Month: September 2023

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s National Guard has been deployed to help fight a large landfill fire in the U.S Virgin Islands that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife have been indicted on charges of bribery. Federal prosecutors on Friday…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Across New York City, civil society groups and large philanthropies meet on the sidelines of the…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is “at the cusp” of a historic breakthrough leading to a peace…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Some names are just the wurst. Just four months after announcing that the hot dog-shaped Wienermobile was changing its name to…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A United Methodist Church court acquitted a California bishop Friday of all charges in the first trial of one of the…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Two Virginia Beach parents have filed a lawsuit seeking to force their local school system to adopt Republican…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s government has approved the purchase of U.S.-made Stryker combat vehicles to modernize the country’s land…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man wanted for a 2021 killing in Minnesota was mistakenly released from jail in Indianapolis last week and authorities are…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian authorities say Israeli forces killed a Palestinian militant in the north of the…

ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press The Energy Department will announce Friday a $325 million investment in new battery types that can help turn…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian authorities have dropped spying allegations against an unidentified 25-year-old foreign student and are now…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The husband of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has been diagnosed with lung cancer. In an announcement Thursday, the governor…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Chinese dissident known for posting pictures on social media commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown says he had…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department and China’s Ministry of Finance launched a pair of economic…

Associated Press It should soon become clear whether the strike by auto workers against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis is going to grow. The…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian court has ruled that a man wanted by Rwanda for his alleged role in the African nation’s 1994 genocide…

SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon Prime Video will include advertising during shows and movies starting early next year, joining other streaming services that…

LONDON (AP) — European Union antitrust enforcers have slapped Intel with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight that the chipmaker…

By SAMYA KULLAB and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian official says Ukraine carried out a missile strike on the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Smog containing gases from a restive Philippine volcano has sickened dozens of students and prompted 25 nearby towns and…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — A long-standing border dispute between India and China has left three Indian martial arts…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Another member of K-pop supergroup BTS has begun his mandatory military service in…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament has approved landmark legislation that reserves one-third of the seats in…

By TODD WALLACK AND CHRISTINE WILLMSEN, WBUR Deb Libby is running out of time to find a place to live. Libby, 56, moved to Worcester, Massachusetts,…

By AARON MORRISON AP Race and Ethnicity News Editor U.S. breaking pros who hope to compete in the Paris Olympics next year have a challenge. As…

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many baseball fans, especially older ones, originally fell in love with America’s pastime…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Schools for millions of students in Nepal are closed as tens of thousands of…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — In the first Asian Games since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, two teams of…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping said that China and Syria will announce a strategic partnership as he kicked off a series of diplomatic…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Azerbaijan says it’s delivering food and other humanitarian aid to…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish police say two people have been killed and two wounded in a shooting at a pub northwest of Stockholm. The shooting late…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Sudan’s army chief has warned that the war in the northeast African country could…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A prominent peace forum in Ethiopia has been postponed as clashes between the federal…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators has signaled that Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy…

BORDEAUX, France (AP) — Britain’s King Charles III is heading to Bordeaux on the third day of his state visit to France to focus on climate…