AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in a year last week, even as the labor market remains broadly healthy. Jobless claims for the week ending July 27 climbed by 14,000 to249,000 from 235,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. It’s the most since
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Ferdinand Omanyala’s status as Africa’s fastest man has many people believing Kenya’s push for Olympic gold medals isn’t entirely a long-distance objective. But the Commonwealth Games 100-meter champion doesn’t want to get ahead of himself despite posting the second-fastest time this season of 9.79 seconds to qualify for the Olympics. The African record
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By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — The United States and Russia carried out a historic prisoner exchange Thursday when two dozen detainees, including former US Marine Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, were released as part of a sweeping deal that involved at least seven countries. Thursday’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrie Underwood will be the next singer to sit behind the judges’ table on “American Idol,” filling Katy Perry’s spot after her departure from the show in May. Underwood, who rose to fame after she won the singing competition show in 2005, will return 20 years later as a
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer The U.S. Department of Transportation is proposing a new rule that would ban airlines from charging parents to sit with their young children. Under the proposal, released Thursday, U.S. and foreign carriers would be required to seat children 13 or younger next to their parent or accompanying adult for free. Four airlines
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — More than 100 conflicts fester around the world. The Middle East teeters on the brink of a regional war. In Ukraine, Russia advances slowly but steadily in the east, reducing towns to rubble. The “Olympic Truce,” clearly, is not being heeded. In the run-up to every Olympics over the past
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MORGAN, Vt. (AP) — Vermonters started removing debris and silt from their houses and yards and pulled damaged goods from homes as crews began the process of repairing roads from the latest bout of violent flooding. This week’s storm came just weeks after widespread flooding in the state. In Morgan, near the Canadian
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” mode is facing renewed scrutiny after police announced the technology was recently involved in another fatal accident. Still, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is betting that he will soon develop a vehicle that resembles a “tiny mobile lounge” where drivers will be able to watch movies, play video
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Family doctors in England have voted to limit the number of patients they see and refuse extra work to protest a “broken” funding model. Doctors’ union the British Medical Association said 98.3% of the 8,500 general practitioners who voted backed the work-to-rule action, which falls just short of a strike. The open-ended
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw has come to a standstill on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising. Sirens wailed, church bells rang and people stopped in their tracks, some stepping out of their cars to pay tribute to the fallen heroes. News broke earlier Thursday that the oldest surviving
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security forces have fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria as thousands, mostly young people, poured onto the streets to rally against the country’s spiraling economy. At least two people were reported killed in northern Niger state where protesters clashed with security forces after blocking
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A central Dutch province is urgently warning parents not to take young children to a popular forest area near the city of Utrecht following two recent close encounters with a wolf displaying “atypical and worrying” behavior. Utrecht Province on Thursday was preparing to seek a permit to kill the wolf,
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The French association of women sports journalists and the union of sports journalists in France have condemned sexist comments made on national radio during a women’s tennis match at the Paris Olympics, where a commentator used stereotypical cliches about housewives to describe a player. The comments were made Tuesday
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is set to discuss adding two hybrid buses to their public transportation system, JEFFTRAN. The addition of these busses is apart of the Transportation Improvement Program. The group is set to meet at 10 a.m. at City Hall. In total, purchasing and operating
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Mohammed Deif, Hamas’ shadowy longtime military leader and one of the alleged masterminds of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza, is said to be dead following an Israeli airstrike last month. The Israeli military said it killed Deif in a huge airstrike
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has introduced legislation reaffirming presidents don’t have immunity for criminal actions, an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last month. Schumer’s No Kings Act would attempt to invalidate the decision by declaring presidents are not immune from criminal law. The New York senator
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has banned the Jamaat-e-Islami party, its student wing and other associate bodies, terming the party as a “militant and terrorist” organization as part of a nationwide crackdown following weeks of violence that left more than 200 people dead and thousands injured. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — African health officials say mpox cases have surged by 160% so far this year, warning the risk of further spread is high given the lack of treatments or vaccines on the continent. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Tuesday that mpox,
Continue ReadingCHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s foreign ministry says it has expelled a Russian diplomat after two Moldovan officials were detained on suspicion of treason and conspiracy against the European Union candidate country. Authorities said one of the Moldovan officials is suspected of treason for allegedly collecting and providing information to an embassy employee that could
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has offered Vietnam a $300 million loan to build up the Southeast Asian country’s maritime security, as the two sides say they want to double their trade and investment within five years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told visiting Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh that India
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