Month: April 2023

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As 16-year-old Ralph Yarl struggled to come to grips with being shot for going to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers, the white Kansas City, Missouri, homeowner who shot the Black teenager turned himself in on Tuesday. Andrew Lester,

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Fighting was still underway in Sudan’s capital hours after a cease-fire was supposed to take effect. The military and a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces eached accused the other of violating the internationally brokered truce, which came into effect at

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups. Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or using a transgender person’s name before they transitioned, as

BEIJING (AP) — A fire killed at least 21 people at a hospital in Beijing on Tuesday and forced dozens of people to evacuate, Chinese state media reported. As clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky, people trapped in the multistory building apparently tied bedsheets into makeshift ropes and escaped by climbing out windows,

LONDON (AP) — The European Union is closing in on approval for a plan to ramp up semiconductor production. The EU is seeking to wean itself off reliance on Asia for the tiny computer chips that control everything from cars to washing machines. The European Parliament and the bloc’s 27 member states struck an informal

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — United Nations’ officials say hunger is soaring and spreading across West Africa, with a 10-year high of some 48 million people facing food insecurity in the conflict-riddled region.  U.N. officials said at a press conference in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Tuesday that food insecurity driven primarily

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a graduate student instructor strike at the University of Michigan amounts to an unfair labor practice. The Detroit News reports that David Peltz, an administrative law judge for the Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules, issued the decision Friday. More than 2,000 graduate students

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mother of Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager shot when he mistakenly went to the wrong Kansas City, Missouri, home to pick up his younger brothers, said her son is crying “buckets of tears” as he comes to grips with what happened

BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities in several European Union member states have raided fashion houses in an initial move linked to an EU antitrust probe. The EU Commission says it is looking into whether some fashion industry players are involved in cartels and other restrictive business practices. The Commission had already instigated inspections last year and

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Press freedom groups say the Mexican government apparently continued to use Pegasus spyware to infect the telephones of human rights activists as recently as late 2022, despite a pledge by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to stop such spying. The activists targeted by the spyware work for the Miguel Agustín Pro

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A 24-hour cease-fire reportedly reached between Sudan’s rival generals went into effect on Tuesday, but fighting continued in the capital and it was unclear whether it would hold. Residents said they still heard gunfire and explosions in different parts of Khartoum, particularly around

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s attempt to step aside temporarily from a key Senate panel is in doubt. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that Republicans will not allow Democrats to temporarily replace Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee. McConnell says Democrats only want a replacement