WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister says a Polish doctor kidnapped in Chad has been freed and is unharmed. Private Polish broadcaster Polsat News says the woman was volunteering at Saint-Michel Hospital when attackers pretending to be patients abducted her and a Mexican doctor on Monday. Chadian and French forces launched a search for
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press Workers who help bring Disneyland’s beloved characters to life — including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Cinderella — are looking to unionize. Labor organizers announced the campaign Tuesday, saying performers want better safety conditions and scheduling policies to help them keep the magic alive for visitors. While most of the
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press Workers who help bring Disneyland’s beloved characters to life — including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Cinderella — are looking to unionize. Labor organizers announced the campaign Tuesday, saying performers want better safety conditions and scheduling policies to help them keep the magic alive for visitors. While most of the
Continue ReadingINDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Seven-time major champion Venus Williams and former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki have received wild card entries into the BNP Paribas Open next month. The combined ATP and WTA event is March 6-17 at Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Williams has been dealing with the lingering effects of a knee injury
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new prime minister says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used the powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a “very long” list of hacking victims. Donald Tusk made the announcement during a news briefing alongside President Andrzej Duda, a political
Continue ReadingBy VERDA SUBZWARI Associated Press Looking for a last-minute gift for Valentine’s Day? One that’s sustainable, beautiful and meaningful? Consider a houseplant. They last longer than cut flowers. And there are many with heart-shaped leaves or flowers that have traditionally been associated with love. Consider the hoya heart succulent, which looks like cute, plump, green
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH and JENNIFER KANE Associated Press VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is in the Pacific Northwest visiting a major bridge that’s slated for a multibillion-dollar replacement. The Interstate 5 bridge spans the Columbia River and connects Portland, Oregon, with southwest Washington state. It’s a vital transport and commerce link
Continue ReadingBy RUTH ALONGA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A group of rebels bombed a displacement camp in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province killing three civilians and injuring eight others, a local civil society group says. The announcement comes as violence in the conflict-hit region escalates and a humanitarian group warns that thousands are facing
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Body camera recordings released by a sheriff’s office in South Carolina show deputies fired dozens of shots at an 81-year-old man who they said pointed a gun at them from the backyard of his home. A spokesman for the Greenville County Sheriff’s office says it is
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — For a third straight presidential election campaign, former President Donald Trump is being serially inaccurate about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance. Trump caused a transatlantic uproar this weekend by claiming at a Saturday campaign rally that he had once told the president of a “big”
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea married in Las Vegas just hours after the R&B superstar’s headline appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show, according to officials and documents. The officiant who wed the pair is known to dress as an Elvis Presley impersonator. The couple
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea married in Las Vegas just hours after the R&B superstar’s headline appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show, according to officials and documents. The officiant who wed the pair is known to dress as an Elvis Presley impersonator. The couple
Continue ReadingBy KWIYEON HA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press OLNEY, England (AP) — For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the day before the start of Lent. They sprint through the streets trying not to drop their pancakes as they trace the path taken by a harried housewife in
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Senate plans to vote on legislative maps that were proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, which could prevent the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court from implementing its own maps. Evers said last week he would sign the bill into law should it pass the Republican-controlled
Continue ReadingDOHA, Qatar (AP) — With some of America’s biggest stars deciding to stay home, Claire Curzan and Hunter Armstrong claimed the spotlight at the World Aquatics Championships on Tuesday. Curzan won gold in the women’s 100-meter backstroke at the Aspire Dome, while Armstrong followed just a few minutes later with a victory in the men’s
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Three separate unions representing flight attendants at major U.S. airlines picketed and held rallies at 30 airports Tuesday as they push for new contracts and higher wages. The flight attendants are increasingly frustrated that pilots won huge pay raises last year while they continue to work for wages that,
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his 1882 short story, “The Kiss.” He wasn’t alone in his flowery thoughts about kissing. Romantic kisses
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No, Jon Stewart really wasn’t sitting at his desk at Comedy Central for the last nine years, waiting for someone to turn the lights back on. Yet it almost felt that way during Stewart’s return to “The Daily Show” Monday night. His signature moves —
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of a Palestinian-American woman arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank says they still haven’t had contact with her, more than a week after she was seized from her home in an overnight raid. Relatives of Samaher Esmail say they are getting increasingly
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press An official says a fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020 presidential election. Dan Schwager served in 2020-2021 as general counsel to the secretary of the Senate. He testified Tuesday in Lansing District Court during a preliminary hearing for six people facing forgery and
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