Month: April 2023

By ABBY SEWELL and YASMINE MOSIMANN BEIRUT (AP) — Authorities in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern region say they have reached a deal with the central government in Baghdad that will allow oil exports from the Kurdish region by way of Turkey to resume. The agreement announced on Sunday comes after an arbitration process by the International

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In the wake of an elementary school shooting in Tennessee earlier this week that left three 9-year-olds and three adults dead, state legislatures across the country are moving forward with bills aiming to improve school safety. The bills have been introduced in blue and

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Companies from toothpaste makers to beauty chains are adding more premium items like designer creams and services as they reach out to wealthier shoppers who are still spending freely even in the face of higher inflation and volatile economic environment. Think $10 toothpastes and $90

By ADRIAN SAINZ and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press WYNNE, Ark. (AP) — Residents across a wide swath of the South and Midwest on Sunday raced to assess the destruction wreaked by storms that dropped possibly dozens of tornadoes and killed at least 26 people in small towns and big cities. The storms tore a path

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (AP) — Marcela Castro’s office in Chihuahua is more than 100 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, yet the distance doesn’t prevent her from assisting women in the United States in circumventing recently imposed bans on abortion. From the headquarters of Marea Verde Chihuahua, an organization that has

By AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Patti Chang walked into her polling place in Chicago earlier this year, anxious about how poll workers would treat her, especially as a voter who is blind. Even though she was accompanied by her husband, she said she was ignored until a poll worker grabbed her cane

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press FRANKLIN, Tennessee (AP) — It’s Palm Sunday, and across the greater Nashville, Tennessee, region, many Christians headed to worship services grief-stricken and hurting for the lives stolen too soon in The Covenant School shooting. Their heartsick pastors sought to bring comfort to those seeking answers to unanswerable questions after a

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been more than seven years since the 2016 presidential campaign, and Republicans are still trying to figure out how to run against Donald Trump. Their calculation has only grown more complicated now that a Manhattan grand jury has indicted the former president. Trump’s norm-busting

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s foreign minister has protested in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart the detention of a Japanese national in Beijing and raised “strong concern” about China’s escalating military activity near Taiwan and around Japan. Yoshimasa Hayashi is on a two-day visit in China, becoming

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has made history so many times. The first president without government or military experience. The first to be impeached twice. The first to aggressively challenge the certification of his successor. Now, he adds another: Even as he hopes to return to the White

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Voters in Montenegro are casting ballots in a runoff presidential election that is a contest between a long-serving pro-Western incumbent and a newcomer promising changes in the small NATO member nation located on Europe’s Balkan peninsula. Observers think President Milo Djukanovic could be defeated by Jakov