The partial reopening of key routes across the North Atlantic and vital transfer hubs in the Middle East is stirring predictions that inter-continental journeys are on their way back.
Erica Nitschke
Columnist
Posted inBusiness
Shipping snags prompt U.S. firms to mull retreat from China
Importers are contending with a perfect storm of supply trouble – rising prices, overwhelmed ports, a shortage of ships, trains, trucks – that is expected to last into 2022.
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Posted inNew England
Hiker dies on Mount Carrigan in White Mountains
A 911 call came in around 12:30 p.m. reporting a hiker who was found unconscious and not breathing on the Signal Ridge Trail.
Posted inLocal & State
Groups urge Maine to protect last wild Atlantic salmon in U.S.
A coalition of environmental groups and scientists say the fish could be afforded more protections if they were added to Maine’s list of endangered and threatened species.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats renew questions about FBI background check of Kavanaugh
Director Christopher Wray disclosed in a letter late last month that the FBI had received more than 4,500 tips as it investigated the nominee’s past.
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
U.S. churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native residential schools
More than 150 boarding schools for Indigenous children in the United States were operated by religious groups between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries.
Posted inNation & World
Violence overshadows memorial Mass for slain Haitian leader
Demonstrations after a memorial service violent on Thursday afternoon with protesters shooting into the air, throwing rocks and overturning heavy concrete barricades.
Posted inNation & World
Western wildfires grow, but better weather helps crews
Oregon’s Bootleg Fire grew to 624 square miles — over half the size of Rhode Island.
Posted inNation & World
AP-NORC poll: Parties split on some infrastructure proposals
The Biden administration trusts that many voters will cast their ballots in next year’s election on infrastructure and other spending initiatives aimed at helping the economy.
Posted inNation & World
China rebuffs WHO’s terms for further COVID-19 origins study
A senior Chinese health official says China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19.