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Biden says he's working to secure release of Wall Street Journal reporter held for a year in Russia

Mar. 29, 2024 09:07 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — On the one-year anniversary of the Russian detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, President Joe Biden said the U.S. is working every day to secure his release. “Journalism is not a crime, and Evan went to Russia to do his job as a reporter...

EPA sets strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses in bid to fight climate change

Mar. 29, 2024 09:01 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation's largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The new...

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the April 2 presidential and state primaries

Mar. 29, 2024 07:47 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin and three Northeastern states will have a chance to indicate their support or opposition to their parties’ presumptive nominees in presidential primaries Tuesday. Wisconsin voters will also decide the fate of two Republican-backed...

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Wisconsin's presidential primaries and ballot questions

Mar. 29, 2024 07:52 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete Tuesday in the Wisconsin presidential primaries, a contest that’s now less about winning delegates and more about carrying the pivotal state in November. Wisconsin voters will also decide two proposed...

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Mississippi's US House primary runoff

Mar. 29, 2024 07:32 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republicans will compete on Tuesday for the right to challenge 16-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Bennie Thompson in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District. Ron Eller and Andrew Scott Smith were the top vote-getters in the March 12 primary, but neither received the vote...

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Arkansas' state house primary runoffs

Mar. 29, 2024 07:07 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in three Arkansas state House districts will return to the polls Tuesday to complete some unfinished business from the March 5 primaries, including one race in which Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her father, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, are supporting different...

Many Americans say immigrants contribute to economy but there's worry over risks, AP-NORC poll finds

Mar. 29, 2024 00:03 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more worried about legal immigrants committing crimes in the U.S. than they were a few years ago, a change driven largely by increased concern among Republicans, while Democrats continue to see a broad range of benefits from immigration, a new poll shows. ...

Joe Lieberman's death leaves a hole at No Labels as it tries to recruit a 2024 third-party candidate

Mar. 28, 2024 20:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — When No Labels' critics got the loudest, it was Joe Lieberman who came to the group's defense. The former Connecticut senator was a founding chairman of the centrist organization that focused, above all, on promoting bipartisanship in national politics. Despite its...

Georgia lawmakers approve new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest

Mar. 29, 2024 00:35 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers on Thursday approved new rules for challenging voters and qualifying for the state's presidential ballot that could impact the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state. Senate Bill 189 passed the House by a vote of 101 to 73 and the Senate...

Federal EV charging stations are key to Biden's climate agenda, yet only 4 states have them

Mar. 28, 2024 11:22 AM EDT

LONDON, Ohio (AP) — Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip. Sawyer, who bought the electric SUV “because I think the technology is cool and the range is just long enough,” searched ahead of time for convenient charging...

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US-funded Radio Free Asia closes its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns under new security law

Mar. 29, 2024 09:53 AM EDT

HONG KONG (AP) — The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening concerns about the city’s media freedoms. Bay Fang, the president of RFA, said in a statement Friday...

Biden says he's working to secure release of Wall Street Journal reporter held for a year in Russia

Mar. 29, 2024 09:07 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — On the one-year anniversary of the Russian detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, President Joe Biden said the U.S. is working every day to secure his release. “Journalism is not a crime, and Evan went to Russia to do his job as a reporter...

A growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails. The prospects for their release are unclear

Mar. 29, 2024 07:17 AM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family. All of them are U.S. citizens, and all are behind bars in...

Huawei’s profit more than doubles in 2023, sales up 9.6% as cloud and digital businesses grow

Mar. 29, 2024 04:25 AM EDT

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese telecoms gear company Huawei Technologies has reported its profit more than doubled last year as its cloud and digital businesses thrived in spite of U.S. sanctions. The Shenzhen-based company reported a net profit of 87 billion yuan ($12 billion), helped...

Republican panel's selection to be Rep. Buck's likely replacement is a saving grace for Boebert

Mar. 29, 2024 02:47 AM EDT

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado Republican panel made a surprising decision Thursday night, choosing a former mayor, Greg Lopez, to be U.S. Rep. Ken Buck's likely replacement until the November general election, a saving grace for Rep. Lauren Boebert's bid for another term in Congress. ...

Georgia lawmakers approve new election rules that could impact 2024 presidential contest

Mar. 29, 2024 00:35 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers on Thursday approved new rules for challenging voters and qualifying for the state's presidential ballot that could impact the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state. Senate Bill 189 passed the House by a vote of 101 to 73 and the Senate...

The Moscow concert massacre was a major security blunder. What's behind that failure?

Mar. 29, 2024 00:08 AM EDT

Hours before gunmen last week carried out the bloodiest attack in two decades in Russia, authorities made an addition to a government register of extremist and terrorist groups: They included the international LGBTQ+ “movement.” That addition to the register followed a Russian...

US military drains fuel from tank facility that leaked fuel into Pearl Harbor's drinking water

Mar. 28, 2024 22:40 PM EDT

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. military said it's finished draining millions of gallons of fuel from an underground fuel tank complex in Hawaii that poisoned 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor's drinking water in 2021. Joint Task Force Red Hill began defueling the...

Mississippi Senate passes trimmed Medicaid expansion and sends bill back to the House

Mar. 28, 2024 18:41 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers will try to negotiate on expanding Medicaid in one of the poorest states in the U.S. after the Senate voted Thursday for a vastly different plan than one proposed by the House. The upper chamber's proposal would insure fewer people and...

House Republicans invite President Biden to testify at public hearing as impeachment inquiry stalls

Mar. 28, 2024 17:28 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses. Rep. James Comer, chair of the House...