WASHINGTON (AP) — US consumer prices jumped 5.4% in past 12 months, most since 2008, even with hopes for lower inflation ahead. Categories: AP National News
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s streak of more than 1,000 daily coronavirus cases has reached a week as health authorities scramble to slow a viral surge that has brought Seoul’s thriving nightlife to a standstill and professional baseball to a halt. Authorities said Tuesday that more than 800 of the 1,150 new cases are in the greater capital area,…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nationally syndicated conservative radio host Larry Elder enters California recall election targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom. Categories: AP National News
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Edwin Edwards, flamboyant former Louisiana governor who served time for racketeering, dies at age 93. Categories: AP National News
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported more than 1,000 coronavirus cases for the sixth straight day as the greater capital area entered stringent social distancing restrictions to slow transmissions. The 1,100 new cases reported by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency were the highest ever for a Monday, when the daily increase is usually smaller because of…
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (AP) — Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson has reached space aboard his own winged rocket ship. Categories: AP National News
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The largest of the Navajo Nation casinos is preparing to reopen for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. The Twin Arrows Resort Casino east of Flagstaff has been closed since March 2020. Officials have planned a job fair Saturday ahead of the Monday reopening. The casino will have limited hours and a 50% occupancy level…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Confederate statue in Charlottesville that helped spark a violent 2017 rally is lifted off its pedestal for removal. Categories: AP National News
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Work is underway to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that drew white supremacists to Charlottesville. Categories: AP National News
JULY 3 – 9, 2021 From an annual yoga meeting in a Mexican desert, to suspects in the assassination of the Haitian president, to a child mourning his father who died from COVID-19 in Manila, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in the past week….
