GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas operatives have launched a number of incendiary balloons from Gaza into Israel, protesting the continuing blockade on the territory. Photos and videos posted online on Saturday showed masked operatives holding pictures of Gazans killed in recent clashes with Israeli forces while they launched balloons in the direction of
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top health official has called on more citizens to get vaccinated. He is warning that if the numbers don’t go up, Germany’s hospitals may get overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients toward the end of the year. Health Minister Jens Spahn tweets that “we need at least 5
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By The Associated Press Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin will miss the opener against Louisville with a breakthrough case of COVID-19. Kiffin announced the positive test two days ahead of the Rebels’ opener in Atlanta. Kiffin, his team and his players are all fully vaccinated. He said no other members of the team are expected to
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The anti-abortion movement has won its biggest return yet on its decades-long investment on reshaping the courts, with a Supreme Court order that allowed the country’s second most populous state to cut off almost all access to the procedure. For a generation, abortion foes have employed a multi-pronged strategy of electing
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN The anti-abortion movement has won its biggest returns yet on its decades-long investment on reshaping the courts, with a Supreme Court order that allowed the country’s second most populous state to cut off almost all access to the procedure. For a generation, abortion foes have employed a multi-pronged strategy of electing
Continue Reading By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Among the people killed in the 9/11 terror attacks, Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with New York’s fire department, left a uniquely complex legacy that continues to evolve 20 years after his death. Some of Judge’s many admirers argue he should be considered for sainthood,
Continue Reading By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Among the people killed in the 9/11 terror attacks, Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with New York’s fire department, left a uniquely complex legacy that continues to evolve 20 years after his death. Some of Judge’s many admirers argue he should be considered for sainthood,
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By Omar Jimenez and Bill Kirkos, CNN As Afghans flee the Taliban regime and flow into the United States, they are landing in places like Fort McCoy, situated in rural Wisconsin. It’s the current temporary home for up to 13,000 recently-evacuated Afghan refugees, though Army officials would not disclose the actual number on base. Marcos
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By Omar Jimenez and Bill Kirkos, CNN As Afghans flee the Taliban regime and flow into the United States, they are landing in places like Fort McCoy, situated in rural Wisconsin. It’s the current temporary home for up to 13,000 recently-evacuated Afghan refugees, though Army officials would not disclose the actual number on base. Marcos
Continue Reading By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Edgar Wright and Anya Taylor-Joy gathered Saturday on the Lido to speak about their new film “Last Night in Soho,” which has its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on Saturday. The film is a stylish psychological thriller about a fashion student, played
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — It’s one of the nation’s most iconic marketing slogans, but today the checkoff program that created the “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner” campaign is under attack by cattle producers who fund it. The beef checkoff program forces ranchers to pay $1 per head of cattle
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — It’s one of the nation’s most iconic marketing slogans, but today the checkoff program that created the “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner” campaign is under attack by cattle producers who fund it. The beef checkoff program forces ranchers to pay $1 per head of cattle
Continue Reading By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — It’s one of the nation’s most iconic marketing slogans, but today the checkoff program that created the “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner” campaign is under attack by cattle producers who fund it. The beef checkoff program forces ranchers to pay $1 per head of cattle
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ new law allowing most people to carry handguns in public without a permit or training came in part from the belief by many Texans that the best way to prevent crime and stop an armed bad guy is to make sure an armed good guy
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By Harry Enten, CNN The American landscape is filled with divisive issues that split the country down the middle. But while a sizable portion of American adults remain unvaccinated, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the campaign to vaccinate Americans against Covid-19 has increasingly overcome the typical political divide. Three-quarters of American adults
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By Sara Murray and Jeff Simon, CNN As Sen. Ron Johnson grapples with whether to run for a third term, it seems there’s no controversy the Wisconsin Republican is unwilling to wade into. “The science tells us that vaccines are 95 percent effective. So if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care
Continue Reading By Sara Murray and Jeff Simon, CNN As Sen. Ron Johnson grapples with whether to run for a third term, it seems there’s no controversy the Wisconsin Republican is unwilling to wade into. “The science tells us that vaccines are 95 percent effective. So if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care
Continue Reading By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Protesters clashed with hundreds of riot police in the old capital of Montenegro ahead of the inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Balkan nation. The ceremony planned for Sunday in Cetinje has angered opponents of the Serbian church in
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press The dismal state of power in Hurricane Ida’s wake is a distressingly familiar scenario for Entergy Corp. Louisiana’s largest electrical utility has grappled with other widespread outages after numerous previous hurricanes. Other Louisiana and Gulf Coast utilities have faced similar disasters, sometimes needing to rebuild entire networks. If anything, power
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press The dismal state of power in Hurricane Ida’s wake is a distressingly familiar scenario for Entergy Corp. Louisiana’s largest electrical utility has grappled with other widespread outages after numerous previous hurricanes. Other Louisiana and Gulf Coast utilities have faced similar disasters, sometimes needing to rebuild entire networks. If anything, power
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