Month: October 2023

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Asylum seekers have started returning to the barge moored off the south coast of England, more than two…

BOSTON (AP) — A man has been charged with raping a woman who thought he was the driver she requested after leaving a Boston nightclub. Police say…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A study says Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of bringing guns to the Wisconsin state Capitol building is free on a…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — People are set to duck under desks and tables in California and around the world for an annual drill practicing ways to…

By KENYA HUNTER AP Health Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on certain hair-straightening chemicals…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court in Amsterdam has sentenced a Polish-Canadian national to two months in prison…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president says she is postponing the appointment of a new Cabinet following last month’s parliamentary…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Australia have agreed to further expand defense ties including with joint military…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty to reduced charges over efforts to overturn Donald…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon report on China’s military power says Beijing is on track to…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal authorities say that thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S.…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — While screenwriters are busy back at work, film and TV actors remain on picket lines,…

PARIS (AP) — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics say their headquarters have again been visited by French financial prosecutors who are…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia says it will introduce border checks with neighboring Hungary and Croatia following Italy’s decision to do…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Once an activist in a left-leaning youth movement, Rubén Dávalos is now among…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a passenger in a vehicle stopped in a hit-and-run investigation and sheriff’s deputies exchanged gunfire…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Liberal discontent over rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is playing…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Abdesalem Lassoued had been denied residency in four European countries by the time he shot three…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in eight months last week as businesses continue to…

LONDON (AP) — The European Union has ratcheted up its scrutiny of Big Tech companies with demands for Meta and TikTok to detail their efforts to…

ROME (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights has found Italy violated the human rights of residents living in and around Naples by failing to…

LONDON (AP) — A bottle of “the most-sought-after Scotch whisky” is set to go up for auction next month, with an estimated price of up to 1.2…

LONDON (AP) — The Guardian newspaper has fired longtime editorial cartoonist Steve Bell after refusing to run a caricature of Israeli Prime…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press ARRAS, France (AP) — Loved ones and colleagues have mourned and celebrated the life of a…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Nethlerlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court is dropping some 20 charges of murder,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Northern Europe is bracing for bad weather including gale-force winds from the east on Thursday and Friday, with…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Voters are casting ballots in two special elections in England that could add more misery to the…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media reports that the final phase of registration for candidates who want to run in Iran’s parliamentary…

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) — An International Atomic Energy Agency team is in Fukushima for the agency’s first…