AP National News

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin  says the deadly missile explosion in Poland this week is a consequence of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “war of choice” against Ukraine. And he says international stability and prosperity are at stake in the conflict. Austin made the remarks Saturday

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi Biden and her fiance, Peter Neal, got married on the White House lawn on Saturday. They are now members of the small club of people who have tied the knot at one of America’s most famous addresses. It was the 19th wedding

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Qatar’s news agency reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Doha to attend the World Cup opening ceremony. The official Palestinian news agency, which covers the daily activities of Abbas, did not report his trip to Qatar on Saturday. This apparently followed an outcry over leaked documents purportedly

BOSTON (AP) — A collection of touching and sometimes prescient personal letters written by a young Bob Dylan to a high school girlfriend has been sold at auction to a renowned Portuguese bookshop for nearly $670,000. The Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, which bills itself as “the World’s Most Beautiful Bookshop,” plans to keep the

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PITTSBURGH, Pa (AP) — Filmmaker Trish Adlesic was in Pittsburgh celebrating her father’s 91st birthday on October 25, 2018. Two days later, a gunman walked into the nearby Tree of Life synagogue and killed 11 people in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. “It shook me to my

By JOHN LEICESTER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defense technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine’s snow-blanketed war-time capital for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The air-defense package, which Britain valued at

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A hand count of random batches of votes in Georgia’s election for secretary of state has confirmed Republican Brad Raffensperger’s victory. The Secretary of State’s office announced Friday that the required audit turned up only a small difference in votes from the machine count, well within the

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Residents of northern New York state were digging out Saturday morning from a dangerous lake-effect snowstorm that had dropped more than 6 feet of snow in some areas and caused several deaths. The Buffalo metro area was hit particularly hard, with some areas south of the

By STEPHEN GROVES As Twitter became knotted with parody accounts and turmoil, Rachel Terlep, who runs an account for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources that intersperses cheeky banter with wildfire and weather warnings, watched with equal parts trepidation and fascination. “It kind of feels like a supernova moment right now — a big,

By COLLEEN BARRY and GIANFRANCO STARA PORTACOMARO, Itatly (AP) — Pope Francis returned to his father’s birthplace in northern Italy on Saturday for the first time since ascending the papacy to celebrate the 90th birthday of a second cousin who long knew him as simply “Giorgio.” The two-day visit to Francis’ ancestral homeland to renew

By SETH BORENSTEIN, SAMY MAGDY and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks in Egypt: the creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Gianni Infantino said he feels gay. That he feels like a woman. That he feels like a migrant worker. He lectured Europeans for criticizing Qatar’s human rights record and defended the host country’s last-minute decision to ban beer from World Cup stadiums. The FIFA president

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Intel’s announcement earlier this year of a $20 billion manufacturing operation bringing thousands of jobs to rural Ohio was greeted as an economic boon. But behind that enthusiasm lurked a pressing question. “Where are we putting everybody?” asked Melissa Humbert-Washington, vice president of programs and services

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defense technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine’s snow-blanketed war-time capital for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The air-defense package, which Britain valued at 50 million pounds

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A funeral has been held for one of two Polish men who died in a missile explosion near the border with Ukraine. Boguslaw Wos and another man died Tuesday in Przewodow, a small Polish farming community, as Ukraine was defending itself against a barrage of Russian

By COLLEEN BARRY and GIANFRANCO STARA PORTACOMARO, Itatly (AP) — Pope Francis returns to his father’s birthplace in northern Italy on Saturday for the first time since ascending the papacy to celebrate the 90th birthday of a second cousin who long knew him as simply “Giorgio.” The visit to Francis’ ancestral homeland to renew ties

By JENNA FRYER AP National Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — FIFA president Gianni Infantino downplayed Qatar’s last minute ban on the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums as nothing more than a brief inconvenience to spectators. “If this is the biggest problem we have, I’ll sign that (agreement),” Infantino said Saturday, a day after

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s wedding day at the White House. President Joe Biden ‘s granddaughter Naomi Biden and her fiance, Peter Neal, were set to be married Saturday in what will become the 19th wedding in the history of the White House. Naomi Biden and Neal were exchanging “I do’s”

SETH BORENSTEIN, SAMY MAGDY and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks, creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich nations’ carbon pollution. “There is an