Month: January 2023

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press Democratic Gov. Tim Walz pledged Monday to make the largest investments in public education in Minnesota history…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court has elected the female chief justice in its history. Justice Norma Lucía Piña was sworn in for her…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In a story published January 2, 2023, about the French ambassador in Burkina Faso, The Associated Press erroneously reported…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gangsta Boo, a Southern rapper who was a former member of the hip-hop group…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is shutting down, having completed a whirlwind 18-month…

OTTAWA, Canada (AP) — Plans to host a repeat of the “Freedom Convoy” in the Canadian city of Winnipeg have been called off by one of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors plan to seek a decades-long prison sentence for a man who is expected to plead guilty this week to opening fire in a…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas announced that former baseball coach Cliff Gustafson, who led the Longhorns to two national championships and nearly two…

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Fenway Park, the MLB’s oldest active ballpark, has been transformed into an outdoor hockey arena…

GEORGE WEST, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a three-car crash in southern Texas has killed six people and injured five others. Authorities say the…

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Flower-covered floats, marching bands and equestrian units celebrated the New Year on a chilly but dry Monday as the 134th…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s political and military leadership says no nation will be allowed to shelter militants who stage attacks against the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have raised the death toll from an attack on a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso,…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An attorney says Louisiana authorities’ use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken-identity arrest of a…

By JAMEY KEATEN and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Much of the Alps just don’t look right for this time of year. Sparse…

Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A police officer has been charged over his role in the death of two teenagers during the high-speed…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Latin American leaders converged on Brazil to meet with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s vice president says the death toll in a stampede at a shopping mall during New Year’s celebrations in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s longtime personal secretary has written a tell-all book that…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say three construction workers were killed and two others were hurt when scaffolding collapsed in an industrial…

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Relatives of a man arrested in Pennsylvania in the slayings of four University of Idaho students expressed sympathy for the…

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has said he wants to have his father and brother back and that he wants “a family, not an institution,” during a TV…

BERLIN (AP) — Scuffles have broken out outside a village in western Germany that is to be razed to allow the expansion of a coal mine, a plan that…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The president of the European Parliament has launched an urgent procedure to waive the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A possible strike by thousands of New York City nurses loomed Monday even as nurses at one hospital reached a tentative agreement…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When lawyers argue before the Supreme Court, a small white light goes on to tell them when…