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FILE - In this June 6, 2000 file photo, Roger Berlind, producer of "Kiss Me, Kate," accept the Tony...
Associated Press

Roger Berlind, Tony-winning Broadway producer, dies at 90

Roger Berlind, a producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals and the winner of 25 Tony Awards, has died. He was 90.
6 years ago
Asia Today: Japan halts all foreign arrivals over UK coronavirus variant...
Associated Press

Asia Today: Japan halts all foreign arrivals over UK variant

Japan is barring entry of all nonresident foreign nationals as a precaution against a new and potentially more contagious coronavirus variant
6 years ago
'Believe in science': EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign...
NICOLE WINFIELD and VANESSA GERA Associated Press

‘Believe in science’: EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign

Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine Sunday
6 years ago
Gingerbread monolith...
Associated Press

Gingerbread monolith delights San Francisco on Christmas Day

The three-sided tower, held together by icing and decorated with a few gumdrops, delighted the city when word spread about its existence.
6 years ago
FBI nashville home person interest...
KIMBERLEE KRUESI, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

FBI at home of possible person of interest in Nashville bomb

Investigators are scouring hundreds of tips and leads in the Nashville blast that pulverized city streets and damaged dozens of buildings.
6 years ago
COVID-19 ferrets...
JONEL ALECCIA Kaiser Health News

Endangered ferrets get experimental COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado

About 120 ferrets at the National Black-footed Conservation Center near Fort Collins, Colorado, got the vaccine in late summer.
6 years ago
absentee ballots future...
ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press

Lawmakers eyeing changes to ballot options in next US elections

Lawmakers in some states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden are pushing for new restrictions on absentee voting.
6 years ago
Nashville explosion person of interest...
KIMBERLEE KRUESI, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

Officials: Person of interest ID’d in Nashville explosion

Two law enforcement officials have told The Associated Press that federal investigators are searching a home associated with that person.
6 years ago
Widespread outages continue in Tennessee following blast...
KIMBERLEE KRUESI, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

Widespread outages continue in Tennessee following blast

weeping communications outages continued to plague large swaths of Tennessee on Saturday after a recreational vehicle exploded early Christmas morning in sleepy downtown Nashville.
6 years ago
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch sold to billionaire...
Ryan Meeks

Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch sold to billionaire

Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in California has found a new owner in billionaire businessman Ron Burkle.
6 years ago
Queen Elizabeth pays tribute to 'kindness of strangers'...
PAN PYLAS Associated Press

Queen Elizabeth pays tribute to ‘kindness of strangers’

One of the traditional fixtures of any Christmas Day is to see Queen Elizabeth II and her family go to church. Not this year.
6 years ago
coronavirus vaccine questions...
Saige Miller

Mexico starts giving first shots of Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine

An intensive care nurse in Mexico City has become the first person in Latin America to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine.
6 years ago
Trump pardons...
ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

New round of Trump clemency benefits Manafort, other allies

President Donald Trump pardoned more than two dozen people Wednesday, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner.
6 years ago
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, ...
ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

Pres. Trump pardons former campaign chair Paul Manafort, dozens more

President Donald Trump issued pardons and sentence commutations for 29 more people on Wednesday, bringing a two-day total to near 50.
6 years ago
People shop at a Walmart Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in El Paso, Texas. The Justice Department is suing...
MICHAEL BALSAMO and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO Associated Press

Feds sue Walmart over role in opioid crisis

The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the company unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies, helping to fuel the opioid crisis in America.
6 years ago
Surgeon General of the U.S. Jerome Adams, left, elbow-bumps Emergency Room technician Demetrius Mca...
JONATHAN LEMIRE and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press

US close on deal with Pfizer for millions more vaccine doses

The U.S. government is close to a deal with Pfizer to acquire tens of millions of additional vaccine doses in exchange for helping the pharmaceutical giant gain better access to manufacturing supplies.
6 years ago
Trump December pardons 2020...
The Associated Press

Trump pardons 15, including allies, campaign officials

Pres. Trump has pardoned 15 people, including Republican allies and former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad.
6 years ago
Biden education pick Miguel Cardona...
COLLIN BINKLEY, ALEXANDRA JAFFE and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

Pres-elect Biden picks Miguel Cardona as education secretary

As an educator, Miguel Cardona has devoted his work to improving education for English-language learners and closing achievement gaps.
6 years ago
FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo, registered nurse Chrissie Burkhiser works in the emergenc...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer

Scientists urge concern, not alarm over new virus strains

Questions are multiplying as fast as new strains of the coronavirus, especially the one now moving through England. Scientists say there is reason for concern but that the new strains should not cause alarm.
6 years ago
Head of School Jennifer Kowieski, center, poses with students Landon Freytag, of Newton, Mass., lef...
KALYN BELSHA and GABRIELLE LaMARR LeMEE of Chalkbeat, and LEAH WILLINGHAM and LARRY FENN of The Associated Press Chalkbeat and Associated Press

US public school enrollment dips as virus disrupts education

Data from 33 U.S. states shows that K-12 public school enrollment has dropped across those states by more than 500,000 students, or 2%, since the same time last year.
6 years ago
Moderna VA veterans Utah vaccine...
JOHN HANNA and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press

Panel: People over 75, essential workers next for vaccines

A federal advisory panel has recommended that people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers be put next in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out to hospitals.
6 years ago
Covid relief bill...
ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

Congress seals agreement on $900 billion COVID relief bill

A new COVID-19 relief bill shaping up in Congress includes individual payments reaching $600 for most Americans and an extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits.
6 years ago
COVID-19 relief package...
CNN Web Staff

WATCH: Deal reached on COVID-19 relief package.

Top congressional negotiators appear on the brink of agreeing to long-delayed legislation to deliver a new round of COVID-19 relief.
6 years ago
Trump Supreme Court election...
JILL COLVIN and MARC LEVY

Pres. Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results

The petition released Sunday seeks to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases having to do with mail-in ballots.
6 years ago