WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 1.6 percent annual pace in the first three months of the year, the government reported today in a slight downgrade from its previous estimate for January-March quarter. It was the first drop in gross domestic product — the broadest measure of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A multinational task force designed to seize Russian oligarchs' wealth has blocked and frozen $30 billion in sanctioned individuals' property and funds in its first 100 days in operation, the Treasury Department reported today. That's on top of the yachts, other vessels ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries reached a deal following hard-fought talks that dragged into early today to back stricter climate rules that would eliminate carbon emissions from new cars by 2035. The 27 EU members found agreement on draft legislation aimed at slashing EU ...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Victims have been found with no identification documents at all and in one case a stolen ID. Remote villages lack phone service to reach family members and determine the whereabouts of missing migrants. Fingerprint data has to be shared and matched by different ...
ROME (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Pope Francis today and received Communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, witnesses said, despite her position in support of abortion rights. Pelosi attended the morning Mass marking the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul, ...
MADRID (AP) — NATO declared Russia the "most significant and direct threat" to its members' peace and security, as the military alliance met today to confront what NATO's chief called the biggest security crisis since World War II. It also promised to "step up political and practical ...