Month: May 2023

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida may study whether a radioactive waste byproduct of fertilizer production can be used to help build roads. The proposal awaits a signature from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. It would task the state with conducting a study about the use of phosphogypsum in road construction aggregate materials. The federal Environmental Protection

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Americans have bet over $220 billion on sports with legal gambling outlets in the five years since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for all 50 states to offer it, and the industry shows few signs of slowing despite some recent scandals that have

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press A former neo-Nazi has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting his two Florida roommates in 2017. The plea avoids a murder trial in which Devon Arthurs had planned to use the insanity defense. Court records show the 24-year-old pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of second-degree murder and will serve a

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, plan to welcome the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball champions to the White House on Friday, May 26. The University of Connecticut Huskies men’s team beat San Diego State 76-59 in April to secure its fifth national title. The Louisiana State University Tigers

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia enacted a major security clampdown ahead of Tuesday’s annual commemorations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, curbing the use of drones and ride-sharing services in its largest cities — even jet skis on the canals of St. Petersburg — amid its

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — An Australian-listed company exploring for oil and gas in Zimbabwe says that it has found deposits of both as well as helium in the Cabora Bassa Basin in the north of the country. Invictus Energy said in a statement Monday that results from an analysis of

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — A union of government employees on Monday sued Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and President Joe Biden to try to stop them from complying with the law that limits the government’s total debt, which the lawsuit contends is unconstitutional. The lawsuit comes just weeks

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Monday ahead of a week full of reports on some of the market’s biggest worries, including how stubbornly high inflation remains across the economy. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower in midday trading, coming off its worst week in nearly two

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Uzbekistan’s leader has called a presidential election for this summer. The announcement on Monday came a week after a constitutional referendum extended the term from five years to seven. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is in his second term which is the maximum allowed by the constitution. But the referendum passage allows him

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Election officials in battleground Wisconsin hope to revive plans for a new division intended to work with the public and deal with an onslaught of records requests and complaints. The Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget-writing committee killed the plan last Tuesday along with more than 500

NEW YORK (AP) — A top official representing a suburban New York county where New York City’s mayor wants to send asylum seekers is vowing to fight the plan by enforcing a state of emergency. Rockland County Executive Ed Day, a Republican, planned a news conference to discuss the migrant plan on Monday. New York