Nation and World
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Massive US storm brings tornadoes to South, blizzard threat
Dec 13, 2022 12:00 am - DALLAS (- A massive storm blowing across the country spawned tornadoes that wrecked homes and injured a handful of people in parts of Oklahoma and Texas, including the D...
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A decade after Sandy Hook, grief remains but hope grows
Dec 13, 2022 12:00 am - NEWTOWN, Conn. - They would have been 16 or 17 this year. High school juniors. The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent...
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Cornered in Ukraine, Putin ditches annual news conference
Dec 13, 2022 12:00 am - President Vladimir Putin has ditched his annual marathon news conference following a series of battlefield setbacks in Ukraine - a tacit acknowledgment that the Russian ...
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Ukraine: Doctors from occupied city open hospital in Kyiv
Dec 13, 2022 12:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - A nurse wounded by a Russian sniper was spirited out wrapped in sheets. Another, sickened by the thought of working for the people who destroyed his home...
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A slowdown in U.S. inflation eases some pressure on households
Dec 13, 2022 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Inflation in the United States slowed again last month in the latest sign that price increases are cooling despite the pressures they continue to inflict on...
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FTX's Bankman-Fried charged by US for 'scheme' to defraud
Dec 13, 2022 12:00 am - NEW YORK - The U.S. government charged Samuel Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, with a host of financial crimes on Tuesday, alleg...
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Scientists say eruption of Hawaii volcano continues to ease
Dec 12, 2022 12:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - The eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island continues to ease, scientists said Sunday, reinforcing an earlier pronouncement that the mou...
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3 children die after fall into icy lake; UK gripped by storm
Dec 12, 2022 12:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Three young boys who fell through ice covering a lake in central England have died and a fourth remains hospitalized as weather forecasters issued severe w...
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Amgen to buy Horizon Therapeutics in $26.4 billion deal
Dec 12, 2022 12:00 am - Amgen is spending more than $26 billion to dive deeper into rare disease treatments with a deal for Deerfield-based drugmaker Horizon Therapeutics. The biotech drug deve...
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'I'm proud of my city': Richmond removes its last city-owned Confederate monument
Dec 12, 2022 12:00 am - RICHMOND, Va. - The city of Richmond - the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War - removed its last city-owned Confederate statue on Monday, more than two...