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Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A teacher in South Florida has been fired for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask. The school board in Broward County on Tuesday unanimously voted to fire John C. Alvarez, a science teacher at Piper High School for gross insubordination. Alvarez plans to appeal the decision to an

Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed in the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Money also will go to some survivors of the shooting. The Broward County school board approved the settlements on

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says it has launched a coronavirus vaccination campaign for stranded migrants in war-torn Yemen. It says the campaign aims to inoculate around 7,500 migrants in its centers in the provinces of Aden and Marib. Yemen has been engulfed in civil war since 2014, when the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court has ordered that former President Jacob Zuma should go back to prison after withdrawing the medical parole given to him earlier this year. Zuma was released from prison in September after serving about two months of his 15-month sentence for defying a Constitutional

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The multimillionaire businessman who forced South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster into a GOP runoff has started a Bitcoin mining company. John Warren announced his investment in the GEM Mining company on Wednesday. He says they’ve raised more than $200 million from banks, hedge funds, pension funds

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden is visiting Kentucky to survey damage and offer federal support for the victims of the devastating tornadoes that killed dozens of people and left thousands more in the region without heat, water or electricity. More than 30 tornadoes tore

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Americans slowed their spending in November from October but  they  showed another month of resilience against higher prices and shortages in stores. Retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.3%  in November from the month before when sales rose a revised 1.8%,  the U.S. Commerce Department

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has registered the highest rate of COVID-19-related deaths since April amid a continuing high rate of new infections. There were 669 deaths reported Wednesday and 24,266 new infection cases. Restrictions also took effect that closed discos and nightclubs. The measures also cut the limit of unvaccinated people in restaurants, eateries,

BRUSSELS (AP) — The young adult daughter of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny received a standing ovation from European Union lawmakers as she accepted the EU’s top human rights prize on her father’s behalf. The European Parliament named Navalny in October as the winner of this year’s Sakharov Prize. Navalny narrowly survived an August

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine health department says it has detected the country’s first cases of the omicron strain of the coronavirus in two travelers who arrived from Japan and Nigeria in recent weeks. Health officials said Wednesday the travelers tested positive for the coronavirus after arrival and the results of additional tests showed

Police in Germany’s Bavaria region say they have destroyed some 1.5 metric tons (1.65 U.S. tons) of cocaine with a street value of about 270 million euros ($304 million) — their biggest such operation yet. Bavaria’s criminal police office said the drugs were incinerated Tuesday under heavy security at a facility at an undisclosed location