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By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The fate of a devastated salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine is hanging in the balance. Ukraine says its forces are holding out against a furious Russian onslaught in one of the fiercest and costliest recent ground battles of the nearly 11-month war. Soledar is under heavy
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Wednesday, boosted by a rally on Wall Street ahead of some potentially market-moving reports due later in the week. France’s CAC 40 rose nearly 0.2% in early trading to 6,879.36, while German’s DAX added 0.3% to 14,813.45. Britain’s FTSE 100 gained
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Wednesday, boosted by a rally on Wall Street ahead of some potentially market-moving reports due later in the week. France’s CAC 40 rose nearly 0.2% in early trading to 6,879.36, while German’s DAX added 0.3% to 14,813.45. Britain’s FTSE 100 gained
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism police are investigating after border officers seized cargo contaminated with uranium at London’s Heathrow Airport. The Metropolitan Police force said Wednesday that “a very small amount of contaminated material was identified after routine screening within a package incoming to the U.K.” on Dec. 29. It said the force’s Counterterrorism Command
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Classes resume Wednesday at the University of Idaho, just weeks after many students abandoned the campus amid anxiety over the lack of an arrest in the gruesome stabbing deaths of four students in November. The arrest of a suspect over winter break, however, has alleviated many students’ fears, allowing them to
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Saifi and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Two teenage girls reported missing in Pakistan last week have been found more than 750 miles from home after attempting to travel to South Korea to meet K-pop super band BTS, police in the South Asian country said. The two girls, aged 13 and 14, went missing on
Continue ReadingBy Junko Ogura and Michelle Toh, CNN Japan has culled just under 10 million birds as it confronts a massive outbreak of avian flu, which is threatening to put further strain on poultry supply and increase the price of eggs. In a statement Tuesday, the agriculture ministry said 9.98 million animals had been killed this
Continue Reading By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a huge societal problem — in their case, the mental health crisis among youth. But
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For the last 12 months, Adams Publishing Group’s journalists from across the country collected local grocery price data, spoke with American consumers about how they’re navigating the high tide of inflation, and heard from economists on when the price pressures might subside. Here are some of their stories.
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Lazzoni Modern Furniture compiled a list of iconic 20th-century designs still used in modern furniture today.
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TravelPerk used Bureau of Labor Statistics data to analyze the decline in U.S. employment of travel agents over time.
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Stacker examined the Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey to compile a list of the 50 counties with the worst commutes in the U.S.
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The General curated a list of why car insurance rates are inevitably rising in 2023.
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Stacker consulted data from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to examine which states have seen the most significant increase in firearm-related background checks between 2011 and 2021.
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — More than four years after gunmen killed emerging rap star XXXTentacion during a robbery outside a South Florida motorcycle shop, three suspects are now scheduled to go on trial. Shooting suspect Michael Boatwright, 28, and his accused accomplices, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24,
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By BRIAN MELLEY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Storm-ravaged California scrambled to clean up and repair widespread damage on Wednesday as the lashing rain eased in many areas, although the north could see thundershowers Wednesday and another powerful weather front was expected to hit the state Friday. At least 17 people
Continue ReadingBy Saskya Vandoorne, Alex Stambaugh and Joseph Ataman and Dalal Mawad, CNN At least six people were injured in an attack at Paris’ Gare Du Nord train station early Wednesday, restricting access to one of the French capital’s major rail hubs. An individual began attacking people at 6:42 a.m. local time and was neutralized a
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Police have moved into a condemned village in western Germany, launching an effort to evict activists holed up at the site in an effort to prevent its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. Officers in riot gear moved into the tiny
Continue Reading LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Police have entered a condemned village in western Germany, launching an effort to evict activists holed up at the site in an effort to prevent its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. Officers in riot gear moved into the tiny hamlet of Luetzerath, which has become
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The Mega Millions jackpot has reached an estimated $1.35 billion — the second-largest in the lottery’s history — after no winner snagged the big prize in Tuesday night’s drawing, officials said. That’s a boost from Tuesday’s jackpot of $1.1 billion, which saw no tickets match all six winning numbers of 7,
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