Month: June 2022

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that Native Americans prosecuted in certain tribal courts can also be prosecuted based on the same incident in federal court. That can result in longer sentences. The 6-3 ruling is in keeping with an earlier ruling from the 1970s that said the

CLOVERLEAF, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas say a 7-year-old boy died after he was struck by gunfire that was shot into his Texas home as he slept in bed. Authorities say the child was shot about 10:45 p.m. Sunday at his family’s home in the Houston-area city of Cloverleaf. Authorities say someone in a

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime CBS News correspondent Richard Schlesinger, a fixture on the newsmagazine “48 Hours,” is retiring after nearly four decades at the network. The New York-based Schlesinger, who had also reported for the “CBS Evening News,” “CBS Sunday Morning” and occasionally anchored, joined the network in 1984 in its Miami bureau and

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi leaders say they will move forward with efforts to form a government following the shocking resignation of 73 lawmakers from parliament during a prolonged political impasse. But the unprecedented mass withdrawal by members of powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc dramatically alters the political landscape, throwing

LONDON (AP) — British health officials have detected another 104 cases of monkeypox in England in what has become the biggest outbreak beyond Africa of the normally rare disease. The U.K.’s Health Security Agency said Monday there were now 470 cases of monkeypox across the country, with the vast majority in gay or bisexual men.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The agency monitoring the European Union’s external borders says that the number of detected illegal migration entries in the first five months of 2022 was more than 86,000 or almost 82% more that in the same period in 2021. Most of the crossings took place in May, according to preliminary data

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s economy minister has linked Algeria´s decision to suspend a decades-old friendship treaty with Spain with what she said is the North African country’s increasing alignment with Russia. Nadia Calviño told Catalunya Radio on Monday that in recent international meetings, she noticed that Algeria was more and

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials are warning that people can face arrest if they defy a presidential order to wear face masks in public to protect against the coronavirus even in a province where the governor has declared they are optional. Officials asked the governor of central Cebu province to cooperate with President Rodrigo

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is back in the claws of a bear market as worries about inflation and higher interest rates overwhelm investors. The Federal Reserve has signaled it will aggressively raise interest rates to try to control inflation, which is the highest in

By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal civil rights lawsuit says the death of a Black teenager at a Kansas juvenile detention center was foreshadowed by a 2016 state inspection of the facility that noted systemic deficiencies in its handling of children with mental health issues. Cedric Lofton’s foster father called

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese foundation has announced it is launching a fundraising drive to provide more than 1,200 Ukrainian evacuees in Japan with additional financial support for language studies and other needs. Jumpei Sasakawa, executive director of the Nippon Foundation, says it aims to raise $7.4 million through cooperation

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — A seventh member of the Haitian delegation for the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games has gone missing while visiting central Florida for the athletic competitions. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office says Louis Jacques Wilguens was last seen getting off a bus at a Walt Disney World resort a day

PITTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Authorities in Maryland say a 20-year-old man was arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy who was trying to arrest him on multiple felony warrants. Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said Monday that Deputy First Class Glenn Hilliard and another deputy went to an apartment complex in

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is setting in motion plans to legalize the sale of cannabis for recreational purposes, aiming to have legislation ready in the year’s second half. The Health Ministry said Monday that it will start holding expert hearings on various aspects of the issue Tuesday. The pledge to legalize controlled sales

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say one person was killed and another critically hurt when family members began shooting at each other at Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta. Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton says the family came to the hospital after a separate incident in nearby DeKalb County late Sunday. Hampton says the scene

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government’s plan to deport asylum-seekers of various nationalities to Rwanda is set to go ahead after an appeals court on Monday refused to block the policy that the U.N.’s top refugee official said sets a dangerous precedent for migrants fleeing war and oppression. Immediately after

PRAGUE (AP) — Budvar, the Czech brewer that has been in a long legal dispute with U.S. company Anheuser-Busch over use of the “Budweiser” brand, has increased its beer exports last year despite the pandemic. Budejovicky Budvar NP, a 126-year-old state-owned brewery, said Monday its exports were up a record of 11% in 2021, reaching

BERLIN (AP) — An independent research group says China has overtaken Germany as the biggest buyer of Russian energy exports since the start of the war in Ukraine. The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air said Monday that Russia received about 93 billion euros in revenue from the sale of oil, natural gas

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet What you pay for a prescription drug varies enormously depending on your medication, pharmacy, insurance and other factors. Finding a way to afford your prescriptions can be crucial, because people who don’t take medicine as prescribed due to the cost could wind up sicker or dead. To lower the cost

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says that a weeklong strike by thousands of truckers in the country has triggered major disruptions in cargo transport and production that have caused $1.2 billion in damages. An extended strike may eventually worsen the global supply chains already battered by Russia’s invasion

By SYLVIA HUI and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has unveiled legislation that would unilaterally change post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland. That move will face opposition from lawmakers — including some in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s own Conservative Party — who believe it violates international law. The law would let

LONDON (AP) — The leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is under investigation by a parliamentary official over potential violations of rules on earnings and gifts. Parliament’s website showed that Keir Starmer is being investigated by Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, over whether he broke two sections of lawmakers’ code of conduct

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis has canceled his participation in a yearly Mass and procession next weekend due to ongoing knee pain. But the pope says he does hope to celebrate a special Mass at the Vatican on July 3 for Rome’s Congolese community. That’s to make up for the fact that

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Surely many in the audience were thinking it, but “Company” director Marianne Elliott said it most directly at Sunday’s Tony awards: In the devastating two years since the pandemic hit, it “felt at times that live theater was endangered.” As in, the industry might never

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has met with Thailand’s prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, in an effort to strengthen what Austin says is Washington’s “unparalleled network of alliances” in the region. Thailand and the United States are longtime military allies, despite a cooling of relations after the

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, says she will not seek a new four-year term after the current one that has been overshadowed by criticism of her response to China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in western Xinjiang. Bachelet, in her opening address to

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Attacks by Islamic extremists are on the rise five months after mutinous soldiers overthrew Burkina Faso’s democratically elected president. And analysts say that could undermine support for coup leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba’s regime. Many in Burkina Faso supported the military takeover, frustrated with the previous