North Korea confirms 1st COVID outbreak, Kim orders lockdown
May 12, 2022
By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for more than two years to a widely…
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US inflation hit 8.3% last month but slows from 40-year high
May 11, 2022
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation slowed in April after seven months of relentless gains, a tentative sign that price increases may be peaking while still imposing a financial strain on American households. Consumer…
Alabama jailbreak mystery deepens as manhunt ends with death
May 10, 2022
By KIM CHANDLER and MIKE BALSAMO AP News - The death of an Alabama jailer found shot in the head with a gun in her hand after a weeklong manhunt has only deepened the mystery…
Coral reefs provide stunning images of a world under assault
May 09, 2022
By CURT ANDERSON and CODY JACKSON MIAMI (AP) — Humans don’t know what they’re missing under the surface of a busy shipping channel in the “cruise capital of the world.” Just below the keels of…
US added 428,000 jobs in April despite surging inflation
May 06, 2022
By PAUL WISEMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, extending a streak of solid hiring that has defied punishing inflation, chronic supply shortages, the Russian war against Ukraine and much higher…
More Americans apply for jobless aid last week
May 05, 2022
By MATT OTT WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week but the total number of people collecting jobless aid is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. Jobless claims…
As US poised to restrict abortion, other nations ease access
May 04, 2022
By ASTRID SUÁREZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As women in the United States find themselves on the verge of possibly losing the constitutional right to abortion, courts in many other parts of…
Report: Supreme Court draft suggests Roe could be overturned
May 03, 2022
By MARK SHERMAN and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to…
First civilians leave Mariupol steel plant; hundreds remain
May 02, 2022
By CARA ANNA and INNA VARENYTSIA ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — People fleeing besieged Mariupol described weeks of bombardments and deprivation as they arrived Monday in Ukrainian-held territory, where officials and relief workers anxiously awaited the…
Ukraine slams Kyiv attack amid new Mariupol rescue effort
Apr 29, 2022
By DAVID KEYTON and INNA VARENYTSIA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leader accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit by Secretary-General António Guterres, an attack…