By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court has agreed to hear a challenge to a police officer using his law enforcement job as a defense against a charge of murdering an Indigenous man. Constable Zachary Rolfe could become the first police officer to be convicted in Australia of unlawfully killing
Continue Reading By JACK JEFFERY and IMAD ISSEID Associated Press SILAT Al-DHAHR, West Bank (AP) — Tareq Zubeidi says he was abducted and beaten by a group of Israeli settlers after they found him and his friends eating snacks near an evacuated hilltop settlement in the occupied West Bank. More than three weeks after the Aug. 17
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By Reuters Vietnam plans to reopen the beach-fringed island of Phu Quoc to foreign tourists from next month, authorities said, as the country looks at ways to revive an economy suffering from extended lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic. The island, 10 km (6 miles) off the coast of Cambodia, is expected to open for
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Rashawn Slater solidified himself as one of the top offensive linemen in college with his dominating performance against Chase Young in 2019. Two years later, Slater’s first assignment in the NFL will be to contain Young again when the Los Angeles Chargers face the
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By Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN Once again, Americans who don’t even have coronavirus are suffering the consequences of Covid-19 patients filling up hospitals. More than 101,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data Thursday from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Now, some patients wanting urgent care won’t get
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By Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN Once again, Americans who don’t even have coronavirus are suffering the consequences of Covid-19 patients filling up hospitals. More than 101,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data Thursday from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Now, some patients wanting urgent care won’t get
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una vez más, los estadounidenses que ni siquiera tienen coronavirus están sufriendo las consecuencias de que los pacientes con covid-19 llenen los hospitales. Actualmente hay más de 101.000 personas hospitalizadas con covid-19, según datos del jueves del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE.UU. Ahora, algunos pacientes que desean recibir
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Big league home run leader Shohei Ohtani is unbeaten in his last 13 starts going into this outing for the Los Angeles Angels against the AL West-leading Astros in Houston. Ohtani is 8-0 since his last loss. Considered by many the leading candidate for AL MVP, he has struck out 135
Continue Reading By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Jalen Tolbert showed up at South Alabama as a low-rated recruit. When he leaves, the NFL more than likely will be his next stop. Tolbert is the NFL prospect spotlighted this week by The Associated Press with help from Reese’s Senior Bowl executive director and former NFL scout
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By Laura He, CNN Business China is starting to sell off some of the oil it keeps in strategic reserve in a bid to lower prices in the market, a historic first for the world’s biggest importer of oil and its second largest consumer. The State Bureau of Grain and Material Reserves said late Thursday
Continue Reading By STACEY PLAISANCE and JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is showing signs of making a comeback nearly two weeks after Hurricane Ida blasted coastal Louisiana. Supply trucks are once again delivering beer on Bourbon Street. And the landmark Cafe Du Monde is serving fried pastries covered with white sugar even
Continue Reading By STACEY PLAISANCE and JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is showing signs of making a comeback nearly two weeks after Hurricane Ida blasted coastal Louisiana. Supply trucks are once again delivering beer on Bourbon Street. And the landmark Cafe Du Monde is serving fried pastries covered with white sugar even
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, JULIE WATSON, BERNARD CONDON and PADMANANDA RAMA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. veterans, lawmakers and others say the relaunch of evacuation flights from Kabul has done little to soothe fears that the U.S. might abandon countless Afghan allies who risked their lives working alongside American troops. An estimated 200 foreigners, including
Continue Reading By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer The state of Iowa is college football central this week with the Big Ten’s Iowa coming into the Cy-Hawk game in Ames ranked No. 10 and the Big 12′s Iowa State at No. 9. Never before have the teams met when both were ranked. The Big Ten and
Continue Reading By MEAD GRUVER and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — When a 20-year-old Wyoming soldier was among the last U.S. casualties in the Afghanistan war, it released one of the biggest outpourings of grief and sympathy since a 20-year-old Wyoming soldier was among the war’s first casualties. Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, of
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN More than 700,000 people die by suicide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Translated: Every 40 seconds, someone in the world takes their own life. That’s a sobering statistic to ponder today, on 2021’s World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide rates have been climbing for years in some parts of
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press The new federal vaccine requirement for large companies has raised concerns over whether it will now be even harder to retain workers or find new ones. President Joe Biden announced sweeping new orders Thursday requiring employers with more than 100 workers to mandate vaccinations against COVID-19 or
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press The new federal vaccine requirement for large companies has raised concerns over whether it will now be even harder to retain workers or find new ones. President Joe Biden announced sweeping new orders Thursday requiring employers with more than 100 workers to mandate vaccinations against COVID-19 or
Continue Reading By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A strong typhoon has skirted past most of the Philippines but appears to be continuing to gain strength as it heads directly for Taiwan this weekend. The Philippines meteorological agency said Friday that Typhoon Chanthu was on the cusp of becoming a category 5 “super typhoon” with
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO and PAUL WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.” The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Texas, asks a federal judge to declare that the
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