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NEW YORK (AP) — A spike in COVID-19 cases in a handful of Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations is raising alarm bells even as New York City’s overall infection rate remains low, city officials said Wednesday. The neighborhoods including Borough Park and Williamsburg accounted for 20% of the city’s COVID-19 cases…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders gathering remotely Wednesday criticized a haphazard global response to a microscopic virus that has unleashed economic havoc and taken nearly 1 million lives in its march across the globe. In the words of Kazakhstan’s president, it was “a critical collapse of global cooperation.” “Our world has been turned upside…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A white Nebraska bar owner who killed himself after being charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man during May protests had been waiting to “ambush” people who were breaking into businesses and stealing, a special prosecutor said Wednesday. Special Prosecutor Frederick Franklin detailed more of the evidence against Jake…

HOUSTON (AP) — Immigration authorities have stopped sending detained women to a rural Georgia gynecologist accused of performing surgeries without consent, a government spokesman said Tuesday. Dr. Mahendra Amin faces allegations that he administered hysterectomies and other procedures that women held at the Irwin County Detention Center didn’t seek or fully understand. Amin has seen…

DENVER (AP) — Denver police are investigating an allegation that an officer sexually assaulted a protester with a baton while taking him into custody in July. After police tackled Michael Jacobs at a park near the state Capitol on July 29, an officer plunged a baton into his backside several times, causing him to suffer…

King County Executive Dow Constantine proposed a new 0.1% sales tax Tuesday to fund housing for people who are chronically homeless, part of a two-year budget that would also see the county eliminate 450 jobs as tax revenues have plunged because of the coronavirus pandemic. The new sales tax, Constantine said, would fund $400 million…

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — If only Drew Lock’s body was as hard as his head. For the second straight season, the Denver Broncos’ young quarterback will miss significant time time after getting injured while scrambling in vain to avoid a sack. The mobile QB from Missouri is vowing once again not to change his style.…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Getting angry worked wonders for the Boston Celtics. Their first win in these Eastern Conference finals just happened to come two nights after Marcus Smart sparked a loud and emotional series of shouting matches inside the Celtics’ locker room, all of that starting only a few seconds after the…

The Kentucky attorney general is expected to announce whether he will bring charges against officers who were involved in the March killing of Breonna Taylor while serving a no-knock warrant at her apartment. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

CHICAGO (AP) — Daniel Jones committed two more turnovers. The offensive line had another uneven day, and the defense took a while to find its stride. And those were relatively minor problems compared to the biggest concern for the New York Giants, who are 0-2 under new coach Joe Judge. Saquon Barkley left New York’s…

INDIANANPOLIS (AP) — Jonathan Taylor looked right at home in his first NFL start. He made Sunday’s hefty workload look pretty easy, too. The 21-year-old running back rushed 26 times for 101 yards and scored a touchdown in his first NFL start, leading the Indianapolis Colts past Minnesota 28-11. Taylor celebrated his first win inside…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger threw for 311 yards with two touchdowns and an interception and the Pittsburgh Steelers fended off a spirited comeback by the Denver Broncos 26-21 on Sunday. The Steelers (2-0) knocked out Denver starting quarterback Drew Lock in the first quarter with a right shoulder injury. They didn’t secure the win…

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The Las Vegas Raiders could once again be without their top two right tackles for this week’s game against New Orleans. The Raiders listed starter Trent Brown and backup Sam Young as doubtful for Monday night’s game against the Saints. Brown played one series of the opener before leaving with a…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Just minutes after two Slovenian riders effectively sealed their first and second places in the Tour de France on Saturday, the president of Slovenia declared it a historic day for the tiny Alpine nation. In a stunning climax to cycling’s most prestigious race, Tadej Pogacar crushed his older, fellow Slovenian Primoz…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have ruled out edge rusher Dee Ford for this week’s game against the New York Jets. Ford had been listed as questionable initially before being ruled out on Saturday for Sunday’s game. The team also announced that offensive lineman Hroniss Grasu has been promoted from the…

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — During halftime of Washington’s season opener against Philadelphia, coach Ron Rivera stepped away to receive fluids through an IV as a planned treatment for his recently diagnosed skin cancer. Rivera told one of his assistants to make sure somebody “steps up to the podium” if he didn’t return to the locker…

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A forgotten studio recording of the late jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw has been released as part of an effort to preserve jazz history. “49th Parallel,” a 1987 recording led by Canadian bassist Neil Swainson that features Shaw and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, was made available this month by Vancouver, Canada-based…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that Mexico will respond “softly, softly” and with “love and peace” to the finding by the U.S. government that his country needs to do more to stop drug trafficking. López Obrador said he did not agree with all the findings in the U.S. annual…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A school board in Idaho has announced its decision to retire the Pocatello High School Indians mascot at the end of the academic year after students and community members raised concerns over how other school athletic programs would portray the mascot before competitions. The Pocatello-Chubbuck School District 25 Board of Trustees…

Hurricane Sally made landfall in the predawn hours Wednesday as a strengthening Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph. While its gusts were destructive, the storm’s water — from both the ocean and the sky — proved devastating in hard-hit areas of the western Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama. The slow-moving storm dumped…

The Thurston County Coroner’s Office has determined the death of a 28-year-old Native American man, who became unresponsive three days after he was booked into the Nisqually jail, was a homicide. Top Featured Tags: – Washington News Press Release Distribution Service

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A suburban Dallas police officer who shot and killed a woman last year while firing at a dog was charged Wednesday with criminally negligent homicide, prosecutors said. A grand jury indicted Ravinder Singh in the August 2019 death of 30-year-old Margarita Brooks, the Tarrant County district attorney’s office said. At the…