Month: November 2023

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new parliament has reinstated government funding for in vitro fertilization, previously banned by the conservative party which lost control of the legislature in the country’s recent general election. The parliament, which began its term this month, has made a point of reversing the ban in one of its first moves

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that antisemitism in the United States has reached levels unseen in generations and called on his fellow Democrats to clearly condemn it. Schumer is the highest-ranked Jewish elected official in the U.S. His remarks during a nearly-45 minute speech on

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down. Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed Jezebel and laid off its staff earlier this

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Top diplomats from more than 50 countries are arriving in North Macedonia while others are boycotting the expected presence of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have said they would not attend the Organization for Security and

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are considering holding a formal vote next month to authorize the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden as the party looks to legitimize a process that has yet to yield any direct evidence of wrongdoing by the president. The possible reversal from House Republicans comes amid

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An expensive private high school in Mexico has suspended and may expel a student who was caught on video beating a parking lot attendant at his housing complex. The high school student, whose name authorities have not yet confirmed, was seen on security camera footage rushing into the guard shack and

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China has presented the United Nations Security Council with a four-point plan for Middle East peace in a demonstration of its ambitions to be a global superpower. But the plan was somewhere short on details and the U.S. quickly reminded the council of its attempts to

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black former delivery driver who says two white men shot into his work van and then pursued him in a chase in Mississippi has filed a new lawsuit against the men and his former employer, FedEx. This is the second suit on behalf of

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Deutsche Bank viewed Donald Trump as a “whale” of a client, wanted to land him and eagerly cultivated a relationship that grew from $13,000 worth of revenue to $6 million in two years. That’s according to documents presented Wednesday at the former president’s civil fraud trial

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says a Navy warship sailing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait shot down a drone launched from Yemen. It is the latest in a string of threats from Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. The official says that according to initial reports, USS Carney, a Navy destroyer,

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland jury will decide in the coming weeks whether a Prince George’s County police officer broke the law when he shot and killed a handcuffed man in 2020. A trial began Tuesday for Michael Owen Jr., who had served on the police force for 10 years when he became

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s public university system is offering free tuition to family members of those who died and to those who were injured in the deadliest mass shooting in state history. The Lewiston Strong Tuition Waiver program covers more than 80 people. It includes those injured in the shooting and family members of

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British foster child who killed the woman caring for him when he ran over her with her car has been sentenced to two years in custody. The boy was 12 at the time. He previously pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. Prosecutors dropped a

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The actor Jonathan Majors has appeared in court in New York for the expected start of jury selection in a trial in which he is accused of injuring his then-girlfriend during an argument last spring. The trial could wind up playing a big role in what

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has passed a law enshrining new media freedoms and repealing old measures that allowed journalists to be prosecuted for what they write. The move Wednesday is being hailed as a major achievement by the country’s officials and has been well received by journalists. But some question its timing one year

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested in western Germany on suspicion of planning a possible attack on a Christmas market. Prosecutors in Duesseldorf said the teenager was detained Tuesday during a search at his home. A court in nearby Leverkusen ordered him kept in custody Wednesday on suspicion of planning

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — For years, the the massive mostly-intact dinosaur skeleton that came to be known as Sue the T-rex was at the center of a legal battle. KELO-TV reports that the latest dispute involves who inherits what’s left of the money created by the sale of Sue. Fossil hunters discovered the skeleton

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader has presented a $34.8 billion spending plan for 2024 to federal lawmakers with a focus on stabilizing Africa’s largest but ailing economy and tackling a deadly security crisis. President Bola Tinubu projects that the economy will grow by at least 3.76% next year. He

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — NATO member Finland has closed its last remaining border crossing with Russia. The move Wednesday comes after the government decided to seal the entire border with its eastern neighbor amid rising political tensions between Helsinki and Moscow. The decision to close the entire 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border was

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On Wednesday the U.S. Treasure Department imposed a new round of sanctions against a group of 20 people and firms who are allegedly involved in a financial facilitation network for the benefit of the Iranian military. The sanctions impact firms and people spanning from Hong Kong to

HILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an explosion at an auto repair shop in Ohio has left three people dead and another person hospitalized. The Tuesday afternoon blast at Jimbo’s Auto Repair in Hillsboro sparked a massive fire that engulfed the building and spewed thick black smoke that was visible for miles. The blast was

By LORNE COOK and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister insists that NATO allies are showing no sign of war fatigue and remain committed to helping his country defend itself against Russia. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also told The Associated Press that President Vladimir Putin is miscalculating if he sees any

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in northeastern Poland say three teenage students were injured when a classmate attacked them with a knife at a high school.  The attack took place Wednesday during lessons at the high school in the town of Kadzidlo. Two of those injured have been hospitalized in serious condition. One victim was

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Opposition protesters in Kosovo have used flares and tear gas to protest against a senior war crimes court official in the capital. Opposition leftist Social Democratic Party members tried to enter a hotel in Pristina where Kosovo Specialist Chamber court President Ekaterina Trendafilova was holding a meeting with members of civil

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, according to the latest survey by Consumer Reports, which found that EVs from the 2021 through 2023 model years encountered nearly 80% more problems than did vehicles propelled by internal combustion

By KRISTEN DE GROOT Associated Press There’s a village built among massive boulders. Screeching seabirds. Lots of Roman ruins, sheep, old castles, beautiful coastlines, delicious cheeses and more. That’s what AP writer Kristen De Groot found when she and her husband decided to travel the back roads of Portugal this fall. They tried to avoid

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Members of South African political parties, civil society organisations and other supporters have marched through the streets of Johannesburg demanding a permanent cease-fire in Gaza as they marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Several other protests were planned around South Africa, where many

PARIS (AP) — A special court has cleared France’s justice minister of conflict of interest, ruling he was not guilty of having used his office to settle personal scores. Once a high-profile lawyer, Eric Dupond-Moretti was accused of abusing his position to order probes targeting magistrates who investigated him, his friends and his former clients.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico confirmed Wednesday that a reporter was shot and wounded the previous day in the western state of Michoacan, the fifth journalist shot in the country in one day. Maynor Ramón Ramírez was wounded along with a companion in the attack Tuesday in the city of Apatzingan, the newspaper

By JUAN ARRÁEZ and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SURAMA, Guyana (AP) — Congregants of an Anglican church in a sparsely populated rainforest village in Guyana are asking for peace for their community amid what they see as an existential threat. Their village, Surama, is part of Guyana’s Essequibo region — a territory that Venezuela