The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level in seven months with the labor market seemingly resistant to the higher interest rates put in to place to cool hiring. U.S. applications for jobless claims fell by 13,000 to 216,000 for the week ending...
Biden Administration Cancels Remaining Oil and Gas Leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge
JUNEAU, Alaska — In an aggressive move that angered Republicans, the Biden administration canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, overturning sales held in the Trump administration's waning days, and proposed stronger protections against development on vast swaths of the National...
Shipper Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Iranian Oil Later Seized by US
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Greek shipping company has pleaded guilty to smuggling sanctioned Iranian crude oil and agreed to pay a $2.4 million fine, newly unsealed U.S. court documents seen Thursday by The Associated Press show. The now-public case against Empire Navigation, which faces three years of probation...
Presidential Centers From Hoover to Bush and Obama Unite to Warn of Fragile State of US Democracy
WASHINGTON — Concern for U.S. democracy amid deep national polarization has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country's bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting a diversity of beliefs. The statement released Thursday, the first time the libraries...
Wealthy Russian With Kremlin Ties Gets 9 Years in Prison for Hacking and Insider Trading Scheme
BOSTON — A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million stock market cheating scheme that relied on secret earnings information stolen through the hacking of U.S. computer networks. Vladislav Klyushin, who ran a Moscow-based information...
A Lawsuit Seeks to Bar Trump from the Primary in Colorado, Citing Constitution’s Insurrection Clause
DENVER — A liberal group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado, arguing he is ineligible to run for the White House again under a rarely used clause in the U.S. Constitution aimed at candidates who have supported an “insurrection.” The Lawsuit...
American Trapped More Than 3,000 Feet Down a Cave in Turkey. Rescue Could Take Weeks
ISTANBUL — Turkish and international cave rescue experts worked Thursday to reach an American researcher who got trapped inside a cave in southern Turkey at a depth of more than 3,280 feet after he became ill. Mark Dickey, 40, was in Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains when he...
Public School Coach Rehired After Supreme Court Prayer Ruling Resigns After 1st Game
SEATTLE — A high school football coach in Washington state who won his job back after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field resigned Wednesday after just one game back. Assistant Bremerton High School coach Joe Kennedy made the announcement on his website, citing several reasons,...
Crack in a Massive Granite Cliff Shuts Popular Yosemite Climbing Area
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — A popular rock climbing area in Yosemite National Park has been closed because of a crack that has developed in a massive granite cliff. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yosemite Climber Stewards (@climber_stewards) Climbers recently reported the new crack on...
Senator ‘Putting National Security at Risk’ With Block on Military Promotions, Officials Say
WASHINGTON — Top defense officials are accusing Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville of jeopardizing America's national security with his hold on roughly 300 military promotions, raising the stakes in a clash over abortion policy that shows no signs of easing. Tuberville brushed off the criticism, vowing he will not give in. “We're...