Amazon to hire 150,000 workers for holidays
By HALELUYA HADERO NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon will hire 150,000 full-time, part-time and seasonal employees across its warehouses ahead of the holiday…
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Average long-term US mortgage rates dip to 6.66% this week
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates ticked down modestly this week after six straight weeks of…
Continue ReadingAmid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE, MICHAEL CASEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Homelessness is expected to be up when the…
Continue ReadingAmid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE, MICHAEL CASEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California’s capital, massive tent…
Continue ReadingAustria, Hungary equipping Serbia to curb border crossings
By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister says his country and Austria will provide Serbia with…
Continue ReadingMore Americans apply for jobless benefits last week
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but the labor market remains strong even…
Continue ReadingBrittney Griner at ‘weakest moment’ in Russia, her wife says
WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner is at her “absolute weakest moment in life right now” as she faces a hearing in Russia later this…
Continue ReadingTurkey appoints new ambassador to Israel as ties warm
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Ankara has appointed a new ambassador to Israel in the latest step between the two…
Continue ReadingSheriff: Dogs attack family in Tennessee, 2 children killed
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two young children were killed and their mother was hospitalized after two family dogs attacked them at their home in…
Continue ReadingSweden seizes evidence at Baltic Sea pipeline leak site
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s domestic security agency says its preliminary investigation of leaks from…
Continue ReadingLesotho polls to elect leader to tackle unemployment, crime
By HERBERT MOYO Associated Press MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Voters across the picturesque mountain kingdom of Lesotho are heading to the polls Friday…
Continue ReadingJapan’s Toyota finds wheel, airbag fixes for recalled EVs
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota says it has identified how to fix its 2023 model year bZ4X…
Continue ReadingLoretta Lynn’s songs resonate anew amid abortion debate
By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Grammy-winning country music icon who died Tuesday at 90,…
Continue ReadingPakistani FM says water receded 50% in flood-ravaged Sindh
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign minister says about 50% of the water has receded in the country’s worst…
Continue ReadingPope Bahrain trip blends Muslim outreach, Catholic ministry
ROME (AP) — The Vatican has released details of Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to Bahrain. The itinerary blends three of his top priorities as pope:…
Continue ReadingOfficial: Germans using too much gas to avoid energy crisis
BERLIN (AP) — Germans are using too much gas to avoid a potential energy shortage this winter, the head of Germany’s national network regulator…
Continue ReadingGambia urgently recalls syrups blamed for 66 child deaths
By ABDOULIE JOHN Associated Press BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambia has launched an urgent door-to-door campaign to remove cough and cold syrups blamed…
Continue ReadingAnalysis: North Korean missile launches are a test for Biden
By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A drumbeat of increasingly powerful North Korean missile launches has been met with a U.S. aircraft…
Continue ReadingLive Updates: Russia-Ukraine War
By The Associated Press Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it is “hard to say” whether the risk of nuclear war had increased with his…
Continue ReadingEurope holds 44-leader summit in Prague without Russia
By LORNE COOK and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The leaders of 44 European countries stretching from Iceland all the way to Turkey…
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