By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments. The new regulations announced Tuesday would require insurers to study whether their customers have equal access to medical and mental health benefits and
Continue Reading By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog says its staff at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant report seeing anti-personnel mines around the site. The report comes as Kyiv pursues a counteroffensive against the Kremlin’s entrenched forces after 17 months of war. The IAEA says having mines at the
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union agriculture ministers are meeting to discuss ways of moving grain vital to global food security out of Ukraine after Russia halted a deal that allowed the exports. At the same time, they want to protect prices for farmers in countries bordering the war-ravaged nation. The ministers are meeting Tuesday in
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — A jury is expected to render its verdict Tuesday over Belgium’s deadliest peacetime attack. The suicide bombings at the Brussels airport and a busy subway station in 2016 killed 32 people in a wave of attacks in Europe claimed by the Islamic State group. Among the 10 defendants is Salah Abdeslam, serving
Continue Reading By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court has overturned the impeachment of the public safety minister ousted over a Halloween crowd surge that killed nearly 160 people last October at a nightlife district in the capital, Seoul. The court’s decision Tuesday allows Lee Sang-min to return as the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) This past weekend saw two new, popular movies hit theaters. Area movie theaters were expecting to see a big attendance bump with the releases of “Barbie,” and “Oppenheimer” releasing on the same day. According to the Associated Press, both movies ended up bringing moviegoers back to the theaters to watch either, or
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By Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — A large blaze erupted at a power substation in Pittsburgh after a reactor “catastrophically failed,” public safety officials announced. The fire erupted around 8 p.m. Monday and continued to burn overnight at the Duquesne Light Company substation on Brunot Island, a small island in the Ohio River, which runs
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Houston woman known online as the “Sassy Trucker” has been stuck in Dubai for weeks after an altercation at a car rental agency. It’s the latest case showing the limits of speech in this skyscraper-studded city-state. The case against 29-year-old Tierra Young Allen
Continue Reading By LUKE VARGAS Associated Press HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) — When New Zealand kicked off the Women’s World Cup opener against Norway last week, just three of the 23 Football Ferns traced their roots to the Indigenous Maori people. By contrast, when the Kiwis hosted the Women’s Rugby World Cup last year, more than half
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BURG, Germany (AP) — Two teachers in eastern Germany tried to counter the far-right activities of students at their small town high school. They counseled bullies who threatened to beat up immigrant classmates. They gave more lessons about their country’s Nazi past. They invited in a Black rapper to talk
Continue Reading By ABBY HALPIN Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Casey Phair has become the youngest player in soccer World Cup history at the age of 16 years and 26 days. Phair went on as a replacement in South Korea’s 2-0 loss to Colombia in Sydney at the Women’s World Cup on Tuesday. Phair has an American
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Tuesday after China’s ruling Communist Party promised to shore up its sagging economy ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting traders hope will announce this interest rate cycle’s final increase. Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney advanced. Tokyo declined. Oil
Continue Reading By HANNA ARHIROVA and LORI HINNANT Associated Press ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — Tetiana Khlapova’s hand trembled as she recorded the wreckage of Odesa’s devastated Transfiguration Cathedral on her cellphone and cursed Russia, her native land. Khlapova was raised in Ukraine and had always dreamed of living in the seaside city. But not as the war
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By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt hit a two-run homer and then a tying single in the ninth inning against his former team, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-6 victory over the skidding Arizona Diamondbacks. It was a back-and-forth game that saw the Cardinals take a 5-2 lead
Continue Reading By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Voters in Maine will likely be the ones to decide whether to restore long removed language about the state’s obligations to Native American tribes to printed versions of its constitution. The Maine Legislature is poised to give its final approval on Tuesday to a proposal to
Continue Reading By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Friends and family are remembering the three passengers and pilot killed when a helicopter crashed on Alaska’s remote North Slope late last week. Among those killed were a respected scientist who was adept at ice carving, a North Dakota native who became so smitten with Alaska
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The fingerprints of climate change are all over the intense heat waves gripping the globe this month, a new study finds. Researchers say the deadly hot spells in the American Southwest and Southern Europe could not have happened without the continuing buildup of warming gases in the air. These
Continue Reading By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine is poised to launch an offshore wind program that would meet clean energy goals and produce enough power for about 900,000 homes from floating wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine. The goal calls for requests for proposals to be issued for 3,000 megawatts of
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — For the mayor of Paris, the city’s journey to next year’s Olympic Games included an epiphany born of brutality: the slaughter of 17 people by gunmen acting in the names of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Anne Hidalgo says the 2015 attacks at a provocative satirical
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt hit a two-run homer and then a tying single in the ninth inning against his former team, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-6 victory over the skidding Arizona Diamondbacks. It was a back-and-forth game that saw the Cardinals take a 5-2 lead
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