Month: April 2023

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The new director of the National Hurricane Center is a man with plenty of experience calling big storms. The…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Not even the annual White House Easter Egg Roll is safe from presidential politics.…

By DYLAN LOVAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his…

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Thousands of professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers at New Jersey’s flagship university went…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. food agency says it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghans, with the country at the highest…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and SIBI ARASU Associated Press India’s population will surpass China’s by the middle of this year. Unless it’s…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis renews his call to pray for peace on Easter Monday, celebrating the Regina Coeli prayer in St. Peter’s Square.…

ROME (AP) — The condition of former Italian premier Silvio Berlucsconi, hospitalized in intensive care for a lung infection, is progressively…

ROME (AP) — German aid group ResQship says at least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank in the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain is bracing for a four-day walkout by tens of thousands of doctors at the state-funded health care system. One official said…

By REBECCA GRIESBACH, AL.com PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — A decade after dropping out, Briana Mathis, a 30-year-old mother of two, is navigating her…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have banned families and women from restaurants with gardens or green spaces in Afghanistan’s…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The new governor of Japan’s central bank has signaled, once again, that he plans no drastic…

CAMBRIDGE A fire broke out at a Massachusetts church not long after Easter services, with more than 100 firefighters working to save the 114-year-old…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Scam artists often target older adults because they hold significant levels of wealth, but family and friends can…

BEIJING (AP) — A human rights group says two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison. It’s…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian prosecutors have carried out forensic searches of…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A vice president at Greece’s Supreme Court has resigned in a legal dispute over an attempt by the government to ban a…

PARIS (AP) — French local authorities say the death toll from Sunday’s avalanche in the French Alps has risen to six, including two mountain…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press BOHOYAVLENKA, Ukraine (AP) — In a small village in eastern Ukraine the sounds of war echo in the distance…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s central bank says that Pakistanis living abroad sent $2.5 billion home in March,…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey says he’ll seek a fourth term, bringing unmatched name recognition…

MARSEILLE (AP) — French authorities have raised to five the death toll from an explosion that collapsed a building in the southern French city of…