Nation and World
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US unemployment claims inched higher, but remain very low
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains one of the healthiest parts of an uneven U.S. economy. ...
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Attorneys general say Albertsons should delay $4B dividend
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - A bipartisan group of attorneys general is asking Albertsons to delay a $4 billion payout to its shareholders until they can complete a review of Kroger's planned acquis...
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EXPLAINER: Israeli election could yield familiar outcome
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is holding its fifth national election in under four years, and once again the race is shaping up as a referendum on former Prime Minister Benjam...
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'Kill everyone': Russian violence in Ukraine was strategic
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine (AP) - Even by the standards of the important military officers who came and went in this tiny village, the man walking behind the Kamaz truck stood ...
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FBI background check blocked gun sale to St. Louis shooter
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - ST. LOUIS (AP) - The 19-year-old gunman who forced his way into a St. Louis school and killed two people purchased the AR-15-style rifle from a private seller after an F...
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Belarus sends one more independent journalist to prison
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - TALLINN, Estonia (AP) - A court in Belarus on Thursday sentenced yet another independent journalist to three years in prison, a second prison sentence handed to a journa...
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Nevada election chief tells rural county to halt hand count
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) - Nevada's secretary of state told a rural county late Thursday it must halt a first-of-its-kind hand count of mail-in votes after the state Supreme C...
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China's Huawei says revenue down 2.2% so far this year
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - Chinese tech giant Huawei's revenue rose in the latest quarter as infrastructure sales helped to offset damage to its smartphone business under U.S. sanct...
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Europe sees fastest pace of rate hikes since euro launched
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The European Central Bank piled on another outsized interest rate hike aimed at squelching out-of-control inflation, increasing rates at the fa...
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WHO: Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years
Oct 27, 2022 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report Th...