Month: September 2022

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The record-breaking heat that has pushed California’s electrical grid to the breaking point for more than a week is almost over but it’s a sign of things to come. Scientists say a warming planet will lead to hotter, longer and more wildfire-plagued heat waves. California is

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the world for help for cash-strapped Pakistan after arriving in the country Friday to see the climate-induced devastation from months of deadly record floods. His trip comes less than two weeks after Guterres appealed for $160 million in emergency funding to

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Joe Biden gained the distinction of being the 13th and final U.S. president to meet the woman whose reign spanned seven decades. The queen, who died Thursday at her summer residence in Scotland at age 96, had met every American

By BILL BARROW and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — When asked about his decision to rebuff Donald Trump and certify Joe Biden’s narrow victory in his state, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says he has no option but to defend his actions. “We are all held accountable by the voters,” the Republican

By KEN RITTER and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — In four decades of writing about the Las Vegas underworld and government corruption, investigative reporter Jeff German took on plenty of powerful and dangerous people. The hard-bitten newsman was once punched by an organized crime associate and received veiled threats from mobsters. Nothing

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts is set to make his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, speaking Friday night at a judicial conference in Colorado. Roberts is scheduled to be interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of

By JOSH BOAK, AAMER MADHANI and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to put the spotlight on a rare bipartisan down payment on U.S. manufacturing when he visits Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of a new Intel computer chip facility. Biden heads to suburban Columbus to take a victory

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, JENNIFER PELTZ and CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the U.S. scored its most thrilling victory yet against the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks — the capture of a disheveled Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, hauled away by intelligence agents from a hideout in

DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — Relatives and former co-workers of a couple allegedly killed by a sheriff’s deputy inside their Northern California home say they were a retired civil engineer and a nurse. Lt. Ray Kelly, a spokesperson with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, identified them Thursday as 57-year-old Benison Tran and 42-year-old Maria Tran. Kelly

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Elton John has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at his final concert in Toronto, saying he was inspired by her and is sad she is gone. John noted she led the United Kingdom through some of its greatest and darkest moments with grace and decency and

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks rose Friday, cheered by gains on Wall Street as the Federal Reserve chairman assured markets over expected interest rate increases. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.6% in afternoon trading to 28,242.31. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.7% to 6,894.20. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 2.6%