GM offers buyouts to most US salaried workers to trim costs
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is offering buyouts to most of its U.S. salaried workforce and some global executives.…
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3 geologists die as tunnel collapses in Spanish potash mine
By RENATA BRITO and JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press SURIA, Spain (AP) — Three Spanish geologists have died in a tunnel collapse deep…
Continue ReadingFormer NBA star Shawn Kemp being released following arrest
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — No charges are immediately being filed against former NBA star Shawn Kemp following his arrest in a drive-by shooting in…
Continue ReadingEurope struggles to make progress in migration quagmire
By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe is continuing its decade-old struggle to devise a migration system that would both better…
Continue ReadingOscars producers have one main goal: Keep you entertained
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The opening of the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday is going to be a “moment,” the show’s producers promise. They…
Continue ReadingMedicaid coverage for new moms gaining support in GOP states
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of refusing to expand Medicaid benefits for new moms, Republican officials in more…
Continue ReadingAnxiety, fear fill West Virginia transgender-health clinic
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The tiny clinic where physicians prescribe hormones and other medications to…
Continue ReadingContentious German church reform assembly opens last meeting
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Catholic bishops and lay representatives have gathered for the final meeting of a…
Continue ReadingIsrael’s Netanyahu flies to Rome as Meloni condemns swastika
ROME (AP) — Far-right Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is condemning antisemitic graffiti directed at her main rival. The graffiti, which included a…
Continue ReadingWisconsin court sides with AP, others in open records case
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that the state Assembly violated the open records law when…
Continue ReadingLa Nina, which worsens hurricanes and drought, is gone
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After three nasty years, the La Nina weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane…
Continue ReadingFear, anxiety follow Nicaraguan faith leaders into exile
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — For two hours each afternoon, the Catholic priest listens to confessions…
Continue ReadingApplications for US jobless aid rise by most in 5 months
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week jumped by the most in five months, but layoffs…
Continue ReadingRetired army general Petr Pavel inaugurated Czech president
Prague (AP) — A retired army general and former senior NATO official has been sworn in as the Czech Republic’s new president, succeeding the…
Continue ReadingRights group says Lebanon electricity crisis deepens poverty
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Human Rights Watch says many middle and working class families in Lebanon have been forced to…
Continue ReadingLineker’s attack on UK migrant policy puts BBC in a bind
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Conservative lawmakers in the U.K. are calling on the BBC to discipline soccer pundit Gary Lineker…
Continue ReadingTransnistria accuses Ukraine of trying to kill its president
MOSCOW (AP) — Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria, which has close ties to Moscow and hosts Russian troops, claims it has thwarted an…
Continue ReadingVinícius Júnior again target of racist insults in Spain
By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — The Spanish league has filed another complaint to authorities following racial insults aimed at Real…
Continue ReadingNATO chief in new drive to bring Finland, Sweden in
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is spearheading a new drive to see Finland and Sweden join…
Continue ReadingShell CEO pay up 50% as soaring energy prices boosted profit
LONDON (AP) — The pay package for Shell’s CEO jumped by half last year to nearly $12 million. Oil and gas companies have made record profits from…
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