By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even as visitors again crowd below the jumbo screens in New York’s Times Square, the souvenir shops, restaurants, hotels and entrepreneurs within the iconic U.S. landmark are still reeling from a staggering pandemic. With vaccinated foreign tourists now welcomed back into the United States, New
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By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Thousands of protesters have gathered in Vienna after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown to contain the country’s skyrocketing coronavirus infections. Among others, the far-right opposition Freedom Party has called for Saturday’s protest and vowed to combat the new restrictions. The Austrian lockdown
Continue Reading By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Thousands of protesters have gathered in Vienna after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown to contain the country’s skyrocketing coronavirus infections. Among others, the far-right opposition Freedom Party has called for Saturday’s protest and vowed to combat the new restrictions. The Austrian lockdown
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LEICESTER, England (AP) — Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante has marked his latest return to former club Leicester with a brilliant individual goal to help the Premier League leaders to a 3-0 win. There was also a second league goal of the season for Christian Pulisic after his entrance as a second-half substitute as Chelsea swept
Continue Reading By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion is imperiled as never before. Yet no matter how the current conservative-dominated court handles pending high-profile abortion cases, including the arguments Wednesday over a Mississippi law banning
Continue ReadingBy Brooklyn Neustaeter, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — As of Nov. 30, fully vaccinated Canadians and permanent residents returning home after short trips to the United States and abroad will no longer have to provide proof of a negative molecular test, such as a PCR test.
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Aiello, CTVNews.ca online politics producer Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — Health Canada has authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine for children, giving the regulatory green light to Pfizer-BioNTech’s two-dose vaccine, meaning kids across the country will soon be able to receive additional protection against the novel coronavirus.
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — A group of U.S. congressmen have held meetings with Lebanon’s top leaders during a fact-finding mission to the Middle East nation roiled by an unprecedented economic crisis. The delegation is on a three-day trip that started Friday and will report to President Joe Biden and the Congress, proposing ways to help the
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Gas prices are skyrocketing, and Americans want to save at the pump. That plays right into the hands of Costco, BJ’s Wholesale Club and Sam’s Club. The national gas price average jumped to $3.41 a gallon Friday, according to AAA, 61% higher than the average at the same time last
Continue Reading LEVI, Finland (AP) — Petra Vlhova has held on to her first-run lead to beat Mikaela Shiffrin and win the first World Cup slalom of the season. The Slovakian overall champion initially lost a few hundredths from her slim lead of .11 but accelerated near the end of her final run to win by .31
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is hoping that a charity soccer match that includes Swiss Guards, Vatican employees, priests, a player with Down syndrome, migrants and members of the Roma community will deal a significant “kick” to discrimination. The match takes place on Sunday in Rome and will be refereed by Lazio team captain Ciro
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Remembrance in a statement Saturday, paying tribute to “those we lost in the deadliest year on record for transgender Americans.” In a statement shared with CNN, Biden also remembered “the countless other transgender people — disproportionately Black and brown transgender women and girls —
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says he will hold a series of talks in Europe about the pressure of migrants on the European Union’s border with Belarus, a crisis that he expects will continue. Mateusz Morawiecki said Saturday he was meeting counterparts from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia over the weekend and will travel
Continue Reading KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani fire official says an early morning fire that erupted in a slum in the country’s south destroyed about 100 huts but no one was hurt in the blaze. The official says the fire broke out on Saturday in the dwellings along the Lyari River, under a bridge in central
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Después de más de 25 horas de deliberaciones, un jurado de 12 personas absolvió a Kyle Rittenhouse de los cinco cargos que enfrentó después de disparar fatalmente a dos personas y herir a una tercera durante las protestas en Kenosha, Wisconsin, el verano pasado. Joseph Rosenbaum, de 36 años, y Anthony
Continue Reading By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Thousands of protesters have gathered in Vienna after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown to contain the quickly rising coronavirus infection rate in the country. Among others, the far-right opposition Freedom Party has called for Saturday’s protest and vowed to combat the new
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu oversaw billions of dollars in infrastructure repairs and improvements when he took over a lagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2010. Now, he’s tasked with infrastructure work on a national scale. Landrieu has been tapped by President Joe Biden
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says it has now fully vaccinated 44 million people, which is more than half of its population of 85 million. The health ministry made the announcement on Saturday, saying that the 44 million have received two doses of the vaccine. The country has recorded at least 128,000 deaths since the
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rory McIlroy was on the rocks late in his third round at the DP World Tour Championship. Some cliff-edge improvisation followed by a final-hole birdie put him back in control. McIlroy endured another wild finish at Jumeirah Golf Estates in shooting a 5-under 67 that left the four-time major
Continue ReadingCNN By Brenley Goertzen and Coy Wire, CNN Last year, driver Kyle Larson watched the NASCAR Cup Series Championship from afar. This year, in one of the most dominant racing seasons seen in over a decade, he overtook his teammate and former winner Chase Elliott to claim the sport’s ultimate prize. After 312 laps at
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