Month: June 2023

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of great range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a blow to abortion opponents in Ohio, a fall ballot issue aimed at enshrining access…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an Iran-based technology firm for its role in facilitating…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of Chase’s online banking services have seen double transactions, fees and payments in…

NATICK, Mass. (AP) — The Wegmans supermarket chain is closing one of its largest and most unusual stores because it has not attracted enough…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A school bus in Milwaukee was engulfed in flames moments after the pregnant driver safely evacuated 37 students. The bus was just…

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — One of Virginia’s most closely watched nomination contests this…

By GEIR MOULSON and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Iran has released one Danish and two Austrian citizens, according to the European…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says his country will look into a report that former German air force fighter plane pilots have been…

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Rain and a rainy forecast for the weekend have fire officials hopeful they can get the largest wildfire ever recorded…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Critics accuse the British administration of running “government by WhatsApp” due to the…

LONDON (AP) — The British government has appointed a new acting chair for the BBC five weeks after the resignation of Richard Sharp. Sharp resigned…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is telling owners of more than 140,000 SUVs in the U.S. to park them outside because they can catch fire even when the engines…

CAIRO (AP) — Jill Biden has arrived in Cairo on the second leg of her six-day trip across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe that seeks to…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s birth rate declined for a seventh consecutive year in 2022 to a record low of 1.26, the…

BY DAVID CRARY AP National Writer In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s bishops’ conference says it has found evidence of 728 sexual abusers within the…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Polish soccer referee Szymon Marciniak has apologized for speaking at a business event tied to a…

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations has warned that far too little aid is reaching cyclone-hit areas of Myanmar and the country could face a major…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Ten-year-old Maholo Terajima Ghnassia is breaking conventions as one of the biggest emerging stars…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozen of activists including Indigenous Sami are protesting outside the office of…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Biden administration is implementing a 20-year withdrawal banning oil and gas development outside the boundaries of…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda says he is proposing urgent amendments to a law on…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most decorated living war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has quit his corporate…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — As the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown approaches Sunday, many in Hong…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s Ukraine envoy has appealed to other governments to “stop sending weapons to the…

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Dozens of protesters are holding a rally in Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi to…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Erykah Badu has unintentionally occupied the role of culture shifter and influencer for 20…