Nation and World
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FTC sues Walmart for scammers' use of money transfer unit
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it has sued Walmart for allegedly allowing its money transfer services to be used by scam artists who stol...
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Europe's central bank ready to 'stamp out' surging inflation
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - SINTRA, Portugal (AP) - The head of the European Central Bank said Tuesday that it will move gradually to combat soaring consumer prices with interest rate hikes in July...
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Navalny appeal rejected; another Kremlin critic jailed
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian court has rejected an appeal by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who contended that prison authorities illegally prevented his lawyer...
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Germany: former Nazi guard, 101, jailed for aiding murder
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - A 101-year-old man was convicted in Germany of 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on Tuesday for serving at the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp du...
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EU regulator considers clearing smallpox shot for monkeypox
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The European Medicines Agency says it will begin reviewing data to decide if a smallpox vaccine made by the pharmaceutical company Bavarian Nordic might al...
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US consumer confidence slumps to lowest level in 16 months
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. consumer confidence slipped to its lowest level in 16 months as persistent inflation and rising interest rates have Americans as pessimistic as th...
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Cuban troops report fatal clash with Florida speedboat
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - HAVANA (AP) - Cuban authorities say they have intercepted more than a dozen speedboats arriving from the United States this year - including two shooting incidents and a...
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Trump painted in testimony as volatile, angry president
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Donald Trump learned his attorney general had publicly rejected his election fraud claims, he heaved his lunch at the wall with such for...
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Cassidy Hutchinson, Trump White House aide, now in spotlight
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A year and a half after the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the most memorable recounting of former President Donald Trump's behavior that day came f...
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Fire kills 51 after apparent riot attempt at Colombia prison
Jun 28, 2022 7:00 am - BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A fire at a prison in southwestern Colombia has killed at least 51 people and injured a dozen more, prison authorities reported Tuesday. The dire...