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NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 booster drive in the U.S. is losing steam, worrying health experts who have pleaded with Americans to get an extra shot to shore up their protection against the highly contagious omicron variant.Just 40% of fully vaccinated Americans have received a booster dose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the average number of

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer gravely wounded last week in a Harlem shooting that killed his partner has also died of his injuries, the city’s police commissioner said Tuesday, adding to what she called “incalculable” grief within the department.Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, was taken off life support at a Manhattan hospital four days after a gunman shot him and

In the nearly two months since a conservative majority of justices on the Supreme Court indicated openness to dramatic new restrictions on abortion, money has poured into the political fundraising arm of the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List.The organization secured $20 million in pledged financial contributions, five times more than it has had at the outset of an

THERE may be no Lerwick Up Helly Aa taking place today (Tuesday) - but the bill has still made an appearance at the Market Cross. It runs on a Covid theme as it gives a nod to the NHS vaccination effort, while it casts a hopeful view that as time goes on normality is a “day...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's leaders sought to reassure the nation that a feared invasion from neighboring Russia was not imminent, even as they acknowledged the threat is real and prepared to accept a shipment of American military equipment Tuesday to sure up their defenses.Russia has denied it is planning an assault, but it has massed an estimated 100,000 troops near

Danville Police are asking for help identifying suspects after a burglary at the Samaritan mission between 1 and 5 a.m.

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO said Monday that it’s putting extra forces on standby and sending more ships and fighter jets to eastern Europe, as Ireland warned that new Russian war games off its coast are not welcome given tensions over whether President Vladimir Putin intends to attack Ukraine.The U.S.-led military organization said that it is beefing up its “deterrence” presence in

CRUISE ships are set to return to Lerwick this year as early as February in a boost to the sector in its ongoing recovery from the Covid pandemic. Swiss-based Viking Cruises has booked five visits with its new 900-passenger Viking Venus in the first quarter of 2022, starting...

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats braced for disaster when state legislatures began redrawing congressional maps, fearing that Republican dominance of statehouses would tilt power away from them for the next decade.But as the redistricting process reaches its final stages, that anxiety is beginning to ease.For Democrats, the worst case scenario of losing well over a dozen seats in the

MIAMI (AP) — A cruise ship that was supposed to dock in Miami has instead sailed to the Bahamas, after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over $4 million in unpaid fuel.Cruise trackers show Crystal Symphony currently docked in the Bahamian island of Bimini.“We all feel we were abducted by luxurious pirates!” passenger Stephen Heard Fales