Month: February 2023

By TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Two men who began their careers on factory floors are competing to lead the…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s brutal summer heat has reached 50 degrees Celsius…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges at a European Union-backed court have upheld most of the convictions…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Real and fake news will collide again at this year’s White House Correspondents’…

BERLIN (AP) — Nine men suspected of involvement in blowing up dozens of cash machines in Germany and stealing some 5.2 million euros (nearly $5.7…

By BRITTNEY J. MILLER, Cedar Rapids Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Amid a major drought in the Western U.S., a proposed solution comes up…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large…

PARIS (AP) — Interpol says police in southeastern France have arrested a convicted murderer linked to Italy’s most powerful organized crime…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it will hold a public inquiry into whether the deadliest bombing in Northern Ireland’s decades of violence…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian director who was arrested last summer, weeks before his latest film was released to widespread…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist president has warned during a chaotic parliamentary session that the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HILDALE, Utah (AP) — Ayahuasca is a psychedelic tea whose roots go back hundreds of years to ceremonial use by…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Gautam Adani was Asia’s richest man when the U.S. short-selling firm…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet A new year means changes to Medicare, including updated premiums and deductibles and sometimes big policy moves. In…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have arrested an American tourist after he allegedly knocked down and broke a statue of Jesus in a church in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says is responding to “deeply shocking” revelations that debt collectors…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Global energy giant Shell says annual profits doubled to a record high last year as oil and gas…

By PAUL J. WEBER and KEN MILLER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in homes without power for a second…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer Back at the very beginning, right when the idea of water polo in Ghana started swimming into reality, Prince Asante got…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway says the oil-rich Scandinavian country will become one of the world’s top…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is playing host to former President Bill Clinton to mark the 30th…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the…

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Not far from the postcard images of Jacksonville — the white sand beaches, the…