Month: May 2023

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has told visiting ex-U.S. national security adviser John Bolton that her country is willing to deepen cooperation with the U.S. and “other like-minded partners” to safeguard peace, as the self-governed island faces increasing military threats from China. President Tsai Ing-wen also expressed hopes to Bolton, a potential Republican presidential

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Six months after she was immortalized with a U.S. quarter, Asian American Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong has received another accolade affirming her icon status — her own Barbie. Mattel announced Monday the release of an Anna May Wong doll for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The figure

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Designer Karl Lagerfeld said many provocative things during a career that lasted more than half a century. But the new spring fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, launched by Monday’s splashy Met Gala, focuses on Lagerfeld’s work, not his words. The gallery walls

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found. The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press OMMEREN, Netherlands (AP) — An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewelry looted by the Nazis during World War II and purportedly buried in a sleepy Dutch village has — like many previous searches — failed to unearth any treasure. Archeologists and historians called into

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in a department store’s dressing room two decades before he became president acknowledged Monday that she never followed her own advice to readers that they report sexual attacks to police. E. Jean Carroll told

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Recent turmoil in the banking industry may have you worried about your money. Shares of PacWest, a small regional bank based in Los Angeles, plunged almost 40% after the company confirmed it may put itself up for sale. Anxiety over potential bank runs has sent shares

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aerosmith will be touring a city near you for the last time to celebrate the rock band’s 50-plus years together. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band announced Monday the dates for their farewell tour called “Peace Out” starting Sept. 2 in Philadelphia.

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant churches nationwide. At its heyday in the 1960s, more than 1,500 parishioners filled every seat at

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By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant churches nationwide. At its heyday in the 1960s, more than 1,500 parishioners filled every seat at

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The satellite news network Al Jazeera says that a correspondent for one of its channels held in Egypt since 2019 has been released after nearly four years in pre-trial detention. The Qatar-funded network in Doha said that Hisham Abdel Aziz had been released. It

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ top official in Sudan says the country’s warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, which could potentially take place in Saudi Arabia. Volker Perthes told The Associated Press on Monday that the talks would first focus on establishing a “stable and reliable”

By AAMER MADHANI and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden reiterated U.S. commitment to the Philippines’ security and noted the “deep friendship” of the two nations as he met with Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the White House as concerns grow about the Chinese navy’s harassment of Philippine vessels in

BERLIN (AP) — Public transit companies in Germany say more than three million people have already snapped up a new ticket being launched Monday that allows them to use all local and regional trains, buses and metros across the country for 49 euros a month. The new Germany Ticket is intended to encourage people to

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has blocked a unique rule that would restrict access to gender-affirming health care to children and adults. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo issued a temporary restraining order Monday blocking the Republican attorney general’s emergency rule on transgender health care until May

By OMAR AKOUR Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s top diplomat says regional talks with Syria are a step in the right direction to end a decade of the war-torn country’s political isolation. His remarks came as envoys from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt met with Syria’s top diplomat in Jordan on Monday. Damascus

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Uzbekistan’s central elections commission says that Uzbeks have given overwhelming approval in a referendum to constitutional changes that promise human rights reforms but that also would allow the country’s president to stay in office until 2040. The commission said Monday that more than 90% of those who cast ballots Sunday voted

By DAVID RISING Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say that Russia has launched its second large salvo of missiles at Ukraine in recent days. The attack damaged buildings and wounded at least 34 people in the eastern city of Pavlohrad but failed to hit Kyiv. Air raid sirens blared across the capital

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge has ordered the head of Mexico’s immigration agency to stand trial on charges that he failed in his responsibility to protect those in his custody when 40 migrants died in a fire at a border detention center in March. Francisco Garduño will remain free during the proceedings and will

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III hasn’t even been crowned yet, but his name is already etched on the walls of Hill House School in London. A wooden slab just inside the front door records Nov. 7, 1956, as the day the future king enrolled at Hill House, alongside other

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The pioneering and scandalous French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923. She owed her fame not only to her acting talent but her instinct to use the press for branding decades before the

By SUZAN FRASER and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the leader of the Islamic State group was killed during an operation by Turkish forces in Syria. Erdogan told TRT Turk television late on Sunday that the IS leader known as Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi was killed ion

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s diverse communities will come together across London to mark King Charles III’s coronation. Musicians plan to parade through the streets of London’s Brixton neighborhood to entertain crowds with a carnival set mix of gospel, jazz, grime, disco and rap. British Indians will party with Punjabi song

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma will be a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a research institute run by the prestigious University of Tokyo. The university said Monday that Ma will research sustainable agriculture and food production. It said Ma, who heads his own Jack Ma Foundation,