UK leader Keir Starmer is marking 100 days in office. It has been a rocky ride
LONDON -- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks 100 days in office Saturday with little cause for celebration.Starmer’s center-left Labour...
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California Senate passes bill aimed at preventing gas price spikes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The California state Senate passed a measure Friday to prevent gas prices from spiking in a state...
Brazil starts blocking irregular online gambling as concern rises over addiction
SAO PAULO -- Brazil on Friday started blocking over 2,000 gambling websites designated as irregular, part of a push by...
Social Security recipients will get a 2.5% cost-of-living boost in 2025
WASHINGTON -- Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 2.5% cost-of-living increase to their monthly checks beginning in January,...
US filings for jobless benefits jump to 258,000, the most in more than a year
The number of Americans filing for for unemployment benefits last week jumped to their highest level in a year, which...
National grantmakers bet this rural education program can scale
In 2010, Dreama Gentry met Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, a much-lauded nonprofit that supports youth from birth...
New analysis suggests national debt could increase under Harris, but it would surge under Trump
WASHINGTON -- No one is likely to be happy with the projected higher deficits laid out in a new analysis...
Kazakhstan faces up to the legacy of Soviet weapons testing in a vote on nuclear power
MOSCOW -- Polls are open in Kazakhstan Sunday for a landmark referendum on building the country’s first nuclear power plant,...
As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses
LOS ANGELES -- For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing...
Takeaways from AP’s report on affordable housing disappearing across the U.S.
LOS ANGELES -- While Americans continue to struggle under unrelentingly high rents, as many as 223,0000 affordable housing units across...
