Month: April 2023

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal (AP) — When the gas rig arrived off the coast of Saint-Louis, residents of this seaside Senegalese town found reason to hope. Fishing has long been the community’s lifeblood, but the industry was struggling with climate change and COVID-19. Officials promised the drilling would soon bring thousands of

By DEEPA BHARATH The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Edward Siebert’s journey with “The Pope’s Exorcist,” a film about arguably the most famous exorcist in the Catholic Church, began with an adventuresome visit to Milan about six years ago. The Jesuit priest recalls sitting at a restaurant sipping wine and mulling the

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish mountain climber has emerged from a cave 70 meters (230 feet) underground where she spent some 500 days isolated from the outside world. Beatriz Flamini left the cave in southern Spain shortly after 9 a.m. Friday after being told by supporters that she had completed

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Billing records of an Internet social media platform and interviews with another user helped the FBI identify a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman as a suspect in the leak of highly classified military documents, according to court records unsealed Friday. The new

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, giving the Republican a major conservative policy victory as he prepares to launch an expected presidential candidacy. DeSantis signed the measure late Thursday night in a private ceremony without fanfare,

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Firefighters have doused the flames at a major industrial fire in Indiana fueled by tons of scrap plastics, but crews continue trying to extinguish hot spots, and an evacuation order for people nearby remains in place, the fire chief said Friday. Richmond Mayor Dave Snow tweeted Thursday night that Fire Chief

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A senior Norwegian spy agency officer says ”the intelligence threat from Russia is not gone, but significantly reduced” after Norway expelled 15 Russian diplomats. Inger Haugland of the Norwegian Police Security Service says Norway is “sure that they are intelligence officers.” On Thursday, Oslo said

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman arrested in the leak of highly classified military documents is expected in federal court Friday as the Justice Department prepares to outline the criminal case against him. Jack Teixeira, 21, was arrested by heavily armed tactical agents on

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Federal Reserve official said Friday that there has been little progress on inflation for more than a year and that more interest rate hikes are needed to get prices under control. Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed’s governing board, did not specify how

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian air force crews have completed their training in the use of tactical nuclear weapons as part of Russia’s plan to deploy the weapons to its ally Belarus amid the fighting in neighboring Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry on Friday released a video in which a Belarusian pilot said that the training

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana mayor says a major industrial fire fueled by tons of scrap plastics has been fully extinguished, although an evacuation order for people living near the disaster remains in place. Richmond Mayor Dave Snow tweeted Thursday night that the fire chief had informed him “the fire has been fully extinguished

By COLLEEN LONG, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — In Ireland this week, well-wishers have lined the streets to catch even a glimpse of President Joe Biden. Photos of Biden’s smiling face are plastered on shop windows. One admirer held a sign reading, “2024 — Make Joe President Again.” No wonder

By JOE McDONALD and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street held steady in premarket trading Friday as some of the nation’s biggest banks posted strong first-quarter profits one day after markets surged on reports of slowing inflation. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials ticked up 0.1% and futures for the S&P 500 were essentially

By FREIDA FRISARO, DANIEL KOZIN and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — One of Florida’s busiest airports announced plans to reopen Friday morning, two days after an unprecedented deluge left planes and travelers stranded and turned Fort Lauderdale’s streets into rivers. Officials at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport completed final inspections after sunrise

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A bus carrying Israeli tourists fell on its side on a road in southern South Korea, killing one woman and injuring 34 other people. The tour bus with 33 Israelis and two South Koreans — the bus driver and a tour guide — crashed Thursday on a slope in the

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister is seeking to bring down the temperature on spiraling tensions between his government and the United States after Washington sanctioned a Hungary-based Russian bank. Viktor Orban said on Friday that the U.S. was Hungary’s “friend” and that his government wouldn’t dispute Washington’s right

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake shook parts of Indonesia’s main island of Java and tourist island of Bali on Friday, causing panic but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.0 quake was centered 96.5 kilometers (59.8 miles) north of Tuban, a coastal

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill approved by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The governor’s office said in a statement late Thursday that he had signed the legislation. The ban gives DeSantis a key political victory

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A fugitive Moldovan oligarch and opposition party leader was sentenced in absentia Thursday to 15 years in jail for his role in a one-billion-dollar bank theft case. Ilan Shor, who leads the populist Russia-friendly Shor Party, was convicted of fraud and money laundering in the case of $1 billion that went