Month: January 2023

By RIAZ KHAN and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers,”…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has scrambled fighter jets and put navy ships and missile systems on alert in response to nearby operations by 34…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at…

By ISABEL DEBRE and SAM McNEIL Associated Press KHAN AL-AHMAR, West Bank (AP) — Protesters streaming up the windswept hills east of Jerusalem…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors linked Alec Baldwin to an expansive list of alleged failures in firearms safety as…

By AARON MORRISON and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tyre Nichols ’ family and friends remembered him with songs of faith…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HARUKA NUGA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says China’s growing assertiveness and…

By JOE Mcdonald AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets gained Thursday after the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy is moving…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines on Thursday announced plans to expand…

By SARA BURNETT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emboldened anti-abortion activists are looking to the 2024 presidential election as…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A procedural vote Wednesday in the House showed unified Republican support in…

By ROD McGUIRK Asspociated Press Australia has announced targeted financial sanctions and travel bans against “individuals responsible for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has logged its biggest monthly trade deficit ever, at $12.7 billion in…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley is moving closer to making her presidential campaign official. On Wednesday,…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong banned CBD as a “dangerous drug” and imposed harsh penalties for its possession on…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police on Tuesday arrested and raided the home of a former “Dances With Wolves”…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Organizers on Tuesday announced a lineup of more than 270 acts for New Orleans’ 40th annual French Quarter Festival,…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The new district attorney for California’s Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area says she’ll…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan House voted along party lines Tuesday to move the state’s primary to…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday night after being taken into…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Longtime University of California women’s swimming coach Teri McKeever has been fired following an investigation into…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Mourners paid their respects to Cardinal George Pell in a Sydney cathedral Wednesday a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The widow of a California man fatally shot by police in a Los Angeles suburb last year has…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois appellate court has upheld a temporary restraining order on…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In the wake of the shooting death of an environmental activist, Atlanta-area officials have reiterated…

CHICAGO (AP) — The body of a 96-year-old woman has been found inside a freezer in a garage behind a northwest Chicago apartment building. The…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has denounced activists who burned the Quran and hanged an…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a review of the awards campaign for the indie drama “To Leslie,” the Academy of Motion…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The population of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — General Motors has conditionally agreed to invest $650 million in Lithium Americas in a deal…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The independent U.N. special investigator on Myanmar is warning that the country’s…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Two monkeys taken from the Dallas Zoo were found Tuesday in an abandoned home after going missing…