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A voter casts a ballot on on primary election day, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Suffield, Conn. Suffield is one of several small towns in Connecticut where control was flipped from Democrats to Republicans in 2021 municipal races. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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The attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have scared off some of the world’s top shipping companies and oil giants
View News Highlights LONDON (AP) — The attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have scared off some of the world’s top shipping companies and oil giants, effectively rerouting global trade away from a crucial artery for consumer goods and energy supplies that is expected to trigger delays and rising prices. BP […]
DEC. 18, 2023
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California insurance market rattled by withdrawal of major companies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two insurance industry giants have pulled back from California’s home insurance marketplace, saying that increasing wildfire risk and soaring construction costs have prompted them to stop writing new policies in the nation’s most populous state. State Farm announced last week it would stop accepting applications for all business and personal lines […]
JUNE 5, 2023
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Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, sit in front of police after inside Planalto Palace after storming it, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Planalto is the official workplace of the president of Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Pro-Bolsonaro rioters storm Brazil’s top government offices
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his election defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace Sunday, a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Thousands of demonstrators bypassed security barricades, climbed on roofs, smashed windows and […]
JAN. 9, 2023
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Bumps, bipartisanship in long fight for semiconductor bill
Five weeks ago, senior Biden administration aides gathered for their regular Thursday morning meeting about passing a bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector, worried that it could be in peril. After 18 months, the bipartisan effort to provide $52 billion for semiconductors was getting close to the finish line. But they were concerned […]
AUG. 1, 2022
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Intel to build $20B Ohio chip facility amid global shortage
Chipmaker Intel said Friday it will invest $20 billion to build a new factory in Ohio, an attempt to help alleviate a global shortage of chips powering everything from phones to cars to home appliances while also signaling the giant company’s commitment to manufacturing crucial technology products in the U.S. The move could also create […]
JAN. 21, 2022
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Local health authorities say the number of cases of a newly diagnosed respiratory illness linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44
The number of cases of a new type of viral pneumonia linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44, local health authorities said Friday, in an outbreak awakening fearful memories of the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. Of those cases diagnosed since December, 11 were listed as critical, the Wuhan city health commission […]
JAN. 3, 2020
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Search for remains of disappeared dissidents begins in Brazilian cemetery
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government has started searching a cemetery for the remains of political dissidents who disappeared during Brazil’s former military dictatorship. The Human Rights Office of the Brazilian presidency said in an e-mailed statement that about 10 dissidents who disappeared during the military’s rule 1964 to 1985 could be buried in […]
NOV. 11, 2010
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Search for remains of disappeared dissidents begins in Brazilian cemetery
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government has started searching a cemetery for the remains of political dissidents who disappeared during Brazil’s former military dictatorship. The Human Rights Office of the Brazilian presidency said in an e-mailed statement that about 10 dissidents who disappeared during the military’s rule 1964 to 1985 could be buried in […]
NOV. 11, 2010
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Deadly Ebola Virus Found in Three of Seven Monkeys
The deadly human ebola virus has been found in three of seven dead laboratory monkeys checked so far out of a larger shipment to a Virginia research firm from the Philippines, federal health officials said Friday. The firm, Hazelton Research Products of Reston, Va. got about 100 monkeys in October. Officials announced Thursday that the […]
DEC. 2, 1989
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