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Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has received its highest grade since 2002 in an annual report released by scientists: a C-plus. The health of the nation’s largest estuary is a reflection of what’s happening across its six-state watershed, which includes Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A great-grandmother from Pennsylvania who recently completed radiation treatments for breast cancer won $5 million on a scratch-off state lottery ticket that she only bought because a scheduled family trip didn’t go as planned. Donna Osborne, 75, scored the big prize last month when she bought a $50 “Monopoly Own It All” ticket
Continue ReadingAP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve faces a cooling job market as well as persistently high prices, Chair Jerome Powell said in testimony to Congress, a shift in emphasis away from the Fed’s single-minded fight against inflation that suggests it’s moving closer to cutting interest rates. The Fed has made “considerable progress”
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writers LONDON (AP) — Novak Djokovic is just one example of a superstar athlete who manages to find motivation wherever possible. Serena Williams, Michael Jordan and Tom Brady are others who come to mind. With Djokovic, it often derives from — or at least his perception that there are — crowds who are
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek officials say a French crew member on a boat participating in yacht race on the Aegean Sea has died after falling overboard in strong winds. A coast guard statement says the accident occurred late Monday off the eastern island of Kassos. It says the crew member was a 40-year-old woman.
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say a life raft carrying migrants has crashed into rocks off Turkey’s Aegean coastal town of Cesme, killing seven people on board. Nineteen people were rescued and one person is reported missing. The coast guard says the survivors told them they were put in a life raft and left
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An official with the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group says an Israeli strike in Syria killed a former bodyguard of the group’s leader. Hezbollah later identified the militant as Yasser Nemr Qranbish, though it did not disclose the circumstances of his death. An Israeli man and woman were killed in a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — A fraught and violent history for centuries disrupted Indigenous people’s lives in the Upper Midwest, barring them from traditional food gathering practices like spearfishing, hunting and harvesting wild rice. Maintaining their treaty rights to hunt and fish on ancestral lands, and teaching Ojibwe language and activities like spearfishing to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Members of the Ojibwe and other tribes in the northern Great Lakes region have spearfished walleye for centuries, where the practice is a right enshrined in 19th century treaties, a historic part of their culture and an important part of food sovereignty. But historically the government and local opposition
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rent inflation remains a pressure point for small businesses. The Bank of America Institute found that average monthly rent payment growth for the bank’s small business clients rose 12% year-over-year in May. The rent payments per client closely track the nonresidential real estate rents component of the Producer
Continue ReadingAssociated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Tuesday that its doctrine office will prepare a document on women in leadership roles in the Catholic Church, a new initiative to respond to longstanding demands by women to have a greater say in the church’s life. The document will be written by the Dicastery of
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have evacuated a children’s hospital and a retirement home on the outskirts of the southern city of Patras after a summer wildfire flared in the area amid hot, windy weather. A fire service spokesman says the evacuations were carried out as a precaution and a large firefighting effort was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza killed at least 25 Palestinians on Tuesday, as heavy bombardment in the north forced the closure of medical facilities in Gaza City and sent thousands fleeing in search of increasingly elusive refuge. Israel’s new ground assault in Gaza’s
Continue ReadingCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Medical advocacy groups have welcomed Johnson & Johnson’s decision not to enforce its patent on a critical tuberculosis medication, allowing its production at much lower prices. That’s after South African authorities opened an investigation into the conglomerate. The South African Competition Commission last week said it decided not to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The EU ambassador in Georgia says its accession to the bloc has been halted some financial support frozen over a new law that critics feared would curb democratic freedoms. According to Pawel Herczynski, EU leaders made the decision to halt the process during the last summit of the European
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Blackpink rapper Lisa will join the Global Citizen Festival lineup in New York’s Central Park for her first solo performance at a festival, the anti-poverty nonprofit announced Tuesday. She joins headliners Post Malone, Doja Cat, Jelly Roll and Raouw Alejandro for the Sept. 28 event, adding to organizers’
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office says it opened a preliminary investigation last week into suspicions of illicit financing of far-right French leader Marine Le Pen’s campaign during the 2022 presidential election. The office told The Associated Press that the judicial probe opened July 2 into allegations of accepting a financial loan, misappropriation of
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming thriller about a female judge in the contemporary, rural South will have two very famous, and very different, authors, Oscar winner Viola Davis and mega-selling novelist James Patterson. Little, Brown and Company announced Tuesday that Davis and Patterson are collaborating on a novel, currently untitled and
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer The Grammy Museum will soon launch its first full-floor K-pop exhibit as part of its ongoing initiative to explore the music, culture, technology, fandom and business behind Korean pop music. The museum partnered with Hybe, the South Korean entertainment company behind K-pop sensation BTS and countless other international acts, and its archivists,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of newly elected lawmakers are gathering in Britain’s Parliament after the election that brought a Labour government to power. Among the 650 members of the House of Commons, 335 are arriving for the first time. The new House of Commons includes the largest number of women ever elected —
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