WASHINGTON (AP) — With ever-rising costs for food, gasoline, housing and other necessities squeezing consumers and threatening the economy, inflation in the United States likely set yet another four-decade high in March.The government’s consumer price index being released Tuesday is expected to show that prices shot up 8.4% from 12 months earlier, according to economists…Continue Reading
BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. has ordered non-emergency government staff to leave Shanghai, which is under a tight lockdown to contain a COVID-19 surge.Many residents in the city of 26 million have been confined to their homes for up to three weeks as China maintains its “zero-COVID” strategy of handling outbreaks with strict isolation and…Continue Reading
CLEVELAND (AP) — Unflappable. Maybe that’s the best word to describe Cavaliers prized rookie forward Evan Mobley.Or maybe unafraid. Or undeniable. Unreal could fit, too.At roughly the same time the NBA wraps up this season after the Finals in June, Mobley will turn 21. So by the time he’s old enough to legally consume an…Continue Reading
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury in Virginia is scheduled to hear opening statements Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit filed by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.Depp says Heard libeled him when she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp…Continue Reading
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has become the first state to criminalize the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender people under age 19. In line with some other Republican-led states, legislators here also passed a law requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex at birth and prohibiting discussion of gender…Continue Reading
ATLANTA (AP) — The National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America on Tuesday, and its findings are grim. This year’s Equality Index shows Black people still get only 73.9 percent of the American pie white people enjoy. While Black people have made economic and health gains, they’ve slipped farther…Continue Reading
Sri Lanka’s leaders are showing no signs of stepping down in the face of mounting protests as the government ramps up efforts to find emergency funds to import essential goods and avoid an international default. In a national address, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa called on citizens to be patient as price surges and shortages worsen,…Continue Reading
Yoga instructor Jenny Tao was home with her husband and two kids in their one-bedroom Shanghai apartment last month when she got the phone call. She and her husband, a community health worker, had tested positive for COVID-19. They were taken to a special hospital for COVID-19 patients with their 3-year-old son, who also tested…Continue Reading
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Families with transgender teens sued the state of Alabama in federal court on Monday to overturn a law that makes it a crime for doctors to treat trans youth under 19 with puberty blockers or hormones to help affirm their gender identity. The two lawsuits — one on behalf of two families…Continue Reading
The impacts of Covid-19, rising global inequality and soaring food prices caused by the war in Ukraine are set to send more than a quarter-billion more people into poverty this year, according to charity group Oxfam International. The combined hit may result in a total of 860 million people living below the $1.90 a day…Continue Reading
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