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Fed's Powell: More rate hikes are likely this year to fight still-high inflation 06/21/2023 01:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation in the United States still excessive, most Federal Reserve officials expect to raise interest rates further this year, Chair Jerome Powell told a House committee Wednesday. “Inflation pressures continue to run high, and the process of getting inflation back do World well short of pace needed to meet UN's 2030 sustainable development goals 06/21/2023 12:52pm • The world is falling well short of the progress needed to meet the United Nations' sustainable development goals by 2030 in areas ranging from poverty to clean energy to biodiversity, with a growing gap between wealthy and developing nations, according to a report Tuesday from the nonprofit tracking A Hungarian helicopter crashes during training in Croatia, killing at least 2 people 06/21/2023 11:35am • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Hungarian military helicopter crashed on Wednesday during a training mission in neighboring Croatia, killing at least two people on board, the country's defense ministry said. Two Hungarian Air Force’s Airbus H145 helicopters were on a training flight when one of them cr Thousands of Americans are leaving homes in flood-risk areas. But where are they moving to? 06/21/2023 11:32am • (CNN) — For more than four decades, the US government has been paying cities and states to move homeowners away from areas that are at high risk of severe flooding. When a hurricane or major flooding event devastates an area, a neighborhood can send a request for the local or state government Robert Downey Jr. weaves introspection and vulnerability into a show about cars 06/21/2023 10:46am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Downey Jr. knows he has amassed an impressive collection of classic cars — one he self-deprecatingly refers to as artifacts of his success. Despite his expectations of what the “accouterments are supposed to be” when one reaches a certain level of fame and wealth, t 4-time World Cup champion Germany has forgotten how to win games a year before hosting Euro 2024 06/21/2023 10:30am • BERLIN (AP) — Perhaps the only positive Germany can draw from its national soccer team’s deepening crisis is that the 2024 European Championship is still a year away. Even if few believe it anymore, Germany coach Hansi Flick insists that is enough time to turn things around before hosting the to Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft 06/21/2023 10:07am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An Orthodox Christian priest, Tesfa Kiros Meresfa begs door-to-door for food along with countless others recovering from a two-year war in northern Ethiopia that starved his people. To his dismay, urgently needed grain and oil have disappeared again for millions caught in a s The Biden-Modi relationship is built around mutual admiration of scrappy pasts and pragmatic needs 06/21/2023 09:39am • WASHINGTON (AP) — No one would mistake them for best of friends. But U.S. President Joe Biden, the son of blue-collar Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who rose from tea seller's son to premier, have developed a relationship based on mutual respect of their scrappy b DC bars allowed to stay open 24 hours for Women's World Cup 06/21/2023 08:55am • D.C. bars will be allowed to stay open for 24 hours for a month this summer to accommodate the Women's World Cup, thanks to an emergency bill passed by the D.C. Council. The 2023 Women's World Cup Emergency Amendment Act of 2023 was proposed by Council member Kenyan McDuffie earlier this month an Swedish appeals court ups surgeon's sentence for 'harm' during experimental windpipe transplants 06/21/2023 08:36am • STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish appeals court on Wednesday increased a prison sentence for an Italian surgeon over experimental stem cell windpipe transplants on three patients who died. Dr. Paolo Macchiarini made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world’s first stem cell windpipe transplants at Cooperation or competition? China's security industry sees the US, not AI, as the bigger threat 06/21/2023 04:14am • BEIJING (AP) — After years of breakneck growth, China’s security and surveillance industry is now focused on shoring up its vulnerabilities to the United States and other outside actors, worried about risks posed by hackers, advances in artificial intelligence and pressure from rival governments Why haven't China and the US agreed to restore military contacts? 06/21/2023 12:46am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up a closely watched visit to Beijing during which he and President Xi Jinping pledged to stabilize plunging U.S-China ties. But China refused the biggest U.S. request: restoring military-to-military contacts. Blinken said he In San Francisco, Biden talks with tech leaders about risks and promises of artificial intelligence 06/20/2023 10:28pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden convened a group of technology leaders on Tuesday to debate what he called the “risks and enormous promises” of artificial intelligence. The Biden administration is seeking to figure out how to regulate the emergent field of AI, looking for ways to nurt Emergency plans for pet owners: what you need to know 06/20/2023 09:51pm • June is Pet Preparedness Month, and animal advocates and first responders say it's important to make sure your pet is included in your plans. Whether it's an evacuation or a personal emergency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a website with a checklist of things to consider, includin What to know about Hunter Biden's plea deal in federal tax and gun case 06/20/2023 09:40pm • The announcement that federal prosecutors have reached a plea deal with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter over tax and gun charges marks the likely end of a five-year Justice Department investigation that has dogged the Biden family. It doesn't, however, mean that congressional Republicans are done