By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to pass tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance for Ukraine. Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Biden warned of dire consequences for Kyiv if lawmakers don’t act. Biden gave his address hours
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans are scheduled for their fourth presidential debate this week, again minus Donald Trump. It’s a particularly big moment for the young NewsNation television network, which will almost certainly reach its largest audience ever. NewsNation has been trying to cultivate an image of being an
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams and Betsy Klein, Priscilla Alvarez and Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Congress to resolve negotiations over the future of Ukraine funding, saying “petty partisan politics can’t get in the way” of aid for Kyiv. “History’s going to judge harshly those who turn their back on
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Facebook and Instagram fail to protect underage users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and let adults solicit pornographic imagery from them, New Mexico’s attorney general alleges in a lawsuit that follows an undercover online investigation. “Our investigation into Meta’s social media platforms demonstrates that they are not safe
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has apologized to the families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans killed in a stadium crush 34 years ago. The apology came Wednesday as the government introduced a charter it says will sharply diminish the chances that others will endure the kinds of injustices those
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a decade ago that Capitol Hill was consumed by an urgency to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, fueled in no small part by Republicans who felt a political imperative to make inroads with minority voters by embracing more generous policies. But
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A US warship shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Wednesday in the southern Red Sea, a US military official said. There was no damage to the USS Mason, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, or injuries to any personnel in the incident, the official said. The
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has published legislation that will let it ignore a part of the U.K.’s human rights laws in order to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. The bill is part of government plans to overcome a block by the U.K. Supreme Court on
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota wildlife official says that a cougar that was struck and killed on an interstate highway in suburban Minneapolis was more than likely the same animal captured on home security video sauntering across a driveway earlier this week. An SUV struck the cougar Wednesday morning on Interstate 394 in Golden Valley,
Continue ReadingKARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a massive fire has swept through a multi-story commercial building in Pakistan’s largest southern port city of Karachi, killing at least three people and damaging several shops. Wednesday’s fire initially started at a furniture shop. Later, it engulfed other shops on the ground floor of the building known as
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN The House voted to advance a GOP-led resolution on Wednesday to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York for triggering a fire alarm in a House office building when there was not an emergency. A final vote on whether to pass the censure resolution is expected to
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A union representing German train drivers is calling its members to strike for 24 hours this week, following the breakdown of talks with the main national operator in what is shaping up to be an unusually difficult dispute over pay and working hours. The GDL union said on Wednesday that the strike
Continue ReadingBy Osmary Hernández, Fernando Almánzar and Mia Alberti, CNN (CNN) — Venezuela’s president ordered the creation of a new state called “Guayana Esequiba” on Tuesday, following a controversial Sunday referendum which saw Venezuelan voters approving the annexation of land from neighboring Guyana. The area in question, the densely forested and oil-rich Essequibo region, amounts to about two-thirds of
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year, he announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday — a highly anticipated decision that comes two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership. McCarthy’s decision will
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is hanging near its best level in 20 months Wednesday following the latest signals that pressure on inflation may be easing. The S&P 500 was edging down by 0.1% in late trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was virtually unchanged, as of 3
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Milan prosecutors say there is no evidence of Russian secret services involvement in the escape from Italian custody of a Russian businessman wanted by the U.S. on sanctions-busting charges. Prosecutors on Wednesday said two suspects have been arrested, one in northern Italy and another in Croatia. Another
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Electricity utility PacifiCorp will pay $299 million to settle a lawsuit brought by 463 plaintiffs who said they were harmed by devastating wildfires in southern Oregon in 2020. The Oregonian reports that the settlement announced Tuesday comes after the utility lost a similar lawsuit in June for wildfires in other parts
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in a one-day lightning tour intended to raise Russia’s profile as a Middle East power broker, even as his war Ukraine grinds on. Putin landed in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ten Republicans who posed as fake electors for former President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and filed paperwork falsely saying he had won the battleground state have settled a civil lawsuit and admitted their actions were part of an effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory, attorneys
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — She was an admired pop star with a voice like butter. But writing a musical about a woman who bakes pies? When Sara Bareilles was approached more than a decade ago about penning the score for “Waitress” on Broadway, she literally pictured a mountain in
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