Month: July 2022

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has opted to pull investments from five energy corporations, joining other faith-based groups in targeting…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Hoping to expand their appeal beyond the slot machine and buffet crowd, some casinos are…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Court documents say a tipster who warned police in Richmond, Virginia, about a…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Now that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to federal…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Backers of a proposed initiative in Oregon that would require people to secure permits to buy…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Hundreds of protesters have demanded justice for a Black man who was seriously injured in the back of a police van…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is raging. The stock market is tumbling and interest rates rising. American…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana authorities can now enforce the state’s ban on almost all abortions under a new…

By OUMAR ZOMBRE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Protesters in Burkina Faso demonstrated Friday against the return…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s state-run news agency is reporting that authorities have detained two filmmakers over an appeal they…

Moscow is trolling both the U.S. and the U.K. by officially renaming the streets in front of their embassies for the two separatist regions of…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in “unnecessary use of force” against…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A European Union official says the bloc has asked Turkish Cypriot authorities in…

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska family had given up hope of finding their blind, elderly golden retriever who wandered away from their home three…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was closed Friday and hundreds of people…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the U.S. will send another $400 million in military equipment…

By RENATA BRITO and TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The European Commission has vowed to step up its work with Morocco to…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press The family of a Palestinian-American reporter killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank has…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says veteran counterterrorism police officer Mark Rowley will be the new chief of London’s troubled…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A deep dive into rock ‘n’ roll’s female pioneers like Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Mavis…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police have imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka’s capital a day before a planned…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian liberal party has failed to find a majority in parliament to form a…