Month: March 2023

By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter turned himself in to Athens police Wednesday night and was released 16 minutes later after posting a combined bond of $4,000 on charges of reckless driving and racing in relation to a fatal crash that killed a teammate and team staffer. According to Athens-Clarke

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has poured cold water on current premier Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal with the European Union, saying he would “find it hard” to vote for it in Parliament. The government has been bracing for a response from Johnson, a strong Brexit

Oil leaking from a Philippine tanker that sank southwest of the capital has prompted at least seven coastal towns to ban fishing and swimming as authorities scramble to contain the spill, officials said Thursday. The MT Princess Empress, which was carrying 20 crewmembers and a cargo of about 800,000 liters (210,000 gallons) of industrial fuel

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas to Orlando was diverted to a Jacksonville, Florida, airport after a battery on a passenger’s item in an overhead bin caught fire. The Florida-based airline said in a statement that Flight 259 landed safely Wednesday afternoon. A passenger told FirstCoast News in Jacksonville that a

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose restrictions on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable. But experts say removing them will cost billions, a burden that will fall hardest on small communities with

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — COVID-19 has shot back into the headlines in Britain through the leak of more than 100,000 private messages sent or received by the health minister as the government scrambled to respond to the new respiratory virus. The words of former U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock in 2020

By ISAAC SCHARF and AMI BENTOV Associated Press YOKNEAM, Israel (AP) — An Israeli-led crowdfunding campaign has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Palestinian residents of a West Bank town that was set ablaze by radical Jewish settlers this week. The organizer says Thursday some 12,000 Israelis have donated nearly 1.7 million shekels —

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of people applying for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell for third straight week. That’s good news for American workers, but potentially bad news in the fight against inflation by the Federal Reserve, which has been ratcheting up its benchmark interest rate for a year in an

By CASSANDRA ALLWOOD, JAMES BROOKS and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The father of the cellphone, China’s Huawei and tens of thousands of visitors went to tout and take in the latest tech advances at the MWC industry expo. The metaverse got a lot of attention at this week’s show, also known

BERLIN (AP) — A German ice cream parlor has expanded its menu with a skin-crawling offering: cricket-flavored scoops with dried brown crickets on top. The unusual confection is available at Thomas Micolino’s store in southern Germany’s town of Rottenburg am Neckar, German news agency dpa reported Thursday. Micolino has a habit of creating flavors that

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary is further delaying a vote on ratifying Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession bids. The postponement announced Thursday is the latest in a series that have frustrated Western allies as the Nordic countries seek membership in the military alliance. The delay pushes the vote back by

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A World Health Organization official in Africa is urging more support to countries facing cholera outbreaks, saying the disease has the potential to “quickly explode” as rainfall persists in some areas. Cholera has been reported in 12 of Africa’s 54 countries. South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

German authorities said Thursday that a 16-year-old boy has died after being shot in the head by an 81-year-old neighbor. Prosecutors said the teen died of his injuries in the hospital late Wednesday, a day after the shooting took place in the northern town of Bramsche. The gunman, an Italian citizen, also shot at the

By ANDY ROSEN of NerdWallet Unlike a deduction, which decreases the income on which you’ll be taxed, a tax credit reduces your overall tax due. The result can mean hundreds of dollars knocked off your bill — or added to your refund. Some tax credits apply to a huge swath of the population, while others

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The foreign ministers of India and China have met on the sidelines of a gathering of top diplomats from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations, signaling a thaw in their relationship, which has been tense since 2020. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says the

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a 32-year-old Chicago police officer has died after being wounded during a shootout while responding to a call of a man chasing a woman with a gun. Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown says the officer was shot several times Wednesday afternoon on the city’s Southwest Side. He was He

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke briefly in New Delhi at a meeting of top diplomats from the Group of 20 nations. It’s the highest-level in-person talks between the two countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But there

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — A summit on how to protect the world’s largest forests underway in Gabon is set to be dominated by the issue of who pays for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of the world’s most diverse species and contribute to limiting

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation has eased only slightly in the 20 countries that use the euro currency as the pain from higher costs for food and fuel persists. That’s giving the European Central Bank no reason to slow interest rate increases aimed at getting prices back under control.

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on China to refrain from sending weapons to Russia and instead use its influence to press Moscow for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. Scholz said in a speech to German parliament on Thursday that “my message to Beijing is clear: use your influence in