By SUSAN HAIGH and DAVID CRARY Associated Press PUTNAM, Conn. (AP) — Even as numerous Republican-governed states push for sweeping bans on abortion, there is a coinciding surge of concern in some Democratic-led states that options for reproductive health care are dwindling due to expansion of Catholic hospital networks. These are states such as Oregon,
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Italian vessels have recovered five bodies and rescued 674 people packed on a fishing boat adrift in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, the Italian Coast Guard said Sunday, while European charities reported saving more than 500 more. Some of the survivors had to be plucked from the sea in the Italian
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH and DAVID CRARY Associated Press PUTNAM, Conn. (AP) — Even as numerous Republican-governed states push for sweeping bans on abortion, there is a coinciding surge of concern in some Democratic-led states that options for reproductive health care are dwindling due to expansion of Catholic hospital networks. These are states such as Oregon,
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH and DAVID CRARY Associated Press PUTNAM, Conn. (AP) — Even as numerous Republican-governed states push for sweeping bans on abortion, there is a coinciding surge of concern in some Democratic-led states that options for reproductive health care are dwindling due to expansion of Catholic hospital networks. These are states such as Oregon,
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY MEYER and PETER SMITH Associated Press When Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous groups on Canadian soil this week, he will make another effort toward healing harms inflicted at church-run residential schools — and add to the Catholic Church’s growing ledger of atonement for past transgressions. Like the papacy, top Protestant leaders also have
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, FATIMA HUSSEIN and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Soon after taking office, President Joe Biden went to State Department headquarters to tell the rest of the world that the United States could be counted on again after four years of Donald Trump’s bull-in-the-china-shop foreign policy. “America is back,” Biden said,
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, FATIMA HUSSEIN and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Soon after taking office, President Joe Biden went to State Department headquarters to tell the rest of the world that the United States could be counted on again after four years of Donald Trump’s bull-in-the-china-shop foreign policy. “America is back,” Biden said,
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and the fiscally conservative right. The bill making its way through the Senate is a top priority of the Biden administration. It
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and the fiscally conservative right. The bill making its way through the Senate is a top priority of the Biden administration. It
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As he campaigns for a Manhattan congressional seat against fellow Democrats twice his age, 38-year-old Suraj Patel harnesses the frustration of his generation toward those who have held office for decades. In his telling, Reps. Jerry Nadler, 75, and Carolyn Maloney, 76, are part of
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden continues to “improve significantly” despite a lingering sore throat from his coronavirus infection, according to an update Sunday from his doctor. “The president is responding to therapy as expected,” wrote Dr. Kevin O’Connor in his latest note. Biden has been taking Paxlovid, an antiviral
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco and Tierney Sneed, CNN A recent Supreme Court decision that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to fight the climate crisis could also hamstring President Joe Biden’s authority to cancel federal student loan debt. Facing political pressure from the left, Biden has been weighing whether to take executive action to broadly forgive
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Since its founding in 1913, the US Federal Reserve has fought to achieve three goals: maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates. But that’s about all that’s remained consistent in the central bank’s 109-year legacy of monetary policy. Economists at the Fed work hard to maintain the institution’s
Continue ReadingSANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi media say flash floods swept through Yemen amid heavy seasonal rains, leaving at least nine people dead. The Houthi-run Sanaa Radio say casualties were reported in the capital of Sanaa and the southwestern province of Dhamar, where it began raining late last week. In Dhamar, at least six people
Continue ReadingBy EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Two apparent homophobic attacks were reported following Berlin’s annual pro-LGBTQ Christopher Street Day celebration on Saturday, police said Sunday. In one incident, two girls, aged 16 and 17, and a 15-year-old boy were confronted by a group of nine people in Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood on Saturday evening.
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday launched one of two laboratory modules to complete its permanent orbiting space station. The Wentian was launched from tropical Hainan Island with a large crowd of amateur photographers and space enthusiasts watching. Designed for science and biology experiments, the module lifted off on the Long March 5B remote 3
Continue ReadingCNN, KCRA By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN California’s Oak Fire has burned through more than 18,000 acres and destroyed at least 41 structures since it ignited near California’s Yosemite National Park Friday, as fire crews battle overwhelmingly dry conditions and steep terrain, officials say. Crews made progress in their effort to rein in the fire overnight
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian defense officials insisted Sunday that an airstrike on the Ukrainian port of Odesa hit only military targets, but the attack tested an agreement on resuming grain shipments that the two countries signed less than a day before the assault. Long-range missiles destroyed a docked Ukrainian
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A gunman opened fire on university campus in the Philippine capital region on Sunday, killing a former town mayor and two others in a brazen attack ahead of a graduation ceremony, police said. The suspect was armed with two pistols and a silencer and was captured
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Livia Borghese and Cecilia Armstrong, CNN Pope Francis departed Rome on Sunday for a week-long trip to Edmonton, Canada, where he’s set to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the abuse of Canadian Indigenous children in residential schools. The Vatican has called the trip a “penitential pilgrimage,” and the Pope will
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