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Denver mayor mandates workers to be vaccinated
DENVER — Denver Mayor Michael Hancock says the city will mandate all city employees and private sector workers in high-risk settings to be vaccinated against covid-19 by Sept. 30. Denver’s public health measure announced Monday applies to more than 10,000 municipal employees like police officers, firefighters, and sheriff’s deputies. Hancock...
19 people arrested at Lollapalooza, with daily crowds around 100,000
CHICAGO — Nineteen people were arrested at the four-day Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago’s Grant Park, according to figures the city released Monday morning. The Office of Emergency Management and Communications said in a news release that there also were seven violations and 102 transports. The largest number of arrests...
R. Kelly’s legal team says prosecutors ‘blindsided’ them with new allegations, ask they be kept out of trial
CHICAGO — Lawyers for indicted singer R. Kelly have hit back on a request by federal prosecutors to admit new evidence of sexual abuse at his upcoming trial in New York, saying in a court filing over the weekend they were “blindsided” and have no time to prepare an adequate...
Police officer shoots, wounds armed man in Cleveland suburb
ELYRIA, Ohio — A man armed with a gun was shot and wounded early Monday by a police officer in a Cleveland suburb, authorities said. The shooting in Elyria occurred around 3 a.m., shortly after a 911 caller reported that Darnell Delaney, 37, was causing a disturbance and threatening people...
New theory: Earth’s longer days kick-started oxygen growth
Scientists have a new idea for how Earth got its oxygen: It’s because the planet slowed down and days got longer. A study published Monday proposes and puts to the test the theory that longer, continuous daylight kick-started weird bacteria into producing lots of oxygen, making most of life as...
Mask opponents at risk after virus case at Missouri meeting
O’FALLON, Mo. — Many people were maskless as they expressed their displeasure with a mask mandate during a boisterous, four-hour St. Louis County Council meeting, and now contact tracers are trying to determine if anyone picked up the coronavirus after someone at the meeting tested positive for covid-19. The delta...
Stunned fans mourn TikTok star Anthony Barajas, killed in movie theater shooting
LOS ANGELES — In his final TikTok video July 22, Anthony Barajas pans to each of his family members, who lovingly poke fun at one another as they share a meal at a crowded eatery in Hawaii. Just four days later, the 19-year-old would be shot execution-style inside a Corona...
Cuomo mandates vaccines or testing for NYC transit workers
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said workers in New York City’s airports and public transit system will have to get coronavirus vaccinations or face weekly testing, but he stopped short Monday of mandating either masks or inoculations for the general public, saying he lacks the legal authority to do...
U.S. expands Afghan refugee program as Taliban violence rises
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday expanded its efforts to assist at-risk Afghan citizens flee Taliban violence as fighting intensifies ahead of the U.S. military pullout at the end of the month. The State Department said it is widening the scope of Afghans eligible for refugee status in United...
Abortion, race, gender: State Republicans wage culture wars
Not since the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in 1973 has there been a year in which states approved so many abortion restrictions. Since January, there have been a record 97 new laws limiting abortion enacted in 19 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that...
‘It just went boom.’ ICUs are being overwhelmed with younger — and sicker — patients
MIAMI — Inside a covid-only intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, all eight beds are filled with patients. Six of the eight patients are younger than 50 years old. None of them has been vaccinated against covid-19. The youngest patient, a 27-year-old woman on a ventilator, had...
Aid group closes emergency clinic in Haiti amid violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Gang violence that has left more than 19,000 people homeless in Haiti’s capital has now forced a Doctors Without Borders clinic to close, officials said Monday. The emergency clinic in the Martissant neighborhood of Port-au-Prince had been operating for 15 years and served a community of some...
German court sets trial date for former Nazi guard, aged 100
BERLIN — A German court has set a trial date for a 100-year-old man who is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin during World War II. A spokeswoman for the...
Turkey battles wildfires for 6th day; EU to send planes
BOZALAN, Turkey — Selcuk Sanli let his two cows lose to fend for themselves, put his family’s most treasured belongings in a car and fled his home as a wildfire approached his village near Turkey’s beach resort of Bodrum, one of thousands fleeing flames that have coated the skies with...
Skipper: Documents show no coverup in 1963 submarine sinking
PORTLAND, Maine — The release of about 3,000 pages of documents delving into the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history has not yielded any sinister effort to hide the truth, a retired Navy skipper says. Instead, documents show the Navy’s policies and procedures failed to keep pace with fast-moving technological...
Trump allies among Congress members who might be subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Capitol siege probe, Adam Kinzinger saysVideo
A Republican member of the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol on Sunday wouldn’t rule out calling on fellow members of Congress to testify. “I would support subpoenas to anyone that can shed light. … If that’s the leader, that’s the leader,” Rep. Adam...
Evacuations lifted as progress made against western fires
BLY, Oregon — Firefighters in Oregon reported good progress in the battle against the nation’s largest wildfire, while authorities canceled evacuation orders near a major blaze in Northern California. Containment of the Bootleg Fire in remote southern Oregon was up to 74% on Sunday. It was 56% contained a day...
Myanmar military extends emergency, promises vote in 2 years
BANGKOK — Six months after seizing power from the elected government, Myanmar’s military leader on Sunday declared himself prime minister and said he would lead the country under the extended state of emergency until elections are held in about two years. “We must create conditions to hold a free and...
Hamas re-elects Ismail Haniyeh as supreme leader
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic militant group Hamas on Sunday said it has re-elected its supreme leader. Ismail Haniyeh, who has been living in exile for the past two years, was given a new four-year term by the Shura Council, the Islamic group’s top decision-making body. He was...
Kim’s sister warns S. Korea-U.S. military drills will rekindle tensions
SEOUL, South Korea — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Sunday that next month’s annual military drills between South Korean and U.S. troops will undermine prospects for better ties between the Koreas, just days after the rivals reopened their long-dormant communication channels. Kim Yo Jong’s...
Police: 10 shot in Queens by 2 men who fled on mopeds
NEW YORK — Two men strode up to a crowd outside a barbershop in the New York City borough of Queens and opened fire, wounding 10 people before fleeing on mopeds, police said Sunday morning. The shooting in the borough’s Corona neighborhood took place just before 11 p.m. Saturday. The...
Crowds defy ban to protest coronavirus measures in Berlin
BERLIN — Hundreds of people turned out in Berlin on Sunday to protest the German government’s anti-coronavirus measures despite a ban on the gatherings, leading to arrests and clashes with police. Local authorities banned several different protests registered for this weekend, including one from the Stuttgart-based Querdenker movement, which expected...
19 bodies reburied amid protests in search for Tulsa victims
TULSA, Okla. — The bodies of 19 people exhumed from a Tulsa cemetery during a search for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre were reburied during a closed ceremony, despite objections from protesters outside the cemetery. “This is totally disgusting and disrespectful that those are our family members and...
French police clash with anti-virus pass protesters in Paris
PARIS — Thousands of people protested France’s special virus pass by marching through Paris and other French cities on Saturday. Most demonstrations were peaceful but some in Paris clashed with riot police, who fired tear gas. Some 3,000 security forces deployed around the French capital for a third weekend of...
U.S. memorials to victims of covid pandemic taking shape
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Ohio has planted a memorial grove of native trees to remember people who died of covid-19, and governors and state lawmakers nationwide are considering their own ways to mark the toll of the virus. Temporary memorials have sprung up across the U.S. — 250,000 white flags at...
