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By SAMYA KULLAB and SUSIE BLANN LONDON (AP) — Ever since he was ousted as the head of Ukraine’s army in 2024 and appointed as the country’s ambassador to Britain, Valerii Zaluzhnyi has widely been seen as the top political rival to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zaluzhnyi, 52, refuses to discuss his political ambitions, saying he…
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order to restore a Philadelphia exhibit on the nine people enslaved by George Washington at his former home on Independence Mall. Related Articles Public health, green groups sue EPA over repeal of rule supporting climate protections Many Democrats are still down on the…
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When Jenna Lewis-Dougherty stepped onto the beach in Fiji where the 50th season of “Survivor” was about to begin, it felt surreal, she says. And why wouldn’t it? Jenna, who was 22 when she appeared on the show’s first season, “Survivor: Borneo” in 2000, had no idea how much the game had changed over the…
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By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging its determination last week that revoked a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. Related Articles Many Democrats are still down…
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Cuban foreign minister visited Moscow on Wednesday as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a U.S oil embargo. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and was set to meet later in the day with President Vladimir Putin. Related Articles Envoys…
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MILAN — Mikaela Shiffrin redefined her Olympic legacy Wednesday morning by reclaiming the slalom gold medal she won in 2014 and 2018 but lost in a disastrous Beijing Games four years. Skiing on the same mountain where she crashed less than a month ago, putting her participation in the Milano Cortina Olympic Games in question,…
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By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — For the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, it is “statistically inevitable” that fraud would come up at some point, the museum’s No. 2 said in the wake of a decade-long, $11.8 million suspected ticket-fraud scheme revealed last week. Kim Pham, the Louvre’s general administrator, told The Associated Press…
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By JAMEY KEATEN and ILLIA NOVIKOV GENEVA (AP) — The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine ended Wednesday with no sign of a breakthrough and with both sides saying the talks were “difficult,” as the war’s fourth anniversary approaches next week. The negotiations in Switzerland were…
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By JULIE CARR SMYTH COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Les Wexner’s long-time friendship with Jeffrey Epstein will be the subject of a closed-door congressional deposition in Ohio on Wednesday, where the billionaire retail magnate is expected to face questions about new revelations contained in the latest release of Justice Department documents related to the late sexual…
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By KAITLYN HUAMANI and BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg will testify in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm children. Related Articles Many Democrats are still down on the Democrats, a new AP-NORC poll finds Late-night host Stephen Colbert isn’t backing down…
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