Month: June 2023

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Senate, in a surprise move, are proceeding with trying to force a vote on firing the state’s nonpartisan top elections official before the 2024 presidential election. The Senate voted Wednesday night to move ahead at a later date with a public

By The Associated Press Russia’s president has succeeded in exiling Wagner mercenary head Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief mutiny last week, but the fate of several top generals is still unclear. There were unconfirmed reports that one of them with ties to Prigozhin has been arrested and another was mysteriously absent from several events

By JILL COLVIN and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s criminal indictment on charges of mishandling government secrets appears to have dented his popularity among Republicans — but only slightly —- according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Sixty percent of Republicans

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic will begin his pursuit of a fifth consecutive Wimbledon championship and eighth overall on Monday. He also will be attempting to claim an Open era-record 24th Grand Slam trophy over the coming two weeks. And there is also this in the offing: Djokovic

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former tech executive is joining the crowded 2024 U.S. Senate race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Google and Facebook veteran Lexi Reese joins a Democratic field that already includes three members of Congress — U.S. Reps. Katie Porter, Adam Schiff and

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is visiting communities hit by weeks of violence and living in relief camps in a remote northeastern state. His visit comes as a shootout there claimed two more lives earlier in the day. The shooting erupted between members of the

By JOE McDONALD and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street is poised to open with gains Thursday ahead of new data on jobs and U.S. economic growth with the leaders of major central banks saying this week that interest rates must remain elevated to tamp down inflation, though there have been indications that the

By LORNE COOK and VANESSA GERA Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says his country will not be forced to accept European Union migration rules. Mateusz Morawiecki is also vowing to veto any plan that might force countries to take in refugees. Earlier this month, EU nations made a breakthrough on asylum law

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — LGBTQ+ rights activists and couples in Nepal on Thursday were celebrating an interim order issued by the country’s Supreme Court enabling the registration of same-sex marriages for the first time. The Supreme court issued the order on Wednesday allowing for the temporary registration of marriages for

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — What was shaping up as a regular workday turned out to be anything but for the organizers of France’s first summer Olympic Games in a century. French anti-corruption police raided their bustling Olympic headquarters on the outskirts of Paris, arriving unannounced and accompanied by a magistrate

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims are casting stones at pillars representing the devil during the final days of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. This year’s pilgrimage was the first in three years to be held without coronavirus restrictions and drew over 1.8 million Muslims from all corners of the earth. The

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Thursday that a government plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is unlawful, delivering a blow to the Conservative administration’s pledge to stop migrants making risky journeys across the English Channel. In a split two-to-one ruling, three Court of Appeal

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says a request for his country to temporarily host a U.S. immigrant visa processing center for thousands of Afghan nationals faces security and other concerns but is still being considered by his administration. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken first relayed

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smok e from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say. And then the smoke will likely come back to