Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Las compañías aéreas de toda Europa informan que sus vuelos están llenos o casi llenos en el primer día de reapertura de Estados Unidos a los viajeros internacionales vacunados. El grupo Lufthansa declaró a CNN que sus compañías operan hoy 31 vuelos a Estados Unidos, todos ellos con reservas completas.
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European lawmakers have pioneered efforts to rein in big technology companies and are working to strengthen those rules, putting them ahead of the United States and other parts of world. While Europe shares values with the U.S., none of the big tech companies that dominate online
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concern that the pandemic recession has had an unusually harmful economic effect on women, who have been forced to shoulder additional responsibilities for childcare, forcing many of them to leave work. The departure of so many mothers from the workforce
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed concern that the pandemic recession has had an unusually harmful economic effect on women, who have been forced to shoulder additional responsibilities for childcare, forcing many of them to leave work. The departure of so many mothers from the workforce
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BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — Fire officials say a woman has died in a house fire in Bettendorf. Firefighters were called to the home late Saturday night and found heavy smoke and flames coming from the rear of the house. Officials say a man was able to escape from the burning home, but a woman was
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — European authorities say seven suspected hackers linked to ransomware attacks that targeted thousands of victims have been arrested since last February in a global cybercrime crackdown. Europol said Monday two suspected hackers believed to be linked to the ransomware gang REvil were arrested last week for involvement
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — European authorities say seven suspected hackers linked to ransomware attacks that targeted thousands of victims have been arrested since last February in a global cybercrime crackdown. Europol said Monday two suspected hackers believed to be linked to the ransomware gang REvil were arrested last week for involvement
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in a Georgia courtroom are being shown graphic, close-up crime scene photos of the gunshot wounds that killed Ahmaud Arbery. Glynn County police Sgt. Sheila Ramos took the witness stand Monday during the second day of the trial of three white men who chased and
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Multiple first responder agencies will sign the Missouri Open Roads Agreement Monday morning.
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By Sheena McKenzie and Joseph Ataman, CNN The United States has reopened its borders to vaccinated international travelers, ending a 20-month travel ban at the same moment Europe is battling a surge of Covid-19 cases that has pushed the continent back into the epicenter of the pandemic. Fully vaccinated travelers from 33 countries — including
Continue Reading By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, the programmers at PBS were eager to experiment, so they started a new series on animal behavior in the wild called “Nature.” The show was a hit. “Nature” is celebrating four decades with a new season airing now, featuring an extended look at
Continue Reading MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Santa may have fewer eyes in homes this Christmas season after a judge — jokingly — banned the Elf on the Shelf. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Leonard posted a mock order on Twitter Thursday banishing these elves from Cobb County, Georgia. According to the holiday tradition, elves hide in homes
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MILAN (AP) — Next year’s Giro d’Italia will feature seven stages best suited to sprinters. Race organizer RCS Sport has decided to release details of next year’s race in instalments. It was announced last week that the 105th edition of the Giro would start in Hungary. Two of the three stages in Hungary are suited
Continue Reading By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press AGUILILLA, Mexico (AP) — In western Mexico a small squad of soldiers with about a half-dozen trucks and sandbag emplacements stands guard on a rural highway. In one direction, almost within earshot, one drug cartel operates a roadblock extorting farmers. In the other direction, another cartel carries out armed patrols
Continue Reading NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say the “heroic actions” of a Tennessee pastor who tackled a man waving and pointing a gun during a service “saved a church from further violence.” Metro Nashville Police said in a statement that no shots were fired during the incident Sunday at Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal Church. Police say
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks rose in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday, continuing an upward trend that has pushed major indexes to a series of record highs as investors review mostly solid corporate earnings. The S&P 500 rose 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1% and the Nasdaq added
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — A court in southern Italy has convicted 70 defendants and acquitted 20 others in a trial that probed alleged links between the ’ndrangheta crime syndicate and local business figures, politicians and public officials. The Italian news agency ANSA said that the verdicts were announced in court on Saturday at the end of
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 had a pistol in his hand when
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Des Moines are investigating a shooting over the weekend that critically wounded a 15-year-old boy. Police say the shooting happened late Sunday morning, when officers were called to an area in the Evelyn Davis Park neighborhood. Arriving officers found someone performing CPR on the wounded teen, who was
Continue Reading By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A criminal fraud trial in Kentucky aims to determine whether four officials of the now-bankrupt Armstrong Coal company skirted federal rules meant to reduce deadly coal dust in underground mines. Federal prosecutors say they ordered workers at two Kentucky mines to rig dust-monitoring equipment to pass
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