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UK says 4-week coronavirus lockdown may have to last longer
LONDON — A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday. The lockdown announced Saturday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to run from Thursday until Dec. 2. Johnson...
70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as earthquake toll hits 66
IZMIR, Turkey — Rescue workers in western Turkey extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 66 people and injuring more than 900. The man was pulled out of the rubble...
Salt Life founder facing manslaughter charge in teen’s death
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A founder of the Salt Life clothing brand is facing a manslaughter charge in the death of an 18-year-old woman at a Florida hotel. Michael Troy Hutto, 54, was being held without bond Sunday at the Duval County jail in Jacksonville following his arrest in connection with...
Judge orders U.S. Postal Service to take extraordinary measures
SALEM, Ore. — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to take “extraordinary measures” to deliver ballots in time to be counted in Wisconsin and around Detroit, including using a priority mail service. Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima, Wash., issued the order Friday after being...
U.S. priest who founded Knights of Columbus is beatified
HARTFORD, Conn. — The late Connecticut priest who founded the Knights of Columbus moved a step closer to possible sainthood with his beatification Saturday, as authorized by Pope Francis. The celebration for the Rev. Michael McGivney at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford included the reading of a letter...
Super typhoon slams into the eastern Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — A super typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines with “catastrophic violent winds” early Sunday and about a million people have been evacuated in its projected path, including in the capital where the main international airport has been ordered closed, officials said. Typhoon Goni hit the coast of...
Halloween in the pandemic: Costumes and candy, at a distance
Ghosts, skeletons, princesses and black cats roamed the streets as usual this Halloween, but they kept their distance, wore face coverings and carried hand sanitizer in their quest for treats. Like with everything else this year, the pandemic also left its mark on Halloween. Parades, parties and haunted houses were...
North Carolina voter rally ends with pepper spray, arrests
GRAHAM, N.C. — A get-out-the vote rally Saturday in swing state North Carolina ended with police using pepper spray on some participants and making several arrests. Multiple people were arrested outside Alamance County’s courthouse and police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd, news outlets reported. Lindsay Ayling, a graduate...
Abortion rights protest held for 10th day in Poland
WARSAW, Poland — Demonstrators held anti-government protests across Poland for the 10th straight day Saturday in response to the tightening of one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws. The latest protests, though smaller than in previous days, showed the determination and discontent of thousands of Poles after five years under the...
Ivory Coast opposition asserts 12 dead in election violence
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Ivory Coast’s main opposition parties boycotting the presidential vote asserted Saturday that at least a dozen people had died in election day clashes as incumbent leader Alassane Ouattara sought a controversial third term. The election has revived painful memories of the West African nation’s crisis nearly...
Orthodox priest shot at church in France; attacker at large
LYON, France — A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of the city to hunt for the assailant, authorities said. The priest, a Greek citizen, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries...
Mystery surrounds former Marine’s imprisonment in Venezuela
MEDELLIN, Colombia — “Don’t WORRY!,” reads the cryptic note scribbled on a scrap of perforated paper smuggled out of a dank, basement cellblock. “Han Solo always wins!” The weeks-old message is all the family of Matthew Heath has to pin its hopes on since the former U.S. Marine corporal was...
Ivory Coast votes for president amid opposition boycott
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Tens of thousands of security forces deployed across Ivory Coast on Saturday as the leading opposition parties boycotted the country’s presidential election, calling incumbent Alassane Ouattara’s bid for a third term illegal. While there were scattered reports of unrest, voting went forward in the commercial capital...
Actor Sean Connery, the ‘original’ James Bond, dies at 90
LONDON — Sean Connery, the charismatic Scottish actor who rose to international superstardom as suave, fearless secret agent James Bond and then abandoned the role to carve out an equally successful, Oscar-winning career playing a variety of leading and character roles, has died. He was 90. Bond producers EON Productions...
Exorcism: Increasingly frequent, including after U.S. protests
In popular culture, exorcism often serves as a plot device in chilling films about demonic possession. This month, two Roman Catholic archbishops showed a different face of exorcism — performing the rite at well-attended outdoor ceremonies to drive out any evil spirits lingering after acrimonious protests. The events’ distinctive character...
Father: 21-year-old Black man killed by Washington deputies
VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Black man who was fatally shot by authorities in Washington state was a 21-year-old former football player with a baby daughter, friends and family said Friday. Law enforcement remained tight-lipped about the Thursday night shooting in Hazel Dell by Clark County sheriff’s deputies, but Kevin E....
Kennedy cousin Skakel will not be retried in 1975 killing
STAMFORD, Conn. — A prosecutor said Friday that Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel will not face a second trial in the 1975 killing of Martha Moxley, an announcement that came 45 years to the day after the teenager was bludgeoned to death in her wealthy Connecticut neighborhood. The decision ended a...
Ivory Coast tensions rise as president seeks 3rd term
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Opposition activists are threatening to block access to polling stations Saturday in an effort to disrupt the presidential election in Ivory Coast, where incumbent Alassane Ouattara is seeking a controversial third term after nearly a decade in power. An alliance of opposition parties is boycotting the...
Report: US turning away asylum-seekers at border is flawed
SAN DIEGO — The head of the Department of Homeland Security ordered border agents to stop asylum-seekers from stepping on U.S. soil at official crossings with Mexico in 2018, undercutting public statements at the time that they were welcome to do so, according to a government watchdog report published Friday....
Octobrrrr? Early snowfall blankets much of northeast US
BOSTON — If you had snow in October on your 2020 bingo card, you’re a lucky winner. Several inches fell across much of the northeastern U.S. on Friday, accumulating on lawns, fouling roads and inspiring social media posts with a mock “snowpocalypse” theme. “Bike commuting in a snow storm in...
Illinois judge OKs extradition of accused Kenosha shooter to Wisconsin
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — An Illinois judge on Friday ordered a 17-year-old accused of killing two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to be extradited across the border to stand trial on homicide charges, saying it wasn’t his role to vet a case brought by Wisconsin protestors and approved by a Wisconsin judge....
AP: Use of slurs not ‘isolated’ at Louisiana State Police
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Black trooper with the Louisiana State Police was on a break when his cellphone buzzed with an unusual voice message. It was from a white colleague, unaware his Apple Watch had recorded him, blurting out the Black trooper’s name followed by a searing racial slur....
Actor Lori Loughlin reports to prison in college scam
BOSTON — “Full House” actor Lori Loughlin has reported to a federal prison in California to begin serving her two-month sentence for her role in the college admissions bribery scandal, authorities said Friday. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston said Loughlin was being processed at the federal lockup in Dublin,...
Zeta’s toll on a Louisiana island: ‘Like a bomb was dropped’
GRAND ISLE, La. — Mark Andolino remembers stinging rain and a howling wind that peeled the roof off part of his Cajun Tide Beach Resort on Grand Isle, the Louisiana barrier island town where residents were among the first to feel the ferocity of Hurricane Zeta. Andolino was salvaging what...
Study: 1 to 2 million tons of U.S. plastic trash going astray in rivers, lakes, oceans or on land
More than a million tons a year of America’s plastic trash isn’t ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, according to a new study of U.S. plastic trash. In 2016 —...
