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FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …
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Prosecutors: Priest collected child porn while overseas
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest accused of collecting thousands of child pornography images while serving overseas and then bringing them with him when he returned to the United States is now facing fed…
Chinese researcher pleads to lying in cancer-smuggling case
BOSTON (AP) — A medical researcher accused of trying to smuggle vials of cancer research material out of the U.S. to his native China by hiding it in a sock inside his luggage pleaded guilty to a related charge Thu…
Italians told to celebrate Christmas at home to fight virus
MILAN (AP) — Italy recorded a pandemic-high daily death toll Thursday, providing a grim backdrop for Premier Giuseppe Conte’s cheerless announcement of restrictions for the Christmas holidays that will make it diff…
California governor: Most of state nears stay-home order
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will likely order most of its businesses to close or limit capacity in the coming days, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, part of new rules triggered when fewer than 15% of beds …
Vaccine rollout could ease crisis, but who gets it first?
Getting a COVID-19 vaccine to the right people could change the course of the pandemic in the United States. But who are the right people?
Optimism growing for COVID relief bill as pressure builds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Optimism about delivering long-sought COVID-19 relief is building on Capitol Hill after additional rank-and-file lawmakers voiced support for a bipartisan, middle-of-the-road plan taking shape in …
California governor says four of state's five regions will meet new shutdown threshold 'within a day or two'
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California governor says four of state's five regions will meet new shutdown threshold 'within a day or two.'
France to prioritize nursing home residents for vaccination
PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Jean Castex said Thursday that COVID-19 vaccines will go to nursing homes residents first when doses become available in France, which is not expected before the end of the month.
Rights group says Egypt has freed 3 of its arrested staffers
CAIRO (AP) — Three Egyptian rights workers who were arrested and slapped with terrorism-related charges last month were freed on Thursday after an outcry over the government’s crackdown on one of the last rights gr…
LA officials stream annual ceremony honoring unknown dead
LOS ANGELES (AP) — During their lives they somehow slipped out of sight to the rest of us, and when death came to these 1,547 residents of Los Angeles County, they had become anonymous to the world.
California's new virus health order uses ICU capacity to determine what businesses must close in specific regions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's new virus health order uses ICU capacity to determine what businesses must close in specific regions.
California governor: Most of state to meet new virus rules
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday most of the state will likely be under a new stay-at-home order within a day or two.
Chicago archdiocese to pay $1.5 million in sexual abuse suit
CHICAGO (AP) — The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who says he was sexually abused as a child by a defrocked priest who was convicted of sexually abusing sev…
Court: Rittenhouse bound over for trial in protest shootings
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — There is enough evidence to warrant a trial for an Illinois 17-year-old accused of killing two men and wounding a third during a night of unrest in Wisconsin, a court commissioner ruled Thursda…