Month: June 2023

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French government says that Zambia has reached a deal with China and several other government creditors to restructure $6.3 billion in loans. The deal was announced on the sidelines of a summit in Paris that’s aimed at reforming a global financial system to better help developing

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his harsh public comments on China, including calling President Xi Jinping a dictator, saying his words would have no negative impact on U.S.-China relations and that he still expects to meet with Xi sometime soon. Biden said his

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street Thursday as central banks around the world keep cranking interest rates higher in their fight against inflation. The S&P 500 rose 16.20, or 0.4%, to 4,381.89, even though the majority of stocks fell. A rebound

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 61-year-old Indianapolis nursing home resident has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for the murder and rape of an 80-year-old invalid last year. Dwayne Freeman learned his sentence Thursday after pleading guilty June 8 for the crimes against Patricia Newnum at the nursing home where they both lived. A judge

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the nine years since becoming India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi has never held a solo news conference and he often avoids reporters questions. But he agreed to answer a few on Thursday when visiting President Joe Biden at the White House, the result

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to impeach President Joe Biden, hard-right House Republicans forced a vote Thursday that would send the matter to congressional committees in a clear demonstration of the challenge that Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces in controlling the majority party. The ability of single lawmaker, Rep. Lauren Boebert,

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has collected DNA samples from more than 200 families following last week’s sinking of an overcrowded smuggling vessel off Greece that left more than 500 migrants missing, including scores of Pakistanis. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson told reporters on Thursday that the families had approached the authorities themselves, saying they suspect their

By HOLLY RAMER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — About an hour and a half into its voyage, a missing submersible on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic lost communications. It would take another nine hours before the Canadian research icebreaker Polar Prince, which was supporting the Titan,

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials say firefighters who responded to February’s fiery train derailment in Ohio struggled with communications and were unable to quickly identify the hazardous chemicals the train was hauling. The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a rare field hearing in East Palestine on the Norfolk

By BEATRICE DUPUY and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A storm pummeled concertgoers at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver with golf ball-sized hail, sending them scurrying for cover, injuring dozens and forcing the cancellation of the show’s headliner, former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson. Up to 90 people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has given final legislative approval to a bill banning transgender girls from playing on the school sports teams that align with their gender identity. The GOP-controlled state House voted 62-43 Thursday to send the bill to the desk of Democratic Gov. Roy

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A doctors’ group that promotes animal rights is makin’ a fuss over the Macon Bacon baseball team. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wrote to the president of the Georgia collegiate team urging him to change its name. Committee nutritional educator Anna Herby wrote that the team’s name amounts to a

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The desperate search for a submersible that disappeared while taking five people to view the Titanic wreckage has drawn attention to other deep-sea rescues. Those rescue efforts — from a submersible off Ireland to a submarine off the New Hampshire coast — offer some measure of hope

ASCOT, England (AP) — King Charles III has claimed his first Royal Ascot winner as the reigning monarch. The king watched the race from the Royal Enclosure alongside Queen Camilla and they saw Desert Hero win by a short head in the King George V Stakes. Desert Hero wore the royal silks and was an

By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press The search for a missing submersible with five people aboard took a bleak turn Thursday when the U.S. Coast Guard said a debris field was found at the bottom of the ocean near the Titanic, and the critical 96-hour mark passed when breathable air could have run