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By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus has labeled the local service of U.S.-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty extremist, launched a criminal probe against one of its journalists and arrested another one. It’s the latest move in a crackdown on independent media. Belarusian journalists and ordinary citizens face up to seven
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon, under pressure to improve worker rights, has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its workers to organize freely and without retaliation. According to the agreement, the online behemoth said it would reach out to both current and former warehouse
Continue Reading By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are warning the public not to eat certain brands of packaged salads, which they say are linked to two small, long-running listeria outbreaks in which three people died. One outbreak is linked to packaged salads produced by Fresh Express and another has
Continue ReadingCNN By Luke McGee and Anna Chernova, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the ball is in NATO’s court when asked about increasing fears of war in Ukraine during his annual press conference on Thursday morning. In response to a blunt question on whether Russia will invade Ukraine, Putin said: “How would the
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By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Rutgers will be given the opportunity to fill in for Texas A&M in the Gator Bowl against Wake Forest after the NCAA’s football oversight committee decided to adhere to existing policy. Texas A&M pulled out of the Jacksonville, Florida, game scheduled for Dec. 31 on Wednesday because
Continue Reading By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — France has condemned the Malian transitional authorities’ decision to allow the deployment of the Wagner Group, and accused Moscow of funding the private military company’s use of mercenaries in the West African country. “We are aware of the involvement of the Russian government in providing material
Continue Reading BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — Crews have extinguished a large fire at a Houston-area refinery that left four people injured. The fire started at about 1 a.m. Thursday at ExxonMobil’s refinery in Baytown, which is about 25 miles east of Houston. The company says four people were hurt but everyone else on site has been accounted
Continue Reading By JIM MUSTIAN, JEFFREY COLLINS and CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden promised to distribute hundreds of millions of free COVID-19 tests and to open more testing sites, but the stepped-up efforts will not come in time for the holidays. Americans have been searching drugstores for scarce home tests or
Continue Reading By JIM MUSTIAN, JEFFREY COLLINS and CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden promised to distribute hundreds of millions of free COVID-19 tests and to open more testing sites, but the stepped-up efforts will not come in time for the holidays. Americans have been searching drugstores for scarce home tests or
Continue ReadingBy Adam Pourahmadi and Noon Salih, CNN Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai believes it is now time for the international community to work with the Taliban to prevent millions of people from starving to death. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson, Karzai said the international community needs to prioritize getting much needed aid
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GLOBE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona couple who drove through floodwaters in 2019, resulting in the deaths of their two children and niece, are pleading guilty to charges rather than face a trial. Daniel and Lacey Rawlings entered into plea agreements Monday, according to the Gila County attorney’s office. Daniel Rawlings will plead guilty to
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer Cleveland Browns center JC Tretter, the NFL Players Association president who has been pushing for daily COVID-19 testing all season, has tested positive for the virus. Tretter posted on Twitter that he was experiencing symptoms and chose to be tested at the team’s facility in Berea, Ohio. The Browns
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Residents of several Southern California mountain and canyon communities are being urged to voluntarily leave their homes because of possible mud and debris flows from potentially heavy rain starting late Thursday. The evacuation warnings are posted in parts of Orange and San Bernardino counties where rains are expected to be fed
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam Inflation is rising faster than predicted, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday. For December 2021, both the US consumer price inflation index and core inflation, which doesn’t include the more volatile food and energy prices, increased at a faster rate than in November. The ongoing
Continue ReadingCNN By Tara Subramaniam Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia effectively put an end to negotiations over the current version of the Build Back Better Act on Sunday when he announced on Fox News he would vote no on the legislation, in part over concerns some provisions of the massive tax and spending bill
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s top public health official is urging residents to be “influencers” who “gently encourage” their loved ones to get COVID-19 vaccinations and booster shots for the sake of themselves and others. Interim Health Services Director Don Herrington said in a blog post Wednesday that influencers’ importance “can’t be overstated when it comes
Continue Reading By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Five teenagers were charged Thursday after the vehicle stolen at gunpoint in Philadelphia from U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was found in neighboring Delaware, police said. Scanlon’s blue Acura MDX was located Wednesday night in Newark, Delaware, about 45 miles (74 kilometers) from Philadelphia, Delaware State Police said. The five
Continue Reading By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump turned to the Supreme Court Thursday in a last-ditch effort to keep documents away from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. A federal appeals court ruled against Trump two weeks ago, but prohibited documents held by the National
Continue Reading By JAMES ANDERSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The man known as the “Unabomber” has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility in North Carolina after spending the past two decades in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado for a series of bombings that targeted scientists. A U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose provocative social commentary and detached, methodical literary voice made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of a uniquely turbulent time, has died. She was 87. Didion’s publisher Penguin Random House announced the author’s death on Thursday. She died from
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