Month: August 2022

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after strong U.S. jobs data fueled expectations…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An anti-death penalty group says Alabama corrections officials apparently botched a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House has approved a bill that outlaws abortion…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government plans to present an amended budget…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, MARC LEVY and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday railed against the “MAGA…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Victims of abuse and their families saw a quiet breakthrough this summer when a new bipartisan…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Hours before Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared “a major step forward to secure our border”…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones acquired from Tehran this month…

SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — A resident of a San Francisco Bay Area senior citizens home died after being mistakenly served dishwashing liquid as…

NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied an appeal from a New York Police Department detective who asked for an emergency…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico have confirmed that a ‘lucha libre’ wrestler had been found dead over the weekend in the north-central…

By BERNIE WILSON and JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writers SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke says he didn’t know star punter…

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas federal court ruling that exempts a group of religious health care providers…

DETROIT (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has found that Tesla can’t stop factory employees from wearing clothing with union insignia…

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 and plans to return to Washington on Tuesday. The president’s wife…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A new trial is set for March for a North Carolina-based insurance magnate whose previous convictions on corruption-related…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he’s far from satisfied with the federal…

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska death row inmate who strangled his cellmate after complaining he talked too much has died at the state prison in…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Two more accusers have taken the witness stand at R. Kelly’s child pornography and…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy is being held on suspicion of shooting and wounding a student at a school in east Oakland, California.…

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced an Illinois man to 55 years in prison for the shooting death of a deputy U.S. marshal serving…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A New Jersey man who posed as a former New England Patriots player in order to buy and sell Super Bowl rings that he…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The Canadian government has raised the Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill as a way to honor Indigenous Peoples forced to…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air…

by ASTRID SUAREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Police in Colombia are investigating the murder of two journalists who…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Before three Dutch soldiers were shot, one fatally, in downtown…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have sued a data broker they accuse of selling sensitive geolocation data…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The governments of Venezuela and Colombia have taken a step toward normalizing…