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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska state health officials say an elderly man has died from Alaskapox. It’s the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus. A bulletin issued last week says the man died in late January. He lived in the forest in the remote Kenai Peninsula. Alaskapox, also known as AKPV, is related

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson late Monday sharply criticized a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other countries, casting serious doubts about the future of the package just as Senate leaders were slowly muscling it toward a final vote. Senate leaders, trying

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, as investors watched for the latest indicators on U.S. inflation. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added 2.2% in morning trading to 37,723.62. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up nearly 0.1% to 7,619.20. South Korea’s Kospi jumped 1.2% to 2,651.33. Trading was closed in

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s parliamentary elections left no clear winner. Allies of imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan won the most seats in the lower house of parliament in the elections last Thursday. It was a shock outcome given the obstacles: His Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party could hold no campaign rallies, had

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists — including his daughter-in-law — at the top of the GOP’s political machine even before he formally secures the party’s

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, will open its polls on Wednesday to nearly 205 million eligible voters in presidential and legislative elections, the fifth since Southeast Asia’s largest economy began democratic reforms in 1998. The sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands and more than 270 million people

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is accusing the West of sabotaging agreements that would have prevented the war in Ukraine – but the U.S. and its allies put the blame squarely on Moscow, saying there is no escaping that President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion. Russia called Monday’s U.N.

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists — including his daughter-in-law — at the top of the GOP’s political machine even before he formally secures the party’s next

ATLANTA (AP) — A  federal appeals court has upheld the multiple life sentences given to a man for fatal bombings at an Alabama abortion clinic and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Eric Robert Rudolph’s bid for a new sentence in a ruling Monday. The three-judge panel ruled that

BEND, Oregon (AP) — Public health officials in Oregon have reported a case of bubonic plague in a local resident who they said likely contracted it from a pet cat. All close contacts of the person and the cat have been contacted and provided medication, Dr. Richard Fawcett, the health officer for Deschutes County, said

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say one person was killed and five others wounded following a dispute between two groups of teenagers at a New York City subway station Monday at the start of the evening rush hour. The gunfire broke out on an elevated train platform in the Bronx