Month: January 2022

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Parks, who spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa, has died. He was 78. His son says Parks died of kidney failure and a heart attack at a Pasadena, California hospital late Saturday.

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and Japan say North Korea has fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into its eastern sea.. The launch comes as North Korea continues to demonstrate its military might amid a self-imposed pandemic lockdown and deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States.

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — An 18-year-old New Mexico woman is facing charges after police say she abandoned her newborn baby in a dumpster. Authorities said during a news conference Monday that four people who were looking through a dumpster heard the baby cry and found it inside a trash bag, wrapped in a dirty towel

By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The standoff between Chicago school leaders and the teachers’ union over COVID-19 safety protocols stretched into a second week. rhetoric between the two sides became nastier, schools began notifying families of more class cancellations and families’ frustrations grew. Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has announced he has come down with COVID-19 a second time, as coronavirus infections spike in Mexico and virus tests become scarce. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wote Monday that he tested positive, after he sounded hoarse at a morning news briefing. Earlier in the day, the president told

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military leader is calling on West African leaders to reconsider new economic sanctions against the country. In a speech on state television late Monday, Col. Assimi Goita called on ECOWAS heads of state to place the interests of Malians first. The new measures announced Sunday

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty White died from a stroke she had six days before her Dec. 31 death at age 99, according to her death certificate. The Los Angeles County certificate obtained Monday by The Associated Press lists White’s cause of death as a cerebrovascular accident, the medical term for a stroke, on Dec.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all. The move is a reaction to the severe hospital staffing shortages

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNIITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and five allies are urging North Korea to abandon its prohibited nuclear and ballistic missile programs. They are also calling on the U.N. Security Council to oppose Pyongyang’s “ongoing, destabilizing and unlawful actions,” including missile launches. The six countries issued a statement