By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Health authorities in Europe, North America, Israel and Australia have identified more than 100 cases of monkeypox in recent days. Officials around the w…
US to end Russia’s ability to pay international investors
By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay its billions in debt back to international investors on Wednesday, making a Rus…
Powell: ‘Soft’ economic landing may be out of Fed’s control
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, fresh off winning Senate confirmation for a second term earlier in the day, acknowledged for the first…
Slumping technology stocks pull Wall Street lower
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks on Wall Street gave up more ground Tuesday amid mounting worries that persistently high inflation will dim corporate profi…
Watson accuser felt ‘scared’ and threatened by Browns QB
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the women accusing Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct while she gave him a massage said she felt threatened by a c…
UCLA to pay record of nearly $700M in doctor abuse lawsuits
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California system announced Tuesday it will pay nearly $375 million to more than 300 women who said they were sexually abused by a…
Ohioans got short shrift as political map fight dragged on
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Accusations have flown for months over who’s to blame for Ohio’s protracted redistricting predicament — a mess of a political map…
Kentucky, Ohio request nearly $2B for bridge improvements
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Ohio and Kentucky have asked the federal government to spend $2 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure deal to build a new Ohio River bridge and to fix an existing outdated s…
Montana bars birth certificate changes, even with surgery
MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana health officials say transgender people can’t change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in d…
Feds: Ohio man plotted trip to Texas to kill George W. Bush
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Iraqi man who came to the United States two years ago and applied for asylum hatched a plot to assassinate former President George W. …