Month: August 2022

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer has asked U.S. regulators to authorize its combination COVID-19 vaccine that adds protection against the newest omicron relatives. The move Monday is a key step toward opening a fall booster campaign. The Food and Drug Administration ordered vaccine makers to tweak their shots to target BA.4 and BA.5

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police in Sweden said a bag found in a downtown Stockholm park during an annual cultural festival contained an explosive charge and an investigation has been opened. The device was neutralized by the National Bomb Squad on the spot. Police said the bag was found at 9:40 p.m. Sunday. The Aftonbladet newspaper

CHICAGO (AP) — Loyola University’s Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt got some Chicago hardware with her name on it for her 103rd birthday. School, city and state leaders celebrated Sunday with the Catholic nun who became something of a folk hero as chaplain for the Loyola men’s basketball team that reached the NCAA Final Four in

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the head of the nation’s largest rooftop solar installer, Mary Powell has a stake in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act. The law includes tax credits to make rooftop solar more affordable. But Powell’s excitement about the bill’s passage goes beyond business. Powell has

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains have killed 777 people across Pakistan since mid-June. Rescuers backed by the military on Monday were racing against time to evacuate thousands of marooned people. Since June 14, rain and flooding have affected 1.8 million people, and 317,678 people of them

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press VIDA Y ESPERANZA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help. One controversial stretch cuts a

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Jurors are hearing closing arguments Monday in the retrial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The government has portrayed Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. as leaders of a wild plan to snatch Whitmer

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press JOHNSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there’s also a national shortage of people working in the trades. At hand is the $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing operation near the

By ED WHITE Associated Press Two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor wanted to grab Gretchen Whitmer and hang her, prosecutors said during a stark closing argument Monday as the government tried for a second time to get convictions in an alleged plot to trigger a revolution in 2020. “These defendants were outside

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening broadly lower on Wall Street, extending the market’s losses. Losses last week broke a four-week winning streak for the S&P 500. The benchmark index was down 1.4% in the early going Monday, led by more declines in big technology companies. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was down slightly more and