WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sweeping sanctions Friday on hundreds of firms in Russia and across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, accusing them of providing products and services that enable Russia’s war effort and aiding its ability to evade sanctions. Among those sanctioned by the Treasury Department were 60 Russian-based technology and defense
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — With inflation nearly defeated and the job market cooling, the Federal Reserve is prepared to start cutting its key interest rate from its current 23-year high, Chair Jerome Powell said Friday. Powell did not say when rate cuts would begin or how large they might be, but the Fed is
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Friday it is sending a diplomatic note protesting supposed U.S. interference after the American ambassador openly criticized a proposed Mexican judicial overhaul that would make all judges stand for election. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the comments “disrespectful of our national sovereignty” and claimed it interfered in Mexico’s
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Two freight trains collided and derailed in Boulder, Colorado, on Thursday night, damaging a bridge, spilling fuel and injuring two conductors, according to police. The Boulder Police Department said on the social medial platform X that the crash happened north of Boulder Community Hospital. Area roads were closed for several hours
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit Friday against real estate software company RealPage Inc., accusing it of an illegal scheme that allows landlords to coordinate to hike rental prices. The lawsuit, filed alongside attorneys general in states including North Carolina and California, alleges the company of violating antitrust laws through its
PARIS (AP) — Before he died this week, French film icon Alain Delon once suggested he wanted his beloved sheepdog Louba buried with him. To the relief of animal lovers around France, Loubo will be allowed to survive. Delon, an internationally acclaimed and prolific actor and producer, died Sunday, aged 88, and will be buried
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Two female journalists were killed in a Turkish airstrike that hit their car in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, local officials and media said Friday. The journalists, Hero Baha’uddin and Golestan Tara, worked for a local Kurdish media company, according to local media outlet Roj News and an official in Sulaimaniyah
BRATUNAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A man’s body was pulled out of the Drina River on the border between Serbia and Bosnia on Friday, bringing to 11 the number of people who drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized a day earlier, Serbian police said. The body of an “irregular migrant” was found on the Bosnian
WASHINGTON (AP) — With anger over the war in Gaza simmering, Vice President Kamala Harris tried to defuse one of the most divisive issues within the Democratic Party on the biggest political stage of her life. Her remarks Thursday night in her speech accepting the party’s presidential nomination hewed closely to previous statements on the
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The crew of a Greek coast guard vessel opened fire on a speedboat smuggling migrants from neighboring Turkey, killing one man, Greek authorities said Friday. A coast guard statement said the shot was fired after the speedboat’s helmsman tried to ram the Greek patrol boat in a bid to escape arrest.
