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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s trade deficit in April grew nearly 8% from a year earlier as the weak yen boosted the cost of imports, offsetting a jump in exports. Ministry of Finance data show Japan’s exports rose 8% in April to nearly 9 trillion yen, or $57 billion, while
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnam’s National Assembly has confirmed the country’s top security official, To Lam, as its new president. Lam was confirmed Wednesday to the job after his predecessor resigned amid an ongoing anti-corruption campaign that has shaken the country’s political establishment and business elites. Vietnam’s presidency is largely ceremonial,
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Incumbent Georgia Supreme Court Justice Andrew Pinson has defeated former U.S. Rep. John Barrow in a nonpartisan race where Barrow sought to make abortion rights the central issue. Also in Tuesday’s elections, five Republicans were vying for the GOP nomination an open seat in the strongly Republican
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT, SCOTT McFETRIDGE and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Multiple people died Tuesday and at least a dozen were injured when a powerful tornado tore through a small Iowa town, carving a bleak landscape of destroyed homes and businesses, shredded trees, smashed cars, and widely strewn debris. The tornado
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. David Scott has beaten six Democratic primary opponents as he seeks a 12th congressional term. Scott is running in a 13th District that was significantly reconfigured in a new map. Challengers attacked the 78-year-old Scott as too old and out of touch. Scott says he’s
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A former model accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her at his New York City recording studio in 2003 in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the latest in a series of allegations against the embattled hip-hop mogul. The woman said she was a successful 22-year-old model when she met Combs at
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT, SCOTT McFETRIDGE and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State Patrol has confirmed multiple deaths from a tornado and at least a dozen injuries in storms Tuesday, but it has not released specific numbers. “We do have confirmed fatalities,” Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Alex Dinkla said at
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A prosecutor says a man accused of assisting Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the United Kingdom who was found dead in a park had previously attempted suicide. British police say the death of Matthew Trickett was unexplained and they are investigating. Trickett was one of three men charged with agreeing to
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Sorry, the screen is now up — no more snapping cute photos of Mount Fuji from a popular sidewalk spot in the Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko. Known as a place that offers some of the best views of the iconic Japanese mountain, the town last month started
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate advanced a set of ambitious reparations proposals Tuesday, including legislation that would create an agency to help Black families research their family lineage and confirm their eligibility for any future restitution passed by the state. Lawmakers also passed bills to create
Continue ReadingBy MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press Sen. Cory Booker says prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for their release instead of being forced to work. Booker is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on criminal justice and counterterrorism. He was speaking during a hearing Tuesday aimed at looking
Continue ReadingBy ANUPAM NATH Associated Press MORIGAON, India (AP) — Yaad Ali is dreading the rainy season’s arrival this year. The 56-year-old farmer from northeastern India’s Assam state lives with his wife and son on Sandahkhaiti island on India’s Brahmaputra River. The island, like two thousand others on the river, floods with increasing ferocity and unpredictability
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would reclassify two abortion-inducing drugs, making it a crime to possess without a prescription. Mifepristone and misoprostol have other critical uses, including to induce labor, stop obstetric hemorrhaging and treat miscarriages. Doctors say they are “greatly concerned” about
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Rangers have recovered the body of a Japanese man who died after an apparent fall while climbing North America’s tallest peak. Denali National Park and Preserve identified the climber as T. Hagiwara, from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. His body was recovered Monday evening from Denali. Rangers had found the body Monday, a
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a committed same-sex relationship. On Tuesday night, less than three weeks after the UMC repealed its anti-LGBTQ bans, she was reinstated. In a closed meeting of clergy
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the movie “Finding Neverland,” has died at age 71. Kaczmarek’s death was announced by Poland’s Music Foundation. Kaczmarek had suffered from MSA, a rare degenerative neurological disorder. He authored music for movies made in Europe and Hollywood, like the 1995
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — U.S. House candidate Adam Hollier will be left off Michigan’s August primary ballot after a county clerk ruled that he had not submitted enough valid signatures. Hollier was considered the biggest threat to incumbent U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar’s bid for reelection in Detroit’s 13th Congressional District.
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — José Rubén Zamora has spent nearly two years locked in a dark 16- by 13-foot cell in Guatemala, allowed only one hour a day in the sunlight. The journalist’s money laundering conviction was tossed out, and last week a judge finally ordered his conditional release
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s National Police appear to confirm that retired Gen. Humberto Ortega, brother of President Daniel Ortega, has been under guard since local media reports emerged two days earlier that police had surrounded his home. The police said in a statement that the Health Ministry had visited 77-year-old Humberto Ortega, who suffers
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Two key players in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump have successfully defeated challengers. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee both won in Tuesday’s election. Willis is the prosecutor who last year obtained a sprawling racketeering indictment
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