Month: July 2022

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch farmers are protesting government plans to reduce nitrogen emissions. The…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say the government has scrapped a deal to purchase 16 Russian…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — More than 1,000 Lufthansa flights have been canceled because of a one-day strike by the…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by a “suffocating” crackdown by the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Wednesday as traders prepared for a possible sharp…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Jackie Robinson Museum has opened in Manhattan with a gala ceremony attended by the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Ashley Bloomfield, the mild-mannered doctor who became an unlikely hero to many New…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer CHAUVIN, La. (AP) — Sliding off the side of her small boat, seabird biologist Bonnie Slaton wades through…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional candidate in Washington state whose compelling personal story of military…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Nancy Pelosi hasn’t said if she’s going to Taiwan, but if she does…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The scorching heat spell in the Pacific Northwest is now expected to last…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The week before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentines have gathered to mourn iconic Argentine leader María Eva Duarte de Perón, 70…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian inflation is rising farther, according to new data that increases the…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to make the city a sanctuary for abortion providers and patients, meaning Seattle police will…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced two former Minneapolis police officers who were…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A dispute between Iraq and Turkey over a recent deadly attack in Iraq’s northern…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Defense chiefs from across the Indo-Pacific gathered this week to bolster their connections…

By AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will speak Thursday, according to a U.S.…

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press A grass fire spread to at least nine homes in a rural North Texas subdivision in the second such fire in as many…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s minister for gender equality and children’s issues called the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game topped last week’s TV ratings. An audience of 7.5 million watched the American…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Drugmaker Teva has announced an agreement to settle lawsuits over the allegations that it helped fuel the U.S.…

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Luis Suárez says he wants to return to his soccer roots in Uruguay. The 35-year-old striker announced Tuesday that he…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico was outraged when a woman who had reported threats from her neighbors because of her autistic son’s loudness was set…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With just days left in his tenure, the embattled director of the federal…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a sweeping abortion bill. It aims in part to build a firewall…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific will spend more than $1 billion to upgrade 600 of its old diesel locomotives over…