MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Closing arguments begin at former police Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in the death of George Floyd. Categories: AP National News
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police say former sheriff’s deputy wanted in shooting deaths of 3 in Austin, Texas, taken into custody. Categories: AP National News
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin, technology giant Foxconn reach new deal with lower tax credits for scaled back project. Categories: AP National News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity has achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Categories: AP National News
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says her state could be seeing a drop in infections after leading the nation’s COVID-19 daily case rate for weeks. Whitmer has extended a pandemic order that limits business capacity and requires masks in public, but the Democrat has avoided further restrictions in place during previous surges, including suspending indoor restaurant dining. She…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Half of U.S. adults have now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, CDC says. Categories: AP National News
HUTCHINSON, Minn. — Prosecutors have charged a Minnesota man with felony assault and allege that he attacked a home improvement store employee and a police officer after the store worker told him to wear a mask. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the incident began Wednesday afternoon when a cashier at a Menards in Hutchinson told 61-year-old Luke Oeltjenbruns that…
WINDSOR, England — Hundreds of people have lined the streets outside Windsor Castle to pay their respects to Prince Philip. Some held Union flags and clutched flowers, while others wore custom face masks featuring the royal’s photo. People poured into the town of Windsor, west of London, for the occasion Saturday, although road signs in the area warned against all…
APRIL 10 – 16, 2021 From clashes in Greece, to health care workers continuing care of COVID-19 patients in Canada, to celebrations honoring late leader Kim II Sung in North Korea and Muslims offering prayers on the first Friday of Ramadan in Indonesia, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week…
BALTIMORE (AP) — Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 3 million, by Johns Hopkins University’s count. Categories: AP National News
