Month: November 2021

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Caretaker Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced a three-week partial lockdown amid surging COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands. The lockdown that begins Saturday night is the first to start in Western Europe since a new wave of infections began surging across parts of the

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Court records show that a man killed by Virginia State Police had been mentally ill for years. Brian Michael Price was judged not guilty by reason of insanity after striking his mother with a baseball bat in 2014. He was released from a mental hospital last

By RASHID YAHYA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of people from Middle Eastern nations devastated by conflict have been trying to slip into the European Union since summer. They are using a backdoor opened by Belarus earlier this year. Some made it through, sneaking across the EU’s eastern border with

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government attorneys have asked a federal judge to uphold a decision from the waning days of the Trump administration that lifted protections for gray wolves across most of the country. The request during a Friday hearing before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in California came

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman is suing the manufacturer of a popular online slots game. She’s claiming it wrongly refused to pay her a $100,000 jackpot due to “a bug” in the product. New Jersey regulators revealed Friday that she’s one of 14 gamblers who have filed

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Concerns are growing that China’s men’s hockey team could get embarrassed on home ice in Beijing at the 2022 Olympics. The games will feature NHL players for the first time since 2014. China is set to face the United States, Canada and Germany. The International Ice Hockey Federation does

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks rose broadly in late trading on Wall Street on Friday, but remain on track for weekly losses. Technology and communications companies led the modest gains. The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6% and the Nasdaq rose roughly 1%. Every major index is