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Month: November 2023

Fossil fuel interests have large, yet often murky, presence at climate talks, AP analysis finds

By SETH BORENSTEIN and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN Associated Press The badges said they were there to participate in negotiations to curb climate change. They stated affiliations like the government of Brazil, Indigenous organizations of the Amazon, the Climate Registry. But in reality, the livelihoods of these participants were more aligned with what’s keeping the problem

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Fights in bread lines, despair in shelters: War threatens to unravel Gaza’s close-knit society

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats. With the Israel-Hamas war in its second month and more than

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College student hit by stray bullet dies. Suspect was released earlier for intellectual disability

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee college student who was hit by a stray bullet while walking near campus has died. Metro Nashville Police said on social media Thursday morning that 18-year-old Jillian Ludwig died overnight. She was a New Jersey native majoring in music business at Belmont University. Shaquille

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Officials in Russia-annexed Crimea say private clinics have stopped providing abortions

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian-installed health officials in Crimea say private clinics on the Moscow-annexed peninsula have “voluntarily” stopped providing abortions, which means that the procedure is now only available there in state-run medical facilities. The move comes amid a wider effort in Russia to restrict abortion, still legal and

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Wisconsin’s Democratic governor says he would sign current GOP-backed ballot pre-processing bill

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he will sign a bill that would allow elections officials to process absentee ballots the day before an election if the measure passes the Republican-led Legislature in its current form. The Republican-backed bill passed by the state Assembly

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