Month: May 2023

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA (AP) — Brazil’s president has proposed the creation of a regional trade currency to rival the U.S. dollar as he hosts a regional summit in a bid to revive a bloc of South America’s 12 politically polarized countries. The Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, was launched in

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting in mixed trading Tuesday after Washington reached a tentative deal to avoid a potentially disastrous default on its debt. The S&P 500 was down 0.1% in afternoon trading, remaining near its highest level in nine months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at a Texas prison where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, her family announced Tuesday. Carter, now 95, remains at home with former President Jimmy Carter, who has been at home receiving hospice care since early this year. “She continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — A trial for the man charged in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history opened Tuesday with his own lawyer acknowledging he planned the 2018 massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue and made hateful statements about Jewish people. Robert Bowers went to Tree of Life synagogue and “shot

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — International Monetary Fund has  signed off on an initial loan of $900 million and raised its estimate for the country’s economic growth. Gavin Gray, the IMF’s mission chief to Ukraine, says the economy is showing “remarkable resilience” following Russian attacks on its electricity infrastructure. The

YATES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York fertility doctor who was accused of using his own sperm to impregnate several patients has died in a plane crash. The Orleans County sheriff says Dr. Morris Wortman of Rochester was killed Sunday when the hand-built airplane he was in fell apart mid-flight and crashed in

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday. Norovirus and salmonella, germs that can cause severe illness, were the most common cause of 800 outbreaks,

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal court ruling cleared the way Tuesday for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s settlement of thousands of legal claims over the toll of opioids. Under the plan approved by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, members of the wealthy Sackler family would give up ownership of