Month: December 2022

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays will split spring training between the Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg due to damage caused by Hurricane Ian. Disney and team officials announced the plan Tuesday. The team’s complex in Port Charlotte sustained

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Opposition lawmakers in Italy are seeking a parliamentary commission of inquiry into three cold cases that have consumed the Italian public’s imagination for decades. One of them is the 1983 disappearance of a 15-year-old that was highlighted in the Netflix documentary, “Vatican Girl.” Sen. Carlo Calenda said

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Postal Service says it will sharply increase the number of electric-powered delivery trucks in its fleet and will go all-electric for new purchases starting in 2026. The moves are a major boost for President Joe Biden’s pledge to eliminate gas-powered vehicles from the sprawling federal fleet.

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — In a little over four years, new heavy truck makers will have to cut harmful nitrogen oxide pollution more than 80% under standards released Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Some environmental and health advocates praised the requirements but others said they don’t go far

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Too many Americans are missing out on a cure for hepatitis C. A study underway in a hard-hit corner of Kentucky is exploring a simple way to start changing that. One of the hurdles is that it takes multiple testing steps to learn someone has the

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House and the Senate are set to pass an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act, the arcane election law that then-President Donald Trump tried to subvert after his 2020 election defeat. Democrats and Republicans have been working on the legislation since the Jan. 6, 2021,

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Associated Press review finds that gambling interests positioning for lucrative business in Ohio’s developing betting landscape gave nearly $1 million to a nonprofit that helped Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine get reelected. Donations to the Republican Governors Association between January 2021 and this September

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Five months after a 20-year-old man fatally shot three people at a suburban Indianapolis mall, police and the FBI could shed light this week on the gunman’s motive. The Greenwood Police Department and the FBI announced that they will hold a news conference Wednesday to discuss the

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish man who died fighting in Ukraine was buried back home in his native soil, with weeping mourners praising him as a hero of two nations. Daniel Sztyber, a 35-year-old from Warsaw, lay in a coffin covered in Poland’s white-and-red flag, and was mourned by

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged his party, the ruling African National Congress, to fight corruption. Ramaphosa said the ANC has “no choice” but to deal with  corruption or perish. Ramaphosa spoke Tuesday to close the ANC’s conference where he was reelected its leader. Ramaphosa’s reelection

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Season three of “ Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” starring John Krasinski, returns to Amazon Prime Video with a storyline that may feel familiar. We meet Ryan, now stationed in Rome, as he discovers an underground plot by Russia to invade surrounding countries and recreate the Soviet empire. The episodes were

By CALVIN WOODWARD, LYNN BERRY, CHRISTINA LARSON and CAROLYN KASTER Associated Press PERCE, Quebec (AP) — Against the ravaging seas, Quebec’s coastal communities have learned through bitter experience that the way to advance against climate change is to retreat. Over the past decade, civilization has been pulled back from the water’s edge where possible along

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA’s InSight lander, which has fallen silent after four years on Mars. The lander’s power levels have been dwindling for months because of all the dust coating its solar panels. Ground controllers at

JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s ousted president has taken ‘’full responsibility″ for the 1989 coup that led to his presidency. Omar Al-Bashir’s admission Tuesday was part of his testimony in Sudan during his ongoing trial connected to the Islamist-backed coup that overthrew the elected prime minister. Bashir also said other non-military factions

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A deal for a British man to plead guilty to manslaughter for killing his wife in Cyprus has fallen through. David Hunter, 75, remains on trial for premeditated murder after the plea deal on the lesser charge collapsed. Hunter’s 74-year-old wife Janice, died of asphyxiation a year ago at the couple’s

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The legality of abortions has been in flux in some states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade six months ago. The landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson turned abortion rights into a state-by-state issue in a ruling that shaped the nation’s political agenda for the rest of

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app. The $1.7 trillion package includes requirements for the Biden administration to prohibit most uses of TikTok or any

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The former capital of the Confederacy has secured an $11 million philanthropic donation to build a new interpretive center city officials hope will someday be part of an ambitious, long-envisioned memorial campus honoring the memory of enslaved people. Richmond’s grant is among more than $16 million

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional delegation is using a federal spending bill to delay new lobster fishing restrictions aimed at helping endangered whales. An amendment to the $1.7 trillion spending package unveiled early Tuesday would leave existing lobster fishing rules in place for six years, thwarting stricter regulations aimed

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Planned Parenthood affiliate says it has started teleconferences with off-site doctors for patients seeking medication abortions at one of its Kansas clinics. Tuesday’s announcement by Planned Parenthood Great Plains is a small step toward potentially much broader access after Kansas voters affirmed abortion rights in

BERLIN (AP) — Churches have joined in Germany’s efforts to save on heating costs this winter, forcing their congregations into ever more layers of clothing. But at the same time, they are providing warm spaces for the homeless and for people who are struggling to pay their bills. German lawmakers last week approved a plan

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer banking giant Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3.7 billion to settle a laundry list of charges that it harmed consumers by charging illegal fees and interest on auto loans and mortgages, as well as incorrectly applied overdraft fees against savings and checking accounts. The Consumer

MOSCOW (AP) — Officials say an explosion during repairs on a section of Europe-bound natural gas pipeline in western Russia has killed three people but hasn’t affected export supplies. The explosion ripped through a section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline in the Chuvashia region during repair works on Tuesday. Regional authorities say three repair workers were

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — After a former state trooper from Virginia drove across the country, kidnapped a 15-year-old California girl, killed three members of her family, then shot himself, Virginia State Police and the sheriff’s office he had recently started working for said they found no warning signs during background

BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Tuesday that it will allow health insurance companies to pay more for pediatric medications that are in short supply in the country. Germans have been scrambling to find basic drugs such as painkillers in recent weeks due to delivery bottlenecks and higher-than-usual demand. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Germany returned 20 historic bronze sculptures to Nigeria as part of efforts to address what its foreign minister called its “dark colonial past.” Nigeria officials said that more than 5,000 ancient artifacts are estimated to have been stolen from Nigeria, the majority by England, the country’s

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — An anti-terrorism judge in Tunisia has ordered the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, vice-president of the popular Islamist opposition party Ennahdha. The judge’s decision, announced on Monday, came after legislative elections marked by a very low turnout. Lawyer Ines Harrath said the move is linked to a case involving

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The good news on Robert Caro’s very long-awaited next book is that he knows the final words. The bad news is that he’s known them for years and remains far from concluding his Lyndon Johnson series, for which he has published four volumes over a

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — They may be publishing’s most famous author-editor pairing. Historian Robert A. Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb have worked together for more than 50 years and collaborated on such classics as “The Power Broker” and “Master of the Senate.” In some ways, they are so close

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — American forces have conducted three raids in eastern Syria and arrested six Islamic State groups militants. U.S. Central Command in a statement on Tuesday said the raids took place over the preceding 48 hours. The U.S. forces identified one of the detained militants as a “Syria Province Senior Official” involved