Seeking to counter China, US awards $3 billion for EV battery production in 14 states
The Biden administration is awarding over $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and ...
French cult film ‘La Haine’ returns as hip-hop musical with tensions persisting in poor suburbs
Watching “La Haine” nearly 30 years ago, there was a sense of something inexorable about violence in the French suburbs.
Juan Felipe Herrera: Farm worker’s son to first Latino United States Poet Laureate
The first Latino to be named the United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, is the son of California farm workers.
Dutch police seek witnesses to Rotterdam stabbing that left 1 dead and another seriously wounded
Dutch police appealed for witnesses Friday as they investigated a stabbing in which one man was killed and another seriously wounded in the port city of Rotterdam. A ...
The EU’s chief is trying to help Ukraine prepare for winter. Half its energy network is destroyed.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Ukraine on Friday focused on helping the country to repair and ...
Doctors and first responders are among those who still use pagers
The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in ...
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Thousands of exploding devices in Lebanon trigger a nation that has been on edge for years
BEIRUT (AP) — Chris Knayzeh was in a town overlooking Lebanon’s capital when he heard the rumbling aftershock of the 2020 ...
In-person voting for the US presidential contest is about to start as Election Day closes in
The Democratic and Republican national conventions are just a memory, the first and perhaps only debate between Vice ...
Rare G.K. Chesterton essay on mystery writing is itself a mystery
When he wasn’t working on mystery stories, and he completed hundreds, G.K. Chesterton liked to think of new ways to tell them. Detective fiction had grown a little dull, the ...
Brazil drought punishes coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher
Silvio Almeida’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at retaining moisture from rainfall and a nearby ...
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Asian stocks follow Wall Street’s rate-cut rally higher, as BOJ stands pat
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks surged on Friday with Japan’s Nikkei leading regional gains after Wall Street romped to records following the Federal Reserve’s big cut to interest rates. U.S. futures ...
Protests ousted Sri Lanka’s last president. Ahead of new election, many are still waiting for change
Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country. As the ...