Chicago officer with ties to Proud Boys is suspended
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer with ties with the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, was suspended for 120 days but won’t be…
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Aid worker killed in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The International Rescue Committee says one of its workers was killed in an attack in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray…
Continue Reading Marine Corps halts surf use of combat vehicle after mishap
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — The Marine Corps has halted some operations of its new amphibious combat vehicles after one of the armored vehicles…
Continue ReadingA walk to the store: Youngest witness in Derek Chauvin trial writes book to help children cope with trauma
By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Darnella Frazier never would have recorded the video of George Floyd’s death, which helped convict Derek Chauvin, had…
Continue Reading Raleigh shooting rampage shatters quiet neighborhood’s peace
By ALLEN G. BREED and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — For Hedingham resident Marvin Judd, Nicole Connors and her beloved…
Continue Reading Head of Africa CDC alleges mistreatment at German airport
BERLIN (AP) — The acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says he was “mistreated” upon his arrival at…
Continue Reading Apple workers in Oklahoma vote to unionize in 2nd labor win
The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at an Apple store in Oklahoma City voted to unionize, marking the second unionized Apple store in the…
Continue Reading Biden’s late push across West aims to deliver votes for Dems
By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Joe Biden strode into the telephone bank at a crowded union hall and eagerly began…
Continue Reading In France, fuel crisis frays nerves and workers’ resilience
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press VERSAILLES, France (AP) — Even close to midnight on a school night, the tipoff was too important to ignore: A…
Continue Reading Pope gives pep talk to big lay group after tightening rules
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has given encouragement to a major Catholic lay group after the Vatican tightened rules to put checks on their…
Continue Reading Trial delayed in killer-clown case after new disclosure
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The trial of a Florida woman accused of dressing up as clown in 1990 and fatally shooting the wife of a man she later…
Continue Reading Blaze, shots heard from prison in Iran capital amid protests
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A huge fire blazed Saturday at a notorious prison where political prisoners and anti-government…
Continue Reading Why Meloni’s win in Italy not sitting well with Berlusconi
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The honeymoon is finished even before any marriage of political convenience in Italy could…
Continue Reading ‘Don’t Look Back’: Refugee, plant worker writes of survival
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As Achut Deng lay in her apartment bedroom in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Continue Reading Wounded officer shot, killed suspect who killed 2 colleagues
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police officer who was wounded in an apparent ambush that killed two of his fellow officers fired the shot that…
Continue Reading Frantic 911 callers describe bodies during Raleigh shooting
By JONATHAN DREW Associated Press Callers who dialed 911 during a fatal North Carolina shooting rampage described encountering bodies on the streets…
Continue Reading Pakistan hits back at Biden’s ‘dangerous nation’ comment
By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is pushing back against a comment by President Joe Biden in which he called the South…
Continue ReadingThe fatal shooting of a 15-year-old by police in Mississippi is under state investigation, officials say
By Melissa Alonso and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The Mississippi Bureau of Investigations has launched a probe regarding a police officer shooting and…
Continue Reading 2 in custody, 2 sought in fatal shooting outside high school
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police have named two more juvenile suspects in last month’s ambush shooting outside a Philadelphia high school that killed a…
Continue Reading Accused of flirting, juror dismissed from Whitmer plot trial
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a young woman from the jury hearing the trial of three men in connection with a 2020 plot to kidnap…
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