COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A official report has concluded that Sweden’s response to the spread of coronavirus was too slow and its preparations to handle a pandemic were insufficient. Sweden has stood out among European nations for its comparatively hands-off response to the pandemic, emphasizing individual responsibility and choices instead of mandated government health measures.
Continue Reading By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has condemned gangs and kidnappings in a prerecorded address in which he also assured that the country isn’t running out of fuel despite severe shortages that sparked recent strikes. The message posted Friday is the first time Henry
Continue Reading By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president is pleading with citizens to get vaccinated as daily infections have soared to another all-time high. The Health Ministry on Friday reported 26,870 new confirmed infections in 24 hours. That’s the highest level since the start of the pandemic. It recorded 648 daily deaths
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By Jodi Upchurch, CNN An interpreter’s body language goes viral, Yosemite Falls gets its flow back, and Adam Levine responds to backlash. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Lost in translation Internet critics pounced when New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bumped a sign language interpreter out of the picture in what appeared
Continue Reading By Jodi Upchurch, CNN An interpreter’s body language goes viral, Yosemite Falls gets its flow back, and Adam Levine responds to backlash. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Lost in translation Internet critics pounced when New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bumped a sign language interpreter out of the picture in what appeared
Continue Reading By Jodi Upchurch, CNN An interpreter’s body language goes viral, Yosemite Falls gets its flow back, and Adam Levine responds to backlash. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Lost in translation Internet critics pounced when New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bumped a sign language interpreter out of the picture in what appeared
Continue Reading By Jodi Upchurch, CNN An interpreter’s body language goes viral, Yosemite Falls gets its flow back, and Adam Levine responds to backlash. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Lost in translation Internet critics pounced when New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bumped a sign language interpreter out of the picture in what appeared
Continue Reading By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The rapper Fetty Wap has been arrested in New York City on federal drug charges. The rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, pleaded not guilty on Friday. Authorities said Maxwell was arrested at Citi Field in an alleged conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin,
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, CNN The family of Alex Murdaugh’s former housekeeper said on NBC’s “Today” on Friday they considered the Murdaughs to be extended family and hadn’t learned about the settlement awarded to them until after Murdaugh’s shooting incident made headlines. Gloria Satterfield, who spent more than two decades as the Murdaugh family housekeeper, died
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By Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden gave Pope Francis a deeply personal challenge coin during his trip to the Vatican on Friday, marking the gift with a moment of light-heartedness that nods to a long tradition in the US military. In video footage provided by Vatican Television, the two men were
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has found a close colleague of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of treason and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. A member of their political party confirmed local media’s reports of the court’s decision. The sentence given 79-year-old Win Htein
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Stocks are falling at the open on Wall Street Friday, following European and Asian markets lower as leaders of the Group of 20 large and fast-growing economies meet in Rome to confront a faltering recovery. Some Big Tech stocks were dragging major indexes off record highs
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Stocks are falling at the open on Wall Street Friday, following European and Asian markets lower as leaders of the Group of 20 large and fast-growing economies meet in Rome to confront a faltering recovery. Some Big Tech stocks were dragging major indexes off record highs
Continue Reading By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A large spider native to East Asia has spun its thick, golden web on power lines, porches and vegetable patches all over north Georgia this year. The proliferation of the Joro spider has driven some unnerved homeowners indoors and prompted a flood of anxious social media posts.
Continue Reading By KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story SALEM, Oregon (KPTV) — The Salem Police Department said a daycare operator has been arrested after a Polk County grand jury issued an indictment. On Wednesday, Bobbie Jo Sanders, 44, of Salem was arrested for first-degree assault and first-degree criminal mistreatment. The case stems from
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LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for causing a crash earlier this year that killed a grandmother and injured her 6-month-old grandson. The Kansas City Star reports that 23-year-old Josiah Coleman of Leavenworth County was sentenced Thursday to 77 months in prison for involuntary
Continue Reading By Blake Keller Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Local communities continue to feel the impact of gun violence. In fact, more than 100 Americans are killed with guns in the United States every day. One Saginaw woman knows the pain of losing someone to gun violence all too well.
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis voters are deciding whether to replace the city’s police force with a new Department of Public Safety. The proposal evolved from calls to “defund the police” after the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis officer last year. There’s been an emotional debate
Continue Reading LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for causing a crash earlier this year that killed a grandmother and injured her 6-month-old grandson. The Kansas City Star reports that 23-year-old Josiah Coleman of Leavenworth County was sentenced Thursday to 77 months in prison for involuntary
Continue Reading By James Felton, James Paxson Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — Shytour Williams appeared in a Saginaw County courtroom Thursday where a judge will consider whether to reduce his life sentence for the killing of Karen King in 1997. Williams’ legal team is trying to argue that the 40-year-old
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