Kimberly Palmer: Overspent in December? Here’s how to battle the January blues
By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet January often means facing down any overspending from the previous month, which can be a downer. But financial…
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A fire at a bar in Austria kills 1 and severely injures 21 New Year’s party revelers
BERLIN (AP) — One person has died and 21 people have been severely injured in a fire that broke out at a bar in the southeastern Austrian city of…
Continue ReadingPakistan arrests 21 members of outlawed Pakistani Taliban militant group linked to deadly attacks
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s counterterrorism police say they have arrested 21 members of outlawed militant group the Pakistani Taliban,…
Continue ReadingBangladesh court sentences Nobel laureate Yunus to 6 months in jail. He denies violating labor laws
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad…
Continue ReadingRussia launches record number of drones in Ukraine, and Putin says Moscow will intensify its attacks
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a record 90 Shahed-type drones across Ukraine during the early hours of the new year, and Russian President…
Continue ReadingIsrael is pulling thousands of troops from Gaza in a possible precursor to a scaled-back offensive
By JOSEF FEDERMAN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military confirmed Monday that it was pulling…
Continue Reading3 killed and several wounded in separate shootings early New Year’s Day in Los Angeles area
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say two people were killed and eight others were wounded in a shooting at a party early on New Year’s Day in a…
Continue ReadingOlympic host country France sees less New Year’s Eve disorder as it celebrates 2024’s arrival
PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says the Olympic host country saw fewer of the car burnings that usually blight the arrival of a new…
Continue ReadingWhat’s streaming now: ‘Society of the Snow,’ ‘Night Court,’ ‘Good Grief’
By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Dan Levy’s directorial debut, the return of NBC’s…
Continue ReadingJapan lowers tsunami warning after a series of earthquakes but tells people to stay away from coast
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert after issuing one following a series of major…
Continue ReadingThe Empire State rings in the new year with a pay bump for minimum-wage workers
Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s minimum-wage workers had more than just the new year to celebrate Monday, with a pay bump…
Continue ReadingChinese factory activity slows in December in a 3rd straight month of contraction
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A survey of factory managers in China shows manufacturing contracted in December in the…
Continue ReadingOn New Year’s Eve, DeSantis urges crowd to defy odds and help him ‘win the Iowa caucuses’
By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis is underscoring how much Iowa means to him, campaigning there into…
Continue ReadingJudge allows new court in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital, rejecting NAACP request to stop it
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea’s Kim says military should ‘thoroughly annihilate’ US, South Korea if provoked
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his military should “thoroughly annihilate”…
Continue ReadingColorado mother suspected of killing her 2 children and wounding a third arrested in United Kingdom
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and injuring a third was…
Continue ReadingChief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday turned his focus to the promise, and shortcomings, of…
Continue ReadingInfluential former Texas US Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson dies at 89
DALLAS, Texas (AP) — Trailblazing former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has died at 89. The nurse from Texas helped bring hundreds of millions of…
Continue ReadingSurfer dies after shark “encounter” in Hawaii
Associated Press PAIA, Hawaii (AP) — A surfer in Hawaii has died after being injured in a shark encounter off Maui’s northern shore,…
Continue ReadingFormer Ugandan steeplechase Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat found fatally stabbed in Kenya
ELDORET, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say they are investigating the slaying of three-time Ugandan Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat. A local police…
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