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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is seeking clarity after the former director of its American missionary fundraising office oversaw the transfer of at least $17 million of its endowment and donations into a new nonprofit and private equity fund that he created and currently manages, The Associated Press has learned. The new management of [...]
Vanessa Martinez was finishing preparations for her daughter’s second birthday in September 2021 when her ex-boyfriend broke into her Mesa, Ariz., condo and shot her in the head as she frantically tried to shield their three young children. Doctors had to remove a third of her skull, but Martinez survived. She left the hospital facing [...]
PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Jennifer Sepulveda used to drop off her 14-year-old son, Jorden, at the local mall on a Friday or Saturday night, where he would catch a movie with his friends and then hang out afterwards at the food court or elsewhere. Not anymore. Starting April 18, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, N.J., [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — As inflation on necessities like groceries remains stubbornly high, the well-heeled consumer appears to still be spending, while lower-income shoppers continue to cut back their purchases, according to the latest batch of earnings reports. Ralph Lauren Corp., which sells $300 sweaters and $500 handbags, reported a surprise increase in revenue in [...]
With the start of the summer travel season underway, airlines are hoping to avoid the chaos of last year and travelers are scrounging for ways to save a few bucks on pricey airfares and hotel rooms. Some travelers say they will settle for fewer trips than they hoped to take, or they will drive instead [...]
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation's largest wholesale drug distributors to keep shipping highly addictive painkillers for nearly four years after a judge recommended it be stripped of its license for its "cavalier disregard" of thousands of suspicious orders fueling the opioid crisis. The DEA did [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — Alondra Ruiz Vazquez and her husband were comfortable in Periwinkle Mobile Home Park for a decade, feeling lucky to own their mobile home and pay about $450 a month for their lot in a city with spiraling rents. Now they and dozens of other families have until May 28 to leave the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When John Podesta left his job as an adviser to President Barack Obama nearly a decade ago, he was confident that hundreds of miles of new power transmission lines were coming to the Southwest, expanding the reach of clean energy throughout the region. So, Podesta was shocked to learn last year, as [...]
What a difference little more than two years has made for Madison Township cattle farmer Joe Blystone, former candidate in the Republican primary race for governor. He has gone from fighting to become the state’s grassroots-based governor to believing that only the rich can compete in the political system. In November 2022, Blystone decided he [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is vowing to hold the states that won him the White House in 2020, but also compete in places it lost, such as North Carolina and increasingly Republican-dominated Florida, providing what it says are "a number of viable pathways to the 270 electoral votes" needed to clinch [...]