By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — People going to shopping malls, theaters, gyms or nail salons in Los Angeles must now verify that they are vaccinated against COVID-19. The mandate that took effect Monday requires proof of shots for everyone entering a wide variety of businesses. Mayor Eric Garcetti,
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By Dion Lim, Juan Carlos Guerrero Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — In a moment, Zoe Gisewhite’s life took a turn for the worst. Gisewhite was sitting a bus stop in San Francisco waiting for a ride early Saturday morning when she felt something hit her face. “I felt my
Continue Reading By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN One year out from the 2022 midterm elections, 58% of Americans say President Joe Biden hasn’t paid enough attention to the nation’s most important problems, as a majority disapproves of the way he’s handling his job as President, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. More
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — A un año de las elecciones de mitad de período de 2022, el 58% de los estadounidenses dice que el presidente Joe Biden no ha prestado suficiente atención a los problemas más importantes de la nación, ya que la mayoría desaprueba la forma en que está manejando su trabajo como presidente, según
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Alec Baldwin thinks police officers could be best suited to help film and television productions monitor the safe use of weapons on sets. “Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise, should have a police officer on set, hired by the production, to specifically monitor weapons safety,” Baldwin tweeted on
Continue Reading By Cornell Barnard Click here for updates on this story FREMONT, California (KGO) — The family of a Fremont toddler is heartbroken, a day after 23-month old Jasper Wu lost his life. The CHP says he was likely killed by a stray bullet on Interstate 880 in Oakland, while sitting in backseat of his mother’s
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another major railroad has gone to court to determine whether it has the authority to require all its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. BNSF railroad filed a lawsuit Sunday against its major unions over its mandate. It joins Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific,
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another major railroad has gone to court to determine whether it has the authority to require all its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. BNSF railroad filed a lawsuit Sunday against its major unions over its mandate. It joins Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific,
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will launch an independent inquiry into how a hospital electrician was able to sexually abuse at least 100 corpses in hospital mortuaries. David Fuller, 67, admitted last week that he murdered two women in 1987. Prosecutors said he had sexually assaulted the two women after killing them.
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is urging Myanmar’s military leaders to provide unimpeded access to the more than 3 million people in need of “life-saving” humanitarian assistance since government forces seized power on Feb. 1. He says it’s needed “because of growing conflict and insecurity, COVID-19
Continue Reading MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Instead of a message in a bottle, it was the decals on a trash can that tell the story of a 3,500-mile voyage, from South Carolina to Ireland. Officials with Myrtle Beach say a waste barrel somehow floated away from their the coastal city and washed up in County Mayo,
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN An armed paramedic who was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year testified Monday that he pulled out his own firearm because he believed Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, testified that he unholstered his handgun on August 25, 2020, as he and a crowd followed Rittenhouse,
Continue Reading By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds if not thousands of migrants are seeking to storm the border from Belarus into Poland, cutting razor wire defenses and using branches to try and climb over fences. The siege on Monday escalated a crisis along the European Union’s eastern border that has been
Continue Reading By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A man who was shot and wounded by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha during a night of turbulent protests against racial injustice has taken the stand at Rittenhouse’s murder trial. Gaige Grosskreutz testifies Monday that he thought he was
Continue Reading By Jim Sciutto and Natasha Bertrand, CNN CIA Director Bill Burns held a rare conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week, to convey “serious” US concerns about Russia’s military buildup along the Ukrainian border and to attempt to determine Russian intentions, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN. Putin’s spokesperson also confirmed
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gun maker Remington Firearms will move its headquarters from upstate New York to Georgia, with plans to open a factory and research operation there. The company announced Monday that it would invest $100 million in the operation in LaGrange, Georgia, southwest of Atlanta, hiring 856 people over
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gun maker Remington Firearms will move its headquarters from upstate New York to Georgia, with plans to open a factory and research operation there. The company announced Monday that it would invest $100 million in the operation in LaGrange, Georgia, southwest of Atlanta, hiring 856 people over
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Barack Obama is expressing confidence that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress and says that bill will be “historic.” At the U.N. climate talks Monday, he also faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for
Continue Reading By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker and an organizer of rally to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates is infected with the coronavirus and won’t attend the event. Republican Rep. Jeff Hoverson says he is “quarantining.” He told The Associated Press Monday that he is taking the deworming drug ivermectin
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities in rural western Iowa say one person has been killed and another wounded in a shooting that stemmed from a domestic disturbance. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the shooting happened Sunday morning at a home in Pottawattamie County just east of Council Bluffs. Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Doty says deputies
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