Month: March 2023

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Ford Motor Co. says it will cut around 1,100 jobs at its plant in the Spanish city of Valencia. The cuts announced Friday are in addition to the 2,300 layoffs largely in Germany and the U.K. that the auto manufacturer announced last month as part of a

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Prosecutors have formally accused Spanish soccer club Barcelona of corruption because of its payments over several years to a company that belonged to the vice president of the country’s refereeing committee. The decision was made official on Friday. It was reported earlier this week by Spanish newspaper El País. An investigating

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A main character in “A Spy Among Friends” is one of the Soviet Union’s most notorious double agents. But you don’t need to know anything about him — or really about spying in general — to enjoy the series. The six-part, 12-hour MGM+ story starring

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSE, Fla. (AP) — A stricter abortion ban under consideration for Florida could have practical implications for women throughout the South and political implications for Gov. Ron DeSantis. The expected GOP presidential contender has signaled support for a ban introduced by lawmakers on abortion after six weeks

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. The 419-0 vote Friday was a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic. It was final approval of the bill, sending it

VIENNA (AP) — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is set for another four-year term at the helm of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog as it grapples with monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities and tries to shore up the safety of power plants in Ukraine. The IAEA said that its 35-nation board of governors

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A man who fatally shot three students and wounded five others on the Michigan State University campus left a note describing himself as being “hated,” “a loner” and an “outcast.” Anthony McRae also wrote “I’m tired of being rejected,” in the note which was dated the day before the Feb.

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Six Pakistanis and one Iranian national who were found guilty of trying to smuggle heroin to Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa via the Indian Ocean have been sentenced to life in prison. The foreigners have been in custody since 2014 when they were arrested and charged

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer It’s been three years since the World Health Organization’s first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The anniversary on Saturday has health experts taking stock of successes and failures. The coronavirus has killed nearly 7 million worldwide and appears here to stay. It spreads easily from

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Associated Press reporter has spent the past several years watching an opera box that give him a unique perspective on the audience at the Oscars. He got to see the jaws of famous folks like Meryl Streep and Matt Damon drop when the wrong

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Many things about the Academy Awards have changed over the years, but for the past six decades there has been at least one constant: The red carpet. The hues have varied over the years, but it has always been some shade of red. Until this

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has written to labor unions insisting on the need to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 in order to make the French pension system financially sustainable in the coming years. The move comes after more than a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across France

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Will Joel and Ellie finally reach the doctors in “The Last of Us”? Will Michelle Yeoh take home the Oscar for best actress? Both questions will be answered this Sunday, but viewers may have to make a choice about which answer they want in real time. The season finale of

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A fire broke out Friday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, leading to the evacuation of workers as firefighters responded to the call, according to the U.S. Secret Service. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services said at 8 a.m. on Twitter that a defective cooling

BEIJING (AP) — China has condemned a plan by Japan to release treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, demanding that Tokyo first receive the approval of neighboring countries. China has made similar complaints on a regular basis in the past, but has not said how it would respond if

CAIRO (AP) — A U.S. free speech and literary organization has called on Egypt to release a well-known poet and songwriter who is on a hunger strike to protest his five-year incarceration. PEN America demanded that Egyptian authorities release Galal al-Behairy, who was first detained in 2018 and later handed a three-year sentence for spreading

By ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press Ingemar Stenmark’s unbreakable skiing record just got matched by Mikaela Shiffrin. The American won a giant slalom to equal the Swedish great’s record of 86 World Cup victories set more than three decades ago. Shiffrin got to 86 wins in just under 12 years from her World Cup debut in

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s former prime minister was taken into custody after questioning the country’s president about funding a French politician during a recent visit. A lawyer for the former prime minister, Cheikh Haguibou Soumare was detained Thursday however, he has not been told what he’s been charged with.

By PATRICK WALL and AMELIA PAK-HARVEY of Chalkbeat and COLLIN BINKLEY of The Associated Press David Daniel knows his son needs help. The 8-year-old spent first grade in remote learning and several weeks of second grade in quarantine. The best way to catch him up, research suggests, is to tutor him several times a week

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after years of tensions. The two countries released a joint communique on Friday about the deal that was negotiated with China. The development represents a diplomatic achievement for Beijing amid its

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Total pay for BP’s CEO more than doubled to $12 million last year. The disclosure Friday from the London-based energy giant came a day after rival Shell reported a similar multimillion-dollar pay package for its top executive on the heels of both companies posting their highest-ever

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has formally set the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections for May 14. That’s a month earlier than scheduled despite the devastating Feb. 6 earthquake that killed about 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Erdogan is seeking to extend his two decades

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has made his youngest brother the Duke of Edinburgh, passing on a title held by their late father, Prince Philip. Buckingham Palace said the title was conferred on Prince Edward on Friday, his 59th birthday. Edward is the youngest of the four children of Philip and the late Queen

FRANKLIN, N.C. (AP) — An emergency helicopter transport service announced Friday that it suspended operations, a day after one of its helicopters crashed in western North Carolina, leaving three of the four people aboard hospitalized. “Safety is of the upmost concern to our program, and as such we have suspended all LIFE FORCE operations until