Year: 2024

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is awarding nearly $3 billion to boost climate-friendly equipment and infrastructure at ports across the country, including in Baltimore, where a deadly bridge collapse killed six construction workers and disrupted commercial shipping traffic for months. President Joe Biden announced the grants Tuesday during a visit to the

AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris stood before an overflowing crowd near the White House on Tuesday and promised Americans she would fight for them every day as she urged voters to reject Donald Trump’s efforts to sow division and fear, declaring, “It doesn’t have to be this way.” One week out

Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has given a boost to Georgia’s ruling party. He says Georgian Dream’s victory in a parliamentary election in the South Caucasus nation was free and democratic despite a massive opposition protest that denounced the vote as rigged and illegitimate. Orbán, who is Russian President

Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country’s northwest, triggering a shootout that left two police officers dead. Three of the attackers were also killed in the exchange of fire. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Orakzai,

CAIRO (AP) — Authorities say a boat carrying 13 Egyptian migrants to Europe has capsized off Libya’s coast, killing all on board except for one person. Al-Abreen, a group that provides humanitarian assistance to migrants in Libya, said on Facebook that the boat capsized Monday evening. It says one migrant survived and the bodies of

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed at least 88 people, including dozens of women and children, health officials said, and the director of a hospital said life-threatening injuries were going untreated because a weekend raid by Israeli forces led to the detention

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Renowned French actor Anouk Grinberg says the sexual assault trial against fellow actor Gérard Depardieu reflects the slow path toward awareness of sex abuse in France, especially in the film industry, after years of silence. Grinberg, 61, who has appeared in about 30 films, spoke Monday at what was supposed

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police say a mother collecting a child crashed a car through a Melbourne school fence on Tuesday, fatally injuring one child and leaving four others seriously hurt. The 40-year-old mother had collected a child from the Auburn South Primary School and was making a U-turn on the road

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he has always “acted in a transparent and appropriate way,” after a new book claimed that he repeatedly requested from Qantas Airways free upgrades on personal flights. Albanese was accused in a book released Monday of developing an inappropriately close relationship with Alan