Month: May 2023

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says Amy Pope of the United States has been elected as its next director general. She will be the first woman to head the International Organization for Migration. Pope currently serves as the deputy of Director General Antonio Vitorino, a former Portuguese government

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — As a citizen of the Quapaw Nation, Ahnili Johnson-Jennings has always seen Dartmouth College as the university for Native American students. Her father graduated from the school, founded in 1769 to educate Native Americans, and she had come to rely on its network of students, professors and

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Monday ahead of reports that will show how much a slowing economy is hurting what’s prevented a recession so far: solid spending by U.S. households. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in its first trading after closing out a second straight

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A jet-powered training aircraft has crashed in central Finland, the Finnish Air Force said, adding that the pilots ejected safely. The British-made single-engine Hawk aircraft crashed Monday south of Keuruu, which sits some 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Helsinki. The air force said on Twitter that the pilots are undergoing

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — The country currently in charge of the European Union’s presidency says a boycott of next year’s Paris Olympics is not on the table. But Swedish sports minister Jakob Forssmed urged the International Olympic Committee to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Games because of

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Biden administration appeal to limit lawsuits filed by members of Congress against the federal government, in a case that stems from disputes over what was the Trump International Hotel in Washington. The justices said Monday they’ll review an appeals

Bt SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s National Election Committee has refused to register the opposition Candlelight Party, the sole credible challenger to the governing Cambodian People’s Party, for July elections, saying it had failed to provide necessary documents. The ruling leaves the party only a very slim chance of taking

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America The Democratic primary for Philadelphia mayor has become a battle between progressives and moderates, with no clear front-runner in sight. Because the nation’s sixth-largest city is heavily Democratic, Tuesday’s election will likely determine who the next leader will be. The winner will face lone Republican contender David Oh

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether South Carolina’s congressional districts need to be redrawn because they discriminate against Black voters. The justices said Monday they would review a lower-court ruling that found a coastal district running from Charleston to Hilton Head was intentionally redrawn to reduce the number of Black

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says U.S. President Joe Biden and his counterparts are discussing ways to ensure that Ukraine does not come under attack from Russia again once the war is over. But Stoltenberg says NATO leaders are concerned about doing anything that might drag the organization

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press MONTREAL (AP) — In early June, Montrealers will line sidewalks, toot horns and pound drums as swarms of cyclists wend their way through the iconic spaces of that bicycle-mad city. It’s not a race. Rather, the crowds will cheer on neighbors and strangers, some 20,000 of them in each of

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s presidential election will be decided in a runoff, election officials said Monday, after incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan pulled ahead of his chief challenger, but fell short of an outright victory that would extend his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade. The

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military chief says he is freezing all bank accounts of rival paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Force, or RSF. Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan said on Sunday that the decision will target the RSF’s official Sudanese bank accounts as well as the accounts of all companies belonging to the group. For over

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Less than two months into his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk declared that whoever took over as the company’s CEO “ must like pain a lot.” Then he promised he’d step down as soon as he found a replacement “foolish enough” to want the job. That person,

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Vice Media is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the latest digital media company to falter after a meteoric rise. Vice said Monday that it has agreed to sell its assets to a consortium of lenders — Fortress Investment Group, Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital — in exchange

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has received its first shipment of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers, part of an upgrade of its defenses amid security concerns due to the war in neighboring Ukraine. Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak and military officials attended the acquisition ceremony Monday at an air base in Warsaw. NATO member Poland is spending