Month: December 2021

ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin says Democrats should curb the cost of their $2 trillion social and environment bill by choosing their top priorities. The West Virginia Democrat spoke to reporters as he and President Joe Biden planned a Monday afternoon phone call to discuss how to advance the long-stalled

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press is seeking answers from the Department of Homeland Security on its use of sensitive government databases for tracking international terrorists to investigate as many as 20 American journalists, including an acclaimed AP reporter. In a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, AP Executive Editor

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has agreed to meet with the commission that published a ground-breaking report into clergy sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church. That’s according to French bishops who met with him. The president of the French Bishops Conference told reporters Monday that Francis had agreed “in

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has activated its national IT crisis center in response to an “extremely critical” flaw in a widely used software tool that the government says has already been exploited internationally. A spokesman for Germany’s Interior Ministry said the country’s federal IT safety agency is urging users to patch their systems as quickly

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s new foreign minister says the European Union should slap sanctions on Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for his efforts to get Serb-dominated areas in Bosnia to secede from the Balkan country. Minister Annalena Baerbock said the secession attempts were “unacceptable.” She told reporters after a meeting of EU foreign ministers that

OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — A group of women is going all the way to the top with their challenge of a beach town ban on topless sunbathing, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against allowing men but not women to show all that skin. Ocean City, Maryland, passed its ordinance four years ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Sony says that the ‘Dr. Oz’ syndicated talk show will end next month, with its star Mehmet Oz now a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. It will be replaced in most parts of the country by a hybrid cooking-talk show hosted in part by Oz’s daughter Daphne. Some television

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The first full year of the biggest vaccination drive in American history has saved many lives but has left many behind. The COVID-19 vaccines have proven incredibly safe and wildly effective, and many hoped they would bring an end to the crisis. But a year later, too many