Tag: Social affairs
Reds’ Castellanos suspended 2 games in Hill’s 1st discipline
NEW YORK — Cincinnati Reds outfielder Nick Castellanos was suspended for two games and fined Monday for his role in an on-field brawl during...
In shinty or in golf, Robert MacIntyre shows plenty of fight
<p>AUGUSTA, Ga. — Robert MacIntyre was 12 tournaments into his rookie season on the European Tour when he wanted to go home to Scotland,...
George Floyd death leads states to require cops to intervene
<p>SALEM, Ore. — When a police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd in Minneapolis, other officers at the scene didn't intervene, even...
Vaccine skepticism runs deep among white evangelicals in US
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination, posted a photo on Facebook last week of him getting the COVID-19 vaccine....
AP-NORC poll: Border woes dent Biden approval on immigration
<p>WASHINGTON — More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden is handling waves of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-army-health-coronavirus-pandemic-3f6231479aa5d5418495d2bd04eaa1a1">unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico...
Laundress’s gift inspires total of $3.1M from Army retiree
<p>HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi has received $2.9 million from the estate of a man first inspired to donate by a <a...
Groups: Census privacy tool could hurt voting rights goals
ORLANDO, Fla. — A new method being used for the first time by the U.S. Census Bureau to protect people's privacy in 2020 census...
McBride, Trethewey among winners of Anisfeld-Wolf awards
<p>NEW YORK — Novelist James McBride, former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey and science fiction great Samuel R. Delaney are among this year's winners...
Weinstein appeals conviction blaming ‘cavalier’ judge
<p>NEW YORK — More than a year after <a href="https://apnews.com/article/67057b46fcd3f1183cf6a699a399c886">Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction</a>, his lawyers are demanding a new trial, arguing in court papers...
Man kill 9-year-old son, 7 other relatives, himself in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran — A man gunned down his 9-year-old son and seven relatives of his two wives before killing himself Monday in southwestern Iran,...