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President Joe Biden will require essential, nonresident travelers crossing U.S. land borders, such as truck drivers, government and emergency response officials, to be fully vaccinated beginning on Jan. 22, the administration planned to announce.A senior administration official said the requirement, which the White House previewed in October, brings the rules for essential

A COMBINATION of “ignorance and arrogance” led an unqualified 17-year-old to drive dangerously while over the alcohol limit earlier this year, Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday. The male, from Shetland's North Mainland, cannot be named due to his age. He was fined a...

The short skirts. The sparkly pompoms. The sassy hip sways. The grandchildren.They are the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a marching, dancing holiday fixture in Wisconsin for nearly 40 years, and a joyful twist on America’s expectations that parades are supposed to feature mainly school-age dance troupes.But tragedy struck the group when, as they marched down yet another Main

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two former Netflix employees who criticized anti-transgender comments on Dave Chappelle’s TV special are dropping labor complaints and one has resigned from the company, it was announced Monday.Terra Field, a senior software engineer who is trans, announced that Field had voluntarily resigned as of Sunday.“This isn’t how I thought things would end, but I’m

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Final steps in the trial of three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery were scheduled Tuesday before the case of the 25-year-old Black man's death goes to the jury.Prosecutors planned to take much of Tuesday morning making their last case to jurors as hours of closing arguments by attorneys spilled into a second day.

A RETIRED police officer has been found guilty of causing fear or alarm to his former partner over a seven month period following a two-day trial at Lerwick Sheriff Court. Norman George Hobbin, 72, of Bridge of Walls, was convicted of an amended charge and had sentence deferred...

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 others.One video showed a woman screaming, “Oh my God!” repeatedly as a group of young dancers was

NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on charges stemming from killing two men and wounding another during the unrest that followed the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer, says in a new interview that he's “not a racist person” and supports the Black Lives Matter movement.“This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with

The class of U.S. Rhodes scholars for 2022 includes the largest number of women ever selected for the scholarship in one year, the Rhodes Trust announced Sunday.Of the 32 students chosen to study at the University of Oxford in England, 22 are women, the office of the American secretary of the trust said in a statement.One of the women selected is Louise Franke, a 21-year-old

Soon after a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges against him, defense attorney Mark Richards took a swipe at his predecessors, telling reporters that their tactics — leaning into Rittenhouse's portrayal as a rallying point for the right to carry weapons and defend oneself — were not his.“I was hired by the two first lawyers. I’m not going to use their