Month: February 2023

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed a bill that gives $105 million in state funding for a renewable energy battery plant in a former steel town. Gov. Jim Justice signed the bill Friday at the site of Form Energy’s planned manufacturing facility in the Northern Panhandle community

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Another cold reminder that inflation remains hotter than hoped sent Wall Street sinking Friday, and stocks closed out their worst week since early December. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% to cap its third straight weekly loss. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped as many as

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s southern separatists have slammed statements by their ally, the head of Yemen’s presidential council, in which he said that now is not the right time to discuss southern independence. It comes as Saudi Arabia, which leads a coalition fighting for Yemen’s internationally recognized government that includes the separatists, and their rivals

By JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and ED WHITE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy snow and rain pounded California and other parts of the West on Friday in the nation’s latest winter storm, while tens of thousands of people in Michigan suffered in freezing temperatures days after one of the worst ice storms in

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The governor of Illinois says the state will fight a mental health crisis among children. Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday unveiled a plan that coordinates six separate state agencies in streamlining and easing access to necessary treatment. The report on child behavioral health examines the

By JOHN LEICESTER, HANNA ARHIROVA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leader pledged Friday to push for victory in 2023 as he and other Ukrainians marked the somber anniversary of the Russian invasion that upended their lives and Europe’s security. It was Ukraine’s “longest day,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, but the

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA, Austria (AP) — A contentious Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe parliamentary meeting has ended with a denouncement of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — as Russian delegates accused the West of preventing dialogue by supplying weapons to Ukraine. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Vienna-based OSCE brought together lawmakers

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A chunk of weather-beaten flotsam that washed up on a New York shoreline after Tropical Storm Ian last fall has piqued the interest of experts who say it is likely part of the SS Savannah, which ran aground and broke apart in 1821, two years after