By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Uber is adding a new task to its list of services: mailing consumers’ return packages. The ride-hailing and delivery company said Wednesday that its drivers will collect up to five prepaid and sealed packages and drop them off at a local post office or at UPS or FedEx stores.
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Far more people are in harm’s way as they move into high flood zones across the globe, adding to an increase in watery disasters from climate change, a new study said. Since 1985, the number of the world’s settlements in the riskiest flood zones has increased 122%, compared to
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s central bank lowered its key interest rate Wednesday, pointing to a drop in inflation despite a still-high rate of 8.2% last month. The National Bank of Poland on Wednesday cut its benchmark rate a quarter of a percentage point to 5.75%. Analysts were expecting it after annual inflation dropped last
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Wilson, Melanie Zanona and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on Wednesday became the first Republican to officially jump into the race to become the next House speaker. House Republicans are even more bitterly divided in the aftermath of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster and his decision not to
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Rookie quarterbacks are getting their chances early this season. One is taking advantage of the opportunity in extremely impressive fashion. After all three first-round quarterbacks started the opener, two more were forced into action because of injuries this week, with Aidan O’Connell getting the nod for the Raiders
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Philippe is drenching the U.S. and British Virgin Islands as it spins away from the northeast Caribbean on a path that would take it toward Bermuda and later New England and Atlantic Canada. The storm was located 200 miles (320 kilometers) north-northwest of St. Thomas on Wednesday.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The final stages of jury selection have resumed at the fraud trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in New York City. Opening statements will likely begin by early afternoon on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. They will precede the presentation of evidence by prosecutors, who say the California man defrauded thousands
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US will transfer thousands of seized Iranian weapons and rounds of ammunition to Ukraine, in a move that could help to alleviate some of the critical shortages facing the Ukrainian military as it awaits more money and equipment from the US and its allies, US officials said. US
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “THIS IS A TEST”: If you have a cellphone or are watching television Wednesday, that message will flash across your screen as the federal government tests its emergency alert system used to tell people about emergencies. The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System sends out messages via
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — “Star Trek” actor and political activist George Takei has a picture book scheduled for next spring that draws upon his early childhood years spent in internment camps for Japanese Americans. Crown Books for Young Readers announced Wednesday that Takei’s “My Lost Freedom,” illustrated by Michelle Lee, will be published April 30,
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers who had been sitting in stunned silence gasped at the declaration: The office of speaker “is hereby declared vacant.” For the first time ever, a House speaker had been voted out of the position, plunging Congress into a new degree of turmoil. “Now what?” someone in
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to his New York civil fraud trial for a third day Wednesday after running afoul of the judge by denigrating a key court staffer in a social media post. Trump, the Republican front-runner in
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told his Conservative Party he’s not afraid to make tough decisions for long-term change. Sunak said in a speech to the party conference on Wednesday that the proof lies in his decision to curtail the embattled High Speed 2 railway
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Andi Babineau, CNN Las Vegas (CNN) — The 60-year-old man arrested last week in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur appeared in court for the first time Wednesday in Las Vegas, where a judge opted to delay his arraignment for at least two weeks. Duane Keith Davis, known as “Keffe D,”
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have arrested two Turkish men on suspicion of involvement in the fatal gangland shooting of six other Turks in Greece last month. Police said the six men killed in a Sept. 11 car ambush outside Athens were believed to have been members of an international crime group
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker who had flown to Arizona to be part of his sister’s sendoff before she deployed overseas gave the woman a hug and told her to “stay safe.” Hours later, state Sen. Doug Larsen, his wife, and their two young
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British army investigation has concluded that a 19-year-old soldier is believed to have taken her own life after relentless sexual harassment by her immediate superior. The investigation’s findings, published Wednesday, concluded that Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck killed herself at a major army facility in the
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says Kurdish militants behind a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital face robust retaliation against their group’s positions in Syria and Iraq. Hakan Fidan says the rebel group will “regret” having carried out the bombing. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for the attack outside
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is holding steadier Wednesday after the bond market relaxed its vise a bit on the stock market. The S&P 500 was 0.4% higher in early trading, coming off a 1.4% tumble that had sent it to its lowest level in four months. The
Continue ReadingBy KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — You may not know her name. But Dorothy Liebes was a celebrity in her day — a weaver and designer who worked with top architects, designers and brands to help define the look and feel of 20th century luxury. Her handiwork decorated first-class airline seats, movie
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