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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is launching a new health office that will prod hospitals to cut carbon emissions, aiming to provide greener, more environmentally friendly medical care. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Monday the new Office of Climate Change and Health Equity will also work

BERLIN (AP) — A labor union representing German train drivers said its members will launch a third strike this week in an escalating pay dispute with the country’s biggest rail company. The GDL union said freight train drivers will walk out on Wednesday evening, followed by passenger train drivers early Thursday. The strike is due

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor has announced new restrictions to fight a rise in COVID-19 cases, including the closure of certain private businesses and banning alcohol sales after midnight. Social activities such as concerts, weddings, birthdays and anniversaries also will be banned during those hours, and

By MARGARET STAFFORD and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor has filed a motion asking a judge to exonerate a man who has been imprisoned for four decades for a triple murder that she and many others do not believe he committed. The motion was filed Saturday and made public

By GILLIAN FLACCUS and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A growing number of communities are moving to require teachers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of aggressive campaigns to ward off the delta variant, which has infected hundreds of thousands of children in the United States. While some school districts

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station astronaut is celebrating her 50th birthday with the coolest present ever _ a supply ship bearing ice cream and other treats. SpaceX’s latest cargo delivery showed up Monday at the International Space Station after a day in transit. NASA astronaut Megan

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — With bottles of gel, temperature checks and wide-open windows a new school year has begun for millions of children in Mexico. Officially, school is starting “in person, responsibly and orderly,” according to the Education Ministry. In practice, it will be a system that is voluntary, diverse

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A college student from Hurricane, West Virginia, has pleaded guilty to entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with supporters of former President Donald Trump. Gracyn Dawn Courtright entered the plea Monday to the misdemeanor count. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss a count of stealing government property.

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says a “sequence of failures” in New York City’s subway system following a brief power outage disrupted half of the system for several hours and stranded hundreds of passengers. Hochul says the breakdown stranded passengers on five trains that were between

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The speed limit for most of Paris is now 30 kilometers per hour (less than 19 miles per hour). The new rule takes effect Monday almost everywhere in the city except for a few wide avenues like the Champs-Elysees and the bypass circling the

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland say three Afghan children staying at a refugee center fell ill after eating poisonous mushrooms picked in a forest, with two of them in intensive care. The children and their families recently arrived in Poland after fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. They were staying in a center

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A top-ranking Roman Catholic cardinal says he will soon begin rehabilitation after contracting COVID-19. Cardinal Raymond Burke is one of the church’s most outspoken conservatives and a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic. He tweeted Aug. 10 that he had contracted the virus. He was sedated and placed on

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Bank robbers armed with explosives and high-powered rifles plunged a city in Sao Paulo state’s interior into terror, taking civilians hostage and even putting some on their cars while making their escape. Video shared on social media showed a booming shootout on Monday and men dressed in black marching hostages

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The European Union’s mission in Kosovo said Monday it has assisted the country’s police in developing a database to help investigate war crimes. The EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo reconfigured its mandate in 2018 and handed over all its files, including around 400 war crime cases, to the government.

MIAMI (AP) — A depression far offshore in the Atlantic has strengthened into a tropical storm but poses no threat to land. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported Monday that Tropical Storm Kate has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph and is located a little less than 800 miles northeast of the Leeward

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police oversight agency is investigating a white officer’s struggle with a Black woman who was walking her dog in a lakefront park, an encounter the woman’s attorneys are calling “an obvious case of racial profiling.” A video widely shared on social media shows Nikkita Brown and her dog apparently walking away

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says it is “outrageous” that Republicans plan to spend $680,000 on an investigation into the 2020 election in the state. Evers on Monday accused Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of “drinking the Kool-Aid” after meeting with former President Donald Trump, who

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces have shelled rebel-held parts of a volatile southern city killing at least one person after Russian-brokered talks to end the presence of opposition fighters in the area collapsed. Syria’s state media reported that government forces retaliated Monday to fire by opposition fighters inside the city of Daraa while the

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Neela is a young girl who loves cooking with her mom. Saturday is her favorite day of the week. That’s the day they go to the green market. So begins Padma Lakshmi’s charming entry into the world of children’s book, “Tomatoes For Neela,” which mixes

BOSTON (AP) — Former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, the oldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, denounced the possible parole of the man convicted of killing his father in California in 1968. Kennedy said in the statement released Sunday that the possible parole of Sirhan Sirhan is a grievous error. The board on Friday found