Month: March 2023

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military governmenttook another major step in its ongoing attempts to cripple its political opponents on Wednesday , dissolving dozens of opposition parties including that of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to meet a registration deadline ahead of elections. Suu Kyi’s National League for

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen affirmed America’s commitment to enhancing corporate transparency along with more than 20 other countries participating in this week’s Summit for Democracy. While the Biden administration is already working to establish a new database on small business ownership, Yellen pledged Tuesday that her department

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in St. Kitts say at least 14 people from the African nation of Cameroon have been rescued from waters in the eastern Caribbean after their boat capsized. Three other people died and 13 are missing. Authorities say the group departed from Antigua early

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will personally open his state’s case against Juul Labs on Tuesday, the first of thousands of cases against the e-cigarette maker to reach trial. Minnesota is seeking more than $100 million in damages, Ellison said, accusing Washington, D.C.-based Juul of unlawfully targeting

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In the 1700s, a boy was born into slavery in Colonial America. He spent his life working in the coastal city of Charleston, South Carolina. And when he died in middle age, he was buried alongside 35 other slaves. That’s the likely history that researchers

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She posted on social media about competing in a bike race, losing her pet hedgehog and visiting a butterfly garden with her grandmother but gave no sign of the anti-abortion views investigators say drove her to set fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic. On Tuesday, a

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Here’s some of what we know and don’t know about the deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. Six people were killed at the small, private Christian school on Monday after a shooter opened fire inside the 200-student school. Police say the shooting took place over about 14 minutes. The

PARIS (AP) — France’s top court has ruled against extraditing 10 former far-left Italian militants who were convicted of attacks carried out in the 1970s and 1980s. The two women and eight men fled Italy after their convictions and before they could be sent to prison. Now ranging in age from 62 to 79, they

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French police forces have clashed with demonstrators in numerous cities as hundred of thousands of marchers protested President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular retirement age increase. Police ramped up security amid government warnings that some demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill.” In Paris,

By MARÍA VERZA and MORGAN LEE Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — After migrants in northern Mexico placed mattresses against the bars of their detention cell and set them on fire, guards quickly walked away and made no apparent attempt to release the men before smoke filled the room and killed 38 men, surveillance