By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German police and customs officers have conducted dozens of raids and arrested at least nine people in a crackdown on the alleged human trafficking of temporary workers from outside the European Union. Authorities say they are investigating around 20 suspects for suspected involvement in allegedly forging EU
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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz is set to take office as Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor and succeed Angela Merkel after her heralded 16-year tenure. Scholz’s incoming government has high hopes of modernizing the European Union’s most populous nation and combating climate change, but faces the immediate challenge of
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The decision came after a federal judge in Georgia halted a Biden administration rule requiring federal contractors to be vaccinated. The university system had instituted the mandate because of the massive amount of federal funding it receives.
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By Raja Razek, CNN Police in Texas are searching for a suspect after one person was shot at a mall in Killeen on Tuesday evening, forcing shoppers to shelter-in-place. Police received a call around 7:17 p.m. about a disturbance at Killeen Mall and as officers arrived, they were told one person had been shot, Killeen
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The results are in: This past year, people wanted to get better. That’s what is clear from Google’s annual “Year in Search” list, released Wednesday. Each year, the tech company analyzes which search terms saw the highest spike over the course of the last year. Those questions and phrases that saw
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By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business If 2020 was defined by a spike in people frantically Googling for everything related to the coronavirus, this year saw the old standards of sports and entertainment make a resurgence in online searches around the world. Google released its annual “Year in Search” list on Wednesday, offering a glimpse into
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — A Japanese billionaire and his producer have rocketed to space for a 12-day mission at the International Space Station. Fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and producer Yozo Hirano, who plans to film his mission, blasted off Wednesday for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are mostly higher in Asia after another broad rally on Wall Street as investors wager that the new variant of the COVID-19 virus won’t pose a big threat to the economy. Oil prices fell back. Shares rose in Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul, while Hong Kong
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks are mostly higher in Asia after another broad rally on Wall Street as investors wager that the new variant of the COVID-19 virus won’t pose a big threat to the economy. Oil prices fell back. Shares rose in Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul, while Hong Kong
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — When the leaders of the Soviet Union’s three Slavic republics met at a secluded hunting lodge near the Polish border on Dec. 8, 1991, they delivered a death blow to the USSR. Their agreement that day triggered shockwaves that are still reverberating three decades
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Mac Jones and the New England Patriots played a style of game more reminiscent of a triple-option service academy than the modern NFL. Jones threw just three passes on a windy Monday night in Buffalo for the fewest pass attempts in an NFL game in nearly a half-century
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz has taken over as Germany’s new chancellor at the head of a three-party coalition government, ending the 16-year era of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel. Scholz will lead a 17-member Cabinet with one more minister than Merkel’s team. Green co-leader Robert Habeck will become vice chancellor.
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Sports Writer Figure skaters are trained to wear smiles while on the ice competing or performing. When it comes to Jason Brown, the smile is authentic, and it rarely leaves his face. Among the times Brown beams most are when he’s interacting with children and families from Ronald McDonald House Charities.
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By Natasha Chen, Amy Simonson and Tina Burnside, CNN The Navy will pause all operations at its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage facility until an investigation into the source of petroleum in drinking water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii is completed. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said in a news release
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz is set to take office as Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, succeeding Angela Merkel after her heralded 16-year tenure. Scholz’s government takes office with high hopes of modernizing the European Union’s most populous nation and combating climate change, but faces the immediate challenge of
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say an Israeli woman has been stabbed and lightly wounded in a tense Jerusalem neighborhood. The suspect, a Palestinian female minor, was later arrested inside a school. The stabbing took place in Sheikh Jarrah, where several Palestinian extended families are at risk of being evicted by Jewish settlers amid a
Continue Reading MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams is missing from the entry list for next month’s Australian Open in a move that suggests the seven-time champion could skip the 2022 edition of the season-opening major. Novak Djokovic is on the men’s entry list at No. 1 in a further indication that he’ll be playing at Melbourne
Continue Reading BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who spent over two decades in prison for what a court is calling a wrongful murder and armed robbery conviction has been released from prison. WCVB-TV reports that James Lucien, 48, was serving a life sentence in connection to the 1994 fatal shooting of Ryan Edwards, 23. Lucien said
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say an Israeli woman was stabbed and seriously wounded in a tense neighborhood in east Jerusalem. They say the suspect fled. The stabbing took place in Sheikh Jarrah, where several Palestinian extended families are at risk of being evicted by Jewish settlers amid a decades-long legal battle. Protests and clashes
Continue ReadingBy Jenn Selva and Amy Simonson, CNN Hundreds of protestors demonstrated at Boise State University in Idaho over the weekend following comments made at a conference by a professor who said men should be prioritized for fields of study such as engineering, medicine and law. BSU political science professor Scott Yenor made disparaging remarks about
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