WASHINGTON (AP) — Growth in U.S. manufacturing slowed in December to an 11-month low with companies still combating supply chain problems. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, reported this morning that its index of manufacturing activity fell to a ...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries decided today to pump more oil to the world economy amid hope that travel and demand for fuel will hold up despite the rapid spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19. The 23-member OPEC+ alliance led by oil cartel member ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Navy from acting against 35 sailors for refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The injunction is a new challenge to Defense Secretary Lloyd ...
Here are snippets of the latest Associated Press stories worldwide on the coronavirus: ___ FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida hospital has temporarily closed its maternity ward due to staff shortages related to recent outbreaks of COVID-19. Mothers-to-be who had planned on giving ...
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic will get a chance to defend his Australian Open title after receiving a medical exemption to travel to Melbourne, ending months of uncertainty about his participation because of the strict COVID-19 vaccination requirements in place for the ...
AUSTINTOWN — The phone lines went down this morning at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, the same morning COVID-19 test kits were to be given out. But the library system went ahead with the distributions without the need to call ahead. The 500 kits given away at the Austintown branch were gone about 10 minutes after the doors opened at 9 a.m.
