Big greenhouse gas state taking biggest climate step yet
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More than two years after he started work on it, Gov. Tom Wolf is set to enact the centerpiece…
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Cyber attack causes chaos in Costa Rica government systems
By JAVIER CÓRDOBA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Nearly a week into a ransomware attack that has crippled…
Continue ReadingKremlin critic jailed over denouncing Ukraine war
Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against a prominent opposition activist and remanded him in pre-trial detention for allegedly…
Continue ReadingSpain museum confident it can keep painting stolen by Nazis
By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A leading Spanish museum says it’s confident U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable…
Continue ReadingEast African leaders want “urgent” regional force in Congo
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — East African leaders say they will proceed with an urgent plan to deploy a regional…
Continue ReadingPlan to ban menthol cigarettes prompts late lobbying blitz
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of interest groups have met with White House staffers to try to influence a…
Continue ReadingChild dies after drinking whiskey; grandmother, mom jailed
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Baton Rouge police say a 4-year-old girl is dead after her grandmother allegedly forced her to drink a bottle of whiskey…
Continue ReadingSri Lanka to receive World Bank help to face economic crisis
By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s finance minister says the country will…
Continue ReadingAuthorities: Suspect shot after showing hostage on Facebook
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who streamed himself on social media taking a woman hostage and firing on officers has been…
Continue ReadingMyanmar’s ruling military offers minorities new peace talks
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The leader of Myanmar’s military-installed government has offered to participate personally in…
Continue ReadingPolice: Florida woman threatened to bomb hungry son’s school
COCOA, Fla. (AP) — Police say a Florida woman threatened to blow up her son’s school if it didn’t give him more food. The 41-year-old…
Continue ReadingMexican police find body of missing young woman in cistern
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The haunting story of a young woman left on the side of a highway late at night in northern Mexico has ended in sorrow, with her…
Continue ReadingBig Tech faces ‘major’ EU law on hate speech, disinformation
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union officials are nearing agreement on a sweeping new law aimed at protecting internet…
Continue ReadingWorld’s biggest particle collider restarts after long break
BERLIN (AP) — The world’s biggest particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for upgrading and maintenance work.…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Bolsonaro pardons lawmaker convicted at top court
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro issued a pardon for a recently convicted ally, setting…
Continue ReadingPakistan leaders say no foreign plot in ex-PM Khan’s removal
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A committee of Pakistan’s top political and military leaders say that former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s claims that he was…
Continue ReadingMask whiplash strikes Philly amid changing rules across US
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press People in Philadelphia can be excused if they feel a sense of whiplash as the city abandons its indoor mask…
Continue ReadingSweden charges man with spying on military installations
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A man has been charged with spying on 13 military installations in Sweden — obtaining information that would “make it possible…
Continue ReadingTill relatives seek accuser’s prosecution in 1955 kidnapping
By JAY REEVES Associated Press Relatives of Emmett Till have been stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into his lynching in Mississippi…
Continue ReadingDeep-red Utah embraced voting by mail. Then came 2020.
By SAM METZ Associated Press PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah was the only Republican-led state that mailed all active voters ballots before the 2020…
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