By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain is experiencing empty gas pumps, worker shortages and unavailable items on store shelves. None of that got a mention from Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday as he brushed off Britain’s economic bumps and said the country would emerge from Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain is experiencing empty gas pumps, worker shortages and unavailable items on store shelves. None of that got a mention from Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday as he brushed off Britain’s economic bumps and said the country would emerge from Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany plummeted 7.7% in August compared with the previous month, led by much lower demand from countries outside the eurozone. The drop in orders is a leading indicator for Europe’s biggest economy. It followed month-on-month gains of 4.6% in June and 4.9% in July. The
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany plummeted 7.7% in August compared with the previous month, led by much lower demand from countries outside the eurozone. The drop in orders is a leading indicator for Europe’s biggest economy. It followed month-on-month gains of 4.6% in June and 4.9% in July. The
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By Jack Guy, CNN Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla whose image went viral when she photobombed her caretaker’s selfie, has died at the age of 14. She died on September 26 after a prolonged illness, according to a statement published Tuesday by the Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “It is with heartfelt
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Des Moines say an officer shot a knife-wielding woman who advanced on him and refused commands to drop the blade. Police say in a news release that the shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in a business district west of downtown after a man called 911 to report
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A special prosecutor will not file charges against three Columbia police officers involved in a deadly shooting. According to the Columbia Police Department, Callaway County Prosecutor Christopher D. Wilson told the Missouri State Highway Patrol in a letter on Oct. 1 the officers acted lawfully in their use of deadly force. Special
Continue Reading By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to prevent evictions from public housing for nonpayment of rent. It’s seeking to shore up protections following the end of the nationwide eviction moratorium that was a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Under a new rule from the Department of Housing and
Continue Reading By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to prevent evictions from public housing for nonpayment of rent. It’s seeking to shore up protections following the end of the nationwide eviction moratorium that was a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Under a new rule from the Department of Housing and
Continue Reading By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is trying to prevent evictions from public housing for nonpayment of rent. It’s seeking to shore up protections following the end of the nationwide eviction moratorium that was a response to the coronavirus pandemic. Under a new rule from the Department of Housing and
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By Tara John and Isabelle Jani Friend, CNN Before the advent of Covid-19 vaccines, the San Francisco Department of Public Health needed three whiteboards to capture all the names of senior facilities that had outbreaks, Jen Christensen reports. But by February, when seniors were being vaccinated in greater numbers, the department started to erase names
Continue Reading By Tara John and Isabelle Jani Friend, CNN Before the advent of Covid-19 vaccines, the San Francisco Department of Public Health needed three whiteboards to capture all the names of senior facilities that had outbreaks, Jen Christensen reports. But by February, when seniors were being vaccinated in greater numbers, the department started to erase names
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police and prosecutors in southern Poland are investigating graffiti in English and German that appeared on multiple buildings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the site of the former Nazi German death camp. Police said a security guard found the graffiti Tuesday sprayed on nine wooden barracks in an area where there isn’t
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LANGNESS Edmunds The 2022 Nissan Frontier is completely redesigned with more power than any other midsize pickup truck and bold new looks to match. But does it have what it takes to compete against the reigning off-road king, the 2022 Toyota Tacoma? Writers from Edmunds put the two vehicles head to head in
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LANGNESS Edmunds The 2022 Nissan Frontier is completely redesigned with more power than any other midsize pickup truck and bold new looks to match. But does it have what it takes to compete against the reigning off-road king, the 2022 Toyota Tacoma? Writers from Edmunds put the two vehicles head to head in
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican tribunal has absolved a former altar boy of charges that he molested a younger boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary. The court ruled Wednesday in the first clergy sexual abuse trial to be heard by the pope’s criminal court. The three-judge panel acquitted Rev.
Continue Reading By DAVID KEYTON, FRANK JORDANS and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for finding an “ingenious” and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make a variety of compounds, including medicines and pesticides. The work of Benjamin List and David W.C.
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By Brandon Griggs, CNN An oil spill like the one off the coast of Southern California is a disaster on many levels — maybe none more tragic than the deadly effects of petroleum on wildlife. Ocean creatures that swim in deep waters are less affected by spills. But oil disasters near coastlines often do the
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By Delia Gallagher and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Pope Francis on Wednesday called a report detailing decades of abuse in the French Catholic Church “a moment of shame,” and called upon leaders of the Church to ensure “similar tragedies” never happen again. Francis was speaking a day after a landmark report found that members of the
Continue Reading By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It would be the token of all tokens: a $1 trillion coin, minted by the U.S. government, then cashed in to flood the treasury with cash and solve a political impasse over suspending the debt limit. The idea is getting some attention in Washington as an Oct.
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