With muted ceremony and empty stadium, Tokyo Olympics begin
Jul 23, 2021
By FOSTER KLUG TOKYO (AP) — Belated and beleaguered, the virus-delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics finally opened Friday night with cascading fireworks and made-for-TV choreography that unfolded in a near-empty stadium, a colorful but strangely subdued…
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Olympic opening ceremony director fired for Holocaust joke
Jul 22, 2021
By MARI YAMAGUCHI TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee…
US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII
Jul 21, 2021
By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease for…
Blue Origin’s Bezos reaches space on 1st passenger flight
Jul 20, 2021
By MARCIA DUNN VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride…
Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change
Jul 16, 2021
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The left-leaning government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest island, calling it is “a natural step” because the Arctic government “takes the climate crisis…
Money in the bank: Child tax credit dollars head to parents
Jul 15, 2021
By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — The child tax credit had always been an empty gesture to millions of parents like Tamika Daniel. That changes Thursday when the first payment of $1,000 hits Daniel’s bank account —…
US COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks
Jul 14, 2021
The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination…
US consumer prices surge in June by the most since 2008
Jul 13, 2021
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices for U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most in 13 years, extending a run of higher inflation and fueling concerns that the rapidly rebounding economy is making…
California and other parts of the West broil and burn
Jul 12, 2021
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER (AP) Firefighters working in searing heat struggled to contain the largest wildfire in California this year while state power operators urged people to conserve energy after a huge wildfire in neighboring Oregon…
2 US men, ex-Colombia soldiers held in Haiti assassination
Jul 09, 2021
By EVENS SANON, DÁNICA COTO and JOSHUA GOODMAN PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Seventeen suspects have been detained so far in the stunning assassination of Haiti’s president, and Haitian authorities say two are believed to hold…