UK’s Johnson pledges millions to fund new nuclear plant
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged 700 million pounds ($810 million) of government funding for a new…
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Low on water, prep football adapts in Mississippi’s capital
By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer A water crises in Mississippi’s capital city has forced high school football coaches to adjust on the fly.…
Continue ReadingFord recalls SUVs; heating and cooling fans can catch fire
DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 200,000 large SUVs in the U.S. because the heating and cooling fan motors can fail and catch fire. The…
Continue ReadingTwitter readies edit feature for premium users
By The Associated Press Permanently misspelled tweets might soon be a thing of the past. Twitter said Thursday it’s working on allowing users…
Continue ReadingAlabama train engineer indicted in death of worker on rails
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A train engineer who was allegedly chatting on video when his locomotive struck heavy equipment on the tracks in south Alabama,…
Continue ReadingFor exiled Uyghurs, UN report is long-awaited vindication
By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — When Zumret Dawut heard that the United Nations had declared that China’s crackdown in its…
Continue ReadingMacron vows to prevent Russia from winning war in Ukraine
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to keep up France’s humanitarian, economic and military support to Ukraine and to bolster…
Continue ReadingMore kids are repeating a grade. Is it good for them?
By BROOKE SCHULTZ and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As Braylon Price remembers it, he struggled…
Continue ReadingNew Hampshire to get $40.5M in opioids case settlement
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says drugmaker Johnson & Johnson has…
Continue ReadingGermany celebrates revival of river once called ‘open sewer’
BERLIN (AP) — The stench is gone and, slowly, the fish are returning to the Emscher, a river through western Germany’s industrial heartland…
Continue ReadingYemen official accuses Houthi rebels of killing senior judge
By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A judge on Yemen’s Supreme Court was killed in the capital Sanaa this week, officials…
Continue ReadingCzech government faces no-confidence vote over energy prices
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s coalition government is facing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over its handling the energy crisis and a…
Continue ReadingTrump documents probe: Judge appears open to special master
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday appeared to give a boost to former…
Continue ReadingGerman gasoline, transport prices jump as subsidies expire
BERLIN (AP) — Prices for gasoline and public transport in Germany have surged after government subsidies expired, hurting commuters already…
Continue ReadingFormer Pakistani PM gets extension of protection from arrest
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s protection from arrest until September 12.…
Continue ReadingGorbachev remembered fondly in Germany for enabling unity
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev was enduringly popular in Germany for enabling the country’s reunification after…
Continue ReadingRussian top oil executive dies; fall from window blamed
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say the chairman of the board of Russia’s largest private oil company fell out of a hospital window and died.…
Continue ReadingWoman arrested after accusing Taliban official of rape
By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban announced they have arrested and will soon sentence an Afghan woman who appeared in a…
Continue ReadingTaiwanese troops shoot down drone over island outpost
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s military says it has shot down a drone hovering over one of its island outposts just off the Chinese coast.…
Continue Reading2 killed in West Bank, Palestinians blame Israeli raids
By JALAL BWAITEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency…
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