Month: October 2022

By KEN SWEET and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON The Associated Press / Report for America NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans who do not have a bank account fell to a record low last year, as the proliferation of online-only banks and an improving economy is bringing more Americans into the traditional financial system. A

By TAMER FAKAHANY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — They are two photos taken exactly seven weeks apart, capturing the traditional and ceremonial rites of the monarch meeting the British prime minister-in-waiting to ask them to form a new government. They are also bookends. Between the taking of the first and of the second, much elapsed,

By The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Country Music Association Awards will open this year’s show with a tribute to the late country queen Loretta Lynn. Other announced performers for the Nov. 9 show include Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Carly Pearce and Morgan Wallen. Kelsea Ballerini will team up with Kelly

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Books and speeches, lyrics and interviews, impulsive tweets and sworn testimony: Keeping up with all the words issued over the past decade might overwhelm anyone, but even more so if it’s your job to keep up. “Clearly, the speed of events meant that no matter

By MATT OTT AP Business Reporter WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers were less confident this month as concerns about inflation took hold again after receding in recent months. The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell to 102.5 in October, from 107.8 in September. Consumers had grown more confident in the two

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s new far-right-led government of Giorgia Meloni has won the first of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin. The vote in the lower Chamber of Deputies Tuesday night was 235 in favor of her coalition government and 154 against. The coalition needed at

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Gay couples have begun to get married in Cuba under the country’s new Family Code. It came into effect at the beginning of October after a vote in September, which faced opposition from conservative and evangelical groups. The code was approved after heavy campaigning by

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who opened combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, has died at age 68. Carter died Monday evening after suffering a heart attack in Boston, his family said in a statement Tuesday. Known as

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — A South Africa government spokesman says peace talks to end Ethiopia’s devastating Tigray conflict have begun there. It is the highest-level effort yet to end two years of fighting that has killed perhaps hundreds of thousands of people. The spokesman for South African President Cyril

BERLIN (AP) — A closely watched survey shows that German business confidence is stuck at its lowest level in more than two years as energy worries fuel expectations of a difficult winter. The Ifo institute said Tuesday that its monthly confidence index, a prominent health indicator for Europe’s biggest economy, edged down to 84.3 points

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is rolling out a feature that allows shoppers to pay for items using their Venmo accounts. The option to pay with Venmo will be available for select Amazon.com customers beginning on Tuesday, the e-commerce giant said in a news release. By Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving

HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) — Police say the six people found dead after an apartment fire in a southern Wisconsin village last week had been shot in an apparent case of murder-suicide. The bodies of a couple and their four children were found early Friday after firefighters were called to their burning apartment in Hartland. Ten

By RENATA BRITO and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The International Organization for Migration says more than 29,000 people have died on migration journeys to Europe since 2014, with 5,000 perishing in the last two years alone. The U.N. agency’s Missing Migrants Project issued the tallies in a report released on Tuesday. In

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian voters are being bombarded by online misinformation less than a week before they pick their next leader. People on social media say, wrongly, that the leftist candidate in Brazil’s presidential election plans to close down churches if elected. There are lies that Luiz Inácio

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s domestic security agency says it has detained a man who entered the country as a Brazilian citizen but is suspected of being a Russian spy. A local court on Tuesday ordered him held for four weeks. Martin Bernsen, a spokesman for the Norwegian Police Security Service, known as PST, confirmed

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian caused as much as $1.8 billion in damages to Florida agriculture last month. A preliminary estimate released Monday by the Florida Department of Agriculture says the Category 4 storm caused between $1.1 billion and $1.8 billion in losses to the state’s crops and agriculture infrastructure when it tore through

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was scheduled to get his updated COVID-19 booster shot on Tuesday and urge the public to get theirs to ensure a healthy holiday season. Biden was to appear at the White House with the doctors who are leading administration efforts against the spread of

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators have taken to the streets of the country’s capital, Khartoum, marking the first anniversary of the coup that upended the nation’s short-lived transition to democracy. Videos published on social media show thousands of demonstrators marching with flags and drums on Tuesday. Most were

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has endorsed North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley in a new campaign ad. Democrats are targeting the Southern swing state as one of the few where they have a strong shot at flipping a seat in the evenly split

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator said Tuesday that Russian forces were performing secret work at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, activity that could shed light on Russia’s claims that the Ukrainian military is preparing a “provocation” involving a radioactive device. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made an unsubstantiated allegation that Ukraine was

BEIRUT (AP) — A top Lebanese general says he is still mediating between the United States and Syria over the fate of American journalist Austin Tice who went missing a decade ago in the war-torn country. Washington maintains that Tice is held by Syrian authorities. He went missing sin 2012 at a checkpoint in a

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet If you’re trying to navigate inflation costs, some lesser-known money moves can unlock savings on your credit card. Whether you’re looking to ditch an annual fee, earn better rewards or make the most of cardholder incentives, familiarize yourself with actions that can free up money to put toward other goals.

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Adidas ended a partnership that helped make the artist formerly known as Kanye West a billionaire and lent the German sportswear an edgy appeal, but ultimately couldn’t survive a mounting outcry over the rapper’s offensive and antisemitic remarks. The split will leave

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say 10 people were killed in a collision between a truck and a minibus in the Nile Delta. The crash early on Tuesday in the province of Dakahlia also injured at least nine people. The collision took place on a highway linking Mansoura, the provincial capital, to the beach town