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  • What we know about the Baltimore bridge collapse

    March 29, 2024 - 2:10 PM

    BALTIMORE - A cargo ship rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the span to collapse and presumably killing six construction workers. On Wednesday, a day after the early-morning crash, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board boarded the ship and planned to recover information from its electronics and paperwork while divers searched for the bodies of workers who were still missing.

  • Hurricane Otis survivors search for friends and necessities in devastated Acapulco

    October 26, 2023 - 6:26 PM

    ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Survivors of a Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco spent Thursday searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping that aid would come quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis.

  • Pope Francis meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican

    May 13, 2023 - 9:01 AM

    ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, saying it was a great honor to meet with the pontiff, who has previously offered to do what he can to try to end the war launched by Russia's invasion of Ukraine a year ago.

  • Ukraine says counteroffensive delayed; Britain sending cruise missiles to Kyiv

    May 11, 2023 - 12:45 PM

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks broadcast Thursday that Kyiv is delaying its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces because Ukraine lacks enough Western weapons to succeed without suffering too many casualties.

  • Putin welcomes China’s Xi to Kremlin amid Ukraine fighting

    March 20, 2023 - 12:55 PM

    MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin on Monday, sending a powerful message to Western leaders that their efforts to isolate Moscow over the fighting in Ukraine have fallen short.

  • Ukraine appeals to Canada's rail manufacturers to repair war-damaged lifeline

    February 21, 2023 - 7:33 AM

    LVIV, Ukraine - Ukraine wants Canada to lend its expertise — and donate crucial railway parts — to keep its embattled passenger and cargo rail system running as landmines and missile strikes threaten to stall the country's lifeline.

  • Zelenskyy seeks weaponry in surprise trips to London, Paris

    February 08, 2023 - 2:50 PM

    PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought Western support for his country in surprise visits to Britain and France on Wednesday, pushing for fighter jets to battle Russian invaders in a dramatic speech to the U.K. Parliament, and then flying to Paris to meet the French and German leaders over dinner at the Elysee Palace.

  • At Davos, Zelenskyy urges allies to speed up push vs. Russia

    January 18, 2023 - 11:16 AM

    DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told political leaders at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that Western supplies of weapons must outpace Russia’s attacks, urging the world to move faster because “tragedies are outpacing life; the tyranny is outpacing democracy.”

  • Poland, NATO say missile strike wasn't a Russian attack

    November 16, 2022 - 2:09 PM

    PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday that a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people appeared to be unintentional and was probably launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine. Russia had been bombarding Ukraine at the time in an attack that savaged its power grid.

  • US inflation surges again in June, raising risks for economy

    July 13, 2022 - 12:30 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation surged to a new four-decade high in June because of rising prices for gas, food and rent, squeezing household budgets and pressuring the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates aggressively -- trends that raise the risk of a recession.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

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