Month: February 2023

By JILL COLVIN and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has arrived for his stop in East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed earlier this month. There’s growing frustration from residents and local leaders about the federal government’s response to their safety concerns after the

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Federal Reserve policymakers agreed earlier this month to slow the pace of the Fed’s rate increases to a quarter-point, with only “a few” supporting a larger half-point hike. The minutes from the Fed’s Jan. 31-Feb.1 meeting said that most of the officials supported the

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and AREF TUFAHA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Wednesday stormed into a major Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank for a rare daylight arrest raid, triggering a fierce gunbattle that killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded scores of others. It was one of the bloodiest battles in

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Wednesday it has closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary care organization One Medical. The e-commerce giant has said the buyout, which was announced in July, is a key component of its growing health care business, which includes its online drugstore Amazon

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday for a man on Arizona’s death row who wants a new sentencing hearing because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death. The 5-4 decision written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor likely

By IAN PHILLIPS Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The United Nations’ educational, scientific and cultural agency chief is urging a global conversation on the regulation of social media and its role in the spread of misinformation in order to make the internet a safer place. Audrey Azoulay, the director general of UNESCO, addressed a gathering