Month: May 2023

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has slowed the pace of its interest rate increases, stepping…

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A shooter killed at least eight people and wounded 13 in a drive-by…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Opinion polls show Paetongtarn Shinawatra to be the heavy favorite to take the prime…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The United States Agency for International Development has suspended all food assistance to the northern Ethiopian…

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — The governor of a remote Indian state issued orders allowing district magistrates to…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israelis have blocked roads and demonstrated against a contentious government plan to…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian President Putin will face an…

By ISABEL DEBRE and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops on Thursday killed three Palestinian militants wanted…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On his way to be crowned this week, King Charles III will travel by gilded coach through streets…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — We were a diverse group of more than a dozen people, hunkered down in a small hotel in…

PRAGUE (AP) — Police says eight people have died in an overnight fire in the second largest city in the Czech Republic. The fire broke out about…

By ED DAVEY Associated Press An influential shipping industry group has quietly warned shippers to think carefully before they sign up for a new plan…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks sank on Wall Street Thursday as worries cranked higher about a cracking U.S. banking system.…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press In Montana, a court rebuffed one abortion restriction, but the governor quickly signed others into law. In…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights groups are calling for an investigation into the shooting of a political and social…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America In Philadelphia’s first mayoral race since crime spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, the…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Partisan tensions in Oregon skyrocketed this week because Republican state…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan’s chief trade representative says his country’s semiconductor makers will expand…

By LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Jonathan Schmidt just made the deadline, arriving at Federal Police headquarters in the center…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge is set to hear arguments Thursday in a lawsuit challenging the…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrie Fisher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, a May the Fourth tribute to a…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Big-name, nationally known musical artists are always part of the New Orleans Jazz &…

By ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer It might just be the coolest caption in newspaper history: “AP Wirephoto via jet bomber from London” On…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Tori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died. She was 32.…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press PANAJI, India (AP) — Russia is unlikely to face backlash over its war in Ukraine from Central Asian foreign…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria evacuated hundreds of its citizens from Sudan late Wednesday after days of delays…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials celebrated Wednesday the announcement that the country finally developed…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say about a dozen people were arrested Wednesday night while protesting in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times over a 2018 investigative series into his family’s wealth…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the first time, researchers have captured and radio-collared a bear in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles where…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama announced Wednesday that she has co-founded a new company to make and sell…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk threatened to reassign NPR’s Twitter account to “another company,”…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Several families have challenged Kentucky’s ban on gender-affirming care for…

DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say Dallas was hit with a computer ransomware attack that brought down its Police Department and City Hall websites and…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender youth in North Carolina would have to wait until they…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Silicon Valley city councilman accused of leaking a grand jury report criticizing the San Francisco 49ers’ outsize…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has approved a measure that would reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from…