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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn’t finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., sending record numbers of patients to the hospital in some states, especially in the Midwest and New England. The U.S. recorded its first known omicron infection
Continue Reading By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn’t finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., sending record numbers of patients to the hospital in some states, especially in the Midwest and New England. The U.S. recorded its first known omicron infection
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant, the delta form of the coronavirus isn’t finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., sending record numbers of patients to the hospital in some states, especially in the Midwest and New England. The U.S. recorded its first known omicron infection
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Prosecutors are recommending a three-month prison sentence for a North Carolina woman accused of bringing her 14-year-old child into the U.S. Capitol when she and her husband stormed the building on Jan. 6. In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors say Virginia Marie “Jenny” Spencer and her husband, Christopher, had the
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 10th juror has been seated in the trial of the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April. Former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter is charged with manslaughter in the death of Wright, a 20-year-old
Continue Reading CAMDEN, Ala. (AP) — Residents of a west Alabama county are remembering a retired sheriff’s deputy who was killed in the line of duty. Madison “Skip” Nicholson retired from his job as a deputy with the Wilcox County Sheriff’s Department, but he never really left. He was still around the office many days, partly because
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica (CNN) — En los primeros días de noviembre, los técnicos de laboratorio de Lancet Laboratories que descubrieron la variante ómicron en Sudáfrica, encontraron características inusuales en las muestras que estaban analizando para detectar el coronavirus. Básicamente, faltaba un gen en lo que sería un perfil genómico normal del virus. Las
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite and Nina Avramova, CNN London Metropolitan Police are investigating a video that appeared to show a group of men spitting at group of Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah earlier this week. The video, filmed from inside a bus dubbed a “Hanukkah party on wheels” in central London on Monday, shows passengers subjected to
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations headquarters in New York City has been locked down for several hours, after a man was seen pacing outside one of its main gates with what police said appeared to be a shotgun. Police negotiators were speaking with the man, who appeared to be in his 60s. Police
Continue Reading By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The official Art Basel show is back in Miami with all its eccentric glory, a dizzying list of celebrity attendees and dozens of spin-off shows already generating buzz, including a 10-year-old child painter and a $4 million Banksy sale. Fashion continues to play a prominent role with
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Symone Sanders, la principal portavoz y asesora de la vicepresidenta de Estados Unidos, Kamala Harris, dejará el gobierno de Joe Biden a finales de año, según una fuente familiarizada con la decisión. “Symone ha servido honorablemente durante tres años”, dijo la fuente a CNN. “El presidente y la vicepresidenta están agradecidos por
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The stock market’s volatility is showing no signs of letting up. US equities rallied on Thursday, rebounding from the prior two days of steep losses. All three major indexes ended the day in the green and then some: The Dow finished up nearly 620 points, or 1.8%. It was the
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Election officials in Virginia are painstakenly recounting votes in one of two unresolved races that will settle whether Virginia Republicans have reclaimed the majority in the House of Delegates. Elections officials and representatives from both parties in Virginia Beach took part Thursday
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned officials to strictly observe industrial safety in the wake of last week’s coal mine explosion that killed 51. A methane explosion rocked the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia last week, killing 46 miners and five rescuers in
Continue Reading By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida police say a homeless man fatally stabbed a 14-year-old boy riding his bike during a random encounter and without apparent motive. Palm Beach Gardens police charged 39-year-old Semmie Lee Williams with first-degree murder for the Nov. 15 slaying of Ryan Rogers. The boy had
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States, European Union, Britain and Canada have imposed simultaneous sanctions on dozens of officials, organizations and companies in Belarus. The EU is taking special aim at those accused of participating in a “hybrid attack” on the bloc using migrants. The four have targeted Belarus since
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is worried about the Federal Reserve pulling back its massive support for financial markets. The head of the central bank said this week that it may halt the bond-buying program meant to lower long-term interest rates sooner than expected. That would open the
Continue Reading RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Forest Service veteran who got his start at Lake Tahoe working as a seasonal range technician while earning his degree at the University of Nevada, Reno has been named the new supervisor of the agency‘s Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. Erick Walker recently transferred from his post as deputy supervisor
Continue Reading RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Forest Service veteran who got his start at Lake Tahoe working as a seasonal range technician while earning his degree at the University of Nevada, Reno has been named the new supervisor of the agency‘s Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. Erick Walker recently transferred from his post as deputy supervisor
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is being feted at The Citadel, where a Republican group is making her the first woman to receive its highest honor. It’s the former South Carolina governor’s first speech in her home state since departing the Trump administration. On Thursday night,
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