Month: January 2022

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Data show it’s rare for police officers to be convicted of on-duty killings. But three…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming out in March. It’s titled…

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of mourners in Ireland have turned out for the funeral Mass of a 23-year-old elementary school teacher whose killing has…

By KIM COOK Associated Press Houseplants have been keeping a lot of us company during the pandemic. The good news is there’s a plant for any home,…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The new prime ministers of North Macedonia and Bulgaria have agreed to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has successfully tested a system designed to intercept ballistic missiles outside the earth’s atmosphere. The…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say Moscow is sending an unspecified number of troops from the country’s…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft is paying the enormous sum of nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers are calling for a parliamentary inquiry into the police’s alleged use of…

The Associated Press The airline industry is raising the stakes in a showdown with AT&T and Verizon over plans to launch new 5G wireless service…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “This Is Us,” “black-ish” and “Better Call Saul” are among the shows to be…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ex-Ohio House Democratic Leader Emilia Sykes says she’s running for Congress. The…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will not run for governor. On Tuesday, he ended…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied misleading Parliament about lockdown-breaching…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan’s influential former leader has released a short video in which he talked about the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer AT&T and Verizon say they will delay some new 5G wireless service after the airline industry raised alarms…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Border Guard authorities say that almost 600 attempts by migrants at illegally crossing from Belarus have been…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott has a memoir out this summer that he says will explain the two words that have shaped his life: hope and redemption.…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album of rootsy rock from John Mellencamp, the return of puppet…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that forced Chinese women into prostitution in Spain. Police said…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is shortening the required isolation period for people infected with COVID-19 from 14 to…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Money is pouring fast into the Texas governor’s race headlined by Republican Gov. Greg…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s arms exports reached record levels in 2021, largely due to significant sales of maritime and air defense weapons to…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican press office says that Cardinal Pietro Parolin and  Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra have both tested positive for the…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations has raised the death toll from twin earthquakes in western Afghanistan the day before to 26. It says…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Rome villa containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio is going back on a…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with his Russian counterpart in Switzerland this…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s health officials say that the country has entered a new, fifth wave, in the coronavirus pandemic, predicting that…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet With multiple debts, it’s easy to lose track of buy now, pay later plans and potentially take on more than you…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s environment minister says the country will gradually phase out coal plants over the next…