Nation and World
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Greek Church protests baptism for celebrity same-sex parents
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's Orthodox Church says it will send a letter of protest to the archbishop who heads the church in the United States after he baptized the ch...
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Deadly Minneapolis police standoff revives racial concerns
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The shooting of a young Black man whose family says he was experiencing a mental health crisis has revived some activists' mistrust of the Minneapolis...
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Gov. Pritzker tests positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker's office announced Tuesday that Pritzker has tested positive for COVID-19. Pritzker is experiencing mild symptoms and has be...
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Chipotle closes store in Maine, thwarting union efforts
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain. Employees at the Augusta, Maine, Chipotle filed a petition with the National Labor...
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Federal monitor accuses UAW of concealing misconduct probe
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - A monitor appointed by a federal judge in the wake of a United Auto Workers bribery and embezzlement scandal contends that the union has been uncooperativ...
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Tunisian opposition party leader free after questioning
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - The leader of Tunisia's main opposition party was freed after being questioned by the country's counterterrorism unit Tuesday on suspicion of money...
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Emmett Till's house, Black sites to get landmarks funds
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Emmett Till left his mother's house on Chicago's South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally ...
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Police: Indiana mall gunman fired 24 times in 15 seconds
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) - A 20-year-old man who shot five people in a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall, killing three of them, fired 24 times within 15 seconds before he...
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WHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization said Tuesday that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infec...
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Japan extends detention for Abe's alleged assassin
Jul 19, 2022 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Japanese authorities have obtained court approval to extend the detention of the suspect in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination earlier this mo...