Month: October 2024

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A striking new Kamala Harris campaign ad campaign that seeks to highlight increasingly perilous medical care for women since the fall of Roe tells the story of a Texas woman named Ondrea who got a life-threatening infection when she couldn’t get medical care after she miscarried, and now may no

AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in September to the weakest annual pace in nearly 14 years even as mortgage rates eased and the supply of properties on the market continued to climb. Existing home sales fell 1% last month from August to a seasonally adjusted annual

Associated Press ASTON, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris says she believes Donald Trump “is a fascist.” Her comment comes after Trump’s his longest-serving chief of staff said the former president praised Adolf Hitler while in office and put personal loyalty above the Constitution. In interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic,

PETRILA, Romania (AP) — For many years, Sebastian Tirinticǎ worked in a coal mine, just like his father and grandfather before him. These days, Tirinticǎ, now 38, is largely surrounded by solar panels and wind turbines as he travels across Romania to train former coal workers and others for jobs in renewable energies. It’s been

Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in an apparent retaliation for an attack at a key state-run defense company that killed five people and wounded more than 20 others. The defense ministry said more than 30 targets were “destroyed” in the aerial

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia, in their first bilateral meeting in five years. The meeting came days after the two giant neighbors announced a border accord aimed at ending a four-year-old standoff involving

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has rejected a claim by Donald Trump’s campaign that his Labour Party is illegally interfering in the U.S. presidential election. A statement on Trump’s website says an official complaint has been filed with the Federal Election Commission against the Labour Party and the campaign of Vice President

LONDON (AP) — Police say they are looking into whether carbon monoxide poisoning killed three people in a care home in southern England. Dorset Police say the gas poisoning is their primary line of inquiry in the deaths they termed as “unexplained.” Seven other people have been hospitalized as a precaution. Police say the home

Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Lawmakers in Belarus set the next presidential election for Jan. 26, a vote almost certain to extend the three-decade rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko. He has suppressed all dissent and forced opposition leaders to flee the country. Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya swiftly denounced the upcoming balloting as

Associated Press TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli jets struck multiple buildings in Lebanon’s southern coastal city of Tyre on Wednesday, sending up large clouds of black smoke, while Hezbollah confirmed that a top official widely expected to be the militant group’s next leader had been killed in an Israeli strike. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar, highlighted by exuberant dancing around a Torah. Jewish leaders say the joy will return during this week’s celebrations, even as Jews recall that last year’s Simchat Torah overlapped with Oct. 7, the day some

Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish radio station has stirred up controversy after dismissing its journalists and relaunching this week with AI-generated “presenters.” Weeks after letting its journalists go, OFF Radio Krakow announced this week that it was relaunching with what it called the first experiment in Poland. The station said its three

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — U.S. and Cypriot officials have launched a strategic dialogue they said would bolster security and stability in a crisis-wracked region through initiatives including counterterrorism training of personnel from Middle Eastern countries. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien said a U.S.-funded center has been training personnel

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The tiny Mideast nation of Kuwait has banned the release of the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” which features the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and is set in part in the 1990s Gulf War. Kuwait has not publicly acknowledged banning the game, which

AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s drug regulator approved the Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla on Wednesday, but the government won’t be paying for it after an independent watchdog agency said the treatment isn’t worth the cost to taxpayers. It is the second Alzheimer’s drug to receive such a mixed reception within months. In August, the

AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. government is fining American Airlines $50 million for failing to provide wheelchair assistance to passengers with disabilities and damaging thousands of wheelchairs over a five-year period. The Transportation Department announced the civil penalty on Wednesday. American will only have to pay half of the fine because it

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Kristy has strengthened into a Category 4 storm and is expected to remain away from land as it churns in the Pacific Ocean. The major hurricane on Wednesday was 710 miles south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. It was moving west at

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police have arrested three men on suspicion of killing two transgender women with daggers at their home in the country’s conservative northwest. District police chief Zahur Babar Afridi told reporters that the men were arrested Tuesday over the killings, which took place Sunday in Mardan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French rescue vessels and a passenger ferry have pulled the bodies of three migrants from the English Channel. The latest deaths pushed the count so far this year of dead and missing in the busy waterway’s French side to above 50. Authorities said 45 other people were rescued on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has granted bail to the wife of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a graft case. Bushra Bibi was arrested after a court on Jan. 31 convicted and sentenced the couple to 14 years in jail in a corruption case. Bibi is Khan’s third

KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is hosting China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, part of Kremlin efforts to challenge Western global clout. The three-day meeting in the city of Kazan attended by 36 countries showcases the failure of

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. said Wednesday that 3,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia and are training at several locations, calling the move very serious and warning that those forces will be “fair game” if they go into combat in Ukraine. The deployment raises the potential for the North Koreans

Associated Press The nascent industry for removing carbon dioxide directly from the air is calling on the U.S. government to adopt standards and regulations to boost confidence in the business. On Wednesday the Carbon Removal Alliance also recommended ways to improve monitoring, reporting and verification. The carbon dioxide removal industry is receiving billions of dollars

Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Israel needs to pursue an “enduring strategic success” in Gaza after its tactical victories against Hamas, urging it to seek a deal that would end the war and bring back dozens of hostages. He spoke before traveling from Israel to

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Twenty-two members of an Islamic business group, including its CEO, have been charged for being part of an organized crime group after hundreds of children believed to have been sexually abused were rescued from welfare homes linked to the group. Nasiruddin Mohamad Ali, CEO of Global Ikhwan Services and Business,

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing factory workers voted Wednesday to reject the company’s latest contract offer and to continue a six-week strike that has halted production of the aerospace giant’s bestselling jetliners. Local union leaders in Seattle said 64% of members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who cast ballots voted