Month: February 2023

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The company that owns one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, slumped to a net loss of 77 million euros ($82 million) last year as months of travel chaos hit its bottom line. CEO Ruud Sondag said Friday: “Never before in Schiphol’s history have we disappointed so many travelers and

By The Associated Press The war in Ukraine has killed thousands, forced millions to flee their homes, reduced entire cities to rubble and fueled fears the confrontation could escalate into an open conflict between Russia and NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin may have hoped for a quick victory when he launched the invasion on Feb.

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed another bumpy week with a mixed performance on Friday amid worries that inflation is not cooling as quickly or as smoothly as hoped. The S&P fell 0.3% after paring a bigger loss from the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 129

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge. Over 100 straight days of racial justice protests that turned downtown Portland into a battleground. A violent breach of the state Capitol. Clashes between gun-toting right-wingers and leftist militants. Over the past decade, Oregon experienced the sixth-highest number

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The death toll from New Zealand’s cyclone has reached eight with more than 4,500 people still unaccounted for four days after the nation’s most destructive weather event in decades brought widespread flooding, landslides and power outages. Cyclone Gabrielle struck the country’s north on Monday and the level of damage has

By ADRIAN SAINZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, with his mother saying afterward that none of them would look her in the eye in court. Tadarrius Bean,

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the 1990s, Dallas Mavericks point guard Derek Harper famously shot down an offer to be traded to the Jazz, quipping to ESPN: “You go live in Utah.” Two decades later, members of the Golden State Warriors squad mocked Salt Lake as a nightlife-free city

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s gas processing firm plans to sell 4% of its shares to local investors in the latest initial public offering to be made by a state-run energy company in the Middle East. The move follows a similar IPO by the Saudi oil giant Aramco

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A trial looking into bribery at the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has begun. The former head of advertising company ADK, Shinichi Uneo, is accused of paying nearly 15 million yen, or $110,000, to Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive at ad giant Dentsu. Takahashi was powerful in selecting

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it found a Chinese weather balloon on one of its outlying islands, amid U.S. accusations that such craft have been dispatched worldwide to spy on Washington and its allies. The ministry’s statement on Thursday said the balloon carried equipment registered to a state-owned electronics company in the

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of miles from the front lines, a sprawling manufacturing plant in the small midwestern city of Lima, Ohio, is playing a critical role in the effort to arm Ukraine as it fends off the Russian invasion. Owned by the Army and operated by General

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — He twice voted in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump in impeachment trials. He excoriated his fellow senators who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. He even scolded New York Rep. George Santos for his audacity in

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s defense minister insists the country’s soldiers didn’t commit any massacres during the Vietnam War and has indicated the government will appeal a ruling that ordered compensation for a Vietnamese woman who lost several relatives to a shooting rampage blamed on South Korean marines

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — He twice voted in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump in impeachment trials. He excoriated his fellow senators who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. He even scolded New York Rep. George Santos for his audacity in

By PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press MORIGAON, India (AP) — Standing outside the local police station in her village in northeast India, 19-year-old Nureja Khatun is anxious. Cradling her 6-month-old baby in her arms, she has been waiting to catch a glimpse of her husband before the police take him away to court. Nearly an hour

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between congressional work periods. And he refused mental health treatment recommended by his doctors, worried he would be recognized in that wing of the hospital. Kennedy, a

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency has aborted the launch of the first of its new flagship series H3 rockets after booster engines failed to ignite. The rocket was carrying an observation satellite also fitted with an experimental infrared sensor that could detect missile launches. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a Southern California motorcycle club founder who killed three people in 1980 has been ordered to be released this week, after a terminal cancer diagnosis. Thomas Maniscalco has been incarcerated for nearly 40 years, after his 1994 conviction on three counts of second-degree murder with enhancements for being armed

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offered no hints about whether he might run for president in a rare primetime address. But he sounded like a practiced campaigner while calling immigration crackdowns, tougher criminal penalties and a humming economy a model for the rest of the

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Officials say a train hauling hazardous materials derailed near Detroit, but none spilled. The Norfolk Southern train derailed nearly two weeks after a Norfolk Southern derailment in Ohio left a mangled and charred mass of boxcars that had been carrying various hazardous chemicals. Video recorded of the Thursday derailment

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters in Iran have marched through the streets of multiple cities overnight in the most widespread demonstrations in weeks amid the monthslong unrest that’s gripped the Islamic Republic. That’s according to what online videos purported to show Friday. The demonstrations marked 40 days since

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say this week’s deadly truck accident that caused a hazardous materials spill southeast of downtown Tucson did not appear to be caused by high speed, drugs or alcohol. The authorities said at a Thursday news conference that 54-year-old truck driver Ricky Immel was traveling Tuesday

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico next week, searching for feral cows to kill. U.S. Forest Service managers approved the plan Thursday to protect sensitive spots in the nation’s first designated wilderness

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities say a white Louisiana police officer has been arrested for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man who was trying to flee police responding to a domestic disturbance call earlier this month. After reviewing evidence and footage from officers’ body-worn cameras, state troopers on Thursday

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge showed growing impatience Thursday with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s use of the internet while on bail, suggesting that incarceration might eventually be the most effective way to prevent him from communicating on electronic devices in ways that can’t be traced. Judge Lewis A.

ELLSWORTH, Wis. (AP) — A western Wisconsin nurse accused of amputating a hospice patient’s frostbitten foot without his consent and without doctor’s orders has pleaded not guilty. WEAU-TV and WQOW-TV report a lawyer for 38-year-old Mary K. Brown, of Durand, Wisconsin, entered pleas of not guilty Thursday to charges of mayhem, physical abuse of an

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America Two separate bills that would prohibit public libraries from displaying “explicit sexual material” passed the Senate and House floors in North Dakota on Thursday after undergoing debate among lawmakers in each chamber. Supporters said the bills would reduce children’s exposure to pornography, while opponents said it would limit

By EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A Palestinian-backed U.N. resolution that could be put to a vote in the Security Council early next week would demand an immediate halt to all Israeli settlement activities, condemn Israeli attempts to annex settlements and outposts, “and call for their immediate reversal.”

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona appeals court has rejected Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, denying her request to throw out election results in the state’s most populous county and hold the election again. In a ruling on Thursday, the

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A spokesperson for the Texas prison system says a man who had been on the state’s death row for nearly 30 years after being convicted in the killings of his girlfriend and her two sons has died of natural causes. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice