Month: August 2021

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery players will get more chances to win giant jackpots as the Powerball game…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son will be attending an exclusive private school not far from…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — U.S. Naval Academy officials announced Friday that 18 midshipmen have been expelled and another 82 sanctioned after an…

LONDON (AP) — A police watchdog says a 22-year-old man who fatally shot five people in southwestern England this month had his confiscated shotgun…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO foreign ministers have committed to focus on ensuring the safe evacuation from Afghanistan of…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A jury has found a chiropractor and Navy veteran guilty in the gruesome killings of four people at a North Dakota property…

By IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America HELENA, Mont. (AP) — While large companies across the U.S. have announced that COVID-19…

FINLAND, Minn. (AP) — Authorities fighting a northeastern Minnesota wildfire have ordered additional evacuations after the blaze jumped a highway.…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has issued a call for experts to join a new advisory group it’s forming, in part to address the…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered the government to take money from the prison account of a former Michigan sports doctor who owes…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban face a major challenge in cementing control of Afghanistan: Money. The military blitz…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a 1-year-old boy who drowned in the Florida Everglades after a car wreck have been arrested. Marc…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An amusement park in Ohio says the world’s second-tallest roller coaster won’t open again…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Major League Baseball is ending a 70-year relationship with trading card company Topps after signing a new…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Producer Mike Richards stepped down from his brief tenure as host of “Jeopardy!” after a…

By MICHAEL HILL and MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lawyer has again attacked the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Faced with slowing numbers of people getting COVID-19 vaccinations, South Africa has…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — K-pop isn’t the only entertainment export from South Korea that’s earned fans…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jason Momoa doesn’t get to play many ordinary guys. He’s Aquaman. He’s Khal Drogo. He’s Conan the Barbarian.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is extending a ban on nonessential travel along the borders with Canada and Mexico to slow the spread of…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson will replace Chairman and CEO Alex Gorsky with another veteran company executive starting next…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Anyone who has to get an injection in the U.S. probably has horseshoe crabs to thank for…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The embattled leader of the Minnesota Republican Party has been forced to resign following accusations that she ran an operation…

By JAMES ANDERSON and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Anxiety in the United States over COVID-19 is at its highest level since…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish refugee rights group says 32 people who fled Afghanistan have been trapped for 12…