NTSB chief: focus on road safety must shift to entire system
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The new chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board wants to change the way governments…
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A heart patient died after he couldn’t get a cardiac ICU bed in 43 hospitals. Now his family is pleading for people to get vaccinated
By Alta Spells and Holly Yan, CNN Ray DeMonia wasn’t seeking Covid-19 treatment when he arrived at an Alabama hospital with heart problems. But…
Continue Reading Auditors highlight flaws in EU migrant deportation program
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Auditors say the European Union’s program for deporting migrants is not working well. But the…
Continue Reading South Africa events industry gets boost with regulation ease
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The hospitality and events industry in South Africa has received a major boost with the…
Continue Reading UN: Probe in Ethiopia’s Tigray didn’t reach Axum massacre
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief says a highly awaited joint investigation into abuses in…
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He was lucky to escape Afghanistan, but many of his relatives, friends and other Afghan allies were left behind, in danger and pleading to be evacuated
By Liam Reilly, CNN After a perilous 14-hour drive from Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, to the capital of Kabul, a flight to…
Continue Reading A youth-driven Met fashion exhibit, for a changing world
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The new exhibit at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to start a…
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South Africa mulls vaccine passports as Covid-19 restrictions are eased
By David McKenzie, CNN South Africa will start to ease several Covid-19 restrictions as infection rates decrease in the country, President Cyril…
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Canadian National railroad facing more investor pressure
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A day after being spurned by Kansas City Southern, Canadian National Railway is facing…
Continue Reading Tony Awards land hosts Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The long-delayed Tony Awards have landed two impressive master of ceremonies — Tony- and…
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Gunmen storm Nigerian jail to break out more than 200 prisoners
By Nimi Princewill, CNN At least 240 prisoners have escaped in a prison break in Nigeria’s north-central Kogi State after gunmen carried out a…
Continue Reading Sept. 11 monument is defaced by vandals in South Carolina
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say a large granite monument honoring 9-11 victims was defaced by vandals who spray-painted…
Continue Reading Second lawsuit alleges abuse at New Hampshire youth center
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who alleges that he was raped by multiple staffers at New Hampshire’s youth detention…
Continue Reading Second lawsuit alleges abuse at New Hampshire youth center
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who alleges that he was raped by multiple staffers at New Hampshire’s youth detention…
Continue Reading Holocaust survivor, scholar awarded $815,000 Balzan Prize
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — An Israeli-French-American Holocaust survivor and historian and a U.S. scientist specializing in gut…
Continue Reading Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050
By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Climate change could push more than 200 million people to move within their own countries…
Continue Reading Whitehead’s ‘Harlem Shuffle’ among Kirkus Prize nominees
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest novels from Colson Whitehead and Joy Williams, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ debut work “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du…
Continue Reading Lebanese president wants to resume bailout talks with IMF
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new government has held its first meeting with a call by the president to resume talks…
Continue Reading Study: Pentagon reliance on contractors hurt US in 9/11 wars
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press A new study says up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense…
Continue Reading Study: Pentagon reliance on contractors hurt US in 9/11 wars
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press A new study says up to half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since 9/11 went to for-profit defense…
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