Month: September 2023

JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska authorities don’t expect any lingering problems related to Thursday’s explosion…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tapped to investigate impeaching a current…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic has shut all land, air and…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has warned that Lebanon is still facing enormous economic challenges…

MOSCOW (AP) — One American and two Russian space crew members blasted off Friday aboard a Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Like so many tennis fans around the world, Nathan Willett was captivated by Carlos Alcaraz’s…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Labor officials in New Jersey have lifted a stop-work order that had temporarily shut…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University has given final approval to wide-ranging cuts…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced new U.S. sanctions on “some of Iran’s more egregious…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, MICHELLE L. PRICE and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — Students were dancing in the aisles and their seats…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A jury has acquitted three men in the last trial connected to a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The U.S. Agency for International Development has given Kosovo another grant to help the country’s integration into the…

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A judge has found an Iowa man guilty in the murder of a 10-year-old girl who was missing for eight months before her remains…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press NAZLET EL-SHARIF, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian village is mourning dozens of its men killed in the horrific floodwaters…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Renowned Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose depictions of people and objects in plump, exaggerated forms…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has heard evidence of alleged torture during the rule of late dictator Francisco Franco. Human rights groups say the…

By MEAD GRUVER and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Mitt Romney’s announcement this week that he will not seek another term in the U.S.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Archaeologists have exhumed the remains of one person and plan to exhume a second in the search…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The new coach of Spain’s women’s team has had to delay the announcement of her first…

By BARAA ANWER Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The U.N.’s World Heritage Committee has placed two major historical sites in Ukraine…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Members of the volunteer arm of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Hispanic history and culture take center stage across the U.S. for National Hispanic Heritage Month.…

DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — Five adults and a 15-year-old self-described as “Soldiers of Christ” religious group members were in custody on murder…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A red sweater adorned with a flock of sheep worn by the young Princess Diana has sold at auction for…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S.-based pharmaceuticals company Johnson & Johnson is being investigated in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described American XL Bully dogs as a “danger to our…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European regulators slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland is joining its three Baltic neighbors in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a meeting Friday with his Belarusian ally, who suggested that Minsk could could join…

LONDON (AP) — Around 3,000 workers at Britain’s biggest steelworks face the prospect of losing their jobs as part of a government-backed package…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is marking the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s central bank has raised its key lending rate by one percentage point to 13%, a month after imposing an even larger…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is challenging efforts by ex-President Donald Trump to disqualify the…