Stock market today: Wall Street opens lower as weak stretch continues
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street, continuing a weak stretch on this holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4%...
Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial begins with a former ally who reported him...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is underway with live television coverage, a former aide who reported...
Kentucky Democrat Beshear links GOP challenger to reality of abortion law in reelection campaign
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has pushed his opposition to Kentucky's abortion ban to the forefront of his reelection campaign by...
Sri Lanka government to investigate allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri...
India’s prime minister uses the G20 summit to advertise his global reach and court...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Major roads in New Delhi are teeming with giant posters and billboards announcing India’s presidency of this week’s summit of...
Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024
Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled recently that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted...
Lawyers claim cable TV and phone companies also responsible in Maui fires
HONOLULU (AP) — After a visit to a warehouse where Hawaiian Electric Company is housing power poles and electrical equipment that may be key...
China authorities arrest 2 for smashing shortcut through Great Wall with excavator
China's Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who...
Schools are cutting advisers and tutors as COVID aid money dries up. Students are...
DETROIT (AP) — Davion Williams wants to go to college. A counselor at his Detroit charter school last year helped him visualize that goal,...
EPA delays new ozone pollution standards until after 2024 election
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog —...