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By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer A new Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen brought in only $300,000 in sales during its first full quarter on the market. It was a continuation of a slow debut complicated by coverage questions and doctor concerns. The infused drug has been hailed as a potential breakthrough treatment for a fatal

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian senator has formally presented a report recommending President Jair Bolsonaro be indicted on criminal charges for allegedly bungling Brazil’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing the country’s death toll to second-highest in the world. The report by Sen. Renan Calheiros

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead at a Parkland, Florida, high school. A jury will now decide whether he will be executed for one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings. Relatives of the victims who sat

ROME (AP) — Dozens of former flight attendants from defunct Italian airline Alitalia have stripped off their uniforms, wearing only undergarments in a protest in central Rome. Long financially ailing, Italy’s decades-old airline flew its last flight on Oct. 14. A new airline, ITA, bought the Alitalia brand but is taking on fewer than 3,000

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Companies are confronting demands by hourly workers on terms that often used to be non-negotiable: scheduling. That has meant pushing back on weekend, late night or holiday shifts. Hourly workers are taking a page from their white-collar peers who are restructuring their workdays to accommodate

COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) — Officials in Georgia say one worker was killed and two seriously injured when part of a bridge collapsed into a river during early demolition work. News outlets report that all three workers fell into the Yellow River from the Access Road bridge on Interstate 20 in Newton County, east of Atlanta.

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has ordered the extradition of a former Venezuelan spy chief to the United States where he is wanted on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to a terror organization. Retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal was for more than a decade a close adviser to the late Venezuelan leader Hugo

By BRYNN ANDERSON and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Police in Atlanta say a woman is dead and a suspected gunman has been killed inside a high-rise apartment after a shootout with officers. They say officers were met with gunfire when they responded to reports of a shooting around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco is suspending until further notice all flights to and from the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands amid rising coronavirus infections in those countries. The North African kingdom’s airports authority says the new restriction comes into force just before midnight Wednesday. In a tweet, national carrier Royal Air Maroc, said

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A military veteran best known as the helicopter pilot who was shot down and held prisoner in the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” incident is joining the U.S. Senate race in Alabama. Mike Durant is now the owner of an aerospace company in Huntsville. He announced his

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France says it will announce potential sanctions over energy prices and trade “by the end of the week” in its fishing dispute with the United Kingdom. France vehemently protested the decision last month by the U.K. and the Channel Island of Jersey to refuse dozens of

The Associated Press Stocks are edging higher in early trading on Wall Street Wednesday and health care companies were leading the way for the second day in a row. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in the early going, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq were each up about 0.1%. Abbott Laboratories,

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s workers to stay off work for a week starting later this month amid rising coronavirus infection and death numbers. Putin has also strongly urged reluctant citizens to get vaccinated. The government task force on Wednesday reported 1,028 coronavirus deaths

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Maldives’ environment minister says a failure to limit global warming could mean a “death sentence” for small island nations, including the end of their livelihoods and cultures. Ahead of a key U.N climate summit known as COP26 that starts in Scotland

ATLANTA (AP) — Police in Atlanta say a woman and a suspected gunman are dead and multiple guns were recovered after a shooting inside an apartment in a luxury high-rise. They say the crime scene has been contained and people are allowed to move again after closing several midtown blocks Wednesday morning. Gunfire prompted a

By JOHN MARSHALL Associated Press NEKOOSA, Wis. (AP) — A classic golf course — the Lido — is being resurrected 1,000 miles from the original with help from a video game and GPS-guided tractors. The Lido at Sand Valley Golf Resort in central Wisconsin might be the most ambitious project the golf course-developing Keiser family

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A teenager held in the killing of a South Florida police officer has a lengthy criminal record. His arrest report says 18-year-old Jasen Banegas told police he was trying to kill himself to avoid returning to jail. Hollywood officer Yandy Chirino confronted Banegas after getting a call about a man breaking

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize, in a clear slap at President Vladimir Putin. In awarding the Sakharov Prize to Navalny, the European Parliament praised his “immense personal bravery.” The 45-year-old activist was poisoned with a nerve

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s competition watchdog fined Facebook 50.5 million pounds ($69.4 million) on Wednesday for violating rules during the UK investigation into the social media giant’s purchase of Giphy. The Competition and Markets Authority said Facebook failed to provide required information during the probe. It said it gave the platform multiple warnings and “considers

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Members of a Brazilian Senate committee say the report being presented for a vote will recommend President Jair Bolsonaro be indicted on criminal charges for allegedly bungling Brazil’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing the country’s death toll to second-highest in the