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  • A workforce crisis is damaging families' access to therapies for babies with developmental delays

    October 08, 2023 - 1:08 PM

    CHICAGO (AP) — Alexander watches Paw Patrol with fervor, bowls his baby brother over with hugs and does everything with gusto.

  • US soldier loses 1 Afghan translator; fights to save another

    August 26, 2021 - 9:17 PM

    BREMEN, Germany (AP) — The two men risked their lives together nearly a decade ago trying to eliminate the Taliban, dodging bullets and forever bonding in a way that can only be forged in war.

  • The Latest: Official Taliban websites abruptly go offline

    August 20, 2021 - 3:58 PM

    BOSTON — Taliban websites that delivered the victorious insurgents’ official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages have abruptly gone offline.

  • The Latest: UN statement would urge end to Taliban offensive

    August 13, 2021 - 4:13 PM

    The Latest developments on Afghanistan, where a weeklong Taliban blitz has taken large swaths of territory just weeks ahead of the final pullout of all American and NATO troops from the war-torn country:

  • First evacuation flight brings 221 Afghans, many kids, to US

    July 30, 2021 - 1:07 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The first flight evacuating Afghans who worked alongside Americans in Afghanistan brought more than 200 people, including scores of children and babies in arms, to new lives in the United States on Friday, and President Joe Biden said he was proud to welcome them home.

  • US to begin evacuating Afghans who aided American military

    July 14, 2021 - 3:59 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday that it is prepared to begin evacuation flights for Afghan interpreters and translators who aided the U.S. military effort in the nearly 20-year war — but their destinations are still unknown and there are lingering questions about how to ensure their safety until they can get on planes.

  • Afghans who worked as interpreters for US troops hold rally

    June 25, 2021 - 9:04 AM

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A small group of Afghans who worked as interpreters for the U.S. military rallied on Friday near the American Embassy in Kabul, protesting the red tape that stands in the way of their leaving Afghanistan.

  • Biden vows to evacuate thousands of Afghans who helped US

    June 24, 2021 - 6:40 PM

    President Joe Biden vowed on Thursday that Afghans who helped the U.S. military “are not going to be left behind" as his administration stepped up planning to evacuate thousands of Afghan interpreters while their applications for U.S. entry are processed.

  • Luiselli's prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis

    June 07, 2021 - 2:02 PM

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries’ test with her first novel written directly in English, “Lost Children Archive” (“Sound Desert”), which received the Dublin Literary Award.

  • Female workers sue McCormick & Schmick's over lewd behaviour

    December 12, 2017 - 5:43 PM

    BOSTON - Female kitchen workers at the McCormick & Schmick's seafood restaurant in downtown Boston were subjected to constant groping and lewd comments from male supervisors and co-workers, and their complaints to the company were routinely ignored, five women said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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