Home buildings go up as mortgage rates drop
(CNN/KYMA, KECY) – New home sales rose in February, climbing for the third month in a row as mortgage rates eased off their highs of the past year.…
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Scientists create mice with 2 male parents
(CNN/KYMA, KECY) – Scientists in Japan have created mice with two biologically male parents for the first time. The team, led by a professor of…
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4 hurt in German hospital fire, suspect arrested
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say four people have been seriously hurt in an overnight fire at a hospital in Berlin, including a patient who sustained…
Continue Reading ‘Nobody is above the law:’ Kosovo ex-president’s trial opens
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Kosovo’s former president has pleaded not guilty to charges including murder,…
Continue Reading Lone suspect in 1980 Paris synagogue bombing goes on trial
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Lebanese-Canadian academic is going on trial for a deadly 1980 bombing outside a Paris…
Continue Reading McDonald’s temporarily closes US offices ahead of layoffs
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s has closed its U.S. offices through Wednesday and told its corporate staff to work remotely as it…
Continue Reading Papua New Guinea assesses damage after powerful earthquake
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Disaster relief workers in Papua New Guinea are assessing the extent of damage in a…
Continue Reading Pakistan denies Israel trade after businessman’s export
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says there is no trade with Israel after a Jewish businessman in the southern city of Karachi went viral for tweeting…
Continue Reading Jury selection begins in Idaho trial of slain kids’ mother
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hundreds of people are expected to gather at an Idaho courthouse Monday morning as attorneys…
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Lawyers screen potential jurors in Idaho slain kids’ trial
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As the trial of a woman charged in three killings in what prosecutors say was a…
Continue Reading ‘We’ll kill you’: Troops film boys’ killings in Burkina Faso
By SAM MEDNICK and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A video in Burkina Faso showing men in military fatigues…
Continue Reading ‘We’ll kill you’: Troops film boys’ killings in Burkina Faso
By SAM MEDNICK and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — It was a walk 16-year-old Adama had done countless times,…
Continue Reading Asian shares mixed as surging oil prices fan inflation fears
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday as investors watched for the latest moves by central…
Continue Reading Trump faces setbacks in other probes as NY case proceeds
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faces the most urgent legal challenge of his life this week in New…
Continue Reading Immigration reform stalled decade after Gang of 8’s big push
By WILL WEISSERT and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Ten years ago this month, Sen. Chuck Schumer declared, “We all know that…
Continue Reading Immigration reform stalled decade after Gang of 8’s big push
By WILL WEISSERT and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Ten years ago this month, Sen. Chuck Schumer declared, “We all know that…
Continue Reading Members of Congress on TikTok defend app’s reach to voters
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Jeff Jackson of North Carolina has used it to explain the complex fight over raising the…
Continue Reading Sex abuse case against ex-Alaska attorney general thrown out
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A judge has dismissed a sex abuse case against former acting Alaska Attorney General Clyde “Ed” Sniffen, citing the…
Continue Reading Parisians massively vote to banish for-hire e-scooters
By JOHN LEICESTER and HELENA ALVES Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Parisians have overwhelmingly voted to banish the French capital’s…
Continue Reading Seymour Stein, record exec who signed up Madonna, dead at 80
NEW YORK (AP) — Seymour Stein, the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who helped launched the careers of Madonna,…
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