Month: March 2023

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A big day has come for French high school student Elisa Fares. At age 17, she is taking part in her first protest. In a country that taught the world about people power with its revolution of 1789 — and a country again seething with anger against

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo is demanding that China release a Japanese national detained in Beijing earlier this month on suspicion of spying. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Monday that Chinese authorities told Japan that a man in his 50s was taken into custody in Beijing earlier in March. The

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, ROBERT BUMSTED and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — The tornado that collapsed the roof and two walls of Jermaine Wells’ Mississippi home also hurled a massive tractor tire that landed near him in the living room as his wife huddled in the laundry room. The couple survived

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed his contentious judicial overhaul plan on after a wave of mass protests. The Israeli leader said Monday that he wants to give time to seek a compromise with his political opponents. Netanyahu spoke after tens of

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has taken a major step toward implementing a key climate policy that would force chief greenhouse gas polluters to reduce emissions. The center-left Labor Party administration said the so-called Safeguard Mechanism reforms are essential to Australia reaching its target of reducing its emissions

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday as investors got some relief from worries over troubled U.S. banks with a planned takeover of failed Silicon Valley Bank. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.1% to 27,456.98. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1.1% to 7,036.20. South Korea’s Kospi added

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow was sitting in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s conference room at the Pentagon, listening to him make the case that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. At some point in the presentation — one of many lawmaker briefings by President George

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The October 2002 votes in the House and Senate to authorize war with Iraq were grave moment in American history that would have reverberations for decades. Only now, 20 years after the Iraq invasion in March 2003, is Congress seriously considering walking it back, with a

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Reporter TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jim McKee is standing at the end of a line that snakes through five aisles of fiction inside the Books-A-Million store in Florida’s capital city. He is smiling because in a matter of minutes, the book he’s holding will be signed by its author,

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has praised Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo for his “democratic principles.” Monday’s meeting is aimed at showing support for the West African leader, who’s facing discontent over inflation and concerns about regional security. Harris was welcomed into the Ghanaian

By CORA LEWIS and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — A software developer twice invested his savings in cryptocurrencies, only to lose it all. But he still promotes it to the Black community and would like to get back in himself. A recent college graduate and a single mom are dabbling hopefully

LONDON (AP) — Black children in England and Wales were six times more likely to be strip-searched by police, according to a report being released Monday that found children were failed by those sworn to protect them. Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza found nearly 3,000 children were strip-searched between 2018 and mid-2022 and more than

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jordan Miller scored 27 points and made a series of crucial foul shots down the stretch as Miami rallied to an 88-81 victory over Texas for a spot in the Final Four. Miller finished 7 of 7 from the field and 13 of 13

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some parts of Twitter’s source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing on Sunday that was first reported by The New York Times. According to the legal

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier and its battle group have begun exercises with South Korean warships hours after North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles in an apparent protest of the allies’ expanding drills. The seventh missile test this month underscored heightening tensions in the

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — As a deadly tornado tore through the lower Mississippi Delta, the Rev. Mary Stewart clung to a door in the hallway of her Rolling Fork home, shielding herself from the branches and chunks of debris that came flying through her shattered windows. Friday’s storm flattened