Month: February 2023

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Federal Reserve policymakers agreed earlier this month to slow the pace of the Fed’s rate increases to a quarter-point, with only “a few” supporting a larger half-point hike. The minutes from the Fed’s Jan. 31-Feb.1 meeting said that most of the officials supported the

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Wednesday it has closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary care organization One Medical. The e-commerce giant has said the buyout, which was announced in July, is a key component of its growing health care business, which includes its online drugstore Amazon

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The prosecutor in the case against an Arizona rancher accused of killing a Mexican man on his land near the U.S.-Mexico border alleged during a court hearing Wednesday that the rancher fired that day on a group of about eight unarmed migrants who entered the U.S. illegally.

LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Human bones recovered from a submerged car more than a year ago have been matched to a man who had been missing since 1976. Authorities got a break in the decades-old disappearance of Kyle Clinkscales in December 2021 when the Auburn University student’s car was pulled from an Alabama creek near

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed a bill setting Nov. 14 each year as a day to remember the worst sports disaster in U.S. history. Seventy-five people were killed in a plane crash carrying Marshall University’s football team back from a game at East Carolina on Nov. 14, 1970. Gov. Jim Justice

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro couldn’t resume regular life after the Carnival festivities came to a close until “the count” of scores from the parade competition was complete and a victor proclaimed. The Carnival parade is billed as the world’s biggest party, yet scarcely anyone outside Brazil

LONDON (AP) — Several British supermarket chains have limited the amount of some fresh fruits and vegetables that customers can buy amid shortages blamed on bad weather in Spain and Morocco. Tesco, the U.K.’s largest grocery chain, said Wednesday that it would temporarily limit customers to buying three items each of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer WWE, an organization that is already king of the ring on social media, will attempt to expand its online presence this year with the $6.5 billion sports entertainment company hinting that it may put itself up for sale. WWE surpassed 20 million followers on its flagship TikTok account during

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season. The Met will have six new productions and 12 revivals, down from seven new stagings and 16 revivals this

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Russian military has denied it’s planning to test its new Zircon hypersonic missiles during naval drills off the coast of South Africa this week. Russia’s aims for the naval exercises in the Indian Ocean are under scrutiny because of the involvement of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate.

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The winner of a $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot — the fourth largest in U.S. history — has come forward to collect the prize, state officials said Wednesday. The winner had been a mystery, and remains a mystery. The Maine State Lottery said the winner chose

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The European Parliament´s budget control committee says it has found no evidence of fraud in Spain´s handling of the 31 billion euros ($33 billion) it has received so far in special EU funds to help economies recover after the pandemic but has urged the Madrid government to

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court has ordered Azerbaijan to “take all steps at its disposal” to allow free movement of traffic along the only road between Armenia and the ethnic Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan. The legally binding 13-2 ruling issued by the International Court

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these “monsters.” While the new James Webb Space Telescope has spotted even

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has asked American authorities for special permission to enter the United States to play tennis tournaments in California and Florida despite being unvaccinated against the coronavirus, the top-ranked Serb said Wednesday. The Transportation Security Administration has said the requirement for foreign air travelers to

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities and media reports say a female teacher has been stabbed to death in southwestern France by a high school student. The local prosecutor said the student has been arrested by police, and an investigation has been opened for suspected premeditated murder. He said investigators were

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A climate center says the trends in a historic Horn of Africa drought are worse than they were in a 2011 drought in which at least a quarter-million people died. The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center said on Wednesday that below-normal rainfall is expected in

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are celebrities with TV travel shows who just can’t wait to show you where they came from or push the limits of their bodies. Then there’s Eugene Levy. The “Schitt’s Creek” star admits he’s not really a fan of the cold or the heat

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Trav Robertson won’t seek another term leading South Carolina’s Democrats. Robertson told The Associated Press on Wednesday he’s backing longtime operative Christale Spain in her bid to become the first Black woman elected state party chair. Robertson has led the state’s Democrats since 2017, when he

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force’s review of cancers among its nuclear missile corps will include all personnel who worked on, guarded, supported or operated the nation’s ground-based warheads, Air Force Global Strike Command announced Wednesday. Nine officers who had worked as missileers — the airmen who launch the warheads

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An Italian journalist has deflated an accusation in the Vatican’s sprawling financial trial. Investigative journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi was called to testify by defense lawyers representing the former head of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency. Prosecutors accused the former head of having given Fittipaldi a copy of a