Month: December 2022

By MATTHEW DALY, MICHAEL PHILLIS, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MADDIE BURAKOFF Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists announced Tuesday that they have for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it — a major breakthrough in the decades-long quest to harness the process that powers the sun. Researchers

By JAMIE STENGLE and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A massive storm blowing across the country Tuesday spawned several tornadoes that wrecked buildings and injured a handful of people in Oklahoma and Texas, left two people missing in Louisiana and saw much of the central United States bracing for blizzard-like conditions. Sherriff’s deputies,

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks rose Wednesday in Asia after a rally on Wall Street spurred by news that inflation in the U.S. cooled more than expected last month. The 7.1% consumer price index reading for November raised hopes Tuesday for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For Alexandra Pelosi, the brutal attack on her father earlier this year was a culmination of vitriol that had been building for decades. Her family’s name, she says, has been weaponized for years, turned into a curse word for Republicans. Then, in October, a man broke

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus returning from a party crashed near the Nepalese capital killing at least 17 and injuring 22 more. Police official said they were investigating the accident but was unclear what caused the bus crash on Tuesday. The injured were rescued by police officers, soldiers and local villagers. Earlier on Monday,

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States slowed again last month in the latest sign that price increases are cooling despite the pressures they continue to inflict on American households. Consumer prices rose 7.1% in November from a year ago, the government said Tuesday. That was down sharply

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The national security trial of a Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher has been further postponed to September. The city is awaiting Beijing’s ruling that could effectively block Jimmy Lai from hiring a British lawyer. Lai was arrested in August 2020 during a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy

By JORGE RUEDA AND ASTRÍD SUAREZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Colombian government and the nation’s largest remaining rebel group say they will continue to stage peace talks in Mexico, following three weeks of negotiations in Venezuela that have only yielded modest results. Negotiations between Colombia and the National Liberation Army began in

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press KHARNAK, India (AP) — Nomad Tsering Angchuk vows to stay put in his remote village in India’s Ladakh region. His two sons and most of his fellow villagers have migrated to a nearby urban settlement but Angchuk is determined to herd his flock of fine cashmere-producing goats in the treeless

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Mississippi State coach Mike Leach was hospitalized in critical condition Monday, the day after what the university called “a personal health issue” at his home in Starkville forced him to be airlifted to a medical facility in Jackson. Leach was admitted Sunday to the University of Mississippi

BEIJING (AP) — Some Chinese universities say they will allow students to finish the semester from home in hopes of reducing the potential for a bigger COVID-19 outbreak during the January Lunar New Year travel rush. It isn’t clear how many schools were taking part. But universities in Shanghai and nearby cities said students would

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JUWON PARK Associated Press YEONCHEON, South Korea (AP) — Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, began his 18 months of mandatory military service at a front-line South Korean boot camp Tuesday as fans gathered near the base to say goodbye to their star. Six other younger BTS members are

By The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An automatic recount confirmed Monday that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert won her reelection bid against Democrat Adam Frisch. The nail-biter race showed the congresswoman’s combative style is wearying voters in her conservative Colorado district. Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced the results Monday evening. Frisch netted a total

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro clashed with police Monday, setting fire to several vehicles and allegedly attempting to invade the federal police’s headquarters in capital city Brasilia. Images of chaos as a small number of protesters, many wearing the yellow and green of Brazil’s

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The House Financial Services Committee plans to hold a hearing into the collapse of crypto exchange FTX on Tuesday, but its star witness will be missing. Sam Bankman-Fried was scheduled to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee, along with the company’s current

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday announced his intention to fully open the border crossings with Colombia starting Jan. 1, a measure repeatedly postponed following the restoration of diplomatic and commercial ties between the South American neighbors. Relations between the countries were broken off in 2019, but Maduro has said the

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform. The council had

CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles’ most famous mountain lion, known for roaming across freeways and making a sprawling urban park his home, was captured Monday by wildlife officials who want to examine the big cat after he killed a dog that was being walked in the Hollywood Hills. The cougar,

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to question the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons this week about why the agency continues to stand by a high-ranking official who beat Black inmates in the 1990s. An Associated Press investigation found the

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from rapper Ab-Soul, the irreverent shoot-’em-up video game “High on Life” and rising comedian Atsuko Okatsuka debuts her first HBO comedy special called “The Intruder.” David Letterman travels to Ukraine to sit down with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a special one-off episode of

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida jury has sided with a white Florida police officer accused of shoving a kneeling Black woman to the ground during a protest more than two years ago. The Sun Sentinel reports that Broward County jurors acquitted Fort Lauderdale officer Steven Pohorence of a battery charge on Monday.

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, U.S. and Bahamian authorities said Monday. The arrest was made Monday after the U.S. filed criminal charges that are expected to be

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is naming a gate in Central Park in honor of the five men who, as teenagers, were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of a jogger and spent years in prison before being exonerated. The city’s Public Design Commission on Monday unanimously approved the plan to inscribe “Gate

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thirteen years after the original “Avatar” and five years after production started on its sequel, “The Way of Water,” James Cameron is finally unveiling the long-awaited follow-up to the highest grossing film of all-time. For a long time, the “Avatar” sequel was the “Waiting for

By DOUG GLASS and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington on Tuesday was decades in coming, with scientists for the first time able to engineer a reaction that produced more power than was used to ignite it. Using powerful lasers to focus enormous energy on a miniature capsule