Month: July 2024

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A defiant President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday to keep running for reelection, rejecting growing pressure from Democrats to withdraw after a disastrous debate performance raised questions about his readiness to keep campaigning, much less win in November. But increasingly ominous signs were mounting for the president. Two Democratic lawmakers have

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s Temple University says it has hired John Fry of nearby Drexel University to become its 15th president. Wednesday’s announcement concludes a search that had been upended by the sudden death last fall of acting President JoAnne Epps. The 63-year-old Fry has been Drexel’s president since 2010. Temple says he will start

EULESS, Texas (AP) — Court records show a Texas woman accused of trying to drown a 3-year-old at an apartment complex pool in suburban Dallas after making racist remarks toward the child’s mother has been rearrested after her bond was increased to $1 million. Elizabeth Wolf had been released on a $40,000 bond after being

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — As it stands on the threshold of power in France, the far-right National Rally is facing scrutiny about some of the candidates it hopes will help it secure a ruling majority in legislative elections on Sunday. They include a woman it has pulled from the high-stakes race over a photo

Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas business executive has pleaded guilty to illegally exporting sensitive American aviation to Russian companies in violation of U.S. sanctions. Fifty-six-year-old Douglas Edward Robertson, who lives in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, is the second Kansas business executive to plead guilty to charges over the exports. Robertson

AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage rose this week, pushing up borrowing costs on a home loan for the first time since late May. The rate rose to 6.95% from 6.86% last week. That’s according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac on Wednesday. A year ago, the rate

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s renowned Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld is advising voters in Sunday’s parliamentary elections that if they’re faced with a duel between Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and a far-left competitor, they should choose the far right. Klarsfeld is an 88-year-old Jewish historian who has dedicated his life to bringing

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three federal judges are telling Mississippi to redraw some of its legislative districts because the current ones dilute Black voters’ power. The judges issued their order Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by the Mississippi NAACP. Lawmakers redrew state House districts and Senate districts in 2022. The judges ordered them

AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other accommodations for abortions. Judge David Joseph granted

Associated Press A 16-story apartment building in Ohio may reopen early next month several weeks after it was temporarily shuttered following a deadly natural gas explosion that severely damaged a neighboring building. Youngstown officials had ordered the evacuation of the International Towers on June 10. The order came after an engineering firm determined that the