid an…

By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A health official in Uganda has announced the East African country’s first seven…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Masked Milanese turned out in all their finery for La Scala’s gala season opener of Verdi’s…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s chief prosecutor has submitted a motion to the speaker of parliament to…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian authorities have arrested 5 ex-soldiers for crimes against Serb civilians in Sarajevo during the…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A whistleblower has alleged that Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision to throw out a civil case…

By NABIL AL-JURANI Associated Press BASRA, Iraq (AP) — An explosion has rocked the center of Iraq’s southern city of Basra, killing at least four…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament is set to debate a proposed vaccine mandate for hospital and nursing…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KUJE, Nigeria (AP) — As Nigeria tries to meet an ambitious goal of fully vaccinating 55 million of its 206…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global investors are watching nervously as one of China’s biggest real estate developers tries…

By GEIR MOULSON and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s incoming chancellor has pledged that his new government will stand up…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates says that it is changing its official workweek to…

PARIS (AP) — French rescue workers have dug out the body of a man but also pulled a toddler and the child’s mother alive from the rubble of a…