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U.S. airport travelers set covid pandemic high after Christmas despite surging cases
The number of air travelers in the United States soared to a pandemic high on Sunday despite the ongoing surge of covid-19 cases. A whopping 1,284,599 travelers were recorded at checkpoints by the Travel Security Administration on Sunday, marking the largest single-day total since mid-March, when the number of fliers...
Ohio police officer fired in fatal shooting of Black man 
COLUMBUS — A white Ohio police officer was fired Monday after bodycam footage showed him fatally shooting 47-year-old Andre Hill — a Black man who was holding a cellphone — and refusing to administer first aid for several minutes. Columbus police officer Adam Coy was fired hours after a hearing...
Russia's prison service tells Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to appear or face jail
MOSCOW — Russia’s federal penitentiary service on Monday gave top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny one day to report to its office or face imprisonment, if he comes back to Russia after the deadline. Navalny is convalescing in Germany after his August poisoning with a nerve agent, which he has blamed...
Judge rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's bail bid
NEW YORK — A judge on Monday rejected a $28.5 million proposed bail package for Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, saying her incarceration is necessary to ensure she faces trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for the late financier to sexually abuse. U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan rejected the...
Suspect in bowling alley shooting served in Afghanistan
CHICAGO — A U.S. Army special forces sergeant arrested in an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that left three people dead and three others injured had four deployments to Afghanistan, the most recent ending in July, according to Army service information. Duke Webb, 37, was scheduled to...
House approves Trump's $2K checks, sending to GOP-led Senate 
WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly Monday to increase covid-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments and sending the bill to the GOP-controlled Senate, where the outcome is uncertain. Democrats led passage, 275-134, their majority favoring additional assistance, but dozens of Republicans joined in...
Nashville bomber to neighbor: The world is 'never going to forget me'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It seemed like a friendly chat between neighbors. Only after a bomb exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning could Rick Laude grasp the sinister meaning behind his neighbor’s smiling remark that the city and the rest of the world would never forget him. Laude told The...
British hospitals scramble for space as virus cases soar
British hospitals are canceling non-urgent procedures and scrambling to find space for covid-19 patients as coronavirus cases continue to surge despite tough new restrictions imposed to curb a fast-spreading new variant of the virus. Another 41,385 confirmed cases were recorded across the U.K. on Monday. It was the first time...
As covid-19 ravages U.S., shootings, killings are also up
When Andre Avery drives his commercial truck through Detroit, he keeps his pistol close. Avery, 57, grew up in the Motor City and is aware that homicides and shootings are surging, even though before the pandemic they were dropping in Detroit and elsewhere. His gun is legal, and he carries...
Aid groups aim to bring health care to migrants on way to U.S.
MATAMOROS, Mexico — Aurora Leticia Cruz has tried to keep up with her blood pressure medication since fleeing Guatemala more than a year ago, but the limbo she finds herself in — stuck in a sprawling camp at the Texas border after traversing Mexico — has made that hard. When...
Iran says Pfizer vaccine batch expected from U.S. benefactors
TEHRAN, Iran — An unidentified group of U.S.-based philanthropists plans to send 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Iran in the coming weeks, Iranian media reported Monday, in a step that could bring the hardest-hit country in the Middle East closer to inoculating its citizens against the coronavirus. Details...
Saudi women's rights activist sentenced to nearly 6 years
One of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women’s rights activists was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison, according to state-linked media, under a vague and broadly worded counterterrorism law. The ruling nearly brings to a close a case that has drawn international criticism and the ire of U.S. lawmakers....
Lori Loughlin released after prison term in college scam
“Full House” actor Lori Loughlin was released from prison Monday after spending two months behind bars for paying half a million dollars in bribes to get her two daughters into college. Loughlin was released from the federal lockup in Dublin, California, where she had been serving her sentence for her...
In-betweenland: As 2020 slips away, an American snapshot
GLENSHAW, Pa. — The enormous signs, selling for just $9.99, greet shoppers at the suburban supermarket’s entryway, carrying a holiday message that means something very different this year: “GATHER,” they shout, even as the state’s governor urges citizens to do precisely otherwise. To come together or to stay apart: one...
Trump signs massive measure funding government, covid relief 
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Sunday, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and avert a federal government shutdown. The massive bill includes $1.4 trillion to...
Authorities: Suspect in Nashville explosion died in blast 
NASHVILLE — The man believed to be responsible for the Christmas Day bombing that tore through downtown Nashville blew himself up in the explosion, and appears to have acted alone, federal officials said Sunday. Investigators used DNA and other evidence to link the man, identified as Anthony Quinn Warner, to...
Lawmakers press Trump on relief bill as jobless aid expires 
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump appeared no closer to signing an end-of-year covid relief and spending bill Sunday as unemployment aid expired, the government barrels toward a mid-pandemic shutdown and lawmakers implored him to break the impasse he created after Congress approved the deal. Trump blindsided members...
Man charged in Illinois bowling alley shooting that killed 3 
ROCKFORD, Ill. — A U.S. Army special forces sergeant based in Florida has been charged in an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that left three people dead and three wounded, authorities said Sunday. Winnebago County State’s Attorney J. Hanley said Duke Webb, 37, has been charged with...
3 dead, 3 injured in shooting at Illinois bowling alley
ROCKFORD, Ill. — A gunman opened fire inside an Illinois bowling alley, killing three people and injuring three others Saturday night in what authorities believe was a random attack. A “person of interest” was taken into custody after the shooting at Don Carter Lanes, Rockford Police Chief Dan O’Shea said...
Girl Scouts accuse Boy Scouts of poaching their membership in latest filing of 2-year legal battle
Boys will be boys. And, according to court documents, girls should be Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts of the United States of America, in a pointed Manhattan Federal Court filing, accused the Boy Scouts of America of wrongfully crossing the gender line by poaching potential female members from their organization...
Mallard to go? Dig of Pompeii fast-food place reveals tastes
ROME — A fast-food eatery at Pompeii has been excavated, helping to reveal dishes that were popular for the citizens of the ancient Roman city who were partial to eating out. Pompeii Archaeological Park’s longtime chief, Massimo Osanna, said Saturday that while some 80 such fast-foods have been found at...
Thailand finds new coronavirus clusters in south and east
BANGKOK — Health officials in Thailand said Saturday that two new clusters of coronavirus cases have been found that appear to be linked to a major outbreak discovered a week earlier among migrant workers in an industrial province near Bangkok. The new cases were found in 19 members of a...
Turnout among young voters key to Georgia Senate runoffs
ATLANTA — Preethi Gowrishankar was never really politically active before this year. But watching polarization increase during President Donald Trump’s administration changed that. The 27-year-old data scientist put on a face mask and stood in line on a recent sunny but cold day in Atlanta to cast a ballot early...
British double agent George Blake dies in Russia at 98
MOSCOW — George Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union and passed some of the most coveted Western secrets to Moscow, has died in Russia. He was 98. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, known as SVR, announced his death Saturday in a...
Trump's court appointments will leave decades-long imprint
WASHINGTON — On this, even President Donald Trump’s most fevered critics agree: He has left an imprint on federal courts that will outlast his one term in office for decades to come. He used the promise of conservative judicial appointments to win over Republican skeptics as a candidate. Then as...


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