Month: April 2023

By AMY TAXIN and JAE C. HONG Associated Press LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) — In the heart of California, some rural communities are facing the prospect of being marooned or flooded out by rising water. More than a dozen atmospheric rivers dumped epic rain and snowfall on California. Now that massive snowpack is melting and filling

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Traveling while pregnant can be tough. Activities like adventure sports, scuba diving and going to high-altitude locations are off limits, for one thing. But if you’re dealing with fatigue, nausea, aches and other common symptoms, you may barely want to get out of bed, let alone go bungee jumping (don’t

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police in Japan are investigating a suspicious object found in a paper bag inside a commercial building connected to the Hiroshima train station. Authorities temporarily suspended the high-speed train service and evacuated customers and employees as the Japanese city steps up security ahead of the Group of

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of dog farmers in South Korea are rallying to criticize the country’s first lady over her reported comments supporting a possible ban on dog meat consumption. Eating dog is a centuries-old Korean practice. But there have been growing calls for outlawing it in South

BEIJING (AP) — The family of a veteran Chinese journalist says he faces espionage charges after being detained while meeting with a Japanese diplomat in a restaurant. Dong Yuyu, deputy head of the editorial department at Guangming Daily, often wrote liberal-leaning articles and regularly met with foreign journalists and diplomats to help understand global trends.

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia has convicted a former police officer of publicly spreading false information about the country’s military for criticizing the war in Ukraine to his friends. The ex-office, Semiel Vedel, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison under a law the Kremlin has

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Major central banks are standing down from their offer of daily emergency dollar loans to banks, a crisis step launched after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in the U.S. fed fears about the stability of the global financial system. The European Central Bank said

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and DAVID BILLER Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is due to arrive in Spain on the second stop of a European tour aimed at resetting relations and making progress on a trade deal between the EU and the Mercosur bloc of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer A handful of big-name stars around the NHL have been invisible or close to it during the first week of the playoffs. Bo Horvat was held without a point in the New York Islanders’ series against Carolina before a goal in garbage time of Game 4 when the Hurricanes

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The trade of quarterback Aaron Rodgers from Green Bay to New York puts one of the greatest players in NFL history in a Jets uniform. Despite a 54-year Super Bowl drought and the league’s longest active streak without a playoff appearance (12

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A former member of the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group who’s seeking asylum in Norway has admitted charges of resisting arrest after a bar brawl and carrying an air gun. Andrey Medvedev appeared in court in Oslo on Tuesday. He denied using violence against police officers who handcuffed him outside

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained 110 people for alleged links to Kurdish militants in raids across 21 provinces. A pro-Kurdish politician says the raids targeted politicians, journalists, lawyers and human rights activists. They come weeks ahead of Turkey’s May 14 parliamentary and presidential elections. Anadolu Agency says those

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has fired one of its doctors who faced allegations, first reported by The Associated Press, that he had repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct. The U.N. health agency had come under pressure from the United States over the claims against the doctor,

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss bank UBS says it took in $28 billion in new money from wealthy clients in the first three months of the year. The Zurich-based bank said Tuesday that $7 billion of that came in the 10 days after the announcement it was taking over ailing rival

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say a Russian missile has hit a museum building in the north of the country, killing at least two and wounding 10 other people. The attack was part of a relentless barrage that comes as Ukraine is gathering its forces for a planned counteroffensive.

SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (AP) — The graves are dug in the morning. Four plots, each two meters deep in the section of a cemetery in a central Ukrainian city devoted to the nation’s fallen soldiers. The day begins for Oleh Itsenko, 29, and Andrii Kuznetsov, 23, shortly after dawn, when the

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese and foreigners streamed out of the capital of Khartoum and other battle zones, as fighting Tuesday shook a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Aid agencies raised increasing alarm over the crumbling humanitarian situation in a country reliant on outside help.

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday as worries about the health of global economies grew after a tumble on Wall Street, despite some better-than-expected earnings reports. Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul and Shanghai declined while Hong Kong gained in early trading. “From a banking crisis still hovering just

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The coronation of King Charles III is luring royal fans fascinated by the pageantry, spectacle and drama of the monarchy and far-flung visitors eager to experience a piece of British history. Tour companies, shops and restaurants are rolling out the red carpet, whether it’s a decked-out

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say the twin blasts that struck a counterterrorism facility in the country’s northwest and killed 16 people the day before were caused by electrical shorts and not a terror attack, as initially suggested. The short circuits occurred on Monday at a munition warehouse in

By EMRAH GUREL Associated Press CANAKKALE, Turkey (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered near the former World War I battlefields in Turkey to pay homage to soldiers from Australia and New Zealand who died in a disastrous campaign 108 years ago. Tuesday’s Anzac Day services on the Gallipoli peninsula began at dawn with a

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Myanmar’s ruling military to take the initiative in finding a way out of the country’s violent political crisis, including releasing political detainees, after a surprise meeting with the army leader who seized power two years ago. Ban met Monday

By JENNIFER PELTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A nearly 30-year-old rape claim against Donald Trump went to trial Tuesday as jurors in the federal civil case heard a former advice columnist’s allegation of being attacked in a luxury department store dressing room. The former president says nothing happened between them.

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sony chairman and CEO Tom Rothman did not hold back on the opening night of CinemaCon. Speaking to a crowd of theater owners and exhibitors, Rothman reminded them Monday night in Las Vegas that Sony is and was the “only major studio dedicated entirely to

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Asa Hutchinson is launching his bid for president in the northwest Arkansas city where he was born and got his start in politics. But the city of Bentonville is vastly different from the sleepy small town that Hutchinson remembers. Hutchinson is formally announcing his bid in

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon. Flight controllers lost contact Wednesday with the lander after it descended from lunar orbit, aiming for the dusty surface. More than six hours later, the company said there was “a high probability” that the lander had

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” and extend the run of America’s oldest president for another four years. Biden, who would be 86 at the

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief and representatives from Western nations berated Russia’s top diplomat as he chaired a U.N. meeting Monday, accusing Moscow of violating the U.N. Charter by attacking Ukraine and occupying part of its territory. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded by defending his

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press The College Board says changes will be made to its new AP African American studies course, after critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life. In a statement on Monday, the College Board said

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico say they have charged two men in the Jan. 15 disappearance of two environmental and community activists in a dangerous corner of western Mexico. Lawyer Ricardo Lagunes and schoolteacher Antonio Díaz have been missing for over three months. Federal prosecutors did not say whether the two were still

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press LWERA WETLAND, Uganda (AP) — The excavator grunts in the heart of the wetland, baring its teeth. There are trucks waiting to be loaded with sand, and more almost certainly on the way. This is how it is here daily in Lwera — a central Ugandan region on the fringes

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The killing and deportation of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 1900s is being remembered in Southern California. Only recently has its enormous Armenian American community been able to celebrate U.S. recognition that the systematic oppression was genocide. Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day has long been marked in the Los

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $1.6 million to the family of a handcuffed inmate who was shot and killed in 2014 by a prison guard trainee armed with a shotgun. The deal was reached Monday in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by relatives

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada Democratic U.S. senator is looking to Congress to ensure mining companies can use established mineral claims to dump waste on neighboring federal lands as they always had before a federal appeals court adopted a stricter interpretation of a 150-year-old law. Environmentalists widely praised the

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials won’t be allowed to use environmental, social and governance factors in investing public funds or deciding who receives government contracts. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly allowed a Republican measure to become law without her signature Monday. Kelly’s decision comes after she vetoed more than