By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Production has started at Senegal’s first offshore oil project. The Australian group Woodside Energy on Tuesday announced the start of production at its Sangomar field off the African country. The discovery of gas and oil fields off the coast of Senegal in 2014 raised hopes the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is opening lower ahead of several key inflation reports this week and the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate policy decision. The S&P 500 shed 0.4% early Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 245 points, and the Nasdaq slipped 0.1%. Fifth Third Bancorp fell 1.8% after giving a weaker-than-expected
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows relatively few Americans say they’re fans of President Joe Biden’s work on the issue of student loans. The survey from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds three
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank has upgraded its outlook for the global economy, estimating that it will expand 2.6% this year on the strength of sustained growth in the United States. The bank’s latest outlook marks an increase from the 2.4% growth for 2024 it had predicted in
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors resumed deliberations Tuesday in the criminal case against Hunter Biden over a gun President Joe Biden’s son bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. The jurors had deliberated
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors resumed deliberations Tuesday in the criminal case against Hunter Biden over a gun President Joe Biden’s son bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. The jurors had deliberated
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French opposition parties on the left and the right are scrambling to form alliances for the upcoming snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron after his party suffered a crushing defeat by the far right in the European vote on Sunday. Sharp differences remain in both
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors begin their second day of deliberations in Hunter Biden’s federal firearms trial in Delaware.
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections, boosted by the outcry following mass shootings at schools and other public places, in addition to the nation’s daily gun violence. Now, gun control advocates and many Democrats see additional openings created by hard-line
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The military leader of Hamas has said he believes he has gained the upper hand over Israel and that the spiralling civilian death toll in Gaza would work in the militant group’s favor, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, citing leaked messages the newspaper said
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — In her first television interview since she was assaulted last week, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says “I am not quite myself,” but will continue to work from her office. Frederiksen suffered a minor whiplash but has said she is otherwise fine after a man assaulted her in central Copenhagen Friday.
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Author David Wroblewski has reached special status among contemporary authors: a two-time selection for Oprah Winfrey’s book club. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had chosen “Familiaris,” a prequel to his Oprah-endorsed novel from 2008, “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.” The new novel, published this week,
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday implored British voters, and his own party, to throw him a lifeline in the U.K.’s election, pledging to cut taxes and reduce immigration if his Conservative Party is reelected on July 4. With the Conservatives trailing the left-of-center Labour Party in
Continue ReadingDERA ISLAMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s authorities say security forces have killed 11 militants in an overnight operation in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the restive northwest. In a statement Tuesday, the military said the raid was in retaliation to Sunday’s roadside bombing that killed seven soldiers in the same Lakki
Continue ReadingBy GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — The 2017 Tubbs Fire, which killed 22 people and destroyed 5,600 buildings, was already a stressful time at Alliance Medical Center’s clinic here, as workers who picked grapes in the nearby vineyards streamed into the nonprofit community health center with burns, symptoms of smoke inhalation,
Continue ReadingBy GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — The 2017 Tubbs Fire, which killed 22 people and destroyed 5,600 buildings, was already a stressful time at Alliance Medical Center’s clinic here, as workers who picked grapes in the nearby vineyards streamed into the nonprofit community health center with burns, symptoms of smoke inhalation,
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Wall Street stumbled in premarket trading Tuesday ahead of a busy week of inflation reports and the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate policy decision. Futures for the S&P 500 shed 0.3% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.4%. Eli Lilly shares
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL NEW ORLEANS Scientists using more modern methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher levels of the chemical along a corridor in southeastern Louisiana than expected. The researchers drove two vans using different, but updated measuring equipment multiple times over the course of a month. The two different systems
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — The U.N. International Organization for Migration says a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead and 140 missing. The IOM said the boat was carrying some 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia across the Gulf of Aden when it sank Monday
Continue ReadingBy Kocha Olarn and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of animals are believed to have died after a fire ripped through Bangkok’s popular Chatuchak animal market on Tuesday, according to local authorities. The fire started around 4:10 a.m. local time in Sri Somrat market, in Chatuchak, where live fish and animals were being sold,
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