Month: January 2023

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level in more than three…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Hampshire Democrats are asking the national party not to “punish” them while…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s network regulator says a gas shortage is “increasingly unlikely” this winter, but is cautioning that it remains…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says one of its patrol boats has fired warning shots at a Turkish coast guard vessel that was…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say attackers armed with guns and hand grenades ambushed a police van…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian court has opened the trial of jailed human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, one of the winners of the 2022…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Philadelphia election official who has told of enduring death threats whipped up by…

DETROIT (AP) — Mercedes is recalling nearly 324,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the engines can stall while they’re being driven. The recall…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s highest court has ordered a temporary freeze on the funds of the country’s pro-Kurdish party as it mulls whether…

HOUSTON (AP) — The man charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Migos rapper Takeoff in Houston has been released on $1 million bond. Court…

BY HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir. Jackson, the first Black…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press CHAMBERY, France (AP) — A French court has ordered the release from custody of a…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French Defense Ministry says it will hold talks “very quickly” with its Ukrainian…

By MARTHA MENDOZA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press CAPITOLA, Calif. (AP) — Hurricane-force winds, surging surf and heavy rains from a powerful…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s disclosure of his daughter in recent public events…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered his armed forces to observe a 36-hour…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Marking its biggest effort yet to make India a global hub for production, use and export of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain had its warmest year on record in 2022, the latest evidence that climate change is…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistan is expected to seek $16.3 billion in aid from the international community…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A doctor says the death toll in a pair of suicide car bombings in Somalia early Wednesday…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry says his brother William physically attacked him during a ferocious argument — one of…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine national police chief says he has tendered his resignation to encourage…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Afghan Taliban have killed eight Islamic State group fighters and arrested nine others in…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will start to reopen its border with mainland China on Sunday and allow tens of…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans kept the…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Sitting on comfy armchairs in a low-lit room smelling of lavender and pine trees,…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs pledged in her inaugural address Thursday to work with her political…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic legislators want to link the statewide minimum wage to an inflation index to provide potentially automatic annual…

By SAM METZ Associated Press ENOCH, Utah (AP) — A Utah man fatally shot his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife and then killed himself…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says that a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during an arrest raid in the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday after Wall Street benchmarks fell on worries that the U.S.…

By REBECCA BOONE, MANUEL VALDES and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Idaho police pieced together DNA evidence, cellphone data…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s economy has hit its lowest point since the start of its civil war nearly 12 years ago, with…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Opponents of the largest lithium mine planned in the U.S. urged a federal judge in Nevada on…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court will hear arguments on whether a newly organized firing…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, GIADA ZAMPANO and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of faithful…

By ANDY WONG and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Mostly older men and women wearing masks rested on cots in hallways, while others…