Month: November 2023

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Shane Macgowan, the singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues, best known for the Christmas…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis says he is suffering from acute and infectious bronchitis. He told an audience  on Thursday that doctors recommended he…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. says a six-week strike by the United Auto Workers union cut sales by about 100,000 vehicles and cost the company $1.7…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a mole species that has an…

By CIARÁN GILES and HERNÁN MUÑOZ Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Four migrants have died yards from shore in southern Spain after being forced…

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese defense ministry’s top spokesperson has said that the U.S. should stop interfering in both Taiwan and the South…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A vehicle wanted in connection with a homicide in Chicago smashed into a school bus while fleeing police in Milwaukee, sending…

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities in a Pakistani province are setting targets for police to…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have arrested a French woman who allegedly committed war crimes in Syria after joining the Islamic State…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed the strongest overhaul of lead in drinking water rules…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a 15-year-old boy and an alleged accomplice are accused of plotting to blow up a small truck at a Christmas market in…

By JAMEY KEATEN and BASSAM HATOUM Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Korean dog farmers have scuffled with police during a rally near the…

By COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Europeans are again seeing some relief as inflation dropped to 2.4% in November, the lowest in…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In the depths of captivity, they formed an unlikely but prized friendship. And reunited…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Elton John has urged British lawmakers to do more to fight HIV and AIDS. He says the U.K. can be the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday ahead of an update on U.S. consumer inflation and a…

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia’s maritime police force has intensified patrols in the Red Sea following a…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to extend their cease-fire by another…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — An official survey of Chinese manufacturers shows that factory activity contracted for a second…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis are squaring…

By STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Full Medicaid coverage starts this week for hundreds of thousands…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Middle East plays host to its second straight U.N. climate conference over…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The United States is ill-prepared to ensure housing and care for the growing ranks of America’s…

By NANCY BENAC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Until the bitter end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few in the tight circle of a…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for a double slaying in 2001 despite his claims that…

By NANCY BENAC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Until the bitter end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few in the tight circle of a…

By COURTNEY BONNELL and JOSH BOAK Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel led by Saudi Arabia and allied producers including Russia are…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — World leaders and other people offered a polarized reaction to the death of the lionized and vilified…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities say suspected drug cartel gunmen abducted seven Mexican immigration agents in Cancun at gunpoint and beat and…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Two suspects in the kidnapping of the parents of Liverpool soccer player Luis Díaz were ordered sent to prison by a judge,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and TARA COPP Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan plans to suspend its own Osprey flights after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in…

By NANCY BENAC Associated Press Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated…

By HALLIE GOLDEN and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government is willing to help build enough new clean energy projects in…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Republican Gov.-elect Jeff Landry has announced steps that he says are aimed at…

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Navy says underwater footage shows two points where a large plane is touching coral in a Hawaii bay. It’s…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press CHEORWON, South Korea (AP) — The alliance with the United States has allowed South Korea to build a strong…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed U.S. calls for a…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press CHEORWON, South Korea (AP) — To the steady rat-tat-tat of machine guns and exploding bursts of smoke, amphibious…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The nonprofit organization GivingTuesday