Tribeca sets lineup with docs on Stan Lee, Dan Rather
NEW YORK (AP) — Films directed by Chelsea Peretti, David Duchovny and Michael Shannon will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, as will…
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Southwest grounds flights nationwide due to technical issues
DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials halted Southwest Airlines flights from taking off on Tuesday. By late morning on the East Coast, more than 1,500…
Continue Reading Sweden public radio exits Twitter, says audience already has
HELSINKI (AP) — Sweden’s public radio says it would stop being active on Twitter, but it didn’t blame new labels that Elon Musk’s social…
Continue Reading Teen pleads guilty in Iowa teacher’s beating death
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press One of two Iowa teenagers charged in the beating death of an Iowa high school teacher has pleaded guilty to…
Continue Reading China reveals new details of Raytheon, Lockheed sanctions
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has revealed new details of sanctions it previously announced against two U.S. weapons…
Continue Reading Biden pans McCarthy’s debt plan as ‘huge cuts’ to Americans
By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked furiously Tuesday to build…
Continue Reading Ari Aster doesn’t want to talk about his new movie right now
By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ari Aster really doesn’t want to talk about “Beau Is Afraid.” “This is so not the…
Continue Reading Biden signs executive order to improve access to child care
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order containing more than 50 directives to increase…
Continue Reading 21 die in Beijing hospital fire, others escape from windows
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media says a fire killed at least 21 people at a hospital in Beijing and forced dozens of people to evacuate. The…
Continue Reading Your tax refund could be smaller than last year. Here’s why
By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Expecting a tax refund? It could be smaller than last year. And with inflation still high, that…
Continue Reading Saudi foreign minister visits Syria as relations thaw
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government says Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat has arrived in the Syrian capital. It’s the first official visit by an…
Continue Reading T. rex skeleton expected to fetch millions at Zurich auction
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Interested investors may have to dig deep into their pockets to claim a giant…
Continue Reading Auschwitz march held ahead of 80th Warsaw ghetto anniversary
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people have gathered at the former site of Auschwitz for the March of the…
Continue Reading EU lawmakers green-light visa free travel for Kosovo
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have given the green light for citizens from Kosovo to travel freely in Europe without visas from next…
Continue Reading Peacemaker George Mitchell makes poignant Belfast return
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The first time George Mitchell came to Belfast, it was a war-scarred city of bomb…
Continue Reading Irish climber dies, Indian missing on Nepal’s Annapurna
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Irish climber has died and an Indian is missing after falling into a crevasse in two separate incidents on Mount…
Continue Reading China calls US accusations of police stations ‘groundless’
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China denied all accusations of an overseas police presence, saying Tuesday that the United…
Continue Reading What are China’s alleged ‘secret overseas police stations’?
BEIJING (AP) — Police in New York have arrested two men for allegedly setting up a secret police station for a Chinese provincial police agency to…
Continue Reading UN says leaving Afghanistan would be ‘heartbreaking’
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says it’s ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to…
Continue Reading Indonesia dismisses rebel claim of army deaths in Papua
By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s military chief has dismissed a separatist group claim that they had…
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