Month: January 2023

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s prime minister has broken with the military-backed political party that helped him take office after a 2019 election and joined a new rival party with which he is likely to seek another term this year. Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power as army chief in

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada case shined a light on a U.S. immigration law and its little-known history after a federal judge called the rule racist and struck it down. Now, a federal court is weighing a Justice Department appeal defending the law known as Section 1326, which makes

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The special grand jury in Atlanta that has been investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies committed any crimes while trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia has finished its work, bringing the case closer to possible criminal charges against Trump and others. Fulton

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — As another powerful storm walloped California, a 5-year-old boy was swept away by floodwaters Monday on the state’s central coast and an entire seaside community that is home to Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities was ordered to evacuate on the fifth

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The famed Danish restaurant Noma which has claimed the title of world’s top restaurant several times, is reinventing itself. The eatery said Monday it will shut down by the end of 2024 to become “a pioneering test kitchen dedicated to the work of food innovation and the development of new flavors.”

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The number of traffic deaths on U.S. roadways fell slightly during the first nine months of 2022, but pedestrian and cyclist deaths continued to rise. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 31,785 people were killed in crashes from January through September, down 0.2% from

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of flag-waving Bosnian Serbs have gathered on the outskirts of the capital Sarajevo to celebrate an outlawed holiday associated with Bosnia’s brutal inter-ethnic war in the 1990s. Neighboring Serbia’s top diplomat attended a military-style parade organized Monday for the occasion, which was used by Bosnian

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Denver has been overwhelmed by an unexpected surge in mostly Venezuelan migrants. The immigrants have crossed the border and taken buses north, usually from El Paso. Immigrants have long passed through Denver but never in such large numbers all at once. The city has scrambled to house

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After almost 40 years circling Earth, a NASA satellite has plunged harmlessly through the atmosphere. The retired science satellite came down late Sunday. NASA said Monday that the Defense Department confirmed the satellite reentered over the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska. Officials

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council  has voted unanimously to keep key a border crossing from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest open for critical aid deliveries for another six months. In a surprise, Syria’s close ally Russia, whose support had been in doubt, joined in Monday’s 15-0

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Rob Gronkowski will be back on a football field for the Super Bowl. The four-time All-Pro tight end will attempt to make a field goal in Arizona on Feb. 12 during a live Super Bowl television commercial for FanDuel. It will be a high-stakes kick for Gronkowski, a

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has revived claims by a Texas inmate who has the rare support of the state prosecutor’s office that put him on death row. The justices on Monday threw out a Texas appeals court ruling that refused to grant the inmate, Areli Escobar, a new

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DENVER (AP) — Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. A once-every-four-years scientific assessment found recovery in progress, more than 35 years after every nation in

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an Israeli spyware maker’s bid to derail a high-profile lawsuit filed by the WhatsApp messaging service. The justices on Monday left in place lower court rulings against the Israeli firm, NSO Group. WhatsApp claims that NSO targeted some 1,400 users of the encrypted messaging service with highly

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service says it delivered more than 54 million ballots during the midterm elections, with nearly 99% of ballots delivered to election officials within three days. The Postal Service’s post-election analysis shows that on average it took under two days to deliver completed ballots. There were no major complaints compared

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A tweet from Elon Musk indicating that Tesla might allow some owners who are testing a “Full Self-Driving” system to disable an alert that reminds them to keep their hands on the steering wheel has drawn attention from U.S. safety regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Five journalists from Belarus’ top independent news outlet have gone on trial in the country’s capital, amid a relentless crackdown on critical voices in the ex-Soviet nation. The TUT.BY online news portal workers, including editor-in-chief Maryna Zolatava, face accusations of “hurting national security,” “inciting hatred” and

PARIS (AP) — France’s government has unveiled new plans to tighten hunting safety rules but stopped well short of the outright ban that many activists had been hoping for. Ecology Minister Berangere Couillard announced proposed reforms that would outlaw hunting under the influence of alcohol and drugs, enhance safety rules and provide extra protections for

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group has denied having contact with the Somali government after the country’s deputy defense minister claimed that the extremists had for the first time asked to negotiate. An unnamed al-Shabab official with the group’s media unit told a pro-al-Shabab website in comments

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Staying awake might be Mikaela Shiffrin’s biggest challenge as she prepares to try to set a record for women’s World Cup skiing victories. Having poured out her emotions after matching Lindsey Vonn with career win No. 82 in an early morning giant slalom in

Russian authorities have announced criminal probes against a famous actor critical of the war in Ukraine and a philanthropist who supports the Russian opposition. Monday’s announcement of the parallel investigations are part of a months-long, sweeping crackdown on dissent. Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement that its chief Alexander Bastrykin ordered the launch of

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has met with Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. Gaenswein was a key figure in his recent funeral but has raised eyebrows with an extraordinary memoir in which he settles old scores and reveals palace intrigue about the decade-long cohabitation of

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press BARENTSBURG, Norway (AP) — A 15-year-old boy in a polar bear hoodie took turns reading the Gospel passage about Jesus’s birth in Russian with three girls in dresses and bows who proclaimed it in Norwegian, in a shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic undimmed by war and

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A mission to launch the first satellites into orbit from Western Europe suffered an “anomaly” Tuesday, Virgin Orbit said. The U.S.-based company attempted its first international launch on Monday, using a modified jumbo jet to carry one of its rockets from Cornwall in southwestern England to the

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Inflation has a way of affecting nearly every aspect of our finances. Big jumps in tax brackets could save you money, especially if you’re working and your raises — like those of most workers — haven’t kept pace with inflation. Plus, a $2,000 increase in 401(k) limits means you can

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Officials at a vocational school in an eastern Ukraine city dismissed claims by Russia that hundreds of Ukrainian troops were killed in a missile strike there, saying Monday that a rocket merely blew out windows and damaged classrooms. Russia specifically named the vocational school in Kramatorsk

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has opted out of a European convention on fighting corruption, a move that comes in the wake of its withdrawal from the Council of Europe following start of Moscow’s military action in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, to terminate the Council of

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has accused his stepmother, Camilla, the queen consort, of leaking private conversations to the media to burnish her own reputation as he promotes a new book that lays bare his story of his life behind palace walls. In interviews broadcast Sunday and Monday, Harry accused