Germany expands pensions to more Holocaust survivors
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says…
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles leaders have voted to enact one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates.…
Continue ReadingBy HAVEN DALEY BENICIA, Calif. (AP) — Some residents in the drought-parched U.S. West are turning to pricey machines that developers say can…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BIESECKER, STEFANIE DAZIO and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A massive cargo ship made a series of…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A probe is continuing into what caused an offshore pipeline break that spilled tens of…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian government minister says a review of defamation laws will likely examine…
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A group of French senators has arrived in Taiwan for a five-day visit following a large…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Amplify Energy’s emergency response plan for a major oil spill like the one unfolding in coastal Southern…
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — When Democrat Terry McAuliffe said during the Virginia governor’s…
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems skeptical of requiring the U.S. government to divulge what it says is…
Continue ReadingBy CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It would be the token of all tokens: a $1 trillion coin, minted by the U.S. government, then…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s and congressional Democrats’ push for a 10-year, $3.5 trillion package of…
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Xander Bogaerts and Kyle Schwarber homered off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole to help the Boston Red Sox…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America held one of New York’s first major indoor literary gatherings since the pandemic…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Soccer authorities in Australia have urged players to make formal complaints in any cases of sexual misconduct after one of the…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed new laws aimed at tightening security at the…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court has overturned a ruling of a family court judge who did not…
Continue ReadingLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine Black students who first integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957,…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Amplify Energy’s emergency response plan for a major oil spill like the one unfolding in coastal Southern…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — K-pop superstars BTS have raised $3.6 million and generated millions of tweets during four years…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says Democrats are considering a change to the Senate’s…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say four companies will pay nearly $78 million to clean up contaminated groundwater at two Los Angeles-area toxic…
Continue ReadingSAN ANTONIO (AP) — A trial has begun to assess damages that the U.S. Air Force owes to survivors and families of those killed in a 2017 mass…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robert Altman, a photojournalist who captured San Francisco’s burgeoning counterculture of the 1960s and became chief staff…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it wants to see more U.S. action on extraditions and weapons trafficking at security meetings scheduled for Friday…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department has disclosed the…
Continue ReadingDEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A Navy jet fighter has crashed in Death Valley National Park and authorities say the pilot ejected and…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have approved a long-lasting fire retardant that could significantly aid in…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Opponents of a new Texas ban on most abortions have asked a federal judge in Illinois to declare the law unconstitutional. The…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Former six-term Sheriff Joe Arpaio is attempting another comeback, this time running for mayor of the affluent Phoenix suburb where…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers say a potential plea deal that would have averted a criminal trial for an associate of…
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal appeals court has tossed out California’s ban on privately owned immigration…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little says he will rescind an executive order involving COVID-19 vaccines by…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced his picks to head the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts, tapping a Harvard…
Continue ReadingPIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s reputation as a destination for the wealthy to store billions of dollars in trust funds has long had the…
Continue ReadingASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A national sorority has suspended activities at a North Carolina university after most of its members left the group when it…
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press A former Facebook data scientist testified before Congress that the social network’s products…
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press A top committee of the Southern Baptist Convention has agreed to open up legally protected records to investigators…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Brady wins in the television ratings, too. The Tampa Bay quarterback’s return to his old…
Continue ReadingBy DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Federal officials are recommending that Tootsie Roll Industries pay more than $136,000 in fines after…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home is being…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Work has halted at all of the Kellogg Company’s U.S. cereal plants as roughly 1,400 workers went…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An executive who lied to regulators about two South Carolina nuclear plants that never…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Oregon has found a member of the far-right group the Proud Boys guilty of assault, menacing and unlawful use of a…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says the coronavirus pandemic and the difficulty of reversing Trump…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal agent shot and killed by an Amtrak train passenger in Arizona is being remembered as a…
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Israel’s president is in Ukraine to honor the victims of the Babi Yar massacre eight…
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Libyan lawmakers have voted to reschedule parliament elections, a move likely to increase tensions among Libyan rivals already divided…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Girls Trip” producer Will Packer will produce next year’s Oscars. It’s the first time Packer has been…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A final settlement has been reached in a 2017 lawsuit over New Orleans prosecutors’ use…
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A prominent Guatemalan judge faces the possibility of losing his immunity from legal…
