Month: April 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — A curious toddler on Tuesday earned the title of one of the tiniest White House intruders after he squeezed through the metal fencing on the north side of the executive mansion. U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers, who are responsible for security at the White House, walked across the North Lawn to

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — The winter that wouldn’t quit showed up again in the Sierra Nevada region of California and Nevada on Tuesday. The fast-moving, blustery storm wasn’t expected to last long, but it was enough to require chain controls on some trans-Sierra highways and add to staggering snowfall totals left by an exceptional series

RIPON, Wis. (AP) — Officials in Ripon, Wisconsin, are moving the building where the Republican Party is said to have been founded across town to boost visibility as conservatives descend on the state for the GOP national convention next year. WLUK-TV reports workers moved the Little White Schoolhouse to a different location in the city

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is on trial in federal court on charges of corruption and lying to the FBI. He could get a long prison sentence if convicted of multiple wire fraud counts and conspiracy. The former Tallahassee mayor came within less than a percentage point of being

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says planes are taking off again after departures were held up because of what the airline calls an intermittent technical problem. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that Southwest requested that the agency pause the airline’s flights. The ground stop was brief, but it

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin took to the podium and declared he’s ready to resume his football career some four months after going into cardiac arrest and having to be resuscitated on the field during a game. Hamlin says his “heart is still in

HELSINKI (AP) — Sweden’s public radio says it would stop being active on Twitter, but it didn’t blame new labels that Elon Musk’s social media platform has slapped on public broadcasters. Sveriges Radio said Tuesday on its blog that Twitter has lost its relevance to Swedish audiences. National Public Radio and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, meanwhile,

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has revealed new details of sanctions it previously announced against two U.S. weapons manufacturers, including a ban on Chinese companies doing business with them. China’s Ministry of Commerce says the sanctions include a ban on all exports and imports by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Missiles

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked furiously Tuesday to build support for a Republican plan that would demand strict limits to federal spending in return for agreeing to raise the nation’s debt limit and stave off an unprecedented U.S. default. But President Joe

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ari Aster really doesn’t want to talk about “Beau Is Afraid.” “This is so not the right thing,” he laughed anxiously during a recent press day for his new film. “I shouldn’t be talking about this movie for another 10 years.” But, alas, the insatiable publicity

By GEORGE WALKER IV Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Protesters calling for gun safety legislation were blocked from bringing caskets inside Tennessee’s Capitol, but a recently reinstated legislator escorted an infant-sized casket inside before he was barred from carrying it onto the House floor. Protesters led by Bishop William Barber II marched in Nashville

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities in Spain’s parched northeast have warned that Barcelona and a surrounding area that’s home to some 6 million people could face even tighter restrictions of water use in the coming months. The head of Catalonia’s Water Agency said Tuesday that the area would likely be

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Rep. Liz Cheney has a memoir and a “warning” coming out this fall. In “Oath and Honor,” she will write about her estrangement from former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol. “The last two years have shown

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament has postponed municipal elections for up to a year for a second time amid concerns that the government would not be able to secure the needed funding in time for the polling. The delay approved Tuesday comes as Lebanon’s economy and infrastructure continue to crumble.

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s leftist coalition government has approved a plan to make available some 50,000 houses for rent at affordable prices as part of measures aimed at curbing soaring rents and house prices. The apartments will come from the state-controlled SAREB ‘bad bank’ that was set up in 2012

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland says it is building a state-of-the-art electronic barrier at its land border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, which is also a European Union external frontier. The barrier, which will be equipped with 24-hour monitoring cameras and motion detectors, will run for 210 kilometers (130 miles) and is due to be completed

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss prosecutors say they’ve charged a former interior minister of Gambia with crimes against humanity for his alleged role in years of repression by the west African country’s security forces against opponents of its longtime dictator. Ousman Sonko was Gambia’s interior minister from 2006 to 2016 under then-President Yahya Jammeh. He applied

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Chinese defense chief has vowed to take military cooperation with Moscow to a new level, a statement that reflects increasingly close Russia-China ties amid the fighting in Ukraine. Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu after attending a meeting

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people have gathered at the former site of Auschwitz for the March of the Living. The yearly remembrance march falls this year on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the start of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Elderly survivors, some draped in Israel’s blue and white flag,

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have given the green light for citizens from Kosovo to travel freely in Europe without visas from next year. It means that Kosovo’s citizens will be able to travel in Europe’s 27-nation passport-free area for periods of up to 90 days every six months. The so-called Schengen area includes

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The first time George Mitchell came to Belfast, it was a war-scarred city of bomb damage and barbed wire. This week the former U.S. senator returned to a city whose peace he was crucial to forging. Now 89 and being treated for leukemia, Mitchell says

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Irish climber has died and an Indian is missing after falling into a crevasse in two separate incidents on Mount Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest mountain, an expedition organizer said Tuesday. Irish climber Noel Richmond, 56, died Monday while returning from the 8,091-meter (26,540-foot) summit, Thaneswar Guragai of Kathmandu-based Seven

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have adopted on Tuesday key pieces of a package designed to achieve the EU’s climate goals of cutting emissions of the gases that cause global warming by 55% over this decade. European Parliament members approved deals to reform the 27-nation bloc’s emissions trading system and to create a new

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China denied all accusations of an overseas police presence, saying Tuesday that the United States was making “groundless accusations” after U.S. law enforcement arrested two men in New York for establishing a secret police station. “The relevant claims have no factual basis, and there is no

BEIJING (AP) — Police in New York have arrested two men for allegedly setting up a secret police station for a Chinese provincial police agency to collect information on opponents of the ruling Communist Party. Such offices have been reported across North America, Europe and in other countries where Chinese communities include critics of the