China accused of failing to buy more Maine lobster
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional leaders say China has failed to live up to its promise to buy more Maine lobster under a deal that…
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Sui, Han earn Olympic gold at last in pairs figure skating
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Sui Wenjing and Han Cong captured the Olympic gold medal that eluded them by a razor-thin margin…
Continue ReadingIncome-tax phaseout up for debate in long-poor Mississippi
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is accustomed to being first in worsts. It’s one of the poorest,…
Continue ReadingDems, GOP set inflation, COVID mandates as election themes
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping…
Continue ReadingProsecutor ran on changing Austin before police indictments
By ACACIA CORONADO, PAUL J. WEBER and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin police say officers facing indictments over…
Continue ReadingMichigan woman turning 100 adds another tattoo
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan woman soon will celebrate a milestone birthday. How old? Well, look at her decorative upper arm. Gloria Weberg…
Continue ReadingChicago school renamed to honor civil rights activist Tubman
CHICAGO (AP) — A school on Chicago’s North Side has joined the growing list of educational establishments to be named after abolitionist and…
Continue ReadingModeling agent close to Epstein found dead in French jail
By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say a modeling agent who was close to disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein…
Continue ReadingUS defense chief: Russia ‘uncoiling and poised to strike’
By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has assured the three Baltic nations that they…
Continue ReadingAfter $73M win, Sandy Hook families zero in on gun marketing
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The $73 million settlement that some of the Sandy Hook shooting victims’ families won…
Continue ReadingUSDA head: US farmers to help if Ukraine exports threatened
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. secretary of agriculture says that a Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Continue ReadingGermany’s Scholz says now is ‘moment of truth’ for Iran deal
MUNICH (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says that “now is the moment of truth” to determine whether Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world…
Continue ReadingBlast at busy restaurant kills 15, wounds 20 in Somali city
By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Police say at least 15 people are dead after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest…
Continue ReadingEU chief: Russia could be cut off from markets, tech goods
By KARL RITTER and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — A top European Union official says Russia would have its access to financial markets…
Continue ReadingBEIJING SNAPSHOT: Reporting, inside and outside the bubble
By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Journalists who spent weeks of reporting on the Beijing Olympics while hermetically sealed…
Continue ReadingWestern Europe cleans up after storm leaves at least 12 dead
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Crews are clearing fallen trees and working to restore power to about 400,000 people in Britain as…
Continue ReadingHong Kong reports more than 6,000 new cases in virus surge
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has reported 15 coronavirus deaths and more than 6,000 confirmed cases for a second day. The government also announced…
Continue ReadingAustralia says China warship fired laser at its patrol plane
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Defense Department says a Chinese navy ship fired a laser at one of its surveillance aircraft, putting…
Continue ReadingGreek rescuers search burning ferry for 12 missing people
By COSTAS KANTOURIS, DEREK GATOPOULOS and DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press CORFU, Greece (AP) — Rescue teams in Greece are searching a burning…
Continue ReadingPanel denies US skaters’ appeal to get Olympic silver medals
By EDDIE PELLS and GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writers BEIJING (AP) — Arbitrators have rejected a last-ditch request by American figure skaters to have…
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