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Wall Street falls to first down week in four on rate worries 04/08/2022 04:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed its first losing week in the last four with an up-and-down Friday, as investors brace for the Federal Reserve to tighten the brakes on the economy more aggressively to beat down inflation. Big tech stocks once again led the market lower, and the S&P 500 fell Cheers for Jackson, who declares, 'We've made it, all of us' 04/08/2022 04:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court showed the progress of America, declaring, ″We’ve made it — all of us." Jackson delivered emotional remarks on the sunny White EXPLAINER: BA.2 variant takes over. What's known about it? 04/08/2022 02:45pm • In the latest battle of the coronavirus mutants, an extra-contagious version of omicron has taken over the world. The coronavirus version known as BA.2 is now dominant in at least 68 countries, including the United States. The World Health Organization says it makes up about 94% of sequenced omicron NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 04/08/2022 10:39am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Video does not show staged bodies in Bucha CLAIM: A video UK airport warns COVID-related delays could last months 04/08/2022 06:20am • LONDON (AP) — A major British airport warned passengers on Friday to expect the delays plaguing travel to continue for months, as the U.K. aviation regulator told the country’s air industry to shape up after weeks of canceled flights and long airport queues. The head of Manchester Airport in 3 Shanghai officials sacked over COVID-19 response 04/08/2022 05:23am • BEIJING (AP) — Three local officials in Shanghai have been sacked over a slack response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest city, where residents are complaining of harsh lockdown conditions leading to shortages of food and basic necessities. An official notice Friday gave no details of Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines 04/08/2022 02:17am • PARIS (AP) — French voters in Sunday's presidential election will use the same system that's been used for generations: paper ballots that are cast in person and counted by hand. Despite periodic calls for more flexibility or modernization, France doesn’t do mail-in voting, early voting or use v Today in History: April 8, Hank Aaron hits 715th homer 04/08/2022 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, April 8, the 98th day of 2022. There are 267 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth’s record. On this AP Top U.S. News at 10:52 p.m. EDT 04/08/2022 12:00am • 'Get used to it': Outbreaks give taste of living with virus EXPLAINER: Charges in Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot case Whitmer kidnap plot: 2 men acquitted, hung jury for 2 more US speeds entry for Ukrainians as more reach Mexico border Vehicle collides with food truck in Austin, Texas; 11 hurt EX State officials: Bird flu found at Indiana duck farm 04/07/2022 10:03pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Avian influenza has been detected in a northern Indiana duck farm, state officials said Thursday, marking the disease's spread to a third poultry species. Laboratory testing of a commercial duck flock in Elkhart County has come back as presumptively positive for the virus, t Pelosi positive for COVID-19, was at White House with Biden 04/07/2022 06:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden. Pelosi, D-Calif., received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic, her spokesman Drew Hammill said Thursday in a Experts say US suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic 04/07/2022 05:24pm • LONDON (AP) — In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders, a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted. They warn the suspension of COVID-19 aid for poorer countries Sarah Jessica Parker sidelined as Broadway fights virus 04/07/2022 04:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The second shoe has dropped at “Plaza Suite” on Broadway. First Matthew Broderick tested positive for COVID-19 and a few days later his wife and co-star, Sarah Jessica Parker, has done so herself. Parker tested positive Thursday and the show has been canceled. What happen DC Mayor Bowser tests positive for COVID-19 amid 'small uptick' in District virus cases 04/07/2022 04:12pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday morning she has tested positive for COVID-19. The positive test comes amid a "small uptick" in COVID-19 cases in the District over the past few weeks, health officials said, although there are no plans to restore a Districtwide indoor mask mandate. In a t Bird flu's grisly question: how to kill millions of poultry 04/07/2022 03:16pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The spread of a bird flu that is deadly to poultry raises the grisly question of how farms manage to quickly kill and dispose of millions of chickens and turkeys. It's a chore that farms across the country are increasingly facing as the number of poultry killed in the past two m