Month: February 2023

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One day in 2020, at the pandemic’s height, an earnest-looking man with long hair the color of Buffalo sauce stepped up to a podium in Lincoln, Nebraska, to address his city council during its public comment period. His unexpected topic, as he framed it: It

By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia announced Friday that will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per day next month after Western countries capped the price of its crude over its action in Ukraine. “As of today, we fully sell all our crude output, but as we stated before,

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having survived. What’s left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society? What lingers over a decade later, even as the rest of the world

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting lower as Wall Street nears the end of its worst week since December. The S&P 500 was 0.4% lower in early Friday trading and on pace for a 1.7% loss for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down slightly, while

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say at least two people were killed and 20 others were injured when an apartment building collapsed in the country’s north. It said the collapse of the four-story building in the city of Damanhour was triggered by a ‘‘gas pipe explosion.’’ Search efforts are underway to find those still missing

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia has put Alexandra Garmazhapova, the founder of the anti-war group Free Buryatia Foundation, on its federal most-wanted list. Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs made the announcement Friday. Garmazhapova lives in the Czech capital, Prague, and would face arrest if she returned to Russia. The activist believes the case may have