Eastern Ukraine towns hit in overnight strikes
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Through the debris-strewn rooms of the bomb-blasted house, the incessant ringing of a…
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EXPLAINER: Ukraine’s threatened nuclear plant shuts down
By The Associated Press The last operating reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is Europe’s largest, was shut…
Continue Reading Russia hits power stations after Ukraine counteroffensive
By KARL RITTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure Sunday, causing…
Continue Reading Ukraine pushes big counteroffensive as war marks 200 days
By The Associated Press As the war in Ukraine marked 200 days on Sunday, the country has reclaimed broad swaths of the south and east in a…
Continue Reading Swedish conservatives close to election win amid crime fears
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Near final results in Sweden’s election Sunday show that a bloc of right-wing parties was…
Continue Reading China legislator criticizes sanctions on visit to Russia
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say the country’s top legislator decried sanctions against Russia during a recent visit to the country.…
Continue Reading Last reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant stopped
By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe’s largest nuclear plant has been reconnected to Ukraine’s electricity grid,…
Continue Reading China quarantines college students under strict COVID policy
BEIJING (AP) — Almost 500 students at China’s premier college for broadcast journalists have been sent to a quarantine center after a handful…
Continue Reading Visa, Mastercard, AmEx to start categorizing gun shop sales
By KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Payment processor Visa Inc. said Saturday that it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun…
Continue Reading Indiana Jones, Black Panther take spotlight at Disney expo
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — An emotional Harrison Ford appeared along with a new trailer for the fifth Indiana…
Continue Reading Marsha Hunt, ’40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Marsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and…
Continue Reading Helicopter crash kills 3 in Kabul during training session
By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s defense ministry says at least three crew members were killed when the…
Continue Reading Coastal storm cools California heat wave, dampens wildfire
By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Southern California welcomed cooler temperatures and spotty rain Saturday as a…
Continue Reading Aer Lingus cancels Dublin-origin flights, cites IT outage
LONDON (AP) — The Irish carrier Aer Lingus says a major IT outage forced it to cancel all Dublin-originating flights to European and United Kingdom…
Continue Reading UAW workers go on strike at Stellantis plant in Indiana
DETROIT (AP) — United Auto Workers union members have gone on strike at the Stellantis casting plant in Indiana. They cite health and safety…
Continue Reading US announces $40 million agricultural aid to Sri Lanka
By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The United States has announced $40 million in aid to buy fertilizer and other key…
Continue Reading Advocates make push for Montreal-to-Boston passenger rail
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Rail advocates are dusting off a proposal for passenger train service between Montreal and…
Continue Reading Small nuke reactors emerge as energy option, but risks loom
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A global search for alternative sources to Russian energy during the war in Ukraine…
Continue Reading Proenza Schouler turns on the waterworks at NY Fashion Week
By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a stunning Beaux-Arts building that housed a bank in the early 20th century, Proenza Schouler…
Continue Reading Queen Elizabeth is featured on several currencies. Now what?
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has been depicted on British banknotes and coins for decades. Her portrait also…
Continue Reading $40K offered for info to find fugitive in Navy bribery case
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. government is offering a $40,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Leonard Glenn Francis, the mastermind of…
Continue Reading Dutch queen learns about flood control during Houston visit
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A visit to Houston on Friday by the Dutch queen highlighted a long friendship between Texas and…
Continue Reading Seattle superintendent: ‘tremendous progress’ to end strike
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Brent Jones says the district and the Seattle Education…
Continue Reading Space accidents: NTSB, FAA agree on leading investigations
HOUSTON (AP) — Two federal agencies say they’ve decided which one will lead investigations when there are accidents in the growing commercial…
Continue Reading Kroger, RH rise; National Beverage, Smith & Wesson fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Kroger, RH rise; National Beverage, Smith & Wesson…
Continue Reading How major US stock indexes fared Friday 9/9/2022
The Associated Press Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street, breaking a three-week losing streak. The benchmark S&P 500 index rose 1.5% on…
Continue Reading Watchdog: Chemical safety agency impeded by staff shortage
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report says the federal agency that investigates chemical accidents is hindered by a lack…
Continue Reading Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery rose $3.25 to $86.79 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for November delivery rose $3.69…
Continue Reading Burger King investing $400m in U.S. revamp to boost sales
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Burger King plans to invest $400 million in its U.S. restaurants over the next two years to update its stores…
Continue Reading North Carolina wins Wolfspeed semiconductor materials plant
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina-based semiconductor company says it will build a $5 billion…
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