Month: July 2022

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said Thursday, despite rising case numbers and so far limited vaccine supplies. The Biden administration’s top health official pushed back against criticism about the pace of the response and worries that the U.S. has missed

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by thousands of migrants that have been sent to Washington by a pair of southern states. Mayor Muriel Bowser formally asked the White House last week for an open-ended deployment

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For most of the six decades that monkeypox has been known to affect people, it was not known as a disease that spreads through sex. Now that has changed. The current outbreak is by far the biggest involving the virus, and it’s been designated a

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and CIARAN GILES Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — At over $1 billion, the Mega Millions jackpot is among the largest lottery prizes ever up for grabs, making it the latest focus of lotteries that have been conducted in the U.S. and around the world for centuries. Only two prizes have

SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a man and a woman described as his girlfriend have been arrested for the death of a young child whose burned body was found in central Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says police found the child’s burned body Wednesday in Seminole after receiving a tip.  Police later

LONDON (AP) — The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was left in a comatose state after suffering brain damage have failed to persuade the U.K. Supreme Court to intervene in a life-support treatment battle. Archie Battersbee’s parents filed an urgent appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to halt rulings by lower courts

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A falling video screen has struck and injured two dancers on stage as Cantopop band Mirror was performing in Hong Kong. Video clips showed bandmates Anson Lo and Edan Lui performing with a dozen dancers when a suspended LED screen crashed onto the stage. It appeared

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s president is urging Italians to reinvigorate their democracy as the country notes the 100th anniversary of an attack that paved Benito Mussolini’s path to power. President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday was commemorating a 1922 attack by fascist thugs on a farm cooperative building in the northern

By JEFF AMY Associated Press MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — With new abortion restrictions clamping down in Georgia, Democrats hope their advocacy of abortion rights will lure moderates and shore up enthusiasm. That gambit could determine a U.S. Senate seat and the governor’s race in the South’s premier swing state. Democrats will make their pitch in

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a Black north Louisiana man whose severe beating before he was arrested in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper. A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman of Monroe

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The parents of a teenager who was one of three people killed by a former Wisconsin police officer over a five-year span have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that he used excessive force and that the department he worked for “embraces and promotes” racism. In their

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is suing the Legislature over a package of proposed constitutional amendments that Republican lawmakers are pursuing, including one that would say the state constitution does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions. The lawsuit filed Thursday in the

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of the nation’s biggest lottery prizes got a little bigger Thursday as the Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated $1.1 billion. The increase ahead of Friday night’s drawing makes the jackpot the third largest, behind $1.5 billion prizes won in 2018 and 2016. The Mega Millions prize has

The Associated Press A former Russian state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine has been fined 50,000 rubles ($860) for discrediting the military. Marina Ovsyannikova was charged under a law that penalizes statements against the military. A conviction is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

LONDON (AP) — Russian regulators have fined chat service WhatsApp and Snapchat for failing to store Russian users’ data on local servers as part of government efforts to control online activity. A Moscow court on Thursday imposed an 18 million ruble, or $300,000, fine on chat service WhatsApp. Disappearing message platform Snapchat was hit with

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two documentaries detailing the punishing effects of Russia’s war on Ukraine will air on PBS’ “Frontline” investigative series. The specials are part of an extensive collaboration between the series and The Associated Press that includes gathering, verifying and cataloging potential war crimes and co-publishing stories

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he won’t appeal a ruling that struck down most of the state’s restrictions on abortion as unconstitutional. Ellison said Thursday that the state has already spent enough time and money on the case and would be unlikely to win an appeal. The decision wasn’t a surprise

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man who accosted U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin on stage as the Republican campaigned for governor will remain in custody while a federal judge considers his lawyer’s plea to release the Army veteran, who he said was in an alcoholic relapse. David Jakubonis faces a federal

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion was ordered held without bond Thursday by a judge who cited overwhelming evidence and the fact that he apparently is living in the U.S. illegally. Gerson Fuentes, 27,

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A senior Ethiopian official says the government is ready for talks with rival forces from the country’s northern Tigray region “anytime, anywhere” and without preconditions, in a notable break from the past. The announcement by the security adviser to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came amid hopes for dialogue to resolve the

By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hailed a nascent Democratic package of climate, health care and tax initiatives as “a giant step forward” for the country Thursday as congressional leaders began nailing down votes for a campaign-season bill they’ve cast as a boon for voters struggling with

By VAGNER BARBOSA Associated Press BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up a three-country tour in Africa that saw him pledge funding for education and economic development as well as military might in efforts to fight against extremism in West and Central Africa as France withdraws from Mali.  On Thursday he met

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Parts of the St. Louis region that are recovering from record-setting rains earlier this week were under a flash flood warning Thursday as another storm moved through the area. The National Weather Service in St. Louis issued a flash flood warning Thursday afternoon for St. Louis, a large portion of St.