MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian branch of the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday says it is closing after authorities declared Greenpeace International to be an undesirable organization. A statement from the national prosecutor-general’s office said it had determined that Greenpeace posed “a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the Russian
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER, FOSTER KLUG, JOSH BOAK, and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden told allies Friday he was approving plans to train Ukrainian pilots on U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, according to two people familiar with the matter, as leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies worked to toughen punishments
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds that most U.S. adults say they are highly concerned about how the nation’s economy would be affected if the debt limit isn’t increased and the government can’t pay its debts. That’s according to a survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center
Continue Reading By KEVIN FREKING, LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Debt ceiling talks came to an abrupt standstill Friday after a top ally to Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said it’s time to “press pause” on negotiations, and a White House official acknowledged there are “real differences” that are making talks difficult.
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Sean Penn has strongly backed the current Hollywood screenwriters strike while speaking at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, saying the dispute over artificial intelligence is “a human obscenity.” Penn addressed the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike in a press conference for his new
Continue Reading By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: He’s running for president. Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission declaring his intention to seek his party’s nomination in 2024. His candidacy will test whether a more optimistic vision
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The Honduran Foreign Ministry has identified the 8-year-old girl who died in US Customs and Border Protection custody in Harlingen, Texas, as Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez. Reyes died Wednesday at a Harlingen hospital and her family is receiving consular services from the Honduran consulate in McAllen,
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A fire destroyed an attached garage and damaged a home in west Columbia late Thursday.
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — As the Cannes Film Festival crowd stood in rapturous applause, a visibly moved Harrison Ford stood on the stage, trying to keep his emotions in check. The warmth of the audience and a clip reel that had just played had left Ford shaken. “They say
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Kansas City police shot and killed a man after he reportedly fired shots at officers during a standoff at a home. The man was identified Friday as a 40-year-old local man named Tyrone Payne. Officers responded to a report late Thursday of a man
Continue ReadingBy Sabrina Souza and Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — A Michigan teen who used a slingshot to ward off a kidnapper from his sister told CNN he “grabbed anything I could get” to save her. “It just felt like I was scared, and I had like something to do, cause if I didn’t (grab) it,
Continue Reading By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A court in Slovakia has acquitted for a second time a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slaying of an investigative journalist and his fiancée. The Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok, near the capital, Bratislava, which handles Slovakia’s most serious cases, ruled on Friday that Marian Kocner
Continue Reading By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press MONTREAL (AP) — In the agonies of the virus that upended most of the world, millions of people from Bogota to Berlin saw what life could be like on two wheels instead of four. Even as commuting to the office and going to school plunged at the height of COVID
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — A magnitude 2.2 earthquake was felt in parts of New York and New Jersey early Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey told CNN. The earthquake occurred at 2 a.m. around northwest Yonkers and along the Hudson River in New York, and was felt in New Jersey, according to Randy
Continue Reading By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Some 700 people have been evacuated from four small towns in western Spain owing to a wildfire fanned by strong winds. More than 400 firefighters, including 50 from the army’s Military Emergency Unit, are battling to bring the fire under control in Las Hurdes, a hilly area
Continue Reading By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer DUBLIN (AP) — Katie Taylor’s success has been paving the way for young Irish fighters as women’s boxing gains popularity around the world. Taylor now sells out stadiums as the main attraction. Kaci Rock remembers being an elementary school student when she slipped on the gloves at Bray Boxing
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is ticking higher Friday as it heads toward its best week since March, despite a long list of worries hanging over it. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher in midday trading and on pace for a 2% gain for the week. That would
Continue Reading By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham’s recent switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP opened the door for Republicans to enact new abortion restrictions over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s opposition. A veto override had seemed just out of reach for Republicans just six
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A California man accused of purposefully driving himself, his wife and two children off a cliff on a coastal highway told police he pulled off to the side of the road to check on the car’s tire pressure, according to court documents exclusively obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday will announce his pick to serve out the remainder of Kim Gardner’s term as the chief prosecutor in St. Louis, following her sudden departure earlier this week. Gardner had been the subject of an ouster effort by Republican Missouri
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