Month: May 2024

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age. The legislation calls for the federal government to spend more on clinical trials

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers say an orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant. It’s the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild. In 2022, scientists in Indonesia observed an adult male orangutan pluck

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyer Keith Davidson has returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money trial following a contempt hearing over whether Trump has again violated his gag order. The judge did not immediately rule Thursday on four more alleged violations of the mandate barring Trump from speaking publicly about witnesses and

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, PHILIP MARCELO, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer who negotiated a pair of hush money deals at the center of Donald Trump’s criminal trial recalled Thursday his “gallows humor” reaction to Trump’s 2016 election victory and the realization that his hidden-hand efforts might have

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian lawmakers have voted into office a new government that reinstated two pro-Russia officials who are sanctioned by the United States. The move on Thursday reflected persistent close ties with Moscow despite the Balkan nation’s proclaimed bid to join the European Union. Prime Minister Miloš Vučević’s

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A soccer politics dispute between Algeria and Morocco over a map of disputed Western Sahara territory on a team jersey will go to a full appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The court set no timetable for appointing a panel of judges and

By The Associated Press President Joe Biden said Thursday that “dissent is essential for democracy,” but “chaos” has no part in a peaceful protest. He spoke as arrests continue on campuses around the U.S. as police dismantle camps of students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza. At UCLA, officers arrested at least 132 people in sometimes

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Russia is shipping refined petroleum to North Korea at levels that exceed U.N. Security Council limits. And the Biden administration is signaling it’ll impose new sanctions against those involved in facilitating the transfers. The United Nations had set an annual 500,000 barrel cap