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…
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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…
Moderna seeks to be 1st with COVID shots for littlest kids
Apr 28, 2022
By LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press - Moderna on Thursday asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward potentially opening shots for millions of…
Russia releases US Marine vet as part of prisoner exchange
Apr 27, 2022
By ERIC TUCKER and MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia and the United States have carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving…
Musk’s ‘free speech’ push for Twitter: Repeating history?
Apr 26, 2022
By BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press - Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is spending $44 billion to acquire Twitter with the stated aim of turning it into a haven for “free speech.” There’s…
Russia hits rail, fuel facilities in attacks deep in Ukraine
Apr 25, 2022
By DAVID KEYTON KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel facilities Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive, which Britain said…
Biden order aims to protect old-growth forests from wildfire
Apr 22, 2022
By MATTHEW DALY and JOSH BOAK SEATTLE (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an…
This Earth Day, Biden faces ‘headwinds’ on climate agenda
Apr 21, 2022
By MATTHEW DALY and CHRIS MEGERIAN WASHINGTON (AP) — One year ago, Joe Biden marked his first Earth Day as president by convening world leaders for a virtual summit on global warming that even Russian President Vladimir Putin and…
Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’
Apr 20, 2022
By CARA ANNA and INNA VARENYTSIA CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive places, Russian soldiers dug trenches. Ukrainian officials worry they were, in effect, digging their…
Russia ratchets up battle for control of eastern Ukraine
Apr 19, 2022
By ADAM SCHRECK KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials…