LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors say an officer with London’s Metropolitan Police force who fatally shot an unarmed Black man has been charged with murder. Chris Kaba was killed in south London in September last year after police pursued his car and tried to stop it. Police fired one round at the 24-year-old, who was shot
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in Kansas City, U.S. government technicians refurbish the nation’s nuclear warheads. The job is exacting: Each warhead has thousands of springs, gears and copper contacts that must work in conjunction to set off a
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental activists are praising President Joe Biden’s New Deal-style American Climate Corps. After being thwarted by Congress, the Democratic president is using his executive authority to create the climate corps, which will serve as a major green jobs training program. The White House said Wednesday the program
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Sky-high passenger volumes. A shortage of pilots. Weather delays and cancellations. Sounds like a recipe for disgruntled air travelers. But an “amazing thing” happened at North American airports over the last year, according to a news release from consumer insights and analytics firm J.D. Power: passenger satisfaction improved. That’s
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed panel investigating human rights violations in Venezuela says the South American country’s government has intensified efforts to curtail democratic freedoms with use of threats, surveillance and harassment as President Nicolás Maduro faces a re-election contest next year. The latest report from the international fact-finding mission authorized by the U.N. Human
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Doris Kearns Goodwin’s next book is a work of history that’s also close to home. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s “An Unfinished Love Story” is a reflection on her final years with her longtime husband Richard Goodwin and the singular era they lived through. He was
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — US President Joe Biden extended a delayed invitation to Washington to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday as they leaned into their four-decade friendship and highlighted areas of common ground Wednesday, but also discussed the issues that have divided them at a long-anticipated meeting in
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — It has been just over a week since the US Food and Drug Administration and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave their nods to updated Covid-19 vaccines, which they have urged Americans to get without delay as the nation sees an uptick in cases, hospitalizations and
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena Washington, DC (CNN) — The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will pause its rate hikes, keeping its benchmark lending rate at a 22-year high, while signaling fewer rate cuts next year. The move was widely expected, after the central bank signaled in recent weeks that it intended to wait for more data
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Kraft Heinz is recalling about 83,000 cases of its individually wrapped Kraft Singles American cheese because they might pose a choking hazard. The company said in a statement that a “temporary issue” with one of its wrapping machines means a “thin strip of the individual film may
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Hanoi, VIETNAM (AP) — Vietnam has detained the director of a think tank that works on energy issues in the country. A human rights group, The 88 Project, said she was the sixth expert working on environmental and climate issues that police have taken into custody in the past two
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s state-owned health service is operating on holiday-level staffing in England as doctors in the early stages of their careers joined their more senior colleagues in their first-ever joint strike action. Tens of thousands of so-called junior doctors walked off the job for the sixth time since
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — The Associated Press has been granted rare access to U.S. nuclear missile bases and weapons production facilities to see how technicians keep the arsenal working while starting the government’s biggest nuclear overhaul since the Cold War. Because the U.S. no longer conducts
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Relations between Canada and India have sunk to their lowest point in years as the two countries swap accusations and expel each other’s diplomats over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader. Experts said it remains to be seen if it will create
Continue ReadingBy NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds As sales of electric vehicles continue to grow, so do the number of questions curious shoppers have when considering making the switch to a fully electrified car, truck or SUV. Undoubtedly, the experience of driving and owning an electric vehicle is different from the traditional one for a gas-powered vehicle. To
Continue ReadingBy IGNATIUS SSUUNA and CARA ANNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda’s president says he will run for a fourth term next year and that “what the West thinks is not my problem,” after the United States and others criticized the earlier lifting of term limits to extend his rule. President Paul Kagame made
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has advised its citizens to be careful when traveling to Canada as a rift between the two nations widens further in the wake of Ottawa’s allegations that India may have been involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in suburban Vancouver. The foreign
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, Kit Maher and Jessica Dean, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday shared a vision for America’s energy sector, leading with a pledge to unravel President Joe Biden’s ongoing efforts to fight climate change while dismissing threats from intensifying weather events as “fear tactics.” Speaking in Midland, Texas, the Republican
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss, Kate Sullivan and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is shifting gears as the Iowa caucuses draw closer, taking a more active approach to campaigning in the Hawkeye State in order to quash any possibility that one of his primary rivals could catch up to him there. At the same time,
Continue ReadingBy JACKIE VELING of NerdWallet After a more than three-year pause, payments on federal student loans resume in October, but some student loan borrowers may be more cash-strapped than before. Research shows consumers expanded their debt portfolios during the pause, taking on new credit card debt especially. Because of its high compounding interest, paying off
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