Month: August 2022

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press The word is out in New York City and beyond. If you see a spotted lanternfly, stomp it. Kill-on-sight requests in…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz appeared Friday before a parliamentary panel in the northern state of Hamburg to answer lawmakers’…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press KWANONGOMA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ethnic Zulu nation will on Saturday host a coronation event…

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian opposition war monitor and a paramedic group say a rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland have arrested an 81-year-old Danish woman traveling from Africa to Canada on suspicion of illegal…

By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A fire at a munitions depot inside Russia forced the evacuation of two villages near the border…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, who was once banned from the Philippines by former President…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden will host a White House summit next month aimed at…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A court says Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong in 2017 has been…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A strike by London Underground workers brought the British capital’s transit network to a grinding…

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments that Israel had…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has accused the U.S. of trying to…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dr. Ilona Butova almost looks out of place in her neatly pressed…

By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — For tiny Moldova, an impoverished, landlocked nation that borders…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a choppy week of trading Friday with a broad slide for stocks that left the…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — It’s an increasingly familiar sight in U.S. cities and suburbs: A van…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Last week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national in a…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on…

By SAM METZ and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hydroelectric turbines may stop turning. Las Vegas and Phoenix may be…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people in the United States will be spared from big increases in health care costs…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (AP) — At a recent rally with union workers and other supporters in the downtown square of…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge is considering whether to allow the state to enforce a near-total ban on abortions…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China’s response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was anything but…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who says she was sexually abused hundreds of times by R. Kelly as a minor testified…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man prosecutors called a serial killer has been convicted of raping and killing two women in the 1980s after…