Month: December 2021

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Alibaba this week revealed an ambitious vision to quintuple its Southeast Asian e-commerce business to…

SUDHIN THANAWALA A week after a deadly tornado outbreak, families of the victims are still processing the terrible toll. Authorities on Thursday…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Associated Press photographer has been pushed and beaten by Israeli police in an unprovoked…

By KANTELE FRANKO and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Some parents kept their children home, police stepped up patrols…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials say two species of rare, winged insects in the Rocky Mountains will need several thousand acres of…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The union vying to represent Starbucks employees is objecting to the results of elections…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer is testing an extra dose of its COVID-19 vaccine for babies and preschoolers after preliminary research…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer Rock singer Rod Stewart and his son have pleaded guilty to battery in an assault case stemming from a New…

NEW YORK (AP) — A rare copy of a Superman #1 comic book that sold on newsstands for a dime in 1939 was purchased for $2.6 million in an auction.…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol rioter who attacked police officers working to hold back the angry mob on Jan. 6 has…

By PAUL WISEMAN and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writers The global economy hadn’t experienced anything like this for decades. Maybe ever. After…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time since the pandemic began, the box office is booming. “Spider-Man: No Way Home”…

CLEVELAND (AP) — McDonald’s will pay $33.5 million to a former baseball player who owns multiple franchises to end a lawsuit he brought against…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A lawyer says a Pakistani court has sentenced four men implicated in the 2013 killing of a female activist in Karachi to…

NEW YORK (AP) — The editor of Forbes magazine says he testified Thursday before a grand jury hearing evidence in a criminal investigation into…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top financial regulators told Congress Friday that threats to financial…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A white Christmas is going from reality to more of a dream for chunks of the United States. Analysis of 40 years…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — New England’s commercial shrimp fishery will remain shuttered because of concerns…

KINGSLAND, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency expects to announce its decision Monday on whether to allow a launchpad that would fly commercial rockets…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the departed United Kingdom are showing that their relationship remains on…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Crews working to remove the pedestal where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had…

By PAUL WISEMAN and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writers The global economy hadn’t experienced anything like this for decades. Maybe ever. After…

MADRID (AP) — The European Union crime agency says police in Spain, France and Belgium have broken up a drug trafficking ring believed to be…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh music from U2 as part of the soundtrack for the animated “Sing 2,”…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has given emergency approval to a coronavirus vaccine made by U.S.-based Novavax, paving the way for…

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Sears plans to sell the sprawling suburban Chicago corporate headquarters that has been the struggling retailer’s…

MOSCOW (AP) — The developer of Russia’s Sputnik V says its vaccine provides the best protection against the omicron variant of the coronavirus.…