Biden drug control plan stresses harm reduction, treatment
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress. White…
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Rights group urges Egypt to release critic’s autopsy report
CAIRO (AP) — A leading human rights group says Egyptian authorities should release the autopsy report and investigate the suspicious death of an…
Continue ReadingBenedict XVI turns 95 as book focuses on anomaly of 2 popes
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI turned 95 this past weekend. And to mark the occasion, a new…
Continue ReadingRights group demands probe into Sri Lanka police shooting
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A leading human rights group is demanding that Sri Lankan authorities conduct a…
Continue ReadingGaza violence intensifies as Jerusalem clashes resume
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s air force and Palestinian militants have traded fire across the Gaza frontier…
Continue ReadingUS drone company Zipline starts delivering medicine in Japan
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Zipline, an American company that specializes in using autonomously flying drones to deliver…
Continue ReadingWHO says global COVID cases, deaths declined again last week
BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization says that the number of reported new COVID-19 cases worldwide decreased by nearly a quarter last week.…
Continue ReadingOlivia Harrison writes poems about late George Harrison
NEW YORK (AP) — Olivia Harrison, widow of Beatle George Harrison and a philanthropist and film producer, has a few words of her own to share. She…
Continue ReadingReport: Chinese credit card processor rebuffs Russian banks
BEIJING (AP) — A Russian news outlet says China’s credit card processor has refused to work with banks in Russia for fear of being targeted…
Continue ReadingAsian shares decline after Fed chief’s comments on inflation
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have retreated, tracking losses on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome…
Continue Reading‘We found nothing:’ Thousands of IS victims still missing
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people taken captive by the Islamic State group remain missing years after the…
Continue Reading‘Fancy Like’ feels like a No. 1 draft pick to singer Hayes
By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Like most any boy growing up in Mobile, Walker Hayes’ early goal in his sporting career…
Continue ReadingNew Zealand’s Ardern in Tokyo to meet Kishida, promote trade
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is in Japan as part of her first trip abroad in more than…
Continue ReadingMilitary-led Myanmar seeks to reassure foreign investors
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar officials have sought to reassure foreign investors who say doing business in the…
Continue ReadingSatellite photos show possible mass graves near Mariupol
By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — New satellite images show what appear to be mass graves near Mariupol. Local officials are…
Continue ReadingCrews brace for strong winds, explosive fire growth in West
By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — After a brief break in the weather allowed for new aerial attacks on some of the many…
Continue ReadingChina’s Xi urges talks to settle disputes, opposes sanctions
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping says his government supports talks to resolve international disputes and opposes “wanton use” of…
Continue ReadingTenn governor calls off execution, citing oversight in plan
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s governor has called off what was to have been the state’s first…
Continue ReadingEnergy-thirsty Bitcoin miners seek ways to dump fossil fuels
By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — With the cryptocurrency industry under increasing pressure to rein in the environmental…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: How cryptocurrencies work (and how they don’t)
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first and most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, launched more than a decade ago. Yet for all…
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