By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A media entrepreneur is trying to connect young people disturbed by the impact of social media on mental health with older power players to fight for change in how tech companies do business. The newly-formed Sustainable Media Center is intent on stopping companies from using
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy spent years raising mountains of Republican campaign cash, flying around the country to recruit top candidates in key districts and painstakingly building political relationships as he worked his way toward becoming speaker of the House. Now that he’s been ousted from the
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting Thursday, as pressure from the bond market remains high due to worries about a too-hot U.S. job market. Offering some relief, meanwhile, was another sharp drop for oil prices. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower in early trading, the latest stumble
Continue ReadingBy JERRY HARMER and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand say they have arrested three men they accuse of selling the handgun and ammunition used by a 14-year-old boy to allegedly kill two people and wound five others at a shopping mall in Bangkok. The Tuesday shooting has highlighted a gray
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. officials worried by rising migration took their concerns south of the border this week with high-level Biden administration officials and New York City’s mayor converging on Mexico City in separate trips. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed migration with his Mexican counterpart Alicia Bárcena,
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence are having their moment this year, at least when it comes to making it look, or sound, like celebrities did something uncanny. Tom Hanks hawking a dental plan. Pope Francis wearing a stylish puffer jacket. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul sitting on the Capitol steps
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Four doctors have been shot — three of them fatally — beside a beach in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in what may have been a politically motivated execution. Security camera footage obtained by local newspaper O Globo showed a group of black-clad gunmen emerging from a car
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On Sunday, Habitat for Humanity’s 2023 annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Week Project kicked off on the President’s 99th birthday. Country legends Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood hosted. They tell the Associated Press they’ve built alongside the Carters at many recent work projects with
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting as pressure from the bond market remains high due to worries about a too-hot U.S. job market. Offering some relief was another sharp drop for oil prices. The S&P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq composite were all wavering between small gains and losses at the open
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence are having their moment this year, at least when it comes to making it look, or sound, like celebrities did something uncanny. Tom Hanks hawking a dental plan. Pope Francis wearing a stylish puffer jacket. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul sitting on the Capitol steps
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — During a recent “Morning Joe” discussion of another development in the four indictments of former President Donald Trump, NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian predicted, “we are in for a real show next year.” MSNBC is not just counting on that to be true. The network
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Svitlana Vlasova and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — A Russian missile strike killed at least 51 people, including a child, in a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Thursday, officials say, in one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began. Moscow’s forces targeted a cafe
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has received the first uranium shipment from Russia to fuel the country’s only nuclear power plant, still under construction by Moscow. Once finished, the Rooppur plant is expected to boost Bangladesh’s national electrical grid and help the South Asian nation’s growing economy. The plant is
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said Thursday a Russian attack on a village in the northeast of the country killed 48 people and injured at least six more. Presidential chief of staff Andrii Yermak and Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said Russian forces shelled a shop and a cafe in
Continue ReadingBy GHAITH AL-SAYED and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A drone attack has struck a packed graduating ceremony for military officers in the city of Homs, killing civilians and military personnel and wounding dozens more, Syrian state television reported. Syria’s military in a statement Thursday said that drones laced with explosives targeted the
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African flag will not be displayed at the rugby and cricket World Cups later this month if its national anti-doping body does not appeal a decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency to declare it non-compliant. The consequences of the decision by WADA
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Crude prices have fallen every day this week save for one and drillers are getting hit hard as potential economic headwinds raise anxiety once again over a recession. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials and the S&P 500 shuffled between small gains and losses before the
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Amnesty International is urging Pakistan to maintain its support for Afghan refugees by enabling them to live with dignity and be free from the fear of deportation to Afghanistan where they face persecution by the Taliban. Amnesty said in a statement Thursday that the forced return of refugees to Afghanistan could put
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T and Gallaudet University have developed a football helmet for players who are deaf or hard of hearing and communicate using American Sign Language. The company and Washington-based school for students who are deaf or hard of hearing unveiled the new technology Thursday. It allows a
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia targeted Ukraine with drones in another major attack early Thursday as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Spain to rally support from Western allies at a summit of around 50 European leaders. Ukraine’s air force said that the country’s air defenses intercepted 24 out of 29
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