Month: August 2023

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Torrential rains have triggered a landslide at a base camp of a revered Hindu temple…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A judge in Colombia has ordered President Gustavo Petro’s son freed from detention while he is investigated on…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A beloved bookstore in Vermont’s small capital city moved across the street to a new…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As state lawmakers rush to get a handle on fast-evolving artificial intelligence technology,…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Only a single municipality, the Village of Pingree Grove in Illinois, has signed a contract so far with the U.S.…

By COLLEEN LONG and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Justice Department was announcing the highest-profile…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press In the two-and-a-half years since the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, Congress passed a bipartisan law…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — On the battlefields of Ukraine, the fog of war plagues soldiers. And far from the fighting,…

By SAM METZ Associated Press FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — Simmering right-wing anger over the U.S. Justice Department’s indictment of former…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Senior U.N. officials say the conflict in Sudan has left 24 million people — half the…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The Justice Department has asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says it’s setting up a new process for air tour…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A funeral home in El Salvador has taken Barbie mania to an extreme, offering pink coffins with Barbie linings.…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police have a person in custody in connection with the death of a gay man who was fatally stabbed after a confrontation between a…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has delivered a speech full of…

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentine golfer Ángel Cabrera has been released from jail on parole after he completed two years in custody over gender…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Law professor and civil rights scholar Charles J. Ogletree Jr. has died after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s. He…

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A Muncie man has been formally charged with two counts of aggravated battery in connection with a weekend shooting that left…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A school bus carrying teenage campers rolled over on a winding Idaho highway Friday afternoon, injuring 11 people, the Idaho…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have approved the first pill specifically intended to treat severe…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal emergency managers say they’re making more progress in compensating…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands that has been active in recent weeks has spewed an ash cloud up to 30,000…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A career fraudster who escaped from a federal prison in Colorado nearly five years ago has been captured on…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft is back in contact again, after flight controllers…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is violating the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A crowd of thousands that packed Manhattan’s Union Square for a popular…