Pakistan drops draft on chemical castration for rapists
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A lawmaker from Pakistan’s ruling party says the government dropped a controversial clause…
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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A lawmaker from Pakistan’s ruling party says the government dropped a controversial clause…
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By EVA VERGARA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans are voting for president Sunday with a mix of dread, optimism…
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union’s drug regulator says it’s started evaluating the coronavirus pill made by Pfizer Inc. to see if it…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Senate Democrats will oppose the reappointment of Jerome Powell as chair of the…
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A lawyer for Mikheil Saakashvili says the imprisoned former Georgian president has agreed to end a seven-week hunger strike…
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police have fired warning shots, injuring an unknown number of people, as riots broke…
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By ROB GILLIES Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Canada’s health regulator has approved Pfizer’s kid-size COVID-19 shot. Health…
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PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s health authorities are trying a new technique to urge the people get the COVID-19 vaccine — cooperating with…
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By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury has completed the first day of deliberations in a civil trial of white…
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Captain Snowpants; Yo Bro, No Snow; and Jennifer Snowpez are among the names that will be on some of Vermont’s snowplows…
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By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Tennessee Gov.…
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Frozen vials labeled “Smallpox” that were discovered in a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania “contain…
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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is considering new measures to protect a ground-dwelling bird…
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By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution has sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $43.2…
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By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer By offering its existing delivery platform technology to food banks for free, DoorDash, like a growing number of…
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NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winner of the National Book Award for poetry, Martín Espada, is among 20 Puerto Rican writers chosen as the…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Photographer Mick Rock, whose iconic portraits of rock stars saw him dubbed “the man who shot the…
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By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thais flocked to rivers and lakes to release small floats adorned with flowers and candles in…
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials say an earthquake with magnitude 5.1 has jolted Erzurum province in eastern Turkey, demolishing a number of houses…
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD, MATTHEW PERRONE and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is opening COVID-19 vaccine boosters to all…
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