By CIARÁN GILES and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Farmers in Spain and Poland are demonstrating as part of ongoing protests against European Union farming policies and to demand measures to combat production cost hikes, reduced profits and unfair competition from non-EU countries. The actions follow similar ones in other EU member nations in recent weeks with
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi, Gabrielle Smith, Matt Stiles and Tal Yellin, CNN (CNN) — Roses are red, violets are blue, but Valentine’s Day has many seeing green, too. With cupid’s aim squarely on your wallets, navigating the floral aisle this time of year can be a maze of costs and choices. Flowers prices can double during
Continue ReadingBy Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia’s Penn Museum stands by its decision to entomb the remains of 19 unidentified Black Philadelphians who were held in its collection, despite criticism from some in the community that the museum should have done more to identify the remains. The museum held an interfaith memorial service Saturday to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable “super-Earth” around 137 light-years away. Its estimated size is one and a half times as wide as our planet, and research shows it may be able to hold the right temperature for liquid water to exist on its surface. Here’s what else you
Continue ReadingBy FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom and kept by a United States museum have been returned and presented to the kingdom on Thursday, the latest of a series of stolen treasured items being repatriated to several
Continue ReadingBy FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom and kept by a United States museum have been returned and presented to the kingdom on Thursday, the latest of a series of stolen treasured items being repatriated to several
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives hangs in the balance in a special election in the Philadelphia suburbs. Tuesday’s election there is the fourth time in a year a vacancy has put the majority up for grabs. The candidates are Democrat Jim Prokopiak and Republican Candace
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Thousands of Spanish farmers on tractors are blocking highways and some city streets in a fourth consecutive day of protest against European Union agriculture policies. They are demanding measures to offset production cost increases, reduced profits and competition from non-EU countries. The actions follow similar ones in France, Poland, Greece and other EU
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is announcing an investment of $5 billion in a public-private consortium aimed at supporting research and development in advanced computer chips. The announcement of the chip investment came Friday. The National Semiconductor Technology Center is being funded through the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares inched higher in European trading Friday after a mixed session in Asia, where many regional markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday. Tokyo ended Friday up less than 0.1% after touching a 34-year high earlier in the day. It closed at 36,897.42, helped
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Calls for Hungary’s conservative president to resign grew on Friday amid outrage over her pardoning of a person convicted of covering up a child sexual abuse case. The decision has unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the country’s long-serving nationalist government. Katalin Novák, the first female
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Varlin Higbee traveled more than two hours from his Lincoln County, Nevada, home to see Donald Trump in person last month, but when he arrived at the former president’s Las Vegas rally, he was stopped at the door. Despite carrying a VIP invite from the Trump campaign, Higbee, the
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Big name advertisers will be pulling out all the stops on Super Bowl Sunday — enlisting high-profile actors, investing in dazzling special effects and, they hope, going for laughs as they seek to win over viewers during game breaks. In an increasingly
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Maybe it will be a long touchdown pass by Patrick Mahomes, or a sack by Nick Bosa. Perhaps there will be a last-second field goal. The key play of this year’s Super Bowl between Kansas City and San Francisco could be obvious when it happens.
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Seiji Ozawa, the Japanese conductor who amazed audiences with the lithe physicality of his performances during three decades at the helm of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died, his management office said Friday. He was 88. The internationally acclaimed maestro, with his trademark mop of salt-and-pepper hair,
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government has adopted plans to scrap its current foreign trainee program, which has been criticized as a cover for importing cheap labor, and replace it with a system it says will actually teach skills and safeguard trainees’ rights as Japan desperately seeks more foreign workers
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and Adi Koplewitz CNN Tel Aviv (CNN) — The deadly Hamas attacks of October 7 united a shocked, grieving Israel behind its leaders, burying at a stroke the divisions that had riven the country for years. Four months into the war and with hopes for a new deal to return Israeli hostages from
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Soon after John Roberts took his seat at the center of the Supreme Court bench on Thursday, the cadence of the justices’ questioning suggested the chief justice would have an easy majority, if not unanimity, to reverse a Colorado ruling that blocked Donald Trump from the
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — Thrust into an election year that had already been defined in part by voters’ concerns over the president’s age and fitness for office, special counsel Robert Hur’s report amounted to a legal victory but a political landmine for President Joe Biden. The president’s outrage on Thursday night made
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — The phone call struck Maddie Musselman at her very center, confirming the worst fear for the U.S. water polo star and her soon-to-be husband, Pat Woepse. Pat’s nagging cough, the one that chased him around for weeks, including on a swim across the English
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