Month: August 2022

By BILL BARROW Associated Press KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Republican Herschel Walker has plenty to say about how his Democratic rival, U.S. Sen. Raphael…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The alleged assassin of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was born into an affluent but…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer Elton John and Britney Spears have collaborated for the first time, creating the slinky, club-ready single…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — When Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivers what will be his most…

SYDNEY (AP) — Authorities have found 1.8 metric tons (2 U.S. tons) of methamphetamine hidden in marble tiles shipped from the Middle East to Sydney…

TUCSON, Arizona (AP) — Four people have been killed, including a local law enforcement official, in a shooting at an apartment complex in southern…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pledging to renegotiate household debts if he wins October’s…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman has denied accusations that she plotted with QAnon supporters to…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection next month says the state lost the paperwork he turned…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — They’re your run-of-the-mill “salarymen,” as company workers in Japan are called —…

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A woman has been arrested and faces a possible hate crime charge after she was captured on video in a racist rant and assault…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press Gabrielle Perry, a 29-year-old epidemiologist in New Orleans, expects $20,000 of her $135,000 student loan debt to be…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials say there’s enough evidence a rare fish along the California-Nevada…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says the latest fever cases detected in its border region with China were…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A U.S. senator has met with Taiwan’s president in Taipei, in the second visit by…

GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Police say an arrest has been made in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy waiting at a suburban Indianapolis school bus…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Black man wrongfully convicted as a teenager for a New Orleans rape more than 36 years ago…

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A former South Texas mayor has been acquitted of organized election fraud and illegal voting. A Hidalgo County jury…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s former public works director was sentenced Thursday to seven years in…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge has granted a request by a Roman Catholic priest to have a 2014 arrest expunged from his record after a…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The benefits provided by four giant hydroelectric dams on the Snake River must be…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and DON THOMPSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homicides in California increased again last year — as did other violent…

By JAMES ANDERSON and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado woman has struck a plea deal to testify against her boss, who became…