EXPLAINER: Recession fears grow. Just how high is the risk?
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is at a 40-year high. Stock prices are sinking. The Federal Reserve is…
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K-pop supergroup BTS says it’s making time for solo projects
By The The Associated Press Global superstars BTS said they are taking time to focus on solo projects, but the company behind the groundbreaking…
Continue ReadingUS Open lets Russian tennis players in after Wimbledon ban
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer The U.S. Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in…
Continue ReadingBiden focuses on workers as high inflation remains a risk
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JOSH BOAK Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden told the largest federation of labor unions on Tuesday…
Continue ReadingRussia bans UK journalists, defense officials from entering
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has banned dozens of British media and defense figures from entering the country. The Russian foreign ministry on Tuesday…
Continue ReadingDocuments rediscovered: Sojourner Truth’s fight to save son
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Recently uncovered court documents from 1828 related to noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth will be on display after…
Continue ReadingZimbabwe reporter fined on accreditation for New York Times
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday convicted a journalist on charges of breaking the…
Continue ReadingRussia lowers gas flows to Europe with part stuck in Canada
By The Associated Press Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom says gas deliveries through a key pipeline to Europe will drop by around 40%…
Continue ReadingDangerous heat wave descends on parts of Midwest and South
By KATHLEEN FOODY and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A dangerous heat wave hit much of the Midwest and South on Tuesday, with…
Continue ReadingNebraska’s capital city rescinds LGBTQ fairness ordinance
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The City Council in Nebraska’s capital city has rescinded an anti-discrimination measure that extended protections to sexual…
Continue ReadingMacron urges the French to give him a “strong majority”
PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to give him a “strong majority” Sunday in the second, decisive round of nationwide…
Continue ReadingChina says Bloomberg news assistant in Beijing released
BEIJING (AP) — Bloomberg News says a Chinese news assistant in Beijing for the American financial news service has been released on bail, citing…
Continue ReadingPolice: Republican’s tour of Capitol complex not suspicious
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Police have determined there was nothing suspicious about a tour of two Capitol office…
Continue ReadingTropical Storm Blas forms off Mexico’s Pacific coast
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The second tropical storm of the eastern Pacific season has formed off southern Mexico, though forecasters say it is unlikely to…
Continue ReadingFormer Kurdish rebel has key role in Sweden’s NATO bid
By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — When Turkey’s president rails against “terrorists” in the Swedish Parliament, Amineh…
Continue ReadingPolice arrest second suspect in Tennessee mass shooting
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a second arrest has been made in a mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where three people died and 14…
Continue ReadingNorth Macedonia: Police seize some 16,000 cannabis plants
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have uprooted thousands of cannabis plants illegally cultivated near a village,…
Continue ReadingWest Virginia cash-for-worker program welcomes new residents
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A program offering cash incentives for out-of-state workers to move to West Virginia has…
Continue Reading‘In our hearts’: London remembers 72 Grenfell fire victims
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince William and British politicians have joined in memorial services to mark five years since 72…
Continue ReadingMexican government prodding its farmers to grow more food
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government wants citizens to produce more of their own food in a move toward…
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