Month: February 2023

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry on Tuesday was holding his second day of meetings with Brazilian government officials, executives and lawmakers to discuss details of planned environmental actions. After traveling to capital Brasilia, Kerry yesterday met with Brazil’s Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin, Environment Minister Marina

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles says he was “mistaken” when he said he graduated with an international relations degree after a local news outlet raised questions over whether the Republican had embellished his education. Ogles said this week he wasn’t made aware of the mistake until

CAIRO (AP) — A medical group says Sudanese security forces shot and killed an anti-government protester near the capital Khartoum. It said the man was killed after being shot in the chest while taking part in protests on Tuesday. Anti-government protests have become near-weekly events in Khartoum and other major cities ever since the country’s

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A senior U.S. official says Washington has high expectations for a European Union-sponsored plan aimed at easing long-standing tensions between Serbia and Kosovo. Gabriel Escobar, deputy assistant secretary of state, said in an online news conference Tuesday that both countries as well as Europe would stand

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone. This week, the agency said space organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon. The idea

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Food security experts say life remains “extremely critical” for more than 6 million hungry people in Somalia’s historic drought, but they no longer project famine for the worst-hit population of nearly a quarter-million people between April and June. The latest assessment released Tuesday by United Nations

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Alabama on Sunday to mark the 58th anniversary of a landmark event of the civil rights movement. Biden will speak in Selma for the annual remembrance of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 that white police beat Black civil rights

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press One of the buzziest new shows coming to television, “Daisy Jones & the Six” has a built-in fan base thanks to the book the show is based on and its author. Taylor Jenkins Reid also wrote “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo”, “Malibu Rising” and “Carrie Soto is Back,” a

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe it was just too good to be true. For a few weeks in late January and early February, the U.S. economy seemed to have reached a rare sweet spot. Inflation was steadily slowing from painful heights. And growth and hiring remained surprisingly sturdy despite ever-higher

By ERIC TUCKER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration officials are urging Congress to renew a surveillance program the U.S. government has long seen as vital in countering overseas threats of terrorism, cyberattacks and espionage operations. The program is under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, and grants American spy

By AUREL OBREJA and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Thousands of anti-government protesters again took to the streets of Moldova’s capital to demand that the country’s new pro-Western government fully subsidize citizens’ winter energy bills and to “not to involve the country in war.”  The protest in Chisinau was organized by a group calling

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer confidence dipped for the second straight month as stubborn inflation and anxiety over a potentially slowing economy weighed on Americans. The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index slipped to 102.9 in February, from  a reading of 106 in January. The business research

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court. The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write by the time the court finishes

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The patients’ eyes were painfully inflamed. They could sense light but could see almost nothing else. A doctor called one case the worst eye infection he’d ever seen. It was the beginning of a national outbreak caused by an extremely worrisome bacteria — one that

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s transport minister says his country won’t back a planned European Union ban on the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2035. Volker Wissing said Tuesday the bloc’s executive Commission needs to ensure synthetic fuels are exempted. EU lawmakers and member states reached a preliminary deal last year that would

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president announced Tuesday that electric car company Tesla has committed to building a major plant in the industrial hub of Monterrey in northern Mexico. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the promise came in phone calls he had Friday and Monday with Tesla head Elon

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and LUIGI NAVARRA Associated Press CROTONE, Italy (AP) — Rescue teams have pulled more bodies from the sea, bringing the death toll from Italy’s latest migrant tragedy to 65. Prosecutors have identified three suspected smugglers. Police said Tuesday that they charged 8,000 euros each for the “voyage of death” from Turkey to

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government is closing the U.S. territory’s only zoo following years of suspected negligence, a lack of resources and deaths of animals that were highlighted by activists. The Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo in the western coastal town of Mayaguez has remained closed