Month: November 2021

ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — The bloom of a giant and stinky Sumatran flower nicknamed a “corpse plant” because it smells like a dead body is huge drawing crowds to a Southern California botanical garden. The bloom of the Amorphophallus titanum plant started Sunday afternoon at the San Diego Botanic Gardens in Encinitas. By Monday morning,

By WILL WEISSERT and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The first major test of how voters feel about Joe Biden’s presidency is unfolding in Virginia. Tuesday’s governor’s race was supposed to be a comfortable Democratic win but is instead ending in suspense. Polls show Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who served as governor from

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks were mixed in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday ahead of more news this week on the Federal Reserve and the jobs market. The S&P 500 edged up 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq rose 0.1%. Small-company stocks edged lower after surging a day

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is rolling out a new initiative aimed at reducing suicides by gun and combating the significant increases in suicides by members of the military and veterans. The White House is announcing the new plan Tuesday. Officials say it is an unprecedented focus by the

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been charged with fraud and other offenses by Swiss prosecutors after a six-year investigation into a controversial $2 million payment. The 85-year-old Blatter and 66-year-old Platini now face a trial within months at federal criminal court in

BERLIN (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a German woman with membership in two foreign terrorist groups, violating weapons law and committing her son as a fighter to a foreign terrorist group. German federal prosecutors said Tuesday that Stefanie A., whose last name was withheld in line with privacy rules, left Germany in 2016 with

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers A government advisory panel is discussing which schoolchildren should get Pfizer’s pediatric COVID-19 vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration last week OK’d the emergency use of kid-size doses for children ages 5 to 11. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also must sign off