Month: September 2023

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — State restrictions on books that can be made available to Iowa students have prompted some Des Moines area school…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The man accused of killing Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere last week and a rape and arson…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police oversight agency says it has closed an investigation into allegations that city officers engaged in sexual…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death creates a vacancy in the Senate at a time when Democrats…

CAIRO (AP) — A prominent Egyptian-American academic and pro-democracy activist during the reign of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A liberal group has filed a lawsuit in Michigan seeking to disqualify former president Donald Trump from the…

By RIO YAMAT and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac…

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has suspended former San Antonio Spurs guard Joshua Primo four games without pay for conduct detrimental to the league.…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Kurdish fighters and American forces have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group, a militant described as a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy will begin randomly testing its special operations forces for steroids and other…

By STEVE PEOPLES and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing pressure to appoint a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani’s soaring popularity was even more evident when it came to jersey sales. Ohtani had the best-selling jersey in…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of federal appeals judges has ruled that Tennessee and Kentucky can keep…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge says she is ending a conservatorship agreement between former NFL player…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says it plans to begin regulating laboratory-based medical…

By AHMAD MANTASH Associated Press SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — A Palestinian security force has deployed in a school complex in Lebanon’s largest…

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man who spent 18 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit was found not guilty at a second trial.…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of three former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices asked to review possible impeachment of a…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is rushing into a last-ditch plan to keep the…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A Spanish court has turned down an appeal to reopen the investigation into the 2021 death of British-American tycoon John…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has slammed U.S. aid for Ukraine and sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba and other nations. President Andrés…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Former Polish President Lech Walesa says he is supporting opposition leader Donald Tusk’s effort to oust Poland’s…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who disappeared days before he was supposed to be sentenced for…

NEW YORK (AP) — A potent rush-hour rainstorm has swamped the New York metropolitan area. The deluge Friday shut down swaths of the subway system,…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another Powerball drawing, another chance at a jackpot that is inching toward a billion dollars. The estimated $925 million…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — iHeartRadio has unveiled its star-studded 2023 Jingle Ball lineup, including performances by…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — iHeartRadio has unveiled its star-studded 2023 Jingle Ball lineup, including performances by…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ahead of Dustin Lynch’s six studio album, “Killed the Cowboy,” the 38-year-old country…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Student loan payments start up again for most borrowers in October, but more than 800,000 people who…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Flashes of intrigue greeted guests at Loewe’s meticulously designed space for Paris Fashion…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway says it will start barring Russian-registered passenger cars from entering the Scandinavian country starting next…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook,…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald Trump is set to make a personal pitch to California…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The 16-year-old male arrested for felling a 300-year-old sycamore tree near the Roman landmark of…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban representatives are in the Russian city of Kazan for talks on regional threats as Russia attempts to…

By MICHAEL BLOOD, MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in…