Month: June 2024

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The decision by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to leave D-Day commemorations in northern France early has caused a political storm that threatens to derail his Conservative Party’s general election campaign. Though Sunak apologized for not attending Thursday’s final commemoration on Omaha Beach in Normandy, his critics

By GIADA ZAMPANO, KAREL JANICEK and RAF CASERT Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni joined voters in Italy and a half dozen European Union nations in casting a ballot during the penultimate day of European Union parliamentary elections on Saturday. The bloc’s premier hard-right politician threw down the gauntlet to the traditional

By GENE JOHNSON and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — By the time Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi boarded his window seat on a helicopter ferrying him, the foreign minister and six others, thick clouds already had begun forming around the mountaintops along the Azerbaijan-Iran border. Despite the worsening weather, the helicopter lifted off for

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers — and increasing alarm — in big cities where scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto pedestrian-filled sidewalks as their drivers race to drop off salads and sandwiches.

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says he’ll vote in November against a ballot amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in his state. He says this is a deeply personal decision based on his brother’s long history of addiction. Roger Scott died in April at the

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This year, the “calamari comeback” chef might not be coming back. John Bordieri became known as the “calamari ninja” for standing wordlessly, clad head-to-toe in black, and holding a platter of sautéed squid during a video roll call of states that nominated Joe Biden during the 2020

By ALBERT STUMM Associated Press Do you tend to see things as glass half full or glass half empty? Numerous studies over the years have demonstrated a link between a positive outlook and good health outcomes. But what if you’re just too negative? Sue Varma is an NYU clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and author

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press HARMONY, Wis. (AP) — Looking to go where supporters of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump live in harmony? Live in Harmony. Residents here, spread out on rich farmland and residential subdivisions, seemingly embody the name of the 24-square-mile town and the political leanings of the volatile swing state of

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press The judge presiding over Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial in Delaware is a former corporate civil lawyer with a background in biology who was nominated to the bench by the Biden family’s chief political antagonist: former President Donald Trump. But even while that might raise partisan eyebrows and questions of

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ZEKE MILLER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — President Joe Biden said France was America’s “first friend” at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off