Month: July 2022

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a toddler has been found dead in a canal near a Florida apartment complex. Bradenton police say someone called 911 Friday morning to report what appeared to be a child in a canal near the Carlton Arms Apartments. The person pulled the child from the water and waited for

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of people in several Spanish cities are protesting the deaths of at least 23 migrants last week at the frontier between the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Africa and Morocco. There are growing calls for an independent, cross-border investigation. Friday’s demonstrations are being held under

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks on Wall Street shook off a downbeat start and ended broadly higher Friday, though the rebound was not enough to erase their losses for the week. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% after having been down 0.9% in the early going. The gain snapped a

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers want to require people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials can verify their “character and conduct.” That’s under a bill headed toward passage Friday in the state Legislature. The provision was part

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Friday that setbacks for President Joe Biden’s climate efforts at home have “slowed the pace” of some of the commitments from other countries to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuels, but he insisted the U.S. would still achieve its own ambitious climate goals