By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America The federal government will fund 17 projects across the U.S. to expand access to renewable energy on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, the Biden administration announced Tuesday. The $366 million plan will pay for solar, battery storage and hydropower projects in sparsely populated regions where
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America The federal government will fund 17 projects across the U.S. to expand access to renewable energy on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, the Biden administration announced Tuesday. The $366 million plan will pay for solar, battery storage and hydropower projects in sparsely populated regions where
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Experts from the U.N. Human Rights Commission have appealed to Belarusian authorities Monday to pardon an opposition politician diagnosed with a severe form of cancer while in prison. The 66-year-old Ryhor Kastusiou is the leader of the Belarusian Popular Front party. He is serving a 10-year
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An author and ghost writer’s life story, from prison and drug addiction to collaborating with the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu among others, is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club selection. Lara Love Hardin’s “The Many Lives of Mama Love” was published last summer.
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Four crew members of an unflagged vessel that U.S. officials say was carrying Iranian-made missile components are scheduled to appear in federal court in Virginia. Prosecutors are expected to argue Tuesday that they should be held without bond while they await trial. U.S. Central Command Navy forces, including Navy SEALs, boarded
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street was little changed early Tuesday as more corporate earnings trickle in ahead of new data on inflation arriving this week. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.2% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 0.1%. Gains were moderate
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have arrested three people in the killing of a man on a subway car last week. The department says Tuesday they were apprehended in the Bronx on Monday in connection with the killing of William Alvarez. The 45-year-old Bronx resident was fatally shot after getting into an
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The European Union legislature has approved a watered-down plan to better protect nature and fight climate change in the 27-nation bloc. It comes despite opposition from the biggest party in parliament and fierce protests from the farming community. The plan is a key part of the
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European military heavyweights Germany and Poland affirmed Tuesday that they would not be sending troops to Ukraine, after reports that some Western countries may be considering doing so as the war with Russia enters its third year. The head of NATO also said the
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden signaled that a cease-fire in Gaza could be at hand, saying that Israel has agreed to pause its offensive during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan if a deal is reached to release some hostages held by
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — While Joe Biden and Donald Trump are marching steadily toward their respective presidential nominations, Michigan’s primary on Tuesday could reveal significant political perils for both of them. Trump, despite his undoubted dominance of the Republican contests this year, is facing a bloc
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he has to hand over his driver’s license, which still identifies him as female. They’ve come from a police officer responding to a car
Continue ReadingHARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A man who had been scheduled for trial in the shooting deaths of two popular police officers at a Virginia college in 2022 has instead pleaded guilty and been sentenced to life in prison. News outlets report that Alexander Campbell pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder in the deaths of Bridgewater
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case have asked a judge to impose a gag order on the former president. They are citing what they call Trump’s “long history of making public and inflammatory remarks” about people involved in his legal cases. The
Continue ReadingBy ELISE MORTON Associated Press A veteran human rights campaigner who criticized the war in Ukraine was convicted Tuesday by a Moscow court of discrediting the Russian military and sentenced to 2½ years in prison. Oleg Orlov, the 70-year-old co-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, said the case against him was
Continue ReadingBy Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard seized nearly 11,000 pounds of cocaine, worth over $143 million, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, according to a statement from the Coast Guard on Monday. The seizure, performed by the crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Alert, was a part of a 59-day counter-narcotics
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of farmers are marching in Poland’s capital to protest European Union agricultural policies and imports of cheap food from neighboring Ukraine, part of weeks of similar protests across Europe. The protesting farmers want Poland’s border with Ukraine sealed to the imports of grain and other food products that they say
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Macy’s is getting a new, smaller, but more luxurious look designed to turn around the troubled retailer and keep the century-and-a-half old brand relevant to rapidly changing demands from shoppers. First, Macy’s will have to downsize. The company is closing 150 underperforming stores — 50 by the
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is offering her strongest public support yet for the idea of liquidating roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets and using them for Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction. The U.S. and its allies froze Russian foreign holdings in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Taxi drivers in the Greek capital have begun a 48-hour strike, with the second day timed to coincide with a nationwide strike by public and some private sector workers that is expected to disrupt public transport, flights and ferries. More than 200 taxis drove through the center of Athens on Tuesday
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