Month: June 2022

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Some Republican activists are calling on abolishing Georgia’s open primary system. They are…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the husband-and-wife…

The Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say the chief of a volunteer fire department is accused of fatally shooting a…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Chesapeake Bay watershed has received an overall grade of C+ on its latest report card.…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is beefing up her campaign coffers in an effort to stave off GOP…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of ethnically divided Cyprus says he will lodge a complaint with the United Nations over Turkey’s new…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Lawyers have revealed a potential defense for an Alabama prisoner who walked out of jail with a corrections official,…

By MARTÍN ADAMES Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic’s minister of the environment and natural…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden on Monday praised Nancy Reagan as a first lady who “made such a…

Associated Press (AP) — New York lawmakers have passed a bill targeting the use of warehouse productivity quotas in the state. The legislation aims…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a criminal investigation after a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities are moving to seize a $60 million Gulfstream and a $350 million aircraft…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has declared a second mistrial for a man charged in the 2015 killing of a pastor’s wife after jurors learned details…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The public defenders representing Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz tried to…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A British journalist and an Indigenous affairs expert are missing in…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday following a bond sell-off on Wall Street amid anxiety…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge overseeing the remaining case against two former Minneapolis…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state’s three-drug lethal injection…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — British health officials have reported another 77 cases of monkeypox. That raises the U.K. total to…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s election agency says the ruling party of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen easily topped the field…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The government of Poland, where a near-total abortion ban is in place, faced accusations…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court has convicted a pastor of plotting to overthrow the government and…

TRONA, Calif. (AP) — The Navy has made public the identity of a pilot killed in the crash of a fighter jet in the Southern California desert last…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At a lunch for Tony Award nominees last month, veteran theater producer Ron Simons looked…