FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — About 100 homes have been evacuated in the San Francisco Bay Area after a fuel tanker overturned and leaked gasoline. Photos from the scene in Fremont, California, on Friday show the tanker upside-down and appearing to have crashed into a wall along Interstate 680. The Fremont Fire Department says the freeway’s
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Lawyers for defendants in a big Vatican financial trial are asking the Holy See newspaper to correct the record after it ran a front-page editorial this week largely defending the investigation and insisting that the rights of the defense were being respected. The letter to L’Osservatore Romano
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By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African Cabinet minister is urging the cancellation of an upcoming U.S. auction of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela, the country’s first Black president, was long jailed for his opposition to apartheid. The key is among Mandela memorabilia being sold
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African Cabinet minister is urging the cancellation of an upcoming U.S. auction of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela, the country’s first Black president, was long jailed for his opposition to apartheid. The key is among Mandela memorabilia being sold
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Como los casos de covid-19 siguen aumentando en toda Europa, muchos países reestablecieron algunas restricciones durante las vacaciones. Aquí están las claves que hay que saber: Francia Francia impuso restricciones a los viajeros que entran en el país desde el Reino Unido, para frenar la llegada de la variante del
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department this week released a three-hour video of a battle between rioters and the police at the US Capitol Building on January 6 where rioters brandished weapons, officers were viciously beaten, and a member of the mob died on Capitol steps. The assault on the Lower
Continue Reading By ALEXANDER VERSHININ Associated Press ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Russia has doubled the purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan this year amid rising global demand. Ambassador Alexander Blokhin said Friday that Russia this year stands to import about 10 billion cubic meters (353 billion cubic feet) of gas from Turkmenistan, nearly twice the amount imported
Continue Reading By ALEXANDER VERSHININ Associated Press ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Russia has doubled the purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan this year amid rising global demand. Ambassador Alexander Blokhin said Friday that Russia this year stands to import about 10 billion cubic meters (353 billion cubic feet) of gas from Turkmenistan, nearly twice the amount imported
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio’s friendship will go on, despite distance or time. When the two Oscar winning actors reunited in Los Angeles after nearly three years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was emotional. “I couldn’t stop crying,” Winslet told The Guardian. “I’ve known him for half my life! It’s
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new Kansas audit says a child welfare provider that served Omaha-area families was plagued with mounting debt, poor money management and other problems even before it won a Nebraska state contract. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the audit of Saint Francis Ministries shows a nonprofit in financial disarray, with managers
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By Michael Nedelman and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shortening the isolation time for health care workers who test positive for Covid-19, as it anticipates a surge in hospitalizations due to the Omicron variant. The agency’s new guidelines say health care workers with Covid-19 may return to work
Continue Reading By Michael Nedelman and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shortening the isolation time for health care workers who test positive for Covid-19, as it anticipates a surge in hospitalizations due to the Omicron variant. The agency’s new guidelines say health care workers with Covid-19 may return to work
Continue Reading By JACK JEFFERY, DAVID McHUGH and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press From Bethlehem and Frankfurt to London and Boston, the surging coronavirus dampened Christmas Eve festivities for a second year. Churches are canceling or scaling back services. Travel plans are being disrupted because of flight cancellations, as the pandemic once again casts a pall on
Continue Reading BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana State University museum official has received a unique retirement gift — researchers in Alabama and South Carolina named a prehistoric shark species after her. For 26 years, Suyin Ting has been collections manager for vertebrate paleontology at the LSU Museum of Natural Science. A news release from LSU
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As Covid-19 cases continue to rise and the Omicron variant sweeps the world, some nations are rolling out fourth doses of coronavirus vaccine for the most vulnerable people. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office announced this week that adults 60 and older, medical workers and people with suppressed immune systems could
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By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the surge of coronavirus cases across the U.S., numerous churches have canceled in-person Christmas services. Such moves are a huge disappoint to pastors and churchgoers who consider them an annual highlight. Other churches are planning outdoor services or proposed a hybrid of online and
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — A medida que los casos de covid-19 continúan aumentando y la variante ómicron se extiende por todo el mundo, algunas naciones están aplicando cuartas dosis de la vacuna contra el coronavirus para las personas más vulnerables. La oficina del primer ministro de Israel, Naftali Bennett, anunció esta semana que los adultos de
Continue Reading JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has cleared Santa’s reindeer to fly his sleigh. The state’s Department of Agriculture said in a tweet this week that the agency worked with Santa’s veterinarian to approve his livestock movement papers. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph have all been given clearance to cross
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By David Williams, CNN Carolina Panthers star Christian McCaffrey delivered a Christmas surprise to dozens of military families by paying off their layaway balances. The running back announced through his foundation that he’d worked with the non-profit Pay Away the Layaway to pay the balances at all Army & Air Force Exchange and the Navy
Continue Reading By David Williams, CNN Carolina Panthers star Christian McCaffrey delivered a Christmas surprise to dozens of military families by paying off their layaway balances. The running back announced through his foundation that he’d worked with the non-profit Pay Away the Layaway to pay the balances at all Army & Air Force Exchange and the Navy
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