Year: 2024

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When some people’s cellphone service went down for a while because of an AT&T network outage, among the alternatives suggested were using landlines. But according to the most recent estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics, about 73% of American adults in 2022 lived in

By PETER SMITH and TIFFANY STANLEY Associated Press When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children under state law, its chief justice had a higher authority in mind. By citing verses from the Bible and Christian theologians in his concurring opinion, Chief Justice Tom Parker alarmed advocates for church-state separation, while

By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A long-awaited postwar plan by Israel’s prime minister shows that his government seeks open-ended control over security and civilian affairs in the Gaza Strip. That was swiftly rejected Friday by Palestinian leaders and runs counter to Washington’s vision for the war-ravaged

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The prime ministers of Hungary and Sweden have concluded a defense industry agreement that will expand Budapest’s fleet of Swedish-built fighter jets. The agreement will pave the way for Hungary’s ratification of Sweden’s long-delayed NATO bid. Friday’s meeting in Budapest between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the fourth time in five months, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mayor Joe Ganim will face challenger John Gomes at the ballot box in his quest for an eighth term. Joining them once again will be Republican nominee David Herz. Ganim and Gomes first competed in the Democratic primary

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are strong favorites to win the Michigan primaries on Tuesday, but there are complications on both sides. Progressive activists are urging Democrats to cast their ballots for “uncommitted” to protest Biden’s position on Israel. On the Republican side, the

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Angry farmers were back in Paris on their tractors in a new protest Friday demanding more government support and simpler regulations, on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital. Dozens of tractors drove peacefully into Paris carrying flags from Rural Coordination, the farmers’

By The Associated Press An ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Friday that Russian authorities have given his mother a deadline to agree to forgo a public funeral or else they’ll bury him on prison grounds. Investigators gave Lyudmila Navalnaya three hours to accept a proposal for a private funeral outside the

BERLIN (AP) — A lawyer for a man who is also under investigation in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann says he won’t respond to unrelated charges of sexual offenses at a trial that opened last week in Germany. The 47-year-old German faces three counts of rape and two of sexual abuse of children

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s police say Lee Ho-yang, a prominent K-pop composer and producer better known by his professional name of “Shinsadong Tiger,” has been found dead. The Seoul Metropolitan Police say that 40-year-old Lee was discovered dead at his Seoul studio on Friday. Police gave no

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The head of the European Union’s powerful Commission says decisions will be taken soon to release billions of euros to Poland, funds frozen by the bloc over the previous Polish government’s anti-EU policies. Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday the decision to release 137 billion

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and LORNE COOK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and European Union on Friday heaped hundreds of new sanctions on Russia in connection with the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week in an Arctic penal

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A woman who traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group lost her appeal Friday against the British government’s decision to revoke her U.K. citizenship, with judges saying that it wasn’t for them to rule on whether it was “harsh” to do so.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Russian Olympic Committee has lost an appeal against its suspension by the International Olympic Committee. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it dismissed the ROC’s appeal against the suspension imposed in October. The IOC objected to the ROC incorporating four sports bodies representing regions of eastern Ukraine. CAS says

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says at least 118 people have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in more than 10 months of conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war crimes. A new report by the agency, released on Friday, says

By ALICIA LEÓN and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — Spanish officials have raised the death toll to at least 10 in the apartment block fire in the eastern city of Valencia. Authorities said 10 bodies were found in the first police inspection of the gutted residential buildings. Meanwhile, questions abounded as to

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A storm packing strong winds in Sweden tore the roof off the main train station in Goteborg, knocking out power and temporarily halting rail traffic in and out of the country’s second largest city. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The storm Friday blustered

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian sculptor Mikhail Reva has transformed the trauma of Russia’s invasion into a profound artistic statement, turning two tons of war debris into sculptures that express the deep suffering of his homeland. Following a Russian strike on his country house, Reva crafted “The Flower of Death” from