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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The governor of Poland’s central bank says its large interest rate cut is justified despite high inflation because prices are stabilizing and the era of high inflation is ending. Adam Glapinski spoke a day after the bank announced that it was cutting interest rates by 75
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Four of the women who inspired the term “supermodel” are getting some majorly overdue recognition in a new docuseries set to premiere on Apple TV+ later this month. The first trailer for “The Super Models” premiered on Wednesday, featuring a mix of old and new footage of models Naomi
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It’s a day Coachella Valley Firebirds fans have been waiting months for. Tickets are now on sale for individual games for their upcoming 2023-24 season. The Firebirds are also announcing two preseason home games that will kick off their season. The first preseason game will be against the Ontario Reign on October 6. The second
Continue ReadingWBBM By CHARLIE DE MAR Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Frustrated family and friends searched along Lake Michigan on Wednesday for a boater who disappeared early Tuesday morning, asking authorities to do more to help find him. The recovery effort will continue Thursday morning. Bryan Jackson has not been seen
Continue ReadingBy CHARLIE DE MAR Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Frustrated family and friends searched along Lake Michigan on Wednesday for a boater who disappeared early Tuesday morning, asking authorities to do more to help find him. The recovery effort will continue Thursday morning. Bryan Jackson has not been seen since
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — Richie Olsten has been in Maui’s helicopter tour business for a half century, so long he’s developed a barometer for the tourism-dependent economy: rental cars parked at the island’s airport. There are so many since wildfires killed at least 115 people in
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story RIDGECREST, California (KCAL) — Without food or water and with several broken bones, a Ridgecrest man survived for five days in the Tehachapi Mountains after crashing off the side of an isolated canyon road. Calvin Smith, 68, said he was driving on Comanche Road after
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BADENDIECK Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — In his first emotional video deep down a Turkish cave, a trapped U.S. explorer has thanked authorities for saving his life. “I was very close to the edge,” said Mark Dickey in the video dated Sept. 6 that was made available to The Associated Press by Turkish
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Workers are setting the stage for the World Trade Center’s newest component. It isn’t another office tower. Nor is it another monument, at least explicitly, to the memory of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It’s a theater complex. The Perelman Performing Arts Center was envisioned two
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million stock market cheating scheme that relied on secret earnings information stolen through the hacking of U.S. computer networks. Vladislav Klyushin, who
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A police officer has died and another has been injured in a crash where their cruiser was struck by a car speeding through a red light in Connecticut’s capital city. Authorities say 34-year-old Hartford Officer Robert “Bobby” Garten was killed and Officer Brian Kearney was injured
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By CHRIS TANAKA Click here for updates on this story PLYMOUTH, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Police say an aggressive group of panhandlers targeted a man with autism outside a Walmart store in Plymouth, eventually convincing him to completely empty his wallet. When members of the community heard about this, they wanted to right the wrong. Steven
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press One of three men accused of assisting a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is testifying in his own defense. Eric Molitor told jurors that government-imposed restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic were excessive. Molitor and two other men are charged with providing material support for terrorist acts and gun
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By Krupskaia Alís and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Mexico seems set to elect its first female president in next year’s election after the country’s leading parties both unveiled women candidates. Ruling party Morena said Wednesday that Claudia Sheinbaum will be its nominee for the 2024 general election. She is set to take on Senator
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dealt another serious setback to the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. The judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the company that sought to regain mineral rights leases that the
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Ta’Kiya Young treated her two little boys like kings, dressing them sharply, letting them have too many sweets, cooking them big gourmet meals of T-bone steak with broccoli, cheese and rice. The royal life also awaited her unborn daughter. When Young found out she was pregnant with her third child
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Widespread flooding in central Greece left at least six people dead, six missing and dozens trapped, with severe rainstorms turning streams into raging torrents, bursting dams, washing away roads and bridges, and hurling cars into the sea. Flooding triggered by severe rainstorms also hit neighboring Bulgaria
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — The right-wing government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has approved a decree to crack down on juvenile delinquency, allowing children as young as six to be arrested. The decree follows a spate of high-profile “baby gang” crimes that have dominated headlines this summer. The decree was adopted by the Cabinet a week after
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Google will soon require that political ads using artificial intelligence be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered. AI-generated election ads on YouTube and other Google platforms that alter people or events must include a clear disclaimer located somewhere that users are likely
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For countless fans, giving the heir to the British throne a kiss on the cheek is not usually the done thing. But Paul Gascoigne, one of England’s all-time soccer greats, was never one for protocol — even during the heyday of his playing career three decades ago.
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