Month: May 2023

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday even though the latest data showed China’s economy is weaker than expected, with domestic demand failing to bounce back as much as hoped for after the pandemic. Benchmarks advanced in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul but fell in Shanghai and Sydney. China’s

BEIJING (AP) — An official says China’s economic recovery faces pressure from sluggish consumer and export demand. That is after retail sales and other activity in April were weaker than expected. Chinese activity accelerated while U.S. and European economic growth is cooling following interest rate hikes to extinguish inflation. But consumer spending, an important economic

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican candidate who lost last year’s election for Arizona attorney general returns to court Tuesday to request a new trial in his efforts to overturn the results of the November contest. Attorneys for candidate Abraham Hamadeh were set to appear at an afternoon Superior Court hearing

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican-controlled South Carolina House is expected to debate a bill that would ban abortion as soon as cardiac activity is detected. The debate on Tuesday comes after the state Senate rejected a proposal to nearly outlaw the procedure as soon as conception. The

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Anti-nuclear activists are protesting to demand Japan scrap its plan to release treated but still radioactive water from a damaged power plant into the sea. Dozens of the activists protested Tuesday at the Tokyo headquarters of the utility that operates the plant in Fukushima wrecked by the

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are set to take up debate on a plan that would tack on a proposed 12-week abortion ban to a bill that would ban gender-affirming care in transgender minors. The combination of the two highly contentious measures sets up what could be the

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A showdown between Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso and the opposition-led National Assembly could result in either side being booted from office this week as lawmakers seek to try him for embezzlement and he mulls exercising his constitutional power to dissolve the legislature.

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats’ narrow majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is on the line Tuesday with two special elections that will determine which party controls the chamber. One of those special elections is expected to swing Republicans’ way, but the other in Delaware County, in the Philadelphia

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Closing arguments are expected to begin Tuesday at the second trial of “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson, who is charged with raping three women at his Los Angeles home between 2001 and 2003. Attorneys for both sides rested their cases Friday, three weeks into

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say at least 15 people have been killed in a bloody clash between two tribes over the ownership rights of a coal mine in northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. The fight broke out Monday in Dara Adam Khel, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, over the mine’s boundary fixing. Armed