Month: July 2023

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The sales tax in Milwaukee will go up 2 cents per dollar next year after the Common Council…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Crews extinguished the intensely burning fire aboard a cargo ship docked in New Jersey after nearly a week and are now…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The fossilized skeletons of an aerial predator with a 20-foot wingspan and an aquatic reptile…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say an arrest warrant has been issued for a close friend of Memphis Grizzlies…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer A federal judge has handed Microsoft a major victory by declining to block its looming $69 billion…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities say that three people have been killed in a helicopter crash in…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis and the U.S. government are urging owners of some 2003 Dodge Ram pickups to stop driving…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a contentious natural gas…

BERLIN (AP) — A German surgeon has been ordered to pay a fine of $7,900 for parachuting into the stadium before a European Championship match in…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elina Svitolina is back in her first Grand Slam semifinal since 2019. She got there…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say a pilfered palm tree led them to detain a homeless man who was sentenced to 18 years in neighboring…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that restrictions imposed by a government ministry on a…

By SALLY HO Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Major League Baseball’s quest for the crown of cool will be on display Tuesday when its top players…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron wants to award recruitment and retention…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a monthslong inquiry, which included reviewing tens of thousands of pages of documents from…

By ALLEN G. BREED, RANDY HERSCHAFT Associated Press The apocalyptic scene is still burned into Mike Buttery’s memory 50 years later: Black smoke…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio is bringing a scholarships and a climate education program to his…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don’t need to install…

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that the doors on some Ford Escapes can open while the SUVs are…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s conservative opposition leader says large-scale migration is one of the country’s…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion will headline this year’s…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press ANDOVER, Vt. (AP) — A storm that dumped up to two months of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received a hero’s welcome at a concert in Lithuania’s capital where he…