Month: August 2021

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Officials are evaluating the future of a 150-foot-tall piece of public art in New York City known as the Vessel after a string of suicides. The honeycomb of platforms and staircases closed last month after a 14-year-old boy became the fourth person to fatally leap from

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville helicopter pilot Joel Boyers had prayed for God to show him his life had meaning just days before the phone call came. On Saturday morning, a desperate woman was seeking someone to help her brother and his family who were stranded on a rooftop in

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An Afghan couple who arrived in the United States this week navigated the streets of Taliban-controlled Kabul with their six children for three days before making it onto a rescue flight. The family was safe Thursday at their relative’s home near Philadelphia. The couple said life had

By KEVIN McGILL and JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has ordered a mandatory evacuation for a small area of the city outside the levee system. But with Hurricane Ida intensifying so much over a short time, she said it wasn’t possible to do so for the entire

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A public service announcement campaign reminds Hawaiians that when Hawaii was a kingdom, its rulers pushed people to get vaccinated against smallpox in the 1850s. The messaging comes as Hawaii grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases, record high hospitalizations and stagnant vaccination rates. It’s aimed

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strengthening Tropical Storm Nora is rolling toward a possible hurricane brush with Mexico’s Pacific Coast and the Baja California Peninsula over the weekend. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm could bring dangerous flash floods and mudslides through the weekend. It may head up the Gulf of California, also

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States military struck back at the Islamic State in Afghanistan on Saturday, acting on President Joe Biden’s vow to hit the extremists in retaliation for a suicide bombing claimed by IS that killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American

By WILL WEISSERT and DARRON CUMMINGS Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Bernie Sanders has long argued that steep federal spending and bigger government can improve the lives of working class Americans and win back the kinds of disaffected, largely white voters who flocked to Donald Trump. The Vermont senator has ventured into Trump

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans have advanced new voting restrictions after months of protests by Democrats. The sweeping bill that passed the Texas House late Thursday comes one week after Democrats ended a 38-day walkout to stop it from passing. Texas is now back in

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that diplomacy was his first option, but that he would consider other options if his effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal fails. Biden made the comments Friday as the two sat down for the first face-to-face

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — By early next week, New Zealanders should know if their government’s strict new lockdown is working to stamp out its first coronavirus outbreak in six months. A successful effort could again make the nation’s virus response the envy of the world. A failure could expose

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to Census Bureau data, roughly 3.5 million people in the United States said they faced