Month: October 2022

By SYLVIE CORBET and GEIR MOULSON The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz thrashed it out for three hours in Paris in hopes of bridging gaps between the two neighbors and key EU allies on energy, defense and the economy. Macron and Scholz had a working lunch

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Natural gas and electricity prices in Europe have plunged from summer peaks thanks to mild weather and a monthslong scramble to fill gas storage ahead of winter and replace Russian supplies during the war in Ukraine. It’s a welcome respite after Russia slashed natural gas

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — Volunteers began an unprecedented hand count of votes Wednesday in a rural Nevada county where voting machine conspiracy theories prompted mistrust. They came face-to-face with the reality of how time-consuming it is. The American Civil Liberties Union unsuccessfully tried to stop Nye County’s plan

By KEN MILLER Associated Press At a cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, work is underway to remove bodies from their graves for a second time in an effort to identify victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Historians say the white mob violence that targeted Black Americans in 1921 left between 75 and 300 people dead. Work

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press GARY, Ind. (AP) — After a lunchtime roundtable with Indiana Sen. Todd Young and Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, Republican congressional candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green suggested she appreciated “serving alongside my peers.” “Not my peers,” she quickly corrected. “I misspoke.” Green isn’t their congressional colleague yet, but her slip might not be

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar is warning that the political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation is deepening and taking “a catastrophic toll on the people.” Noeleen Heyzer told a U.N. committee Tuesday that more than 13.2 million people

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eric Weinberg, executive producer for the hit TV show “Scrubs,” has been denied bail after pleading not guilty to sexually assaulting five women whom prosecutors said he lured to photo shoots. Weinberg was arrested this month. He is charged with 18 felony counts including rape and false imprisonment. The judge on

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even before Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters surged over New York City’s Rockaway Peninsula, there was an air of decay in Edgemere, a far-flung seaside neighborhood long pockmarked with boarded-up homes and vacant lots with waist-high weeds. When the water receded, even more of Edgemere’s homes lay

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman is warning North Korea against escalating its provocations. She says the United States will fully use its military capabilities, “including nuclear, conventional and missile defense,” to defend its allies, Japan and South Korea. Sherman called North Korea’s repeated firings of