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By ALEXANDRA OLSON and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The early months of the coronavirus pandemic shined a spotlight on essential workers. Strict shutdowns left the hardest-hit U.S. cities desolate, except for those fulfilling society’s basic needs. The virus has since spread, evolved and unleashed new challenges. The arrival of vaccines
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By ALEXANDRA OLSON and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The early months of the coronavirus pandemic shined a spotlight on essential workers. As cities shutdown, thank you signs went up on windows and applause rang out each evening for the workers still out there. At the time, there was hope the
Continue Reading By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ-rights organization, has fired its president because of developments related to the sexual harassment case that prompted Andrew Cuomo’s resignation as governor of New York. The ousted president, Alphonso David, responded with an
Continue Reading By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ-rights organization, has fired its president because of developments related to the sexual harassment case that prompted Andrew Cuomo’s resignation as governor of New York. The ousted president, Alphonso David, responded with an
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN While we were enjoying the weekend, the Perseverance rover was hard at work making history on Mars. New images with better lighting reveal that the rover did, in fact, successfully collect a Martian rock sample last week. After processing and sealing, it’s the first Mars rock core sample to be stowed
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By DOUG FERGGUSON AP Golf Writer The LPGA Tour is headed back to Cincinnati next year. The tour is announcing a deal with two Cincinnati companies for the Kroger Queen City Championship to be played at Kenwood Country Club on Sept. 8-11 in a three-year deal that starts in 2022. It’s the first new tournament
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una endeble cortina gris divide un aula universitaria en Kabul, Afganistán, en dos: en un lado se sientan los estudiantes hombres y en el otro las mujeres, cubiertas con hiyab. Es un vistazo de cómo podría ser la educación en Afganistán bajo el gobierno de los talibanes, ya que algunos
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has summoned North Korea’s leader to face demands for compensation by several ethnic Korean residents of Japan who say they suffered human rights abuses in North Korea after joining a resettlement program there that promised a “paradise on Earth,” a lawyer and plaintiff said
Continue Reading By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent lawyer who represented both a former Russian journalist accused of treason and the team of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday that he has left Russia after authorities launched a criminal probe against him. A rights group that the lawyer headed has also
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A least 150 people starved to death last month in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region amid a near-complete blockade of food aid by federal and allied authorities, the Tigray forces say, while close to half a million people face famine conditions. The starvation deaths occurred in six
Continue ReadingBy Jenna Rae Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KCTV) — News 4 is learning Missourians are being hospitalized for taking a livestock drug to prevent, and in some cases cure, COVID-19. News 4 reported on experts warning the public against taking Ivermectin in late August, when the state’s poison control center
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Europa experimentó este año su verano más caluroso registrado y las temperaturas en el Mediterráneo rompieron récords por grandes márgenes, dijo este martes el Servicio de Cambio Climático Copérnico de la Unión Europea. Como gran parte del hemisferio norte, Europa fue golpeada por eventos climáticos extremos durante el verano, incluidos niveles
Continue ReadingBy Nick Sloan, Taylor Johnson and Shain Bergan Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (KCTV) — Three teenagers and one adult were shot late Sunday evening at the SantaCaliGon Days festival in Independence. All of the victims were treated at local hospitals and released by Monday morning, police said. Shortly after 11
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has opened a public inquiry into plans for the country’s first new deep coal mine in three decades amid complaints that permitting the project would send the wrong message as the government seeks to persuade other countries to give up coal. Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick
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Things are looking different this year for Riverside County voters, as residents will now be assigned to specific polling places for the recall election. The polls to vote in person will be open from September 11-14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. September 14 will be the very last day to get votes in where
Continue Reading Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s governing center-right coalition faces a no-confidence vote in parliament after junior partner USR-Plus resigned from the government on Tuesday. The party’s resignation caps a week of political turmoil that erupted when Prime Minister Florin Citu fired justice minister and USR-Plus member Stelian Ion for not signing off on
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Chrissy Teigen compartió un logro durante el fin de semana. “¡Hoy es mi racha de 50 días de sobriedad!”, escribió en el pie de foto de un video de sus hijos interrumpiendo su entrenamiento, el cual compartió en su cuenta verificada de Instagram. “Debería ser casi un año, pero he tenido algunos
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Police in Paris arrested two suspects after a Bulgari jewelry heist on Tuesday at the posh Place Vendome. One suspect was shot in the leg by a officer before being arrested. The Place Vendome is one of Paris’ — and Europe’s — most expensive and luxurious shopping areas, a base for prestigious
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business George Soros, the billionaire financier and philanthropist, thinks BlackRock has made a huge miscalculation on China. What’s happening: Soros called out the world’s largest asset manager in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal on Monday titled “BlackRock’s China Blunder.” BlackRock recently started offering investment products to individual Chinese
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The audiobook narrator for “State of Terror,” the political thriller co-written by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny, is an actor with experience playing first ladies, CIA officials and others in government: Joan Allen. “I am such a fan of Joan Allen — when I heard
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