Month: August 2022

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell below 5% for the first time in four months this…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press PROCTOR, Vt. (AP) — Weeks after surviving one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish foreign ministery has summoned the charge d’affaires of Belarus to express its concern after a Belarusian…

By DAVID KLEPPER and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press In the thick of Kansas’ contentious debate over abortion rights, the anonymous text messages…

CINCINNATI (AP) — There’s a new mouth to feed to at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. A full-term hippopotamus was born Wednesday night. The…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When camp counselor Allie Tarantino was flipping through a magazine years ago, he came upon…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Around 50 mourners escort two caskets draped in satin fabric through a leafy cemetery in…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the number of unemployed continues to…

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has announced the creation of a new position of ambassador for LGBTQ rights, in efforts to fight…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Billions of dollars in climate and environment investments from the Inflation Reduction Act could flow to…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez has been arrested on bribery charges related…

By TODD RICHMOND and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — As Wisconsin’s longest-serving Assembly speaker, Republican Robin…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has promoted a Vatican nurse to be his “personal health care assistant” The Vatican announced the appointment of…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government says a Japanese video journalist detained while covering a brief pro-democracy march has been…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual Oktoberfest festival is finally on again for this fall, following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Negotiators from Iran, the United States and the European Union have resumed monthslong, indirect talks over…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government announced on Thursday it plans to prevent development of a…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has announced its biggest interest rate increase in 27 years. The central bank…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Sydney apartment where the bodies of two Saudi sisters were found in June is back on…

BEIJING (AP) — China is staging live-fire military drills in six self-declared zones surrounding Taiwan in response to a visit by U.S. House…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — “Where you went grad,” is a common question posed in Hawaii Pidgin to find out…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A large fire triggered by explosions at an ammunition dump is raging in a major Berlin urban…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press AL-FAKHEET, West Bank (AP) — After repeatedly rebuilding his home only to have it demolished by Israeli soldiers,…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s firebrand former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has put migration at the center of his…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Bamako, Mali’s bustling riverside capital of more than 2.5 million people, is on heightened…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Friday ahead of an update on the health of the U.S. jobs market while…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Cliff Branch was the epitome of what Al Davis coveted in a receiver during his decades running the Raiders.…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A judge in Russia convicted American basketball star Brittney Griner of drug possession and…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An international human rights group says Sri Lanka’s government is using emergency…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is stressing his country’s efforts to strengthen…

By KAREL JANICEK and JOVANA GEC Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Liudmyla Chudyjovych used to have a career as a lawyer in Ukraine and big plans for…