Month: November 2021

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s health ministry has reported a one-day record of 793 deaths from COVID-19. Ukraine has been inundated by coronavirus infections in recent weeks, putting the country’s underfunded medical system under severe strain. The ministry said Saturday that 25,063 new infections had been tallied over the past day; a record 27,377 were

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Police helicopters were buzzing above Glasgow, Scotland, for a second day of protests outside the U.N. climate summit. Saturday’s march drew tens of thousands of people despite frequent bursts of rain. Activists are demanding that governments move faster to cut pollution from coal

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The first major election day following a year of relentless attacks on voting rights and election officials went off largely without a hitch. Unlike the 2020 presidential election, there were few claims of fraud, ballots emerging mysteriously in the dark of night or compromised voting machines

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Houston officials say they will ask tough questions in their investigation of a crowd surge at a music festival that killed eight people. The dead ranged in age from 14 to 27, and 13 people are still hospitalized on Saturday. Mayor Sylvester Turner says it’s too

By ALAN FRAM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hailing Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation.” This, after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to finally seal the deal. The package is a historic investment

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys spent the first week of Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial sparring over who provoked whom, with prosecutors portraying Rittenhouse as the aggressor and the defense working to show that the men he shot had threatened him. Rittenhouse shot Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz during

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s COVID-19 cases  have hit another one-day record as the country struggles to contain a wave of infections that has persisted for more than a month. The national coronavirus task force on Saturday reported 41,335 new cases since the previous day, exceeding the previous daily record set on Oct. 31. The task

By TRAVIS LOLLER Travel restrictions that have separated couples and relatives living in different countries are about to end. New rules go into effect Monday that allow air travel from previously restricted countries as long as the traveler has proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test. Land travel will require proof of vaccination but