By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case, the Russian figure skating team still stands to finish on the podium and get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics behind the United States and Japan. The Americans moved into the gold medal position in
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — One person is dead and several others were seriously injured after a car and Greyhound bus crashed Monday night outside Huntsville, Alabama, officials said. Local agencies responded to the crash on Highway 53 in Limestone County, about 21 miles from downtown Huntsville, authorities said. The driver of the car
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street limped early Tuesday with corporate earnings rolling in and the Federal Reserve’s next interest rate decision imminent. Futures for the S&P 500 and futures for the Dow Jones industrials each slipped less than 0.2% before the bell. UPS tumbled more than 7% after the
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook for the world economy this year, envisioning resilient growth led by the United States and a slower pace of inflation. The IMF now expects the global economy to grow 3.1% this year, unchanged from 2023 but better than
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economy failed to expand at the end of 2023. The stagnation has now lasted for more than a year amid higher energy prices, costlier credit and a downturn in former powerhouse Germany. The EU statistics agency said Tuesday that zero growth for the October-to-December period
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan of revealing official secrets on Tuesday and sentenced him to 10 years — the latest in a slew of legal cases that supporters say are meant to sideline the imprisoned politician just days ahead of parliamentary elections. Khan,
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Lawyers for Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason, say he has been transferred to another prison in Siberia and placed in solitary confinement again over an alleged minor infraction. The move comes amid unrelenting pressure on Russian dissidents
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president says the country is considering the reintroduction of compulsory military service, citing tensions in the Balkans and elsewhere in Europe. President Aleksandar Vucic said top army commanders gave him “a strong argumentation” in favor of the reintroduction of a mandatory draft, which was suspended
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The songwriters who gave us “Your Song,” “Tiny Dancer” and “Rocket Man” will add to their stuffed awards shelf later this year when Elton John and Bernie Taupin are awarded the Gershwin Prize. The Library of Congress says Tuesday that songwriter-performer John and lyricist Taupin
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have decided to approve an outline deal that would keep in reserve the profits from hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian central bank assets that have been frozen in retaliation for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The tentative agreement still needs formal approval but
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Five men have been arrested in the investigation surrounding six bodies found last week at a remote dirt crossroads west of Victorville. The dispute was over marijuana, sheriff’s officials said Monday. Authorities discovered the bodies in the Mojave Desert outside El Mirage after someone called 911 and said he had been shot,
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s controversial startup Neuralink has implanted a chip in a human brain for the first time, the billionaire said in a post on his X platform late Monday. The operation took place on Sunday and the patient was recovering well, he added. Musk’s announcement could mark an important
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By Christina Maxouris and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Five men have been arrested and charged in connection with the grisly killings of six people discovered shot – and some of whom were also burned – last week in a remote area of Southern California’s Mojave Desert. All six had apparent fatal gunshot wounds – and four of the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A decade-long survey of the night sky has revealed a mysterious new type of star astronomers are referring to as an “old smoker.” These previously hidden stellar objects are aging, giant stars located near the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. The stars are inactive for decades and fade
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz, Steve Contorno and Betsy Klein, CNN As far as presidents go, the Palm Beach region is the domain of the former White House occupant Donald Trump. But for a few hours Tuesday, it was President Joe Biden’s motorcade zipping through the wealthy South Florida enclave as the Democrat looks to line his campaign
Continue ReadingBy KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Only one-third of men correctly estimated how long a 60-year-old man in the U.S. could expect to live, according to a 2022 TIAA Institute survey. And fewer than half of women got it right for a 60-year-old woman. Advisers call this understanding of how long you’ll live in your retirement
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ election board on Tuesday is scheduled to consider whether to keep Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot after a recommendation that he be removed over the Constitution’s insurrection provision. The meeting of the Illinois State Board of Elections, which is split evenly between Democrats and
Continue ReadingCIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s lower house of Parliament is to debate and vote on an hugely divisive amnesty law that aims to sweep away the legal troubles of hundreds of people who were involved in Catalonia’s unsuccessful 2017 independence bid. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez agreed to the law in exchange for the
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — American and Chinese officials met Tuesday to discuss joint efforts to stem the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., a sign of cooperation as the two global powers try to manage their contentious ties. The two-day meeting was the first for a new counternarcotics working group. One
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LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s social media platform X has restored searches for Taylor Swift after temporarily blocking users from seeing some results as pornographic deepfake images of the singer circulated online. Searches for the singer’s name on the site Tuesday turned up a list of tweets as normal. A day earlier, the same search
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