Month: May 2022

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Baz Luhrmann was first in Cannes exactly 30 years ago with his debut “Strictly Ballroom,”…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — About 400 workers at Planned Parenthood offices in five Midwestern states plan to unionize.…

By MILEXSY DURÁN and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press VILLA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — Some of the more than 840 Haitians who tried to reach the United…

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, a July Fourth holiday tradition in the city, is returning to its full glory after a three-year…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Blake Shelton will lend his voice to the Indianapolis 500 as the grand marshal for Sunday’s race. The country music star will…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Just days removed from finishing her latest film and hours after arriving in Cannes, Claire…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The International Organization for Migration says up to 600 people attempting to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has allowed the Biden administration to use a higher estimate than Republican-led states want for calculating…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers have approved the removal of a disciplinary body of the top court that the right-wing government has…

By CAROLE FELDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says he’s ashamed the United States is…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted by a narrow margin to extend an arms embargo on…

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of students at Oxford High School in Michigan walked out to show their support for students and families in Uvalde,…

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in the murder trial of a former Virginia Tech football player have rested their case. On Thursday,…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister says that he will quickly prepare an economic reform…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — This summer is a crucial one for Atlantic City as it tries to recover lost business…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — As he listened to his father die, the boy lay still on the asphalt. His elbow hurt where a…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has told the head of the United Nations that Turkey is directly challenging its…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, ERIKA KINETZ and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — For a month now, Russian forces have repeatedly…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Harvard University gradates that the flood of disinformation spread and…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, ANNIE MA and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press A day after the school massacre in Texas, Ohio teacher Renee Coley thought her sixth…

By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem “witch” who wasn’t has been…

BERLIN (AP) — Russia has received a frosty reception at the start of an international conference on managing and protecting Antarctica. The 10-day…

By ASHIFA KASSAM Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s parliament has voted to approve a bill that makes consent a key determinant in sexual…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek official says the crude oil cargo of an Iranian-flagged tanker that was stopped…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill requiring public school students to use only the bathroom of the sex listed on…