By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee gave its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Tuesday, drawing the previously nonaligned Nordic country closer to membership in the Western military alliance. Sweden’s accession protocol will now need to be approved in the Turkish parliament’s general assembly
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico launched its army-run airline Tuesday, when the first Mexicana airlines flight took off from Mexico City bound for the Caribbean resort of Tulum. It was another sign of the outsized role that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given to Mexico’s armed forces. The airline’s military-run holding company now also
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Lynijah Russell debated the opening lines of her video application to Brown University for weeks before deciding to be as candid about her identity as possible. “Hi Brown! My name is Lynijah, and I am a Black girl in STEM,” she says in the application’s opening line. Russell said that
Continue ReadingCNN, KTVN By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Lynijah Russell debated the opening lines of her video application to Brown University for weeks before deciding to be as candid about her identity as possible. “Hi Brown! My name is Lynijah, and I am a Black girl in STEM,” she says in the application’s opening line. Russell
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was the target of a swatting attempt at her Georgia residence on Christmas morning, the congresswoman and local police said, marking the latest instance of someone calling in a fake emergency to draw armed officers or SWAT teams to her home. The Rome Police
Continue ReadingBy ALI SWENSON and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Experts are warning that the spread of misinformation could get worse in the coming presidential election contest. The safeguards that attempted to counter the bogus claims the last time are eroding, while the tools and systems that create and spread them are only
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press Christmas is over, but giving season for nonprofits is just starting to peak. The end of the calendar year is when nonprofits make appeals far and wide to attract donors — in part because of holiday traditions or, for some, tax advantages. Nonprofits get about 30% of their annual donations
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press Christmas is over, but giving season for nonprofits is just starting to peak. The end of the calendar year is when nonprofits make appeals far and wide to attract donors — in part because of holiday traditions or, for some, tax advantages. Nonprofits get about 30% of their annual donations
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer-songwriter Mitski’s “My Love Mine All Mine,” plays out like a whispered dirge. The song is gothic lounge music for a listener who only has about two minutes to have their heart broken — a silky soft slow burn stacked with a choir, organ, bass
Continue ReadingFORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who left on a flight for the Christmas holiday to visit his grandmother in southwest Florida instead was put on the wrong plane and ended up 160 miles away in Orlando, Florida. When the grandmother, Maria Ramos, showed up on Thursday at Southwest Florida International Airport in
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has blocked a new Tennessee law that would reconfigure the group overseeing professional sports facilities in Nashville by letting state leaders pick six of its 13 board members. Late last week, three judges agreed that the law targeting the Nashville Sports Authority
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee has given its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO, drawing the previously non-aligned Nordic country closer to membership in the Western military alliance. Sweden’s accession protocol will now need to be approved in the general assembly for the last stage of the legislative process
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Holiday sales rose this year and spending remained resilient during the shopping season even with Americans wrestling with higher prices in some areas and other financial worries, according to the latest measure. Holiday sales from the beginning of November through Christmas Eve
Continue ReadingCNN, SIMONOVSKY DISTRICT COURT OF MOSCOW, GETTY IMAGES, VEDOMOSTI, POOL VIA VGTRK, MOSCOW CITY COURT By Katharina Krebs and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has been located at a penal colony in Siberia, his team said Monday, two weeks after they lost contact with him. “We have found Alexey,” his spokesperson
Continue ReadingAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The rollout of potential new electric vehicle goals in Maine has been pushed back by a year. That’s because a recent storm delayed a vote by environmental regulators. The Board of Environmental Protection postponed its vote last week and won’t meet again before year’s end. That delay means the proposed rules
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — More than 50 French performers, writers and producers published an essay Tuesday defending film star and national icon Gerard Depardieu amid growing scrutiny of his behavior toward women. Advocates for sexual abuse victims expressed dismay at the outpouring of support. Depardieu was given preliminary rape and sexual assault charges in 2020 following
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Kuwait’s foreign affairs minister says the bodies of a Kuwaiti citizen and a Saudi with Kuwaiti residency who had disappeared in Iraq have been found. Iraqi security officials said the men had reportedly come to Iraq on a hunting trip. They were killed by an explosive left
Continue ReadingBy MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and LORI HINNANT Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Their first battle plan was outdated the moment the dam crumbled. So the Ukrainian special forces officers spent six months adapting their fight to secure a crossing to the other side of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine. But it wasn’t enough just
Continue ReadingBy MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Their first battle plan was outdated the moment the dam crumbled. So the Ukrainian special forces officers spent six months adapting their fight to secure a crossing to the other side of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine. But it wasn’t enough just to cross the
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces bombarded Palestinian refugee camps Tuesday in central Gaza and issued orders telling residents to evacuate, signs that the military plans to expand its ground offensive into another part of the besieged territory. Gaza’s main telecom provider announced another
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