South Africa has been at the forefront of the omicron wave, and the world is watching it to understand what may be in store.
Julia McCue
Posted inNation & World, News
Former Minnesota officer who killed Daunte Wright, testifies, ‘I’m sorry it happened’
Kim Potter said she shot Wright in a moment of chaos as he tried to leave a traffic stop as she and other officers were trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant for a weapons violation.
advertisement
Posted inNation & World, News
Russia sets out tough demands for security pact with NATO
Moscow wants Ukraine and other ex-Soviet countries be barred from joining the alliance.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, Nation & World, New England
South Portland man among 21 charged in alleged multistate cocaine, fentanyl ring
Authorities say the operation was based in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and sold drugs in retail and allegedly wholesale quantities.
Posted inNation & World, News
Army says nearly 98% of troops have been vaccinated against COVID-19
The Pentagon is now weighing making the COVID-19 vaccine booster shots mandatory for service members.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
U.S. jobless claims rise to a still-low 206,000
Weekly claims, which are a proxy for layoffs, have fallen steadily most of the year since topping 900,000 one week in early January.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Fed will tighten credit faster, expects to raise interest rates 3 times in the coming year
In an abrupt policy shift, the Fed announced Wednesday that it will shrink its monthly bond purchases at twice the pace it previously announced.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Horizon Organic to extend Maine, other Northeastern milk contracts 6 months
Maine Gov. Janet Mills called the company’s offer a “modest but welcome development.”
Posted inBusiness, News
Tyson Foods will conduct racial audit after protests in U.S. last year
The meatpacking industry is highly reliant on immigrants to staff slaughterhouses.
Posted inNation & World, News
Robert Dole remembered as ‘giant of our time and of all time’
Dole, who died at age 98, served nearly 36 years in Congress, more than a decade as Republican Senate leader and was his party’s presidential nominee in 1996.