Month: June 2022

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet Summer music festivals can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but costs can be excessive for many fans. With expenses…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed into law regulations replacing the controversial body disciplining judges with a new…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern city of Sievierodonetsk…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Swiss authorities have carried out a joint operation to detain four people who are accused of membership in or support of…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain canceled a flight that was scheduled to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda late Tuesday after…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait says its 81-year-old crown prince was resting after experiencing what it described as “minor…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A territorial dispute between Denmark and Canada over a barren and uninhabited rock in the Arctic that has led to…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected a Jewish man’s bid to have a 700-year-old antisemitic statue…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has started her campaign for a second independence referendum.…

By KATIE TAM and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A floating restaurant that fed Cantonese cuisine to Queen Elizabeth II, Tom Cruise and…

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations has warned of a “dangerous disconnect” between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s president has presented suggestions regarding the disputed maritime border with Israel…

BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government has presented a package of measures aimed at cushioning the impact of high inflation that includes 500-euro…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A.B. Yehoshua, a prominent Israeli author celebrated for his mastery of the Hebrew language and a leading peace activist, has…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani TV journalist apparently taken by force by plainclothes police in the southern port city of Karachi has been…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Because he’ll shortly be deployed as a soldier on the battlefields of Ukraine, Serhiy…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official increasingly seen…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street opened the week with heavy losses that put the benchmark S&P 500 at…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s announcement of how…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An explosion at a chemical factory in southern Iran has injured scores of people, most of…

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the more reliable warning signals for an economic recession started blinking again. Treasurys, the IOUs the U.S. government…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham has won the Democratic nomination for governor, setting…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage is seeking a political comeback. With no opposition, he…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama is urging Americans not to tune out a gridlocked political…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina has been ousted from Congress in his Republican…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Nevada attorney general who has embraced lies about the 2020…

By MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as…