Biden’s solar ambitions collide with China labor complaints
BEIJING — The Biden administration’s solar power ambitions are colliding with complaints the global industry depends on Chinese raw materials that might be produced...
Gaza-based journalists in Hamas chat blocked from WhatsApp
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A few hours after the latest cease-fire took effect in the Gaza Strip, a number of Palestinian journalists in...
Liz Weston: How to be a better long-distance caregiver
Long pandemic lockdowns forced many older adults to become comfortable with video calls to stay connected with family. That in turn means that long-distance...
Russian to be deported after foiled Tesla ransomware plot
RENO, Nev. — A Russian man was sentenced Monday to what amounted to time already served in U.S. government custody and will be deported...
Poland’s energy giant defies EU court ruling to close mine
WARSAW, Poland — Officials in Poland on Monday defied an injunction by the top European Union court that ordered the immediate closure of a...
Judge digs into Apple app store policies as Epic trial ends
SAN RAMON, Calif. — The judge who will decide a case challenging Apple’s stranglehold on its iPhone app store indicated on Monday she would...
Navy says it’s charting a new course after rash of problems
BATH, Maine — The Navy’s speedy littoral combat ships had propulsion failures. The gun on its stealthy destroyer is a dud because of expensive...
Wolves scare deer and reduce auto collisions 24%, study says
WASHINGTON — Ecologist Rolf Peterson remembers driving remote stretches of road in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and seeing areas strewn with deer carcasses. But that...
Residents search for dead killed by Congo’s volcano eruption
KINSHASA, Congo — Residents searched for missing loved ones amid their destroyed homes on the outskirts of Congo’s eastern city of Goma Monday, where...
As drought intensifies, California seeing more wildfires
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than at this point in 2020,...