Month: May 2022

By ROB GILLIES and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Government officials say Western allies are considering whether to allow Russian…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has been intimately involved in some of the gun control movement’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the second week in a row, though interest rates on the key 30-year home…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech capital has stripped a Soviet World War II commander of his honorary Prague citizenship. The Prague City Council ’s…

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — A coal-powered passenger steamship on Lake Michigan that’s the last of its kind in the U.S. will stop using coal to fuel…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A painting project is to blame for an odor that affected some cruise ship passengers in Virginia and prompted the U.S. Coast…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres brought her nearly two-decade daytime talk show to an end Thursday with a…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard told jurors Thursday that a harassment campaign waged against her by…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Stagflation. It was the dreaded “S word” of the 1970s. For Americans of a certain age, it…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists…

By IMAD ISSEID Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Authority on Thursday announced the results of its investigation into…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Pat McCrory’s political career has taken quite a turn in the past decade. The…

MADRID (AP) — A court in Spain has dismissed Colombian singer Shakira’s appeal in a tax fraud case. The ruling issued Thursday paves the way for…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in the New York attorney…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Jacklyn Cazares hadn’t yet reached her 10th birthday, but she was…

COBB COUNTY, Ga. (AP) — Voters in an affluent suburban Atlanta county have rejected ballot measures that would have turned three mostly white areas…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo military officials said that the M23 rebels closed in on a major military camp in…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States is urging Yemen’s Houthi rebels to release all U.S. Embassy local staffers they had…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors said Thursday they had authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A 13-year-old boy shot in the back by a Chicago police officer was unarmed and had his arms…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in…

TOKYO (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha says a new U.S.-backed economic pact is further proof of how important and relevant Asia is…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a buzzy, sold-out run and three extensions, “Suffs,” Shaina Taub’s musical…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs is one step closer to confirmation for the federal…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader, who will appoint a key member of the state’s…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Rescuers at the site of a collapsed building in southwestern Iran have recovered five more bodies, bringing the death toll from…

MADRID (AP) — Police in Spain say an explosion at a biodiesel plant has left two people dead and forced 250 children to be evacuated from the area.…