Month: June 2023

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Portrait photographer Anne Brande shoots graduation and wedding engagement photos at scenic spots throughout southeastern Wyoming’s granite mountains and sprawling sagebrush valleys, but worries what those views will look like in a few years. Wind energy is booming here. “Dandelions in my yard, you know, when

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says that without a new injection of funding, it is “likely or highly likely” that the agency will not be able to deliver some services or pay salaries by the fall. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said at a

NEW YORK (AP) — A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium ion batteries. The fire, reported shortly after midnight, happened at a shop that was cited last summer for safety violations related to

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, in his first full week back at the Vatican following abdominal surgery, has met with Cuba’s president. The Holy See’s announcement on Tuesday of the private meeting with President Miguel Diaz-Canel gave no details of their talks. Francis visited Cuba in 2015, as part

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, a social media personality known for expressing misogynistic views online, was charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women, prosecutors said Tuesday. Prosecutors also filed charges against Tate’s brother, Tristan, and two Romanian women in a court in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, the

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nine Egyptian men accused of being members of a migrant smuggling ring are appearing in court in southern Greece for questioning over their alleged role in one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. The nine in court on Tuesday face

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret grew stronger on Wednesday as it took aim at islands in the eastern Caribbean that braced for torrential rainfall, landslides and flooding. Bret had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) on Wednesday night and was moving westward across the

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet Parenting comes with many responsibilities, and one is raising financially independent kids. But adult kids sometimes still need financial support. Financially supporting adult kids is a kind thing to do but can have downsides if you’re not financially secure. Not only can it affect your retirement savings, but it also

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Nissan and about a dozen individuals in Beirut over his imprisonment in Japan and what he says is misinformation spread against him, Lebanese officials said Tuesday. According to the officials, Ghosn’s lawsuit accuses Nissan and the

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police have arrested a Norwegian citizen in Hungary on suspicion that he was planning an extremist attack modeled after a 2011 massacre in Norway that killed 77 people. Hungarian police said Tuesday that the 45-year-old man had posted numerous videos to the internet in which he described his plans to commit

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer A half-century later, Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon and acknowledges she wasn’t sure how things would go that day. “I had no idea. Absolute toss-up. Because you never really know. What

By EDNA TARIGAN and DAVID RISING Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is moving ahead with plans for joint naval exercises in September, the first held by countries in the bloc on their own, at a time when several are responding more strongly to increasing Chinese assertiveness in the

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The governor of Darfur called for an international investigation into alleged atrocities against residents of the region that witnessed some of the worst battles in Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Mini Arko Minawi urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to allow the International Criminal Court to probe “crimes

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says it has recorded a new high in crimes by political extremists in 2022, with the far right posing the biggest security threat to the country. Figures published by the BfV agency on Tuesday show that there were almost 2,000 more instances of cases linked to extremists of

BERLIN (AP) — Official statistics in Germany show that large numbers of refugees from Ukraine fleeing Russia’s war fueled a 1.3% rise in the German population last year. That helped push up the number of inhabitants in the European Union’s most populous country to more than 84.4 million. The national statistics office said Tuesday that

PARIS (AP) — French investigators searched the headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers on Tuesday in a probe into suspected corruption, according to the national financial prosecutor’s office. The Paris organizing committee said in a statement that a search was under way at their headquarters in the suburb of Saint-Denis, and that “Paris 2024 is cooperating

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden has convened a group of technology leaders in San Francisco to debate the risks and promises of artificial intelligence. The Biden administration is seeking to figure out how to regulate the emergent field of AI, looking for ways to nurture its potential for

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say the country’s air defenses have downed 32 of 35 Shahed exploding drones Russia launched overnight. Most of them were taken down in the Kyiv region. The attack was part of a wider bombardment of Ukrainian regions that extended as far as the Lviv

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senator has invited the International Criminal Court to investigate what Australian military commanders knew about war crime allegations in Afghanistan in a bid to pressure Australia into launching its own review. On Tuesday, Sen. Jacqui Lambie invited the Hague-based court because she says military commanders

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s chancellor has pressed China to lean harder on Russia over its war in Ukraine, while leaders from both countries have pledged to work together to combat climate change as two of the world’s biggest carbon dioxide emitters. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and about half of his Cabinet

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly lower Wednesday in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks retreated following the S&P 500’s rise to its highest level since the spring of last year. U.S. futures were little changed and oil prices rose. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 edged 0.1% higher to 33,427.14, while the

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless. The study released Tuesday by the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative aims to provide a comprehensive picture of adult

By BEN FINLEY and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Rescuers in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean raced against time Tuesday to find a missing submersible before the oxygen supply runs out for five people who were on a mission to document the wreckage of the Titanic. Authorities reported the carbon-fiber vessel overdue Sunday night,

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Visitors to Jordan this month noticed a new addition to the royal portraits over highways and hospitals. The 28-year-old Crown Prince Hussein and his glamorous Saudi bride, Rajwa Alseif, now beam down at motorists stuck in Amman traffic. Their royal wedding represented the pinnacle of the

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased costs for people already struggling with high inflation. But it also potentially accelerates progress toward reducing emissions in Africa’s largest economy. In a country where only about half of the population has

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The international rights group Amnesty International is urging Pakistan’s government to stop what it describes as random arrest of Afghan refugees within Pakistan. The U.N. refugee agency says there are more than 3.7 million Afghans in Pakistan but only 1.4 million are formally registered. Amnesty called on

By AAMER MADHANI and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is honoring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a state visit this week. Biden is extending the high honor even though Modi’s government has stayed on the sidelines in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and as human rights activists express alarm about

Associated Press The around-the-clock search for the missing Titan submersible engrossed the world for days. But after news of the catastrophic implosion that killed the pilot and his four passengers near the Titanic shipwreck, investigators are focusing on how it happened — and if it could have been prevented. Deep-sea robots continue searching the North

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads foreign dignitaries and bureaucrats in a session for International Yoga Day on Wednesday at the United Nations’ Secretariat in New York, millions of Indians will take note. Yoga is an ancient discipline first practiced by Hindu

By STEVE PEOPLES and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says there’s no chance “on God’s green earth” he’s running for president in 2024. But he wants to make clear that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running, is “weak” and “undisciplined” and “will be crushed by Donald

By STEVE PEOPLES and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says there’s no chance “on God’s green earth” he’s running for president in 2024, but he wants to make clear that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running, is “weak” and “undisciplined” and “will be crushed by Donald

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press OROVADA, Nevada (AP) — A huge lithium mine under construction in northern Nevada is at the center of a dispute over President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda. The administration says the mine will produce battery material needed to meet Biden’s goal for half of all new vehicles sold in the