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is the last state to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education that’s required before more than $2.3…
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit crematorium owner who has already lost his mortuary science and…
Continue ReadingHUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A longtime Alabama sheriff removed from office after being convicted of theft and ethics violations is giving five-star…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — In a story published October 4, 2021, about New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s speech to a group of oil and gas…
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A leading Jewish group in Germany says it’s shocked by a German-Israeli singer’s…
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Opening statements are underway Tuesday in the corruption trial of a powerful Philadelphia labor leader and a city official he…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Geological Survey officials have lowered the alert level for a Hawaii volcano.…
Continue ReadingMARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys are presenting competing narratives in the trial of a California police officer accused…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Chanel brought Paris Fashion Week to its final day with a runway show that illustrated how…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The share of single people in the U.S. has grown over the past three decades. That’s…
Continue ReadingBy BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court says some supporters of former Republican…
Continue ReadingEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State University official personally delivered a doctorate degree to a New Jersey man in 2019, decades after…
Continue ReadingANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal magistrate determined Friday that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s former chief of staff can remain free before his…
Continue ReadingBy PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN and ANNIE MA Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials at historically Black colleges thought they might…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan for…
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board has narrowly rejected granting clemency for a death…
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The government of Poland is working abroad to warn potential migrants that the…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Supporters of Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp are fighting back against Donald Trump and their own…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration on Tuesday ordered Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to stop using the state’s federal…
Continue ReadingFormer independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is launching a campaign to challenge Republican Sen. Mike Lee in Utah.…
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The six-hour outage of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp on Monday was a headache for many casual…
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Among the candidates running in Iraq’s general elections this week is a leader of one of…
Continue ReadingBy MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Attorneys for three retail pharmacy chains say the companies are blameless for the ongoing…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by the United Nations’ weather agency finds much of the world is unprepared…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is launching a campaign to…
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jorja Fox reprises her role of Sara Sidle in the latest “CSI” iteration, “CSI: Vegas.”…
Continue ReadingBAL HARBOUR, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say three floors of a South Florida high-rise condominium have been evacuated after a property manager found…
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Police in Slovenia have fired tear gas and water cannons at anti-government…
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Lawmakers in Belarus have voted to suspend an agreement with the European Union obliging…
Continue ReadingPAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Nebraska man accused in the deaths of his two young children is now being charged with murder after an…
Continue ReadingBY AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Yemen has met with the prime minister of the country’s…
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it’s reviewing an earlier decision to decline prosecution…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A friend of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has asked a judge to postpone his sentencing until next year so he can…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal agents have raided the offices of a New York City police union whose leader has…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy A fund created by a group of social-justice-minded foundations including…
Continue ReadingSTAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — The quirky, red-headed announcer for David Letterman for two decades who frequently appeared in the show’s comedy bits has…
Continue ReadingBy TALI ARBEL Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A year and a half in, the pandemic is still agonizing families. There’s the exhaustion of…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the trial of the suspect in 2018′s Florida high school…
Continue ReadingPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two Rhode Island men who touched off a needless and expensive ocean search-and-rescue effort when…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union aims to combat growing antisemitism with new plans to tackle hate speech, raise awareness about Jewish life and…
Continue ReadingBy TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is known for working against nature by damming rivers and building levees to keep…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Pennsylvania’s attorney general has filed criminal charges against the developer of a pipeline that takes…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling on the world’s most developed countries to…
Continue ReadingST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Officials say two Florida sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a man who refused their orders to drop his gun. Pinellas…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi this month will give courtroom testimony for the first time in one of the several cases…
Continue ReadingBy ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s left-wing ruling coalition says it wants to rein in soaring housing costs by imposing rent…
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Volvo is recalling nearly 260,000 older cars in the U.S. because the front driver’s air bag can explode and send shrapnel into the…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Groff is a National Book Award finalist for her third consecutive book. She was…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish prosecutors have charged three people with attempting to carry out acts of terrorism by acquiring bomb-making…
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