Month: June 2024

By COLLIN BINKLEY and ANNIE MA AP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Michigan and the City University of New York didn’t adequately investigate complaints about antisemitic or anti-Palestinian harassment linked to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and other incidents. That’s according to results of U.S. Education Department investigations announced Monday. The

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Candidate Cabinet ministers in the Netherlands’ incoming far-right-led government are undergoing questioning to establish their suitability for office, as the monthslong process of forming a new administration nears its end. Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom won elections in November and has been working

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish King Frederik X has inaugurated the first element of a future 18-kilometer (11-mile) rail-and-road tunnel under the Baltic Sea that will link southern Denmark to northern Germany and contribute to the transport sector’s green transition. The Fehmarn link which is expected to open in 2029, will also cut travel from

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Erin Fox has tracked drug shortages for more than 20 years, and she sees no easy solutions for what has become a record run. Total active shortages hit an all-time high of 323 in this year’s first quarter, according to the University of Utah Drug Information Service. That’s up

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A crowd-control gate has been installed halfway up Japan’s Mount Fuji ahead of the start of this year’s climbing season. The gate is part of a new set of rules that are being introduced this year to address growing safety, environmental and overcrowding problems on the iconic

By TAIWO ADEBAYO, LUCA BRUNO and SARA LEMLEM Associated Press MARINA DI RAVENNA, Italy (AP) — A nonprofit in a northern Italy port city rescues and treats injured turtles that are sometimes hurt by trawlers in the Adriatic Sea. One of the patients at the CESTHA center, named Cenere, arrived four years ago with a

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban leader has warned Afghans against earning money or gaining worldly honor, at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and is isolated on the global stage. Hibatullah Akhundzada gave his warning in an Eid sermon Monday at a mosque in southern Kandahar province. He said

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “People, stop texting me!” pleaded Kecia Lewis, with comic exasperation. The veteran Broadway performer had just won her first Tony award in a 40-year career, for the Alicia Keys musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” and was trying to read her acceptance speech off her phone. But she

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest industrial union says it will seek a 7% pay increase for millions of workers in negotiations starting later this year. It argues that companies including automakers and machinery manufacturers are in a position to afford it. The IG Metall union’s leadership said Monday it was recommending a hefty raise demand

ROME (AP) — U.N. agencies say 64 people are missing after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued by the Italian coast guard. In a separate shipwreck, rescuers found 10 bodies of suspected migrants on a wooden boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island. That’s according to the German aid group Resqship. U.N.

By JOSH BOAK and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service plans to end another major tax loophole that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade. That’s according to the U.S. Treasury. A proposed rule and guidance announced Monday includes plans to stop “partnership basis shifting”

By The Associated Press Associated Press The United States is bracing for chaotic weather this week, with the South set to experience another heat wave following a short respite from searing temperatures earlier this month. The National Weather Service expects some areas to reach temperatures so high they’ll hit new daily records. And it’s not