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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans took a break from spending in January after splurging during the holiday season. Retail sales fell 0.8% from the strong pace in December when retail sales were up a revised 0.4%, according to the Commerce Department. Economists had expected consumers to pull back on
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Members of the Kansas City community have gathered to “demand a future free from gun violence” a day after authorities announced two juveniles had been detained on gun-related and resisting arrest charges in the shooting after the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration. One woman was killed and 22 people were injured
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans filed for jobless claims last week as the labor market continues to show resilience in the face of elevated interest rates. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 8,000 to 212,000 for the week ending Feb. 10, the Labor Department reported Thursday. In total, 1.9 million Americans were
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — About 5,200 years ago, a man’s life ended violently in a peat bog in northwest Denmark. Now, researchers have used advanced genetic analyses to tell the unexpected story of “Vittrup Man,” the oldest known immigrant in Denmark’s history. Bog bodies, the uniquely preserved “accidental mummies” discovered in Northern Europe,
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — City employees in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, have been ordered to work from home for two days as air pollution soars to unhealthy levels. Those in the private sector have been encouraged to stay home as well. Air pollution has been a problem for many years in Thailand’s north, where the burning of
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is expected to be back in a New York court Thursday for a hearing that could decide whether the former president’s first criminal trial begins in just 39 days. The hearing to determine whether Trump’s March 25 hush-money trial date holds will be
Continue ReadingWaymo is issuing a recall for the first time due to a software concern after two of its self-driving vehicles hit the same pickup truck that was being towed. Waymo, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, said that the recall potentially involves 444 autonomous vehicles. The company said that the incidents occurred in Phoenix,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert’s next book will be light on politics, if not always light on the palate. Celadon Books announced Thursday that “The Late Show” host and his wife, Evie McGee Colbert, have collaborated on a cookbook. “Does the Taste Funny: Recipes Our Family Loves,” is to be published on Sept. 17.
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street inched modestly higher early Thursday ahead of more corporate earnings reports and new data on January retail sales in the U.S. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked up close to 0.2% before the opening bell. The Commerce Department’s
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A missile strike on the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukraine border on Thursday killed six people, including a child, and injured 18 others, a Russian official said. It was the latest in exchanges of long-range missile and rocket fire in Russia’s
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Ethiopia is dismissing allegations its soldiers massacred dozens of civilians last month in the restive Amhara region. Thursday’s statement comes as Western countries are demanding an investigation into the killings. Ethiopia’s state-appointed human rights commission says at least 45 civilians were killed by government forces in the Amhara town of Merawi, following
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Olga Voitovych and Seb Shukla, CNN (CNN) — Russia and Ukraine exchanged air attacks on Thursday, with Moscow targeting cities across Ukraine and Kyiv striking the Russian border city of Belgorod, one day after Kyiv said it sank another Russian warship off the coast of Crimea. At least seven people were reported
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed an announcement by Microsoft that it would invest almost 3.3 billion euros, or about $3.5 billion, in Germany over the next two years to massively expand its data center capacities for applications in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Scholz said on Thursday it’s “a
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 29-year-old filmmaker Sean Wang can’t believe it, himself, but he’s going to the Oscars with his grandmothers. His Oscar-nominated short “Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó” is a deeply charming portrait of his two grandmothers: 96-year-old Yi Yan Fuei and 86-year-old Chang Li Hua. They’re
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s iconic underground train map will be rebranded. The city’s mayor has announced a plan to rename the suburban rail network into six new lines. They will all have new colors too. The hope is that the rebranding of the London Overground, which currently is shown as
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and NICK INGRAM Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A historic railway station on the edge of downtown Kansas City became the latest backdrop for a mass shooting as gunfire near the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration sent terrified fans scrambling for cover and left 21 people
Continue ReadingBy Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — The National Archives in Washington, DC, closed early on Wednesday after two climate activists dumped red powder on the display that protects the US Constitution, Archives officials said in a news release. “The Constitution was unaffected in its encasement. No damage was done to the document itself,” the Archives
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed an announcement by Microsoft that it would invest almost 3.3 billion euros, or about $3.5 billion, in Germany over the next two years to massively expand its data center capacities for applications in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Scholz said on Thursday it’s “a
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — The foreign ministers of Britain and Poland have appealed to the U.S. Congress and personally to its speaker to take the “epoch-making” decision and approve the $60 billion in aid for Ukraine. They say it’s a matter of U.S. credibility among its allies. The package is urgently needed but has been
Continue ReadingBy JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of South Korean doctors have rallied in the capital Seoul and other cities against a government plan to boost the number of medical students. Doctors’ groups say increasing the number of medical students by 2,000 starting in 2025 is too steep. They want officials
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