Month: September 2021

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Cabbage Patch Kids touched off the first big holiday toy craze nearly 40 years ago. Now the dolls are among 12 finalists…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — When European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen was at a loss for words to capture the true…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has sentenced a 47-year-old man to three years in prison for spying for Russia by handing over confidential…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. industrial production slowed to a 0.4% gain in August as shutdowns of petroleum…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Pope Francis has rejected the resignation of the archbishop of Hamburg, who offered to step down in…

EASTON, Md. (AP) — A statue thought to be the last Confederate monument still standing on a courthouse lawn in Maryland will be moved to a…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has invited CEOs and business leaders to the White House to discuss…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s prime minister and the leader of Catalonia have restarted negotiations in hopes…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer DoorDash is suing New York City over a new law that requires delivery companies to share customer data with…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom turned back a recall attempt by…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of Iraq’s electoral commission says attempts to buy votes…

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Commissioners in Surfside, Florida, have rejected a proposal to trade public land to the eventual buyer of the condominium…

POINT COMFORT, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says a Texas plastics company has agreed to pay nearly $3 million in civil penalties for…

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The key defendant in the 2015 Paris attacks trial said the coordinated killings were part of the…

BERLIN (AP) — A memorial in Berlin to the Polish victims of World War II has moved a step closer to realization. Germany’s foreign minister said…

By JILL LAWLESS and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has demoted his top diplomat and fired his…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says nearly 3 million consumers took advantage of a special six-month…

LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s top official outlined on Tuesday ambitious plans to kickstart chipmaking capability so that the bloc can stand…

By CAMERON ROGERS Edmunds Volkswagen’s redesigned 2022 Golf GTI will be arriving at dealerships this fall. It’s the latest generation of the car…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom beat back a recall election that could have…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Officials say infections following monsoon rains have led to a fever outbreak in…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has kicked off a new holiday celebrating national unity with a display of…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran Wednesday resumed commercial flights to Afghanistan that had been halted after the Taliban assumed power, news agencies…

By GEORGIA ROSE of NerdWallet A rise in freelancing, coupled with an increasing interest in flexible employment from millennial and Gen Z workers,…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian authorities arrested a prominent journalist and a Berber linguist this week as part of what appears to be a…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Immigration is a side issue in this year’s German election campaign, but that hasn’t stopped…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s most powerful politician says the country’s future is in the European Union but…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is pressing ahead with plans to develop its own defense capacities and limit its…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court set up in The Hague to prosecute crimes from Kosovo’s 1998-99 war for…

By LAUREN WEBER and ANNA MARIA BARRY-JESTER KHN (Kaiser Health News) A review of hundreds of pieces of legislation across the United States shows…

By LAUREN WEBER and ANNA MARIA BARRY-JESTER KHN (Kaiser Health News) A review of hundreds of pieces of legislation across the United States shows…