Citizenship agency charts new course with fiscal challenges
By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the U.S. agency that grants citizenship and visas says it’s in a strong financial…
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Germany: 4 men suspected of procuring bomb material arrested
BERLIN (AP) — German police say that four men including suspected right-wing extremists have been arrested as German investigators raided their…
Continue Reading Postal hike doesn’t stop catalogers from stuffing mailboxes
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A big postal rate increase over the summer hasn’t stopped catalog retailers from stuffing…
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3 companies charged with negligence in Southern California oil spill
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Three companies have been accused of illegally discharging about 25,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean off the…
Continue Reading Serbia suspends lithium mine plans after protests
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Local authorities in western Serbia have suspended a plan that would allow mining…
Continue Reading Tokyo finds omicron case in US arrival isolating at home
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo has confirmed its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in a traveler from the…
Continue Reading Soaring infections rattle Europe, fuel dread about holidays
By DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Soaring infections in Britain driven in part by the omicron variant of the…
Continue ReadingMercedes withdraws its appeal into chaotic F1 finale and congratulates Max Verstappen on first world title
By Ben Church and Amanda Davies, CNN Max Verstappen’s first Formula One world title panned out “way more intense” than he could…
Continue ReadingTaniela Moa: Former Tonga rugby international dies aged 36
By Ben Morse, CNN Former Tonga rugby international Taniela Moa has died at the age of 36, the Tongan Rugby Union announced on Thursday. “A…
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Bank of England hikes interest rates to tackle rising prices
By Charles Riley, CNN Business The Bank of England is hiking interest rates in an effort to fight surging prices even as the Omicron variant engulfs…
Continue Reading ‘I cannot escape’: New abuses alleged in Ethiopia’s Tigray
By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — New witness accounts allege that thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been forcibly expelled,…
Continue ReadingQueen Elizabeth II cancels pre-Christmas family lunch
By Max Foster and Jack Guy, CNN Queen Elizabeth II has canceled a pre-Christmas family lunch as a precaution because of a surge in Covid-19 cases in…
Continue Reading At least 5 dead as Midwest rocked by hurricane-force winds
By MARGERY A. BECK and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say at least five people died when a powerful storm system…
Continue Reading Exclusive: ‘Cyber is the most dangerous weapon in the world,’ JPMorgan council warns
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Business leaders and former policymakers are sounding the cyber alarm. The JPMorgan International Council on Thursday…
Continue Reading A 90-year-old was serving life for marijuana despite serious illness. Now he’s going home
By Casey Tolan, CNN In a dramatic reversal, a 90-year-old, seriously ill federal inmate serving life in prison for a nonviolent marijuana trafficking…
Continue Reading5 things to know for Dec. 16: Covid, software, Biden, condo collapse, extreme weather
CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN If the metaverse actually does become widely accepted, what will we wear in it? Industry leaders are looking forward into…
Continue Reading5 things to know for Dec. 16: Covid, software, Biden, condo collapse, extreme weather
CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN If the metaverse actually does become widely accepted, what will we wear in it? Industry leaders are looking forward into…
Continue Reading5 things to know for Dec. 16: Covid, software, Biden, condo collapse, extreme weather
CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN If the metaverse actually does become widely accepted, what will we wear in it? Industry leaders are looking forward into…
Continue Reading Turkish lira dips to new low after another interest rate cut
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has again cut interest rates despite soaring consumer prices that…
Continue ReadingJohn Walton, CNN One of the greatest luxuries when we fly is space: the space to stretch out, relax, work and sleep while flying seven miles above…
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