By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s ruling party has retained leadership of the country’s parliament with the election of its consensus candidates as Senate president and speaker of the House of Representatives. Godswill Akpabio was elected Senate president and Tajudeen Abbas became House speaker on Tuesday before members of parliament who
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After more than 40 years of hosting the show, Sajak said his 41st season, which begins in September, will be his last.
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Dick Clark Productions and asset management company Eldridge are combining to buy the Globes and its assets from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
Continue Reading By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Senior Polish officials say they plan to expand a campaign to seek massive World War II reparations from Germany, turning to Greece and other European countries as potential allies. Warsaw last year formally demanded compensation of $1.3 trillion, while Greece is seeking more than $300 billion
Continue Reading By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants the Biden administration to punish South Africa for its alleged support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They said in a letter published Tuesday in The New York Times that they want to relocate an important trade meeting
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom sparred with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night, insisting President Joe Biden is physically fit for a second term as president while refusing to say whether supporters have urged him to run against Biden on the 2024 ballot.
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Federal authorities are trying to determine why a small plane crashed into a mountain in central Arizona, killing both people aboard.
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Navajo law enforcement teams made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes who are living on the streets in the metro Phoenix area, after the state cracked down on Medicaid fraud and suspended unlicensed sober living homes, Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch said Monday.
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is recalling more than 354,000 Jeeps worldwide because the rear coil springs can fall off while they’re being driven. The recall covers certain 2022 and 2023 Grand Cherokee and 2021 to 2023 Grand Cherokee L SUVs. The company says in documents posted Tuesday by U.S. safety regulators that the springs may
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An independent German commission is recommending the restitution of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank to the heirs of a Jewish family that the artwork originally belonged to. The advisory commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result
Continue Reading By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has criticized new sanctions imposed by the United States on companies believed to be involved in training Chinese military pilots and weapons development. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson urged Washington to stop abusing export control measures to hobble Chinese companies. On Monday, the U.S. government placed
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI and MARIA SHERMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday. McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles’
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A mammoth three-year public inquiry into Britain’s handling of COVID-19 has opened. It is investigating whether suffering and death could have been avoided with better planning. Lawyer Hugo Keith is counsel to the inquiry. He said the coronavirus pandemic had brought “death and illness on an unprecedented
Continue Reading By EDWIN KINDZEKA MOKI Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — The leader of Cameroon’s opposition Social Democratic Front and one of the party’s founders has died after a prolonged illness. John Fru Ndi was 81. The party says he died on Monday in the capital, Yaounde. Fru Ndi had been battling health issues for months.
Continue Reading TOKYO (AP) — The powerful lower house of Japan’s parliament has passed a bill to promote awareness of LGBTQ+ issues amid protests by activists that last-minute revisions by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s conservative party favored opponents of sexual equality instead of guaranteeing equal rights. The passage followed only a few hours of debate in a
Continue Reading By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT offer a novel way to research travel plans. They provide clear, easy-to-read suggestions that can be customized to almost any personal preference, leading to off-the-beaten-path suggestions that no guidebook or web search could provide. The more information you give, the better the recommendations get. And
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declared Tuesday that his country had already received some of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons and warned that he wouldn’t hesitate to order their use if Belarus faced an act of aggression. The brash comments from Lukashenko contradicted earlier statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said Russian nuclear
Continue Reading By JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A shooting in downtown Denver amid fans celebrating the Nuggets’ first NBA championship win was likely sparked by a drug deal gone wrong, police said Tuesday. The violence left 10 people wounded, including one of two people arrested in connection with the shooting. All
Continue Reading By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People are hungry for accurate and reliable information online and may just need help to find it, according to a new media literacy project launched by Microsoft. The tech company worked with the Trust Project, a nonprofit consortium of news organizations, to create advertisements directing internet users
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A leading independent television broadcaster in Poland is expressing concern that the state broadcasting regulator has not yet renewed a license that expires next year for its main channel. TVN, which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, told The Associated Press that it has been six
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