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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A 6-year-old is the lively, thoughtful heroine of “Alma’s Way,” a new animated PBS Kids series set in the New York City’s melting pot Bronx borough and featuring a Puerto Rican and biracial extended family. The Fred Rogers Productions series has some starry creators. It

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Ballot counting has begin in Italy after two days of voting for mayors in many cities. First projections on Italian state TV indicated Monday that populist Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi fell as much as 10 percentage points behind the top two candidates. If that holds, the 5-Star

By DAVID BAUDER and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in last year’s elections in a moneymaking move that a company whistleblower alleges contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol. The

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Front-line medical workers are growing weary of COVID-19 denial and misinformation in treating unvaccinated patients during the delta-driven surge. Doctors are constantly asked to prescribe an unproven parasite drug, and patients sometimes lash out when they are told no. An Illinois family practice doctor has patients tell him that microchips

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press AGUA FRIA, Panama (AP) — In an isolated cemetery in Panama’s Darien province, migrants who die on the most treacherous segment of their journey toward the United States are buried. With them goes a plasticized card containing what little information is available in case one day someone comes looking. Workers

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator has given its backing to booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 and older. The European Medicines Agency said the booster doses “may be considered at least 6 months after the second dose for people aged 18 years and older.” The agency also said

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks fell in afternoon trading Monday as Wall Street comes off its worst week since winter. The S&P 500 fell 1.4% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 2.2%. Technology and communications stocks fell. The price of U.S. oil rose above $77 per barrel for the first

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police in Philadelphia say a nurse fatally shot his co-worker at a hospital, fled the scene and was shot in a gunfight with police that wounded two officers. The Philadelphia police commissioner told reporters the 55-year-old gunman was wearing scrubs when he shot and killed a 43-year-old certified nursing assistant at Thomas

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A tenant in a Swedish apartment building that was rocked by an explosion and fire last month that injured 16 people has formally been remanded in custody in his absence. Authorities say the man, who has not been named, is suspected of attempted murder, arson and general destruction. Monday’s move allows authorities

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has begun a second five-year term running a country in the grip of a nearly year-long war against Tigray forces who he describes as “hateful” toward the nation. A handful of visiting African leaders is urging him to hold things together. Abiy told the inauguration