WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has been gathering with senators and working the phones to push for a giant COVID-19 relief package. But his team is increasingly focused on selling the plan directly to voters. His administration has done 60-plus interviews with national TV and radio shows. There have been spots on local TV…
CHICAGO (AP) — Civil rights groups and communities of color are watching warily for any moves to expand law enforcement power as federal officials grapple with how to confront the security threat posed by domestic extremists after the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol. They say their communities have felt the brunt of security scrutiny…
Even after stepping aside as CEO, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appears likely to keep identifying new frontiers for the world’s dominant e-commerce company. His successor, meanwhile, gets to deal with escalating efforts to curtail its power. Even after long-time Amazon executive Andy Jassy becomes CEO, Bezos will remain the company’s largest shareholder while taking on…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri continues to see declines in newly confirmed coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, but the death toll reached another sad milestone on Tuesday, topping 7,000. The state health department cited 340 additional deaths. All but two of those were the result of the Bureau of Vital Records’ weekly review of death certificates…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are denying that he played a role in inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol and say that the Senate impeachment trial is unconstitutional. The lawyers filed their brief Tuesday ahead of next week’s trial on accusations that he provoked the siege of the Jan. 6 siege of…
LONDON (AP) — The World War II veteran who walked into the hearts of a nation in lockdown as he shuffled up and down his garden to raise money for healthcare workers has died after testing positive for COVID-19. Capt. Tom Moore was 100. His family announced Moore’s death Tuesday in a tweet with his…
BOSTON (AP) — Parts of northern New England are waiting their turn to be pummeled by a heavy winter storm. Tuesday’s snowfall comes as residents of the New York City region are digging out from under piles of snow that shut down public transport, canceled flights and closed coronavirus vaccination sites. The lumbering storm dropped…
“Saved by the Bell” star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with cancer. His spokesman confirmed Diamond’s death. He was 44. Diamond, best known for playing Screech on the hit ’90s sitcom, was hospitalized last month in Florida and his team disclosed later he had cancer. “Saved by the Bell” aired from 1989…
WASHINGTON — The virus that causes COVID-19 could gain a permanent place in the population without global vaccination, warns the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. “We’ve got to get the whole world vaccinated,” Fauci told reporters Monday during the International AIDS Society’s COVID-19 conference. “If we don’t get a global effort,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed spending about one-third of what he is seeking in coronavirus aid. White House press secretary Jen Psaki says that Biden has spoken with the leader of the group, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. The…