Month: June 2023

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog will address a joint meeting of Congress on July 19 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Israel’s statehood. Congressional leaders say the address also will reaffirm Israel’s special relationship with the United States. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday “the world is better

NEW YORK (AP) — A fire broke out Thursday in the basement of the flagship Tiffany & Co. store on New York’s Fifth Avenue, officials said. Videos posted on the Citizen app showed smoke billowing out of the basement of the iconic store, which reopened in April after an extensive renovation. They also showed firefighters

PLAINFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Officials say an Indiana state trooper was struck and killed by a stolen vehicle in suburban Indianapolis. Other officers were pursuing the vehicle in Plainfield north of Interstate 70 when Trooper Aaron Smith was hit about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday. State police say Smith was trying to place stop sticks on Ronald

By The Associated Press The president of Turkmenistan inaugurated a vast, multibillion-dollar development hailed as the isolated country’s first “smart city” and named after the president’s father who established a pervasive cult of personality when he was the longtime ruler. The city designed for 70,000 inhabitants is called Arkadag (Protector), a title used by former

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mike Shane’s Illinois farm got a nice soaking on May 8, shortly after he planted his corn crop. Since then, rain has been hard to come by. Plenty of storms have ventured close only to fizzle out before making it to Shane’s 200-acre spread near Peoria.

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech brewer Budvar, which has been embroiled in a long legal dispute with U.S. beer giant Anheuser-Busch over the use of the Budweiser brand, has registered a fall in its 2022 net profit and exports. The company says it’s due to Russia’s war in Ukraine and high inflation driven by soaring

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A team of Italian researchers expects to reach the edge of space Thursday morning, flying aboard Virgin Galactic’s rocket-powered plane as the company prepares for monthly commercial flights. The flight is scheduled to launch from Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert, with two Italian Air Force officers and an engineer

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a package of bills that will create stricter punishments for sexual assault that takes place under the guise of medical treatment. The new laws will also protect students who report it. The bills were first inspired in the wake of

CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) — Two firefighters involved in a rescue effort in a New Jersey river became stranded themselves when their boat went over a waterfall, but a state police helicopter crew was eventually able to bring the pair to safety. Authorities say no injuries were reported in either of Wednesday’s rescues in the Passaic

By ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new Human Rights Watch report is accusing Burkina Faso’s military of killing and torturing civilians in the country’s northeast. The report released on Thursday details violence between February and May in the province of Séno. The report identifies at least 27 people who were either

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer France’s highest administrative jurisdiction says the country’s soccer federation is entitled to ban headscarves in matches. The Council of State issued its ruling after a collective of headscarf-wearing soccer players called “Les Hijabeuses” campaigned against the ban and launched legal action. The French soccer federation bans women from wearing headscarves

MILAN (AP) — Traffickers in a migrant smuggling cell that authorities busted in a cross-national investigation administered sleeping pills to children to prevent them from making noise as they were carried at night across the Croatian-Slovenian border. Police in the northeastern Italian city of Trieste have identified 26 suspects in the cell, all Albanian and

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Showing surprising resilience in the face of higher interest rates, the U.S. economy grew at a 2% annual pace from January through March as consumers spent at the fastest pace in nearly two years. The revised figure from the Commerce Department sharply upgraded its assessment of