Month: August 2022

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — When Diane Swonk first attended the Federal Reserve’s annual economic conference in Jackson Hole in the late 1990s, there was a happy hour for women who attended the event. It barely filled a single table. Now, the “Women at Jackson Hole” happy hour draws

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press OSORNO, Chile (AP) — In labor with her first child last month, Lucia Hernández Rumian danced around her hospital room while her husband played the kultrun, a ritual drum. She turned down pain medication from the hospital’s staff to get massages and oil rubdowns instead from her cultural liaison, who

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified material at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. But plenty of questions remain, especially because half the affidavit, which spelled out the FBI’s rationale for searching the property, was blacked out. That

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — All 85 passengers and crew of an inter-island ferry that caught fire near its port destination south of Manila have been safely rescued and a search effort has been terminated, Philippine officials said Saturday. The last two passengers unaccounted for on the M/V Asia Philippines, which was carrying 47 passengers and

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The faded and weathered construction permits still taped to Houston resident Mal Moses’ front door are reminders of the difficulties he faced in trying to get his mold-infested walls and leaky roof repaired after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. But living in his neighborhood of Trinity-Houston Gardens

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi warned Saturday that the political crisis in the country is threatening security achievements made in past years. Al-Kadhimi’s warning is a clear indication of the dangers of one of Iraq’s worst political crises since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. It

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fears about the potential for a radiation leak at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant are persisting as Ukrainian and Russian authorities reported missile strikes and shelling of the plant and nearby areas. A local governor in Ukraine said Saturday that Russian Grad missiles and artillery shells

JERUSALEM (AP) — A group of artists has filled a Palestinian area of east Jerusalem with paintings of large, wide-open eyes. The murals are a reminder that all eyes are on the neighborhood of Silwan, a flashpoint where Palestinians say Israeli forces and settlers are working to drive them out of their homes. The eye

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished. When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed $83,762 to cover the