Month: September 2023

BALTIMORE (AP) — Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is again running for office after her previous mayoral tenure ended in a criminal conviction. She announced her candidacy Thursday in an op-ed published in The Baltimore Sun. Dixon resigned from office in 2010 after a jury convicted her of embezzling donated gift cards that were intended

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is attending a charity event Thursday night in London, though he isn’t expected to meet with King Charles III or Prince William as Britain prepares to mark the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death. Harry’s relationship with his family has been strained since he

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, ROBERT BUMSTED and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Damien, age 5, was giddy with excitement as he left a Manhattan homeless shelter, sometimes running and skipping along the sidewalk accompanied by his wistful mother, a migrant from Ecuador. “What I want for him is a future,” Kimberly Carchipulla

By EDNA TARIGAN and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president has issued a stark warning after wrapping up a summit of Southeast Asian countries that was joined by China, the United States and Russia. President Joko Widodo said on Thursday that our world “we will be destroyed” unless conflicts are resolved.

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Companies that have plants and facilities only served by one railroad may soon be able to get a bid from another railroad if their current service is bad enough under a new rule that was proposed Thursday to help boost competition. The U.S. Surface Transportation

LONDON (AP) — Five retired British police officers have admitted sending offensive and racist social media messages about the Duchess of Sussex and others. The men were arrested after a BBC investigation last year sparked an internal police inquiry. The charges say the messages posted in a closed WhatsApp group referred to Meghan and husband

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer President Joe Biden has nominated a former Obama administration official to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, which has been without a permanent leader for a year and a half. The White House said Thursday that Biden has nominated Michael Whitaker. He’s currently the chief operating officer of a Hyundai

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million stock market cheating scheme that relied on secret earnings information stolen through the hacking of U.S. computer networks. Vladislav Klyushin, who

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The governor of Poland’s central bank says its large interest rate cut is justified despite high inflation because prices are stabilizing and the era of high inflation is ending. Adam Glapinski spoke a day after the bank announced that it was cutting interest rates by 75 basis points, a much larger

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, who was one of Europe’s youngest leaders and a strong voice in supporting Ukraine, says she’s quitting Finnish politics and will join a London-based non-profit organization. Marin, who was 37 years old when she took office in 2019, led a five-party center-left governing coalition until

NEW YORK (AP) — Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of poetry’s most lucrative prizes. Hahn, a faculty member of Queens College in New York City whose books include “The Unbearable Heart” and “Earshot,” won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister says China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood in reaction to the release of treated radioactive water from a tsunami-ravaged nuclear power plant contrasts starkly with broad understanding shown by many other members of the international community. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s main opposition leader has accused the conservative government of hypocrisy for allegedly admitting large numbers of foreign workers despite its anti-migrant rhetoric and a new border wall. Donald Tusk, a former prime minister, says the government’s actions were in stark contrast with its official policy

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A police officer has died and another has been injured in a crash where their cruiser was struck by a car speeding through a red light in Connecticut’s capital city. Authorities say 34-year-old Hartford Officer Robert “Bobby” Garten was killed and Officer Brian Kearney was injured

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian man using a metal detector has found nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls someone might have worn as showy jewelry 1,500 years ago. The gold pendants and pearls were part of a necklace made by skilled jewelers. The thin pendants date from around A.D. 500, a time

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium midfielder Yannick Carrasco says he does not share the criticism of Saudi Arabia’s poor human rights record. Carrasco has followed many stars from Europe’s top leagues who have headed to the lucrative Saudi league in recent months by joining Al Shabab from Atletico Madrid. Others

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A top government official says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan supports his new economic team’s plan to increase interest rates to lower the country’s soaring inflation. Erdogan has long opposed raising interest rates, but appointed a new economic team after winning reelection in May. That signaled more traditional policies, including rate

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she will return to the island nation to press for his release. The planned trip comes while he and hundreds of other inmates in the country are on a major hunger strike. Maryam

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A World Bank eport says online gig work is growing globally and is creating an important source of employment for women and young people in poorer countries where jobs are scarce. The report estimates there are as many as 435 million online gig workers globally. It says

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level in seven months, another sign that the labor market remains largely unaffected by higher interest rates. U.S. applications for jobless claims fell by 13,000 to 216,000 for the week ending Sept. 2, the Labor

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has denied allegations in a British television program that Islamic State-inspired extremists were used to carry out suicide bomb attacks in 2019 to create insecurity in the country and help him win election later that year. He says the

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say two Syrian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of membership in extremist groups, and one of them is suspected of involvement in a 2013 attack in eastern Syria in which more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians were killed. The suspects were arrested on Wednesday. One of them

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s another landmark year for breakout country superstar Lainey Wilson, who tops the CMA Awards nominations for the second year in a row. Wilson was a first-time nominee in 2022, which means she’s made history in 2023 — becoming the first and only artist to