Month: August 2022

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to prevent a hospital withdrawing life support from a 12-year-old boy with catastrophic brain damage, rejecting a bid by his parents to extend his treatment. The parents of Archie Battersbee had aske Supreme Court justices to block a lower court’s ruling

By JAY REEVES, MICHAEL PHILLIS and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press HAYNEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Federal officials announced a pilot program on Tuesday to help 11 communities improve their sewage infrastructure. Officials made the announcement in Lowndes County, Alabama, which has suffered for decades with inadequate sewage systems. After heavy rains, human waste covers Charlie Mae

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors have charged a man with intending to “injure or alarm” Queen Elizabeth II after he was arrested at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day. Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, has been charged under the Treason Act after allegedly being caught with a crossbow on the palace grounds. Chail, from Southampton, has been

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several doctors have told Indiana lawmakers that physicians fear they could face criminal charges when they provide emergency treatment for pregnant women if a proposal aimed at banning nearly all abortions in the state becomes law. The testimony Tuesday came after an Indiana House

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that the man charged with killing his mother at sea during a 2016 fishing trip off the coast of New England in a plot to inherit millions of dollars will remain detained pending trial. The judge on Tuesday denied Nathan Carman’s request to be

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer New research hints that even simple exercise just might help seniors with mild memory problems. While physical activity helps keep healthy brains fit, it’s not clear how much it helps once memory starts to slide. The U.S. study compared sedentary older adults assigned aerobic exercises or a simple stretching

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala (AP) — At dawn, police and federal agents with cover from helicopters flying overhead raided a large ranch nestled among the mountains of northern Guatemala, not far from the border with Mexico. Unlike the ranch’s impoverished neighbors, inside authorities found horse stables, a swimming pool, late model

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A former deputy leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been named a government minister by Somalia’s new administration in what some call a chance to persuade fighters to denounce violence. Mukhtar Robow has been given the post of religious affairs minister. Not all Somalis support

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say Lebanon’s prosecutor general has granted permission for a Syrian ship said to be carrying Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia to leave a port in the country’s north. The move Tuesday comes after an investigation showed the vessel was not carrying stolen goods. The officials

By MATT ROURKE and SHAWN MARSH Associated Press NATIONAL PARK, N.J. (AP) — Researchers believe they have uncovered in a mass grave in New Jersey the remains of as many as 12 Hessian soldiers who fought during the Revolutionary War, officials announced Tuesday. The remains, found at the site of Fort Mercer and the 1777

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Followers of an influential Shiite cleric camped out inside the Iraqi parliament building for a fourth straight day were instructed to leave the building but maintain their protest outside. A representative of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told the hundreds of loyalists in a tweet to leave the parliament

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In addition to opening this month’s Venice Film Festival, Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s “White Noise” will also kick off the 60th New York Film Festival. Film at Lincoln Center, which puts on the annual New York festival, announced Tuesday that “White Noise” will

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been forced into a policy U-turn as she runs to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Truss abandoned a proposal to cut some public sector salaries after the idea drew scorn from fellow Conservatives. Critics said the plan would mean cutting salaries

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s elections oversight body has ruled that former Prime Minister Imran Khan accepted illegal donations to his political party from abroad. The ruling Tuesday is a key first step toward a possible ban on Khan and his party from politics. The case against the cricket star-turned-politician dates

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — It’s one of the seafood industry’s most gruesome hunts. Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of the majestic sea predators, their bleeding bodies sometimes dumped back into the ocean where they are left to suffocate or die

By BRUCE SCHREINER, REBECCA REYNOLDS and BRYNN ANDERSON Associated Press HINDMAN, Ky. (AP) — Withering heat was descending on a region of eastern Kentucky already reeling from massive flooding, forcing residents laboring to clean up after the deluge to cope with an oppressive new threat. The grim task of cleaning up from the flooding continued,

NEW YORK (AP) — State and local poets laureate from Alabama to Hawaii will receive $50,000 grants from the Academy of American Poets for “positive contributions to their communities.” The academy announced Tuesday that it will distribute $1.1 million to 22 laureates through its Poets Laureate Fellowship program. Since 2019, 81 poets laureates have received

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says it’s ready for talks with the United States on nuclear arms control even as Moscow and Washington have remained locked in a tense standoff over Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Commenting on U.S. President Joe Biden’s statement that Washington is open for talks on a

The Russian Supreme Court has declared Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a terrorist organization banned in Russia, a designation that may expose Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Moscow to terrorism charges. Azov, which played a key part in the defense of Ukraine’s southeastern city of Mariupol, has been repeatedly portrayed by Russian officials as a Nazi

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) — Jim Obergefell is hoping that Democrats can win back seats at the Ohio Statehouse and beyond this fall with a message grounded in his landmark U.S. Supreme Court fight for same-sex marriage. The celebrity plaintiff-turned-Ohio House candidate says the party can win by driving home

MILAN (AP) — Luxury Italian automaker Ferrari raised its 2022 forecast Tuesday after reporting a 22% increase in second-quarter earnings as sales in the Americas surged. The maker of high-performance luxury sports cars reported net profits of 251 million euros ($257 million) in April through June, up from 206 million euros in the same period

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Hino Motors, a truck maker that’s part of the Toyota group, systematically falsified emissions data dating back as far as 2003, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday. President Satoshi Ogiso bowed deeply at a hastily called news conference and apologized to customers and

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says search teams have found the wreckage of a helicopter that went down the previous day while flying on a relief mission in a flood-hit area in the southwest. Tuesday’s announcement confirms that an army general and five others on board were killed. The helicopter had lost contact with the

By RAHIM FAIEZ and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri is intensifying global scrutiny of Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. They had pledged not to harbor members of the extremist group as they seek desperately needed international aid after overthrowing Kabul’s Western-backed government. Al-Zawahri’s killing —

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet As you look through your social media feeds this summer, fear of missing out, or FOMO, can kick in when it seems like everyone you know is strolling through Paris or lounging on a tropical beach. How do people have this much time off? Where is their travel budget coming