Month: June 2023

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — American lawyer Kimberly West has been appointed as the chief prosecutor linked to a European Union-backed court…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The United Nations anti-drug agency is warning that the huge trade in…

By SUZAN FRASER and CINAR KIPER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a populist with increasingly…

By ABBY SEWELL and ALBERT AJI Associated Press PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — At the height of the Islamic State group’s rampage across Syria, the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has reopened its embassy in the Seychelles after a 27-year absence during which China and other U.S. rivals…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — U.S. authorities on Thursday expanded slots to seek asylum at land…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — As tensions grow between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific, Australian Prime…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rushed higher after a strong report on the U.S. job market eased Wall Street’s worries…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration accused the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — As a high school senior, Nick was blessed with a deadly accurate jump shot from the…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he wants to cut the number of municipalities in the country from 262 to 44…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has signed a trade agreement with Taiwan over opposition from China, which claims the self-ruled island…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka, which declared bankruptcy last year, is showing signs…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — Border Patrol medical staff declined to review the file of an 8-year-old girl with a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A college student who authorities say admitted setting fire to a building slated to become…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, HANNAH FINGERHUT and RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa task force has completed a search for…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs,…

MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. National Hurricane Center forecasters said late Thursday that the storm had…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is nothing if not a political survivor.…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic got a triple-double in his NBA Finals debut, Jamal Murray scored 26 points and the…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Meta is temporarily blocking some Canadian users from accessing news content on Facebook and Instagram as part of a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A judge agreed Thursday to delay the first criminal trial in the death of Elijah McClain, a…

By JOHNSON LAI and HIROYUKI KOMAE Associated Press NAHA, Japan (AP) — Heavy rains intensified by Tropical Storm Mawar are falling on Japan’s main…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Senate Democrats plan to start fining their absent colleagues amid a month-long Republican walkout, a move they hope will…

Associated Press Journalists across the U.S. will walk off their jobs next week at roughly two dozen newsrooms run by Gannett, the largest newspaper…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Montana’s new law banning drag reading events at public libraries has led to the cancellation of a…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial years…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered Diamond Sports to pay the full value of its media contracts to the Arizona…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government agency charged with keeping the roads safe is slow to investigate automobile…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s attorney general and its Environment Department have filed suit against the…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that would broadly ban K-12 public school employees in Louisiana from discussing…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the annual celebration of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen uprising approaches, a new exhibit…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — There are 32 school districts in Mississippi still under federal…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner of his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota in the elevator of her Washington apartment…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press Relatives of two young boys killed by gunfire as they played with kittens in the backyard of their Pennsylvania home…

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Alabama have fatally shot a man who earlier fired a gun at a utility worker trying to shut off his…