Month: October 2022

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Judges at the U.K.’s highest court have begun hearing evidence on whether Scotland’s Parliament can legislate to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a new independence vote in October 2023, despite opposition from the Conservative

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers The U.S. Department of Labor is publishing a new proposal on how workers should be classified saying that thousands of people have been incorrectly labeled as contractors rather than employees, potentially curtailing access to benefits and protections they rightfully deserve. The department said Tuesday that misclassifying

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O’Rourke says his campaign for Texas governor raised another $25 million over the past three months as a big-spending race with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott enters the final stretch. The former El Paso congressman has now raised more than $57 million this year

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A malfunctioning heater sent dangerously high level of carbon monoxide into a Pennsylvania day care center, sickening dozens of children and several adults. Emergency responders went to the Happy Smiles Learning Center in Allentown on Tuesday morning on reports of an unconscious child. Authorities say the building was evacuated after a

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg says it would be “a mistake” for Germany to switch off its nuclear power plants if that means burning more planet-heating coal. The German government is debating whether to end nuclear power as planned this year, despite the specter of a looming energy

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut jury has wrapped up its second full day of deliberations on how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay for spreading the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. The jury went home for the day Tuesday after asking

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. Roof had asked the court to decide how to handle disputes over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys.

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have detained 44 Syrian migrants, including 14 minors, found carefully hidden in a truck near the southern border with Greece. The truck driver was arrested on suspicion of belonging to a migrant-smuggling ring. A police statement said the migrants were found late Monday during

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church says the problem in the past had been “widespread” and on some occasions reached “truly endemic” proportions. Pedro Strecht, a psychiatrist who heads Portugal’s Independent Committee for the Study

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR (AP) — Thousands of people are protesting in the northwestern Pakistani city of Mingora after a gunman opened fire on a school van, killing the driver and critically injuring a child. Monday’s shooting took place in the Gully Bagh neighborhood, sparking fears of a resurgence in militant activity in

By The Associated Press Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies hoped to be in this position. Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros probably expected it. Both playing their best ball of the season, the Phillies and Astros surged Saturday within one win of the World Series. Harper delivered a go-ahead double as the Phillies, who

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Canada have agreed to formally start talks toward signing a military intelligence information sharing accord. The pact is part of an action plan agreed to by their foreign ministers meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday as a way to strengthen cooperation on defense, economic security and

By PAUL WISEMAN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is downgrading its outlook for the world economy for 2023, citing a long list of threats that include Russia’s war against Ukraine, chronic inflation pressures, punishing interest rates and the lingering consequences of the global pandemic. The 190-country lending agency

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL did not give officials a directive to emphasize roughing-the-passer penalties following Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion, but the topic will be discussed next week when NFL owners meet in New York, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press. The person, speaking

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed a recent decision by OPEC, Russia and other oil producing nations to limit production as key to stabilizing the global energy market, as he met the leader of the United Arab Emirates for talks on fostering economic ties. Speaking at the start of Tuesday’s

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 29-year-old Syrian man has been sentenced by a Danish court to three years in prison for money laundering after smuggling 74 million kroner (nearly $10 million) to neighboring Sweden. The Swedish resident’s identity was not disclosed. He crossed a tunnel and bridge that connects Copenhagen to Malmo, Sweden’s third largest

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government says the gopher tortoise isn’t threatened in most of its range. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision Tuesday is likely to disappoint environmental groups that sued to get federal protection for them. The reptiles were named for their burrowing, and their tunnels

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has pledged to provide more support to cities and towns struggling to house the more than 1.1 million refugees and migrants who have arrived in the country this year mostly from war-torn Ukraine but also from other countries. After meeting with state and local

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. says it plans to sell its Russian operations to its local partner and end manufacturing there. The company said Tuesday that its executive committee approved the sale to Russia’s Central Research and Development Automobile and Engine Institute, or NAMI. The company said the sale includes Nissan’s factory

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a 5.1 magnitude earthquake has jolted the Afghan city of Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province. The center of Tuesday’s quake was Shaghnan district and was felt in other parts of the province, according to the director of the Taliban’s news agency. He had no information on

By LAURA MCMULLEN of NerdWallet Most people have an inner critic that sometimes judges their actions and behaviors, including those related to money. That voice may label them as overspenders, for example, or insist they’ll never understand investing. Claims like those can be self-fulfilling. Why reel in spending or learn about investing if you’ve already

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ development program is calling on rich countries and financial institutions in them to do more to help alleviate a growing debt crisis faced by the world’s poorest countries, including by writing off debts, not just rescheduling them. A report from UNDP released on Tuesday comes amid meetings by the

By DAVID R. MARTIN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting outside New York U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home is giving the Republican a fresh and personal perspective on a rash of violent crime that’s been a focus of his campaign for governor. Two 17-year-old boys were wounded