Month: July 2022

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The pop culture extravaganza that is Comic-Con International is back to its old extravagance. Stars, cosplayers and hordes of fans…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 after his health deteriorated. An An…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Matthew Pottinger was a journalist in China, concerned about the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is headed back to prime time for its eighth hearing —…

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The right to use contraceptives would be enshrined in law under a measure that Democrats pushed…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Baidu, a Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm, has unveiled its latest electric…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soccer player Megan Rapinoe admonished her fellow athletes for not doing enough to speak out and…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Truckers protesting a state labor law have effectively shut down cargo operations at the Port of Oakland, one of then…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. body promoting development is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic,…

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press Two men were indicted Wednesday in the case of a hot, airless tractor-trailer rig found last month with 53 dead or…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It was a dramatic moment at the end of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — William “Poogie” Hart, a founder of the Grammy-winning trio the Delfonics who helped write and sang a soft lead tenor on such…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an American Airlines flight headed with 56 people for Nashville, Tennessee, from Florida had to be diverted…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a 9-year-old Houston girl who died after she was shot by a man who had opened fire…

BELLA VISTA, Ark. (AP) — A $6.3 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over an underground fire at a dumping site in northwest Arkansas.…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators have canceled a policy that weakened their authority to…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that U.S. military officials believe it’s “not a good idea” for…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America Officials say a fire at the Hoover Dam was isolated to the single area in an exceedingly rare case…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon’s lawyers are trying to establish at his criminal contempt trial that the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two U.S. tourists have been injured by a crocodile at Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta resort when one went swimming in the ocean at…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general’s office says a motion seeking to block enforcement of…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union moved closer to imposing more sanctions on Russia after its 27 ambassadors backed a series of measures to ban…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video shows a Southern California police officer shoot and kill a Black man who was running…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Less than three months before Brazil’s presidential election, Brazilian politician Ciro Gomes has made…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police have released body-camera video from a six-hour standoff that ended with officers…