Month: September 2022

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has voted to allow Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinians have commemorated the 40th anniversary of the horrific killings in a refugee camp in…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia school district’s directive to remove pride flags from classrooms is drawing complaints from students…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has found key parts of Michigan’s newborn blood-testing program unconstitutional in a…

BERLIN (AP) — A town in central Germany has voted in favor of letting all swimmers bathe topless at its four municipal pools. German news agency…

By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A boil-water advisory has been lifted for Mississippi’s capital, and the state will…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Naomi Watts had some reservations about remaking the Austrian horror “Goodnight Mommy.” The 2014 film from…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has ordered a probe in the case of a young woman who slipped into a coma while in police…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis’…

By RODRIQUE NGOWI, GISELA SALOMON and CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — The chief executive of Martha’s Vineyard…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A leading international rights group has released a harrowing report about six members of an…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press FLAMING GORGE RESERVOIR, Wyo. (AP) — Tony Valdez wasn’t worried about being left high and dry when he bought…

By ZAK PODMORE The Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — The second driest state in the country, Utah, doesn’t contribute much water to…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court has issued a summons ordering an ex-president to appear in a case…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese depositors have stormed at least five banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The long goodbye for Queen Elizabeth II is a reminder of a broader truth playing out with little…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch has unveiled plans for new laws that it said would help…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s coast guard says five people have been found dead in the Aegean Sea after a migrant boat sank. The boat, carrying 20…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordanian officials say the death toll from the collapse this week of a four-story building in the Jordanian capital of Amman…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese-born Kazakh activist is preparing to register a political party in Kazakhstan to counter…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Officials say divers searched through the night for a student missing after a rowing team’s boat capsized in an Orlando lake…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Fiona is passing near Guadeloupe, hitting some of the Caribbean’s easternmost islands with strong rain and wind as…

BERLIN (AP) — German customs officials say a trail of slime led them to a stash of almost 100 giant African land snails and other items hidden…

BEIJING (AP) — A massive fire has sent flames and black smoke pouring from a 42-story skyscraper in central China belonging to the country’s…