Boston University and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland They are the U.S. House’s frequent fliers — representatives who have traveled the country and the world on official business paid for by private interest groups. Over the past decade, they have accepted nearly $4.3 million for airfare, lodging, meals and
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Working five days a week has long been the corporate cultural norm. But some companies are exploring the option of letting employees work four days a week. The chief executive of an organization that promotes the idea says they’re hoping to reduce workplace burnout and retain talent seeking a better work-life balance.
Continue ReadingROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit library has reopened after someone returned more than a movie over the weekend. The library in Royal Oak says it was closed Sunday after staff members encountered creepy crawlies when a DVD case in the drop box was opened. A pest control company investigated Monday and found
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian Grammy award winner says he has been pardoned from serving a three-year sentence over his song that became an anthem to the 2022 protests that rocked the country following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Shervin Hajipour uploaded a video story on Instagram Monday, looking
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s top court and governor have each rejected requests to cancel a Missouri man’s scheduled lethal injection. Marcellus Williams is set to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle. Gayle was a social worker and former newspaper reporter who was repeatedly stabbed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The man accused in the assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left behind a note detailing his plans to kill the former president and kept in his car a handwritten list of dates and venues where Trump was to appear, the Justice
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station has landed in Kazakhstan, ending a record-breaking stay for the Russian pair. The capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe about 3 1/2 hours after undocking from the ISS in an apparently trouble-free descent. In the last stage of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — Officials from nine southern European Union member countries are focused on harnessing offshore wind and solar energy. They renewed a pledge to turn the Mediterranean region into a renewable energy hub and stave off the risks of climate change. The energy ministers of Cyprus, Slovenia and Malta, Croatia’s economy
Continue ReadingSALINA, Kansas (AP) — Authorities say a JetBlue flight from New York to San Diego landed safely in Kansas after the crew received an alert about smoke in the cargo area. The airline said it turned out to be a false alarm. Flight 1189 with about 130 people on board departed from Kennedy International Airport
Continue ReadingAssociated Press For decades, some political analysts have sought to depict Hispanic Americans as “socially conservative” — and indeed many of them are. But a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that a solid majority of this diverse population — whether they’re Catholic, Protestant or religiously unaffiliated — believe
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police say they have rescued 187 more children and raided locations nationwide linked to an Islamic business group that is being investigated for alleged sexual assault of children. National police chief Razarudin Husain said Monday the children, including 59 under age 5, were rescued from welfare homes linked to
Continue ReadingCNN By Ben Kirby and Claire Calzonetti, CNN (CNN) — Siamak Namazi, an American who spent eight years wrongfully imprisoned in Iran, has told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour of the “unutterable indignities” he suffered in captivity, in an exclusive television interview, the first since his release. Namazi previously spoke with Amanpour by phone in March 2023 from inside
Continue ReadingBy Ben Kirby and Claire Calzonetti, CNN (CNN) — Siamak Namazi, an American who spent eight years wrongfully imprisoned in Iran, has told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour of the “unutterable indignities” he suffered in captivity, in an exclusive television interview, the first since his release. Namazi previously spoke with Amanpour by phone in March 2023 from inside Iran’s
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The leadership of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party has sought to squash questions about his candidacy in next year’s national election after narrowly beating the far right in a regional vote. Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats beat the far-right Alternative for Germany in the eastern state of Brandenburg Sunday. The party’s co-leader, Lars Klingbeil,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political old guard that has been widely blamed for the unprecedented economic crisis that hit the South Asian island nation two years ago. Dissanayake, whose pro-working class populist campaign won him
Continue ReadingVILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania has signed a deal with U.S. ammunition producer Northrop Grumman as it seeks to increase defense capabilities in the shadow of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte and Steve O’Bryan, the company’s vice president, met in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Monday to formalize the agreement on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The Massachusetts State Police have suspended full-contact boxing training activities among recruits until further notice after a trainee died. Twenty-five-year-old Enrique Delgado-Garcia died at a hospital on Sept. 13, a day after the exercise in the boxing ring at the Massachusetts State Police Academy in New Braintree, in Worcester County. Delgado-Garcia was wearing
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The cost of a popular ticket that allows people to use all local and regional trains, buses and subway systems across Germany is set to increase by about 18% next year. Transport ministers from Germany’s 16 states agreed Monday that the price of the Germany Ticket, which has cost 49 euros per
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s new government dominated by conservatives and centrists has gathered for the first time as Prime Minister Michel Barnier set budget and migrant issues as top priorities. The long-awaited list of government members was unveiled Saturday, more than two months after elections that produced a hung parliament and deepened political divisions. Macron
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — The family of a doctor accused of blasphemy says he was killed by police while in custody in southern Pakistan after he voluntarily surrendered following assurances that he would be given a chance to prove his innocence, denying a police account that he was accidentally killed in a shootout.
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