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Rebuilding Paradise: Nonprofit’s $500 ‘defensible space’ grants help cut residents’ insurance costs

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Five years after the 2018 Camp Fire killed 85 people and destroyed 90% of the homes here, residents of Paradise, California, face a new struggle: Finding homeowner’s insurance. Companies are raising premiums and canceling policies, but they’re also offering discounts for households that create defensible

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Russia summons the American ambassador over a deadly attack that Moscow says used US-made missiles

The Associated Press The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned the American ambassador to protest what it says was the use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-annexed Crimea that reportedly killed four people and wounded more than 150. A ministry statement said Washington “has effectively become a party” to the war on

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Yellen announces efforts to boost the housing supply as high prices create a crunch

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced new steps to increase access to affordable housing. The Democratic administration announced new federal initiatives as still-high prices on groceries and other necessities and high interest rates have dramatically pushed up the cost of living in the post-coronavirus pandemic years. Treasury Secretary Janet

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Planned Parenthood says it will spend $40 million on abortion rights ahead of November’s election

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Planned Parenthood’s political and advocacy arms will spend $40 million ahead of November’s elections to bolster the campaigns of President Joe Biden and leading congressional Democrats. The organization is betting that voters angry at Republican-led efforts to further restrict access to abortion can be the difference in

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Russian region of Dagestan holds a day of mourning after attacks kill 20 people, officials say

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s southern region of Dagestan held the first of three days of mourning Monday following an attack by Islamic militants who authorities say killed 20 people, mostly police, and attacked Christian and Jewish houses of worship in assaults in two cities. Sunday’s violence in Dagestan’s regional capital of Makhachkala and nearby Derbent

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Railroads must provide details of hazardous cargo immediately after a derailment under new rule

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new federal rule aims to ensure first responders can find out what hazardous chemicals are on a train after a derailment, so they can respond appropriately. The rule was finalized Monday. Firefighters responding to last year’s fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, risked

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Young gay Latinos see a rising share of new HIV cases, leading to a call for targeted funding

By VANESSA G. SANCHEZ and PHILLIP REESE/KFF Health News and DEVNA BOSE/Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is years into an initiative to end the nation’s HIV epidemic by pumping hundreds of millions of dollars annually into certain states, counties and U.S. territories with the highest infection

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Young gay Latinos see a rising share of new HIV cases, leading to a call for targeted funding

By VANESSA G. SANCHEZ and PHILLIP REESE/KFF Health News and DEVNA BOSE/Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is years into an initiative to end the nation’s HIV epidemic by pumping hundreds of millions of dollars annually into certain states, counties and U.S. territories with the highest infection

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Apple becomes first target of EU’s new digital competition rules aimed at big tech

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Monday leveled their first charges under the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook, accusing Apple of preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The European Commission said that according to the preliminary findings of its investigation, the

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Iran and Bahrain agree to talk about how they might resume diplomatic relations severed since 2016

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran and Bahrain have agreed to talk about how they might resume bilateral relations after more than eight years. The report Monday from Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said Iran’s acting foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani and Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani met in Tehran during the Asian Cooperation

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