By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank has boosted its benchmark interest rate for a fifth consecutive month to a seven-year high of 2.35%.The Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision on Tuesday was the cash rate’s fourth consecutive hike of half a percentage point. When the bank lifted the rate by
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank has boosted its benchmark interest rate for a fifth consecutive month to a seven-year high of 2.35%.The Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision on Tuesday was the cash rate’s fourth consecutive hike of half a percentage point. When the bank lifted the rate by
Continue ReadingBy JAY REEVES Associated Press Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six decades ago. Now, with teaching about race in America more complicated than it’s ever been, she’s authored
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — India and Bangladesh have signed a water-sharing agreement and six other pacts, including ones on space technology and scientific collaboration, aimed at boosting ties between the two countries. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is making a four-day visit to India that is seen as politically significant in her home country, which
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — India and Bangladesh have signed a water-sharing agreement and six other pacts, including ones on space technology and scientific collaboration, aimed at boosting ties between the two countries. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is making a four-day visit to India that is seen as politically significant in her home country, which
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani had his sixth multi-homer game of the season, Mike Trout also went deep and José Suarez threw three-hit ball over seven innings as the Los Angeles Angels routed the skidding Detroit Tigers 10-0. Luis Rengifo had a career-high four hits and drove in
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after China promised to speed up the rollout of policy changes to boost anemic economic growth. Shanghai gained while Hong Kong declined. Tokyo and South Korea were unchanged at midday. The Chinese Cabinet’s planning agency promised Monday to accelerate easier
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after China promised to speed up the rollout of policy changes to boost anemic economic growth. Shanghai gained while Hong Kong declined. Tokyo and South Korea were unchanged at midday. The Chinese Cabinet’s planning agency promised Monday to accelerate easier
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Gov. Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act once again on Monday, this time in response to the Sturgill Fire burning south of the community of Lostine in northeast Oregon’s Wallowa County.
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta has arrived in Australia for a state visit as negotiations over lucrative gas resources reach a critical stage for his impoverished nation. The East Timorese are gaining confidence that they can break a 20-year deadlock with the new Australian government over
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera, CNN The Mississippi man accused of stealing a twin-engine plane Saturday morning and threatening to crash it into a Walmart was denied bond Sunday, his attorney told CNN. Cory Wayne Patterson — who is not a licensed pilot — faces charges of grand larceny and making terroristic threats, according to Tupelo Police
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — A civil rights activist, a business owner, a lawyer, an engineer and the founder of a winery and his family were on the floatplane that crashed in the waters of Washington state’s Puget Sound, killing 10. The U.S. Coast Guard released the
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By MARTHA BELLISLE and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — A civil rights activist, a business owner, a lawyer, an engineer and the founder of a winery and his family were on the floatplane that crashed in the waters of Washington state’s Puget Sound, killing 10. The U.S. Coast Guard released the
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — A civil rights activist, a business owner, a lawyer, an engineer and the founder of a winery and his family were on the floatplane that crashed in the waters of Washington state’s Puget Sound, killing 10. The U.S. Coast Guard released the
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Geoff Diehl, a former state representative endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Republican nomination for Massachusetts governor over businessman Chris Doughty, who was considered the more moderate candidate in the race. The victory for Diehl sets up a general election contest against Democratic Attorney
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Óscar González hit a two-run double in the 10th inning and the Cleveland Guardians snapped a five-game losing streak, beating the Kansas City Royals 6-5 to regain sole possession of the AL Central lead. Cleveland moved a game ahead of Minnesota, which lost 5-2 to
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southwestern China’s Chengdu have maintained strict COVID-19 lockdown measures on the city of 21 million despite a major earthquake that killed at least 65 people in outlying areas. Footage circulating online Tuesday showed workers wearing top-to-bottom protective gear preventing residents of apartment buildings from exiting through locked lobby doors following
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — The Spanish league has announced a new joint venture to expand its reach in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent to continue its push to grow internationally and narrow the gap to the English Premier League. The Spanish league is teaming with multinational
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, CNN Zayon Martinez spent his final hour of second grade hiding under a desk while bullets flew through Robb Elementary School. By the end of the carnage, 19 of his schoolmates and two teachers were killed. Now Zayon, who’s supposed to start third grade Tuesday, doesn’t want
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES and ROBERT BUMSTED Associated Press JAMES SMITH CREE FIRST NATION, Saskatchewan (AP) — Fears ran high Tuesday on an Indigenous reserve in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan after police warned that the suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage over the weekend might be nearby and officers surrounded a house with guns drawn.
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