Month: February 2024

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week for the third time in as many weeks,…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers have voted to approve over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for ages 15 and above in a…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a 174-year-old…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The parents of two teenagers who survived a fire that killed 20 people at a high…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — Families and friends have started burying loves ones who were among at least 16…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s automatic voter registration has put almost all eligible citizens on the rolls, but now…

NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of AT&T, the country’s largest wireless provider, are reporting widespread outages. Some iPhone users saw SOS…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. authorities have accused another sanitation company of illegally hiring at least…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has taken a co-pilot’s seat in a nuclear-capable strategic bomber, a flight that appeared…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writher Ella Mills knows we all want to eat healthier. But the English food writer and businesswoman also knows…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — As a proposed mine on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp nears final approval, Georgia lawmakers…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party is facing a cash crunch and…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in January as homebuyers seized upon easing…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The way prosecutors tell it, Joseph Bongiovanni went to work for years with…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist government has delayed holding a vote on Sweden’s membership…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has set a target to further increase aquaculture production to meet rising…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have called on the government to deliver further long-range weapons to Ukraine, but…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Dani Alves, one of the most successful soccer players of his generation, was found guilty…

By The Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police say a fire that killed five members of a Missouri family was intentionally set by the mother.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The chaotic debate over a cease-fire in Gaza reverberated through Britain’s Parliament as the…

DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen is recalling more than 261,000 cars in the U.S. to fix a potential fuel leak that can increase the risk of fires. The…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 48 people in southern and central…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is staging its first new production of Verdi’s opera “La Forza…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Guinness World Records has ruled against a Portuguese dog that died last year keeping the title of oldest canine ever. GWR…

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York pleaded guilty to two felony counts…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the border crossings with Ukraine are being added to…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A court in Montenegro has ruled that Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon should be…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An official says Russian forces are probing Ukrainian defenses for weak points in the…

A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has left its key interest rate unchanged at 45%, pausing a series of aggressive rate hikes aimed at…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The head of the Jewish Community in Denmark says the number of antisemitic incidents…

By The Associated Press A Russian military blogger has died in an apparent suicide after facing a barrage of criticism for revealing heavy losses in…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say five people have been injured in an incident at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal and a suspect has been…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s media regulators have blocked the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with users across the country enduring…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech farmers are driving their tractors and other vehicles to to several border crossings to join forces with their colleagues from…