Month: March 2023

By AMANDA SEITZ and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An annual report on Social Security and Medicare says the financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on and millions of young people are counting on will run short on funds to pay full benefits within the next decade. The Social Security and

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday urged Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges — allegations the newspaper denies. “Let him go,” Biden told reporters at the White House when asked about his message to Russia on the arrest

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Shamier Anderson is well aware that his Hollywood profile is rising and says he won’t take the moment for granted. His latest film, the Keanu Reeves-led “John Wick: Chapter 4,” debuted last week at No. 1 with a franchise-best $73.5 million at the box office.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A former high school journalist and the Nebraska High School Press Association filed a lawsuit Friday, claiming that a school district’s shutdown of the school newspaper after it published an LGBTQ-focused edition was unconstitutional. The federal lawsuit names Grand Island Northwest Public Schools and the district’s superintendent. The lawsuit claims the

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Biden administration cleared the way Friday for California’s plan to phase out a wide range of diesel-powered trucks, part of the state’s efforts to drastically cut planet-warming emissions and improve air quality in heavy-traffic areas like ports along the coast. The decision by

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and SALLY HO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from the U.S. government, TikTok is now facing the music with the possibility of a nationwide ban if it defies a government order to sell to an American company — unless the popular social media app can convince a high-powered panel that

By ADIL JAWAD Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say 11 women and children have been killed in a deadly stampede at a Ramadan food distribution center in the southern port city of Karachi. Friday’s stampede happened when hundreds of people panicked and started pushing each other to collect the food outside a

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The federal government filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern over environmental damage caused by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that spilled hazardous chemicals into nearby creeks and rivers. The U.S. Department of Justice said it’s seeking to hold the company accountable for “unlawfully polluting the nation’s waterways

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa police officers were called to a commercial part of town because of a disturbance, but it wasn’t a public brawl or anyone behaving in a disorderly manner. It was a 9-foot alligator Wednesday night ambling down a street not far from Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister has promised to extend a wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkey. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected on Friday to sign his center-right government’s decision to nearly double the length of the existing steel border wall

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians are heading to the polls on Sunday for the country’s fifth general election in two years, amid concern over the war in nearby Ukraine, political instability, and economic woes in the European Union’s poorest member. Pollsters expect that voter fatigue and distrust in the will