Month: June 2023

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New Yorkers who commit crimes could have their records automatically sealed…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will tour for the second straight summer, appearing in eight cities…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A young black bear gave residents of a quiet northeast Washington neighborhood a start Friday…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A new philanthropic funding initiative announced Friday will support campaigns for reparations for…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Friday to helping two other men charged with fatally shooting…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to travel to China next week as the Biden…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden next week is set to attend his first political rally since…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court says it has accepted requests from 32 countries…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it will provide an additional $2.1 billion in long-term weapons aid for…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has turned aside an appeal by a man scheduled to be executed in August for killing a…

MILAN (AP) — Italian media are reporting that former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been admitted to a Milan hospital where he spent 45 days…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, pleaded…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow as…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Troy Kotsur made history as the first Deaf male actor win an Oscar at the Academy Awards, he was…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has appointed a former U.S.-based bank executive to head the…

ELMONT, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Racing Association has announced that live racing will resume at Belmont Park on Friday following significant…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A grainy black-and-white gunsight video Russia released this week to bolster a claim its…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A far-right party banned from participating in Greece’s upcoming election has pledged support for a newly founded political…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Advocates for survivors of child sexual abuse say momentum is growing for completely…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has ordered that a Dutch museum’s trove of…

The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A cartoonist’s lawyer says Iranian authorities have summoned and arrested her over…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — One by one over the past two weeks, members of Jewish congregations in Pittsburgh have come to…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish government official says the bodies of two migrants were found on a beach in southeastern Spain after 132 other people…