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By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jury selection has begun at a civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called “Unite the Right” rally will be held responsible for the violence that erupted. An Ohio man is already serving life in prison for killing one woman

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s plans to advance the construction of thousands of new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank have angered the Palestinians and drawn criticism from a left-wing member of the country’s fragile coalition government. Israel on Sunday announced construction tenders for 1,355 housing units in the

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks edged higher in morning trading on Wall Street as investors look ahead to another busy week of earnings reports, this time from major technology companies including Facebook and Apple. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% in morning trading Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1% and the

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s transitional government has ordered an envoy of the 15-nation West African regional bloc to leave the country within 72 hours because of actions “incompatible with his status.”  The Economic Community of West African States, known as ECOWAS, is pressing Mali’s transitional leader Col. Assimi Goita,

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Moderna says its low-dose COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds. It is the second U.S. vaccine aimed at eventually being offered to children. Already the Food and Drug Administration is considering kid-sized doses of the Pfizer vaccine for elementary school-aged children — and

By JAMEY KEATEN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade. In its annual report on heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the agency also said that

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Former Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower Frances Haugen is answering questions from lawmakers in the United Kingdom who are working on legislation to rein in the power of social media companies. Haugen said Monday that Facebook is making online hate and extremism worse and outlined how

By STEVE PEOPLES, SARAH RANKIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — Republican Glenn Youngkin is highlighting cases of alleged sex crimes in schools to help repair the GOP’s standing in the Virginia suburbs, where educated moms and dads have turned against Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Youngkin’s suburban strategy in the Virginia governor’s

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has extended tight coronavirus restrictions to more parts of the country as the latest surge of infections intensifies. The number of counties affected by the measures doubled in just one week, from five to 10. They are mostly located in northern Slovakia, on or near the borders with Poland and