MILAN (AP) — A humanitarian rescue group says survivors aboard a deflating rubber dinghy rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 50 people who departed Libya with them a week ago perished during the journey. SOS Mediterranee says its rescue ship Ocean Viking spotted the dinghy Wednesday with 25 people on board.
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX’s mega rocket has blasted off on another test flight from Texas. This time, Elon Musk is aiming to get his Starship spacecraft halfway around the world. Minutes after liftoff Thursday, the booster separated seamlessly from the spaceship and splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico. The spacecraft continued
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO and MICHELLE CHAPMAN Associated Press Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake. Speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Mnuchin
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury in Michigan has resumed deliberations in a trial that will determine whether another parent will be held responsible for a mass school shooting committed by a son. The jury heard closing arguments in a suburban Detroit court Wednesday. James Crumbley is the father of
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Parliament has approved a controversial amnesty bill that is aimed at forgiving crimes — both proven and alleged — committed by Catalan separatists during a chaotic attempt to hold an independence referendum for the region six years ago. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has promoted the
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers picked up their spending a bit in February after a pullback the previous month, reflecting the mixed feelings Americans have in an economy where prices are up, but jobs are plentiful. Retail sales rose 0.6% last month after falling a revised 1.1% in January,
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press The Biden administration will be allocating more than $120 million to tribal governments to fight the impacts of climate change, the Department of the Interior announced Thursday. The funding is designed to help tribal nations adapt to climate threats, including relocating infrastructure. Indigenous peoples in the U.S. are among
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States picked up again in February, the latest sign that inflation pressures remain elevated and might not cool in the coming months as fast as the Federal Reserve or the Biden administration would like. The government’s producer price index — which
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT Associated Press The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits last week inched up but largely stayed at historically low levels as the labor market continues to thrive despite elevated interest rates. The Labor Department reported Thursday that filings for unemployment claims for the week ending March 9 ticked down by 1,000
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers picked up their spending in February after a pullback the previous month, reflecting the mixed feelings Americans have in an economy where prices are up, but jobs are plentiful. Retail sales rose 0.6% last month after falling a revised 1.1%, dragged down in part
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — If Kevin De Bruyne goes back to his old haircut, he will make a perfect Tintin at the soccer European Championship this summer. The Belgium Football Association unveiled the new home and away kits for its male and female internationals on Thursday. The home kit continues
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so, saying in a new memoir he still has “many projects to bring to fruition.” Francis, 87, made the comments in an autobiography, “Life: My Story
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street pointed markedly higher early Thursday ahead of the government’s latest retail sales report and more data on inflation. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 0.4% before the bell, while futures for the S&P 500 added 0.3% Economists are expecting that retail sales
Continue ReadingBy GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and DARREN SANDS Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Neglect, abandonment and destruction have been the fate of thousands of segregated cemeteries across the country where African Americans – from former slaves to prominent politicians and business owners — were buried over many decades. In the past few years, growing awareness and the
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Lauren del Valle, Jean Casarez, Aaron Pellish, Elise Hammond, Sabrina Souza and Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — James Crumbley, the father of the teenager who killed four students at a Michigan high school in 2021, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a trial that comes a month after the shooter’s mother
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — If you participated in Atlanta’s wildest gathering called Freaknik back in the day, then beware: You might be featured in Hulu’s new documentary about the legendary street party that became popular through folklore tales involving gridlock traffic, public nudity and highway debauchery. Many of
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Russians are heading to the polls for a presidential election that is set to hand Vladimir Putin a fifth term in power as he faces opponents carefully curated by the Kremlin and who pose no real threat to his legitimacy. Voting started on Friday and will continue until Sunday across the country’s
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have rejected a new call by the opposition for the government to send Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, a day after Chancellor Olaf Scholz defended his refusal to supply the weapons. The main center-right opposition bloc has sought to keep up pressure on the
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has gone on trial over the killing of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 years ago. The defendant, whose name hasn’t been released in keeping with German privacy rules, is charged with murder before the
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A platoon of about 30 soldiers belonging to Belgium’s armed forces will be dismantled after serious cases of violence and harassment surfaced last year. Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder says she was informed of the violence within the Fourth Engineer Battalion by a relative of a victim. She
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