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By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch effort to revive criminal charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal. The court on Wednesday waved away an appeal by prosecutors who have tried to get around an earlier decision that gutted the cases. The attorney general’s
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says he accepted an invitation from his Chinese counterpart to visit China in October during the Belt and Road Summit. Speaking after a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow on Wednesday, Putin said Russia and China are “integrating our ideas of creating a large Eurasian
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — King Charles III has praised France’s “wonderful welcome” at a grand dinner held in his honor in the sumptuous Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles. The state visit is meant to highlight the renewed friendship between France and the U.K. Charles and Camilla were greeted
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los cruces de migrantes a lo largo de la frontera sur de Estados Unidos van en aumento, al punto que se registraron más de 8.000 aprehensiones este lunes, según un funcionario del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional. Una cifra que pone a prueba los recursos federales y sobrecarga las instalaciones ya abarrotadas.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn is working on a history book he calls a “passion project.” He’s telling the story of the eight Black congressmen who represented South Carolina in the decades immediately following the Civil War. Little, Brown and Company announced Wednesday that it has a deal with Clyburn for
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street ticked higher early Wednesday ahead of a decision on interest rates by the Federal Reserve. Futures for the both the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials were up about 0.2% before the bell. The Fed gathered Tuesday for a two-day meeting on interest rates
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — At age 81, Isabel Allende has decided it’s time to try writing children’s books. Allende has a deal with Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, for three picture books. She will start with “Perla, The Mighty Dog,” to be published next June. Inspired by Allende’s rescue, “Perla” is the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Fake listings have emerged as a major problem for Airbnb, threatening to scare off consumers and prompting the short-term rental service to use AI in an effort to crack down on fraudsters. Airbnb says it has removed 59,000 fake listings and prevented another 157,000 from joining the platform this
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Prosecutors say an officer with London’s Metropolitan Police force who fatally shot an unarmed Black man has been charged with murder. Chris Kaba was killed in south London in September last year after police pursued his car and tried to stop it. Police fired one round at the 24-year-old, who was shot
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program. In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ about 20,000 young adults
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program. In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ about 20,000 young adults
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has advised its citizens to be careful when traveling to Canada as a rift between the two nations widens further in the wake of Ottawa’s allegations that India may have been involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in suburban Vancouver. The foreign
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Sky-high passenger volumes. A shortage of pilots. Weather delays and cancellations. Sounds like a recipe for disgruntled air travelers. But an “amazing thing” happened at North American airports over the last year, according to a news release from consumer insights and analytics firm J.D. Power: passenger satisfaction improved. That’s
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is set to hold a long-anticipated meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday in New York, marking the first time the two leaders will meet one-on-one since the prime minister returned to office last December. The meeting will be their first opportunity
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Relations between Canada and India have sunk to their lowest point in years as the two countries swap accusations and expel each other’s diplomats over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader. Experts said it remains to be seen if it will create
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Kraft Heinz is recalling about 83,000 cases of its individually wrapped Kraft Singles American cheese because they might pose a choking hazard. The company said in a statement that a “temporary issue” with one of its wrapping machines means a “thin strip of the individual film may
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Hanoi, VIETNAM (AP) — Vietnam has detained the director of a think tank that works on energy issues in the country. A human rights group, The 88 Project, said she was the sixth expert working on environmental and climate issues that police have taken into custody in the past two
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden will meet his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in New York. The two leaders of the Western Hemisphere’s largest democracies are seeking areas of common ground despite some recent differences on Russia’s war in Ukraine and other matters.
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A trial is expected to open soon against two police officers charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was forcibly detained while walking down a street near Denver. After jury selection is wrapped up Wednesday, lawyers for the two sides are
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — In an ultra-sterile room at a secure factory in Kansas City, U.S. government technicians refurbish the nation’s nuclear warheads. The job is exacting: Each warhead has thousands of springs, gears and copper contacts that must work in conjunction to set off a
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