By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Telemedicine’s early days of handling mostly mild illnesses like sinus infections or cases of pink eye are fading fast. Dr. Roy Schoenberg says the next frontier involves connecting patients more routinely with regular doctors and using artificial intelligence to keep tabs on their health. He’s seeing this develop as
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The French foreign ministry says it has summoned Russia’s ambassador over the deaths of two French nationals working for nongovernmental organizations in Ukraine. The two humanitarian workers were killed in Russian strikes on Thursday near a front line of fighting north of the Dnipro River. Three other French nationals were wounded. Separately,
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — While the U.S. economy is broadly healthy, pockets of Americans have run through their savings and run up their credit card balances after battling inflation for more than two years. Experts worry that members of these groups — mostly lower- and middle-income Americans, who tend
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury received instructions from a judge and began deliberations Monday in a novel trial against a school shooter’s mother who could go to prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of four students in 2021. “You must not let sympathy, bias or
Continue ReadingPRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius says the country will double its contribution of about 100 troops to the NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo in a demonstration of its commitment to regional security. Pistorius is on a regional tour to both Kosovo and neighboring Serbia. He says Germany will add another company of
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Jurors in the manslaughter trial of Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the teenager who killed four people at a Michigan high school in 2021, concluded their first day of deliberations Monday. The novel legal case stands as a test of the limits of who’s
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Each time Donald Trump refers to a Georgia prosecutor ‘s colleague as her “lover,” he’s invoking a strikingly familiar turn of phrase. After all, Trump as president repeatedly used the same word to mock two FBI officials, including an agent who helped lead the Russia election interference
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are slipping Monday as Wall Street pushes out forecasts for when interest rates will start easing from the strictest levels in two decades. The S&P 500 was 0.2% lower in early trading, coming off another all-time high and another winning week. The Dow
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY and MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Voters in El Salvador appeared to give Nayib Bukele a second term as president by a wide margin, but problems with the vote count delayed results Monday in an election that for many represented a trade-off of curtailed civil liberties for
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A crowded primary contest to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing again that money matters in notoriously expensive California while testing whether the state’s long-squabbling Republicans can unite behind a single candidate for an
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A crowded primary contest to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing again that money matters in notoriously expensive California while testing whether the state’s long-squabbling Republicans can unite behind a single candidate for an
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has seen its fifth central bank leader depart in as many years as Hafize Gaye Erkan, the first woman in the top role, stepped down after just eight months in the job. She resigned Friday after recent claims of nepotism emerged in local media, allegations that
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Actor Ian Lavender, who played a hapless Home Guard soldier in the classic British sitcom “Dad’s Army,” has died, his agent said Monday. He was 77. Agent Hilary Gagan said Lavender had been ill for some time and died with his wife and sons at his side. Lavender was the last surviving
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers, oil company Lukoil and other investors. It’s one of the biggest deals for Western-held companies
Continue ReadingTOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo area has been hit by heavy snow, disrupting trains and grounding flights. Transport officials are cautioning drivers to avoid nonessential travel. The Japan Meteorological Agency says the snowfall is expected to peak Monday night, with up to 55 centimeters (21 inches) predicted in mountainous areas north of Tokyo. The snowfall
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves went on trial Monday a year after he was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulted a young woman at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. The 40-year-old Alves denies any wrongdoing. The trial is scheduled to run through Wednesday at a Barcelona
Continue ReadingBy KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press President Joe Biden recently traveled to North Carolina to promote his goal of affordable internet access for all Americans, but the promise for 23 million families across the U.S. is on shaky ground. That’s because a subsidy that helps people with limited resources afford internet access is set to expire
Continue ReadingBy KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Getting married when you’re an older adult comes with complications: You and your spouse may have assets from years of working, and you may have children from previous relationships. A second marriage may also affect your Social Security benefits if you’re widowed or divorced. You will need to update estate
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — While the U.S. economy is broadly healthy, pockets of Americans have run through their savings and run up their credit card balances after battling inflation for more than two years. Experts worry that members of these groups — mostly lower- and middle-income Americans, who tend
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Rome police have arrested 14 migrants from nine countries for alleged involvement in unrest in a repatriation center following the death of a migrant from the African nation of Guinea. Police said Monday that migrants in the center began setting mattresses on fire after the body was discovered, then proceeded to knock
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