Month: April 2023

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Residents say fighting has intensified in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur during a fragile three-day truce between the country’s two battling top generals. The truce eased fighting in the country’s capital, Khartoum. That has created a lull that allowed foreign governments to evacuate thousands of their nationals.

By AMY BETH HANSON, BRITTANY PETERSON and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr began her first day in legislative exile Thursday with renewed confidence that Republican lawmakers’ unprecedented vote to silence her has only amplified her message to constituents at home and others watching across the nation. “There are

By NAUSÍCAA PALOMEQUE Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The first thing 11-year-old Mia Rodríguez says she did with her new prosthetic hands was draw a picture of a kitten. The Uruguayan girl, whose fingers never fully developed, put on the prosthetic hands and demonstrated the grasping movement she can now make. “Now I can

By DAN SEWELL Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional guests willing to bare all — sometimes literally — as they brawled and hurled obscenities before a raucous audience, died Thursday at 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are set to begin a second round of debate on a bill that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo. That generally occurs around the sixth week of pregnancy. Supporters advanced the ban from the first round of

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rising Thursday after Meta Platforms became the latest Big Tech company to blow past profit expectations and reports painted a mixed picture of the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher in early trading and on pace for its first gain

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday in Shanghai after departing from the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, where she spent the past 20 years on loan. The popular panda’s trip was closely followed online. People shared screenshots tracking Ya Ya’s flight path into Shanghai. “Finally back

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is returning to New Hampshire for his first campaign appearance since President Joe Biden launched his reelection campaign this week. Thursday’s event in downtown Manchester also marks Trump’s first return to an early voting state since his legal troubles ramped up.

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer in a bid to better treat a dangerous kind of irregular heartbeat. It’s highly experimental. But researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have reported dramatic success with small numbers of severely ill patients

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Country superstar and newly minted Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dolly Parton will give fans a glimpse of her upcoming rock album during the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards. Parton, who was voted into the Hall of Fame last year, will close

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s report Thursday that the economy grew at a 1.1% annual rate last quarter signaled that one of the most-anticipated recessions in recent U.S. history has yet to arrive. Many economists, though, still expect a recession to hit as soon as the current April-June quarter