Year: 2024

AP Business Writer Russia’s ruble is sagging against other currencies, complicating the Kremlin’s efforts to keep consumer inflation under control with one hand even as it overheats the economy with spending on the war against Ukraine with the other. Over time a weaker ruble could mean higher prices for imports from China, Russia’s main trade

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s election commission leader has quietly certified Donald Trump’s victory in the battleground state, a departure from the chaos that surrounded the 2020 election results. Commission Chairperson Ann Jacobs certified results during a Zoom meeting on Friday that show Trump won the state with 1,697,626 votes compared to Democrat

Associated Press KIBBUTZ MALKIYA, Israel (AP) — Even after a tenuous Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took hold this week, the mood among residents of northern Israel is far from celebratory. Few are returning immediately to homes near the border with Lebanon. They say they don’t trust that Hezbollah’s fire is really over. Many do not trust that

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency has voiced concern at the rise in deaths of migrants trying to reach Greece by sea in small boats from Turkey, following two fatal shipwrecks this week. The UNHCR said in a statement on Friday that 17 people have died in that way this month, while

Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — More bodies buried under the mud  have been found in eastern Uganda and an injured person died in a hospital, bringing the death toll from this week’s landslides to 20. Officials said on Friday that search efforts pressed on in the stricken area. Heavy rains had triggered the landslides

Sabrina Carpenter hosting a holiday variety music special on Netflix and Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw playing a spy and an assassin in the TV series “Black Doves” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases. Spider-Man, Black Panther and Captain America are some of the heroes who can join forces in the video

AP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Libraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure monitors that can be checked out just like books. The programs leverage libraries’ reputation as sources of reliable information and their

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia’s elections agency has extended voting by several days due to technical issues and ballot paper shortages. One of the southern Africa country’s biggest opposition parties claimed the extension to the vote, which should have ended on Wednesday, is unlawful. Polls will now close on Saturday night, according to the Electoral

AP Health Writers Cucumbers shipped to the U.S. and Canada — and organic eggs sold in 25 Costco stores in five southern U.S. states — have been recalled because of potential salmonella contamination. Arizona-based SunFed Produce recalled cucumbers sold between Oct. 12 and Nov. 26. Handsome Brook Farms said nearly 11,000 cartons of 24-count organic

Associated Press MILAN (AP) — A humanitarian aid group says armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya’s coast. Doctors Without Borders says dozens of men and boys who were aboard the overcrowded dinghy