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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control. The resolution was adopted Thursday by a vote of 14-0 with Russia abstaining. It
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges are deciding whether a redistricting lawsuit claiming a state constitutional right to “fair” elections can go to trial. On Thursday, the three trial judges questioned lawyers for voters who sued over some congressional and legislative district boundaries and for Republican legislative leaders
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — It’s a popular notion that men eat more meat than women. Now, new research says it’s true around the world. A study published this week in Nature Scientific Reports surveyed more than 28,000 people across four continents. The researchers say it’s true across cultures, and the gap
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press Dozens of hikers say they fell ill during trips to a popular Arizona tourist destination that features towering blue-green waterfalls deep in a gorge neighboring Grand Canyon National Park. Madelyn Melchiors, a 32-year-old veterinarian from Kingman, Arizona, said she was vomiting severely Monday evening and had a
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Fani Willis called out her critics in a defiant speech Thursday at a Black church outside Atlanta, not naming names but appearing to refer to Donald Trump and others. The Fulton County District Attorney has been under constant attack from the former president and his conservative
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump reportedly called Milwaukee a “horrible city” during a meeting with Republican lawmakers. The comment on Thursday drew disagreements from those who were there about what Trump meant when referring to the heavily Democratic city that will host the Republican National Convention next
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well as questions: How does that happen? A park visitor said she took the photos earlier this month, showing a fuzzy white youngster being nuzzled by its dark brown mother. Park officials
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s monthly inflation rate has halved in May for the first time since January 2022, boosting President Javier Milei’s severe austerity program aimed at resolving the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. Data released Thursday showed Argentina’s monthly inflation rate in May plunged to 4.2%
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999 and sets the stage for renewed clashes with animal rights activists. The Makah, a tribe of 1,500 people on
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature on Thursday rejected many of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most difficult budget cuts, choosing instead to speed-up a temporary tax increase on some businesses to help address an estimated $45 billion deficit while preserving spending on many social safety net programs. The budget lawmakers
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has made a triumphant return to Capitol Hill to meet with House and Senate Republicans for the first time since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. GOP lawmakers find themselves newly energized and reinvigorated by Trump’s bid to retake the White House. This is despite
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most U.S. stocks are slipping Thursday, but hopes for coming cuts to interest rates and Wall Street’s continued frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology are keeping indexes near their records. The S&P 500 was adding 0.1% in afternoon trading to its all-time high set the day before,
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer forced a vote on the matter Thursday in an effort to drive an election-year contrast on reproductive care. But
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD, PAOLO SANTALUCIA and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (AP) — A summit of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations has opened in Italy. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni welcomed the G7 leaders and formally presided over closed-door talks on Thursday. Meloni in her opening remarks compared the bloc to the
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.” The book is a personal account of her plunge into the world of online misinformation. Its sister award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, went to U.S. writer V. V. Ganeshananthan for her novel
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A top official with South Africa’s African National Congress party says it has a broad agreement with the main opposition and other parties to form a coalition government. The announcement Thursday comes on the eve of the first sitting of South
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Wall Street has rallied as Argentina’s president traveled to Italy for the Group of Seven summit buoyed by his first legislative victory. The Senate passed sweeping proposals to slash state spending and boost his powers. The legislation aimed at overhauling Argentina’s long-troubled economy during its
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero to replace Martin Greunberg as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The announcement from the White House Thursday came after Gruenberg’s tenure became marred by allegations of workplace abuse that led to him to resign. Goldsmith
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting Thursday following mixed data on the economy, including the latest encouraging update on inflation, but hopes for coming cuts to interest rates and Wall Street’s continued frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology are keeping indexes near their records. The S&P 500 was up
Continue ReadingLIMESTONE, Tenn. (AP) — A zoo in Tennessee says an antelope choked on a squeezable food pouch and died over the weekend. Brights Zoo is a family-owned attraction in rural Limestone. It said in a social media post that the 7-year-old male sitatunga they named Lief died on Saturday. It said the cause was choking
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