Month: March 2023

By The Associated Press U.S. product regulators said Thursday that Yeti has recalled 1.9 million coolers and gear cases because magnets can come detached from them, posing a risk of serious injury or death. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said consumers should immediately stop using the four recalled products and contact Yeti for refund information.

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is requesting more than $2.8 billion in the federal budget proposal he’s sending to Congress to help advance his cancer-fighting goals. That’s according to White House officials, who shared details with The Associated Press before Biden unveils the proposal Thursday in Philadelphia. More than

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose for the fifth straight week to its highest level since breaching 7% in November, just as the spring buying season gets ready to kick off. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the benchmark 30-year rate climbed to 6.73%

MOSCOW (AP) — The chairman of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s investigative foundation has resigned over a letter he wrote seeking the lifting of European Union sanctions against top officials of a group that includes one of Russia’s largest banks. Leonid Volkov said he was resigning Thursday. On Wednesday, a Russian journalist posted what

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first in a new series of atmospheric rivers has pushed into California and forecasters warn that widespread heavy rain will raise the threat of flooding in a state still digging out from earlier storms. Rain spread across the north Thursday but forecasters said the heart

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is offering buyouts to most of its U.S. salaried workforce and some global executives in an effort to trim costs as it makes the transition to electric vehicles. The Detroit automaker wouldn’t say how many workers it is targeting, but confirmed that the move

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of refusing to expand Medicaid benefits for new moms, Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states are now reversing course and trumpeting that coverage as central to their conservative, anti-abortion agenda. The shift in GOP support for postpartum Medicaid coverage is occurring in some

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has announced a crackdown on people smugglers, from a southern town near where a boat crowded with migrants broke apart, killing scores of people. After a Cabinet meeting in Cutro, Meloni announced a decree making migrant smuggling that results in death of migrants

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — No charges are immediately being filed against former NBA star Shawn Kemp following his arrest in connection with a drive-by shooting in Washington, prosecutors said Thursday. Kemp, 53, was booked shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday for investigation of felony drive-by shooting in Tacoma. He was released by mid-afternoon Thursday, online jail

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The opening of the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday is going to be a “moment,” the show’s producers promise. They won’t say what exactly it is but Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, this year’s executive producers and showrunners, are certain that it’s going to pull audiences in and keep

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The tiny clinic where physicians prescribe hormones and other medications to transgender teenagers shares the same campus where West Virginia kids travel to receive treatments for rare cancer, heart surgery and other health care difficult to get anywhere else. In a rural state purported to have

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Catholic bishops and lay representatives have gathered for the final meeting of a potentially groundbreaking reform assembly that has been marked by tensions between liberalizers and conservatives. It’s also drawing increasingly open opposition from the Vatican. The German process, dubbed the “Synodal Path,” was launched in

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s military said Thursday at least 36 people were killed by extremists in the country’s conflict-riddled east. The Allied Democratic Forces, a group with links to the Islamic State group, killed civilians in Mukondi village in North Kivu province. Conflict has been simmering in eastern Congo

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Six people were killed and dozens injured when a train crashed into a passenger bus in Lagos, Nigeria. The emergency response agency said on Thursday that the bus was taking government staff to work when it collided with the intra-city train in the Ikeja area of

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s president has rejected accusations that he is stoking anti-Black racism. He says that he has sub-Saharan African friends and that his comments last month targeting migrants were misinterpreted by his enemies. President Kais Saied drew criticism from international partners and aid groups for linking

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Three more Greek rail officials have been charged in connection with a train crash that killed 57 people, as protests continued and the government promised to overhaul rail safety. A senior official involved in the investigation said two station managers and a supervisor were charged with

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — For two hours each afternoon, the Catholic priest listens to confessions behind a glass wall where anyone nearby can spot him. Yet that visibility is deceptive; he yearns to keep his name and exact whereabouts a secret to the outside world. He began

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After three nasty years, the La Nina weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. That’s usually good news for the United States and other parts of the world, including drought-stricken northeast Africa,

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week jumped by the most in five months, but layoffs remain historically low as the labor market continues to be largely unaffected by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes. The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for jobless claims in

Prague (AP) — A retired army general and former senior NATO official has been sworn in as the Czech Republic’s new president, succeeding the controversy-courting Milos Zeman. Petr Pavel took the formal oath during a joint session of both houses of Parliament Thursday at Prague Castle, the seat of the presidency. He was elected to

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Human Rights Watch says many middle and working class families in Lebanon have been forced to spend most of their monthly income to pay shady neighborhood businessmen running private generators. Still, they go without electricity for nearly half the day, and the crisis threatens to deepen the