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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Japan says the United States needs Japan’s help to quickly replenish missile inventory as conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine continue and Washington seeks to keep its deterrence credible in the Indo-Pacific. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel says it is clear that the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden likes to take a hard thwack at corporate America. But for the past several months, top Biden administration officials have also stepped up their outreach to CEOs and other corporate leaders to ask about what they need. The effort encroaches
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and BARBARA SURK Associated Press The far right’s surge in France in elections for the European Parliament was widely expected. What came next was not. French President Emmanuel Macron called snap legislative elections, saying he could not ignore the new political reality after his pro-European party was handed a chastening defeat and
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — The U.N. migration agency told The Associated Press Monday that the number of internally displaced people in Sudan has reached more than 10 million.The International Organization for Migration said the tally includes 2.83 million driven from their homes before the current war began by multiple local conflicts that have been happening in
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine generals say that hundreds of American and Filipino troops have concluded a newly introduced war exercise in the northern Philippines. The drills tested their combat endurance in more than a week of brutal heat and volatile weather. The exercise braced them to respond
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Marquette University President Michael Lovell died Sunday in Rome after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 57. University officials officials said in a news release that Lovell had been suffering from sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that develops in the bones and soft tissues. Lovell and his wife, Amy, were
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are holding relatively steady ahead of a week with several top-tier reports on inflation due, as well as the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting on interest rates. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% early Monday, still close to its record set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 78
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged activists on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian debate to “turn the heat down” after the U.S. Consulate in Sydney was vandalized. Surveillance video showed a person wearing a dark hoodie using a sledgehammer to smash nine holes in the reinforced glass windows of the building
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Three Valencia fans have been handed eight-month prison sentences after pleading guilty to racially insulting Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior. It is the first conviction for racism-related cases in professional soccer in Spain. The fans, whose names weren’t released, won’t be allowed to enter soccer stadiums
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni hosts this week’s summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations as the most stable European Union leader. Meloni’s German and French counterparts were shaken by European Parliamentary elections that fortified Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy as the strongest in Italy, setting her
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Jannik Sinner has moved up to No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time. He moves up one spot to replace the injured Novak Djokovic at the top. The 22-year-old Sinner is the first player from Italy to reach No. 1 since the computerized
Continue ReadingBy MOSES SAWASAWA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says militants allied with the Islamic State group have killed at least 41 people in several villages in eastern North Kivu province. But civil society groups in the area say the death toll from Friday’s attack is much higher, with as many as 80
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A liberal judge who previously represented Planned Parenthood in a case related to abortion access has entered the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court. Majority control of the battleground state’s highest court is at stake. Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford launched her campaign Monday to succeed
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine generals say that hundreds of American and Filipino troops have concluded a newly introduced war exercise in the northern Philippines. The drills tested their combat endurance in more than a week of brutal heat and volatile weather. The exercise braced them to respond
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nvidia’s 10-for-1 stock split is in effect, giving investors nine additional shares for every one that they already own. Nvidia’s stock price has more than doubled this year after more than tripling in 2023 and it’s now the third most valuable company in the S&P 500. The meteoric ride allowed Nvidia to briefly
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As a city kid, Amy Attas had big dreams of roaming the countryside, healing animals a la James Herriot’s classic “All Creatures Great and Small.” How did it go? Well, the veterinarian made it from Queens to Manhattan, spending the last 32 years traversing the
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If crafting a meal outdoors is in your plans this summer, check out Lee Kalpakis’ new cookbook. She lived for just under two years in a 22-foot camper in upstate New York, refining the 75 recipes in the book, “Out There.” It offers everything from
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Wall Street ticked lower early Monday ahead of the latest Federal Reserve policy decision and a slew of new inflation data. Futures for the S&P 500 fell less than 0.1%, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged down 0.1% before the bell. The Fed’s latest
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Or at least how it seemed from the outside. “She was very present and accessible as a parent,” he says. “She
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The United States says it is setting up an operation in the Polish capital to help neighboring Ukraine counter Russian disinformation. Poland is a member of NATO along the military alliance’s eastern front. It has been a hub for Western weapons sent to Ukraine as it battles Russia’s full-scale
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