Month: May 2023

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has opened a judicial investigation into an alleged hate crime perpetrated by the three people arrested this week for…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills is pumping the brakes on a paid family and medical leave proposal promoted by her fellow Democrats.…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief says he would be prepared to see the British economy slip back into…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three people have been convicted in the fatal shooting of a former Indiana University football player who was gunned down…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man who drove the car that helped pull down the statue of a Civil War hero and abolitionist outside of the Wisconsin state…

By ELISE RYAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift has been breaking records and delighting fans on the U.S. leg of her Eras Tour, a…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican No. 2 says a fever that a fatigued Pope Francis developed was owed to the fact…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A key index of U.S. prices ticked higher in April, and consumer spending rebounded, a…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Serbian border troops are on high alert following clashes inside…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a man of attempted arson for a New Year’s Eve incident in which he broke a window at a synagogue in…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Eighteen Belgian students have been found guilty for their role in the 2018 death of a freshman university student during a brutal…

ROME (AP) — An administrative court in Italy’s Alpine region has for now spared the life of the bear who fatally attacked a runner last…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say police in a Florida park fatally shot an armed woman who “ambushed” them as they were searching for a…

TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake has shaken Tokyo and other areas of eastern Japan, but no tsunami warning was issued. The U.S. Geological Survey…

LONDON (AP) — A Singapore court says Credit Suisse owes billionaire and former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili hundreds of millions of…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London court on Friday rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun tabloid to throw out a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A large unexploded bomb from World War II discovered in the Polish city of Wroclaw forced the evacuation of 2,500 residents…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say Russia’s southern Belgorod region that borders Ukraine has come came under…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police say they have arrested six migrant traffickers for allegedly organizing an illegal border crossing for…

CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia and the United States say the warring parties in Sudan are adhering better to a week-long cease-fire after days of…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — The attention brought by the latest case of abuse against Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior has…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says a Palestinian man has been shot and killed after he sneaked into a Jewish settlement in the occupied…

By HAVEN DALEY and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California rivers fed by winter’s massive Sierra Nevada snowpack have…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Officials say three people have died and up to 12 others are missing after a dinghy carrying migrants overturned near the…

LONDON (AP) — British Airways has canceled dozens of flights due to computer problems. That has disrupted the plans of thousands of travelers at…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tina Turner’s death is being mourned around the world. But in Australia, many people felt a special connection to the…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Technology stocks powered solid gains for Wall Street on Friday after another chipmaker…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have been left red-faced after a member of the public was able to slip into a VIP convoy for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The two children squinted to see through the thick smoke that hung in the air after a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has approved additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, including freezing…

By ACACIA CORONADO, JIM VERTUNO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday urged his…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain goes to the polls on Sunday for local and regional elections seen as a bellwether…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Asiana Airlines and government officials say a passenger opened an emergency exit door…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Three cheetah cubs born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year died in the past…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press DEBRECEN, Hungary (AP) — Just beyond the pastoral gardens and traditional homes of an eastern Hungarian village, a…