More than half a million left Germany’s Catholic Church last year as abuse scandal swirls
By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — More than half a million people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year,…
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Dozens of Israeli air force vets threaten not to serve after Netanyahu resumes judicial overhaul
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Dozens of Israeli air force say they won’t show up for duty if the right-wing…
Continue Reading Do credit card late fees actually protect consumers?
By JAIME HANSON of NerdWallet The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering a new rule that would slash credit card late fees by 75%, from…
Continue Reading Edmunds: The best three-row SUVs of 2023
By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Three-row SUVs have been a popular choice among car shoppers with large families. They typically seat up to eight passengers…
Continue Reading Just Stop Oil protesters briefly disrupt Ashes cricket test between England and Australia
LONDON (AP) — Two protesters from the Just Stop Oil group have run onto the field at Lords and briefly disrupted play about five minutes after the…
Continue Reading Is it a ‘richcession’? Or a ‘rolling recession’? Or maybe no recession at all?
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The warnings have been sounded for more than a year: A recession is going to hit the…
Continue Reading Iga Swiatek is No. 1 and owns 4 Grand Slam titles at age 22. Can she win Wimbledon, too?
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Iga Swiatek is coming off her third title in the past four years on the French Open’s red clay. She also won a…
Continue Reading National Women’s Soccer League experiencing youth movement as teenagers take the field
By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer When Olivia Moultrie was just 13, her family moved from California to Oregon so she could train with the…
Continue Reading Cyprus battles disease-carrying mosquitoes by breeding them with irradiated, sterilized ones
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is battling an influx of disease-carrying mosquitoes by bringing in hundreds of thousands of the insects after being…
Continue Reading Some Dutch people seeking euthanasia cite autism or intellectual disabilities, researchers say
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the…
Continue Reading Muslims at Hajj brave intense heat to cast stones at pillars representing the devil
By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims on Wednesday braved intense heat to perform the…
Continue Reading Norway approves 19 oil and gas projects, saying the resulting investments are worth over $19 billion
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has approved 19 oil and gas projects on the Norwegian continental shelf, saying the total investments are worth…
Continue Reading France’s Macron calls the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old that led to unrest ‘inexcusable’
By OLEG CETINIC and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press NANTERRE, France (AP) — Police clashed with protesters overnight just hours after French…
Continue Reading New migrant tragedy at sea changes little as EU leaders forge ahead with tougher borders plans
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders will push ahead this week with plans to beef up the bloc’s borders and…
Continue Reading Russian missile kills 11 in a pizza parlor and Ukraine arrests man accused of directing the strike
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they accused of helping Russia direct a…
Continue Reading Recruitment of children by armed groups in Syria is on the rise, even as fighting subsides
By HOGIR ABDO and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — A 13-year-old Kurdish girl went missing on her way home from a school exam…
Continue Reading Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to…
Continue Reading As a lengthy legal battle ends, a Palestinian family braces for eviction from Jerusalem home
By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Few places in Jerusalem speak of the larger conflict being waged over the city more than the…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Wall Street pulls back from its rally a day before
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are pulling back Wednesday from Wall Street’s rally a day before. The S&P 500 was 0.3%…
Continue Reading London jury seated in Kevin Spacey sex assault trial on allegations over a decade old
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Jurors who will decide the fate of actor Kevin Spacey were sworn in Wednesday in a London court as…
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