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HUMBOLDT, Tenn. (AP) — A teenager has been charged in a fatal shooting following a pair of basketball games at a Tennessee high school. Authorities say one man died in the shooting Tuesday night at Humboldt High School and another was seriously wounded. News outlets cited a police statement in reporting that 18-year-old Jadon Davon

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The holidays have always been defined by disappointing out-of-stock messages on the most popular items. But the pandemic-induced supply chain snarls have created unprecedented shortages across all types of products. That has many customers buying early as shortfalls are only expected to worsen as the

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has accelerated its vaccination campaign with pop-up sites in shopping centers and at transportation hubs a week after the discovery of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. South Africa’s new daily cases nearly doubled to 8,561 Wednesday, from 4,373 a day earlier,

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned officials to strictly observe industrial safety in the wake of last week’s coal mine explosion that killed 51. A methane explosion rocked the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia last week, killing 46 miners and five rescuers in

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five times has been charged with murder and reckless homicide. An attorney for Goodson’s family also announced Thursday a federal civil rights lawsuit against now-retired Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Meade. Meade, who

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years. The fate of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States and its 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey reaffirming Roe probably won’t be

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech travel writer Miroslav Zikmund has died at age 102. The museum in the eastern city of Zlin said Zikmund “left for his final journey” on Wednesday. Zikmund teamed up with his university schoolmate and friend Jiri Hanzelka to make two big adventurous and often dangerous trips throughout Asia, Africa Latin America

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that people who aren’t vaccinated will be excluded from non-essential stores, cultural and recreational venues as part of an effort to curb coronavirus infections. New cases again topped 70,000 newly confirmed cases in a 24-hour period. Merkel the measures were necessary

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week even though the U.S. job market has been rebounding from last year’s coronavirus recession. Jobless claims climbed by 28,000 to 222,000 from the previous week’s pandemic low 194,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press A South Florida law school says it is creating a social justice center named after Ben Crump, the Black civil rights attorney who has gained national prominence representing victims of police brutality and vigilante violence. The Benjamin L. Crump Center for Social Justice, housed at the St. Thomas University College

BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a police detective and a suspect he was trying to stop have both died in a head-on collision of their vehicles near St. Louis. Police say the crash happened Wednesday afternoon after police tried to stop a car that had been reported stolen. The car fled, and police