By SARAH RANKIN, STEVE PEOPLES and STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrats’ decision to drop a proposal for paid family leave from their massive social safety net and climate change package was met with disappointment and irritation by female voters in Virginia. They are a critical constituency in the unexpectedly tight and
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The agency authorized the kid-size doses on Friday. But there’s one more regulatory hurdle. Next week, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and
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By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The agency authorized the kid-size doses on Friday. But there’s one more regulatory hurdle. Next week, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una gran erupción solar que estalló este jueves golpeará la tierra este sábado, lo que podría resultar en una fuerte tormenta geomagnética y causar que la aurora boreal sea visible en Estados Unidos y Europa. La Oficina Nacional de Administración Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA) emitió un G3, o alerta de
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — El gobierno de Joe Biden trata por segunda vez de poner fin a la controvertida política de “Remain in Mexico” (Permanecer en México) del expresidente Donald Trump, después de que fuera frustrada a principios de este año por un juez federal. La política obligaba a los migrantes no mexicanos a permanecer
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri has lifted a temporary suspension of fraternity events. The Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life sent an email to the Interfraternity Council earlier this week saying activities such as new member education and social functions could resume on Friday. The events were halted last week after a
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden has told French President Emmanuel Macron that America was “clumsy” in its orchestration of a secret U.S.-British submarine deal with Australia. The contract left France in the lurch because France believed it had a similar deal with Australia. Biden and Macron
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) — An attorney told a judge that a South Carolina lawyer involved numerous police investigations has been cagey about his assets and should hand over control of his money to independent representatives so that he doesn’t engage in further fraud. The attorney told a judge Friday that
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Vice President Kamala Harris will receive a COVID-19 booster shot on Saturday. The Biden administration is encouraging eligible Americans to follow suit. Harris received her first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Dec. 29, and her second just after Inauguration Day on Jan. 26. The White House says
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has renewed Britain’s threat to break from part of the Brexit divorce deal it signed with the European Union unless differences over Northern Ireland trade are resolved. The U.K. has threatened to trigger an emergency break clause in the deal that lets either
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has renewed Britain’s threat to break from part of the Brexit divorce deal it signed with the European Union unless differences over Northern Ireland trade are resolved. The U.K. has threatened to trigger an emergency break clause in the deal that lets either
Continue Reading By Scott McLean, Florence Davey-Attlee, Kocha Olarn and Tim Lister, CNN Prosecutors in Thailand have indicted a company alleging it exported millions of substandard, soiled and reused medical gloves to US distributors as demand for the product worldwide surged during the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came days after a CNN investigation exposed the practice, police
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By Christina Carrega and Dakin Andone, CNN A former Monroe, Louisiana, police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury for kicking a man who was under arrest and then attempting to cover up the “unjustified force,” the Department of Justice said Thursday. Jared Desadier, 43, faces two counts in the indictment, including willfully
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Will Ferrell revealed he said no to an “Elf” sequel and the hefty paycheck that came along with it. The funnyman told The Hollywood Reporter he would have made $29 million to play Buddy the Elf one more time. “I would have had to promote the movie from an honest place,
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The gap is widening between the impacts of the climate crisis and the world’s effort to adapt to them, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme. The annual “adaptation gap” report — which published Thursday amid the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow — found that the estimated costs
Continue Reading By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Nearly five years after Joe Arpaio was voted out as sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county, taxpayers have covered one of the last major bills from the thousands of lawsuits the lawman’s headline-grabbing tactics inspired. The overall legal tab for Arpaio’s six terms hit $100 million after
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has suddenly canceled his trip to the United Nations Climate Change Conference. In a brief statement Friday, Newsom’s office cited unspecified family obligations. Newsom had planned to highlight his administration’s climate change actions at next week’s conference in Glasgow,
Continue Reading By KTBS STAFF Click here for updates on this story MINDEN, Louisiana (KTBS) — A multi-agency roundup of suspected gang members allegedly responsible for much of the violence in Minden and Webster Parish got underway Thursday morning with multiple arrests so far. Called “Operation Save Our Streets,” the investigation into the criminal activity associated with
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN With testing and other mitigation measures in place, playing college football games did not contribute to coronavirus spread among players in the NCAA’s Southeastern Conference last year, according to a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open. At some points in the pandemic, it wasn’t clear that there would even be
Continue Reading By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies say they likely won’t ever be able to conclude whether COVID-19 spread by animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab. The Director of National Intelligence issued a paper Friday that elaborates on findings released in August of a 90-day review ordered by President Joe
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