Month: November 2021

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Biden administration wants the multiple challenges to its workplace COVID-19 vaccination rule consolidated in a single federal court and has asked for a decision by early next week. The U.S. Department of Justice said in court filings Monday that one of the federal circuit courts should be chosen at

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is struggling with whether to allow a lawsuit by Muslim men claiming religious bias by the FBI to go forward. The government has said doing so could reveal national security secrets. The case involves three men from Southern California. They filed a class action

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds if not thousands of migrants have sought to storm the border from Belarus into Poland, cutting razor wire fences and using branches to try and climb over them. The siege on Monday escalated a crisis along the European Union’s eastern border that has been

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Some Southern California prosecutors are stepping up charges against those who sell deadly, fentanyl-laced illegal drugs. The Orange County Register reports that District Attorney Todd Spitzer plans to issue an admonishment in plea deals warning that a dealer found to be involved in another fentanyl sale that results in death

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in a Georgia courtroom have been shown graphic crime scene photos of the gunshot wounds that killed Ahmaud Arbery. Glynn County police Sgt. Sheila Ramos testified about her photos Monday, the second day of the trial of three white men who chased and shot Arbery,

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A woman who was pushed to safety as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has recounted a scene of “complete terror.” Marissa Blair testified Monday in the third week of a civil trial of a lawsuit that

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Egypt are putting a brave face on strains in their relationship as domestic Egyptian developments and regional crises test long-standing ties between the countries. With Egypt’s human rights record posing a significant irritant amid concern over flashpoint situations in both Egypt and

DAMSCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israel has carried out airstrikes on central and western provinces wounding two soldiers and causing material damage. The military said Israeli warplanes fired the missiles while flying over neighboring Lebanon on Monday night. It added that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the Israeli missiles without elaborating.

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts in orbit since spring are on their way back to Earth. Their SpaceX capsule undocked from the International Space Station on Monday afternoon. That sets the crew up for a late night splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida