Month: February 2023

By MADDIE BURAKOFF and DREW COSTLEY After a catastrophic 38-train car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, some officials are raising concerns about a…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At a cost of more than $1 million, the Metropolitan Opera has built duplicate sets for Francois…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison for stealing more than $2.6 million in…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and two library associations are suing…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press A film-industry weapons supervisor made her first formal court appearance Friday on a felony charge in the…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The United Nations says a powerful gang has taken over numerous communities in central Haiti in recent weeks and has…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered the release of a redacted version of an investigative report detailing sex…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and Ukraine faced off at the U.N. Security Council on the first anniversary of…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Some top officials in Idaho are raising alarms over the Republican attorney general’s…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is aiming to draw a contrast between his health care priorities and those of…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Republican Rep. John James of Michigan is opting against a campaign for the Senate seat being…

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former U.S. Marine is being hailed as a hero Friday for finding a 2-year-old boy who had been missing since wandering…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yes, “Cocaine Bear” is a real movie. And it might be a hit. Since the trailer first debuted for…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Thirteen years after “Party Down” was canceled by Starz, the series is back with a six-episode third season…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden gave one of the clearest indications yet that President Joe…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan designers have tapped female power on the third day of Milan Fashion Week, previewing…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has struck down a federal rule requiring Gulf of Mexico charter boat…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Navy appears to have learned its lesson after cramming too much technology onto ships,…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A man was released Friday after serving nearly 21 years in a Michigan prison, freed from a life…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A 76-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in a Florida hospital is asking to be…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Can the Federal Reserve keep raising interest rates and defeat the nation’s worst bout…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Austin Butler, you may have heard, has taken a bit of flack for sounding too much like Elvis now that he’s…

CHICAGO (AP) — State labor officials are investigating an Illinois-based pharmaceutical company’s decision to abruptly close all of its…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man accused in 2020 of plotting terror attacks in the U.S. has pleaded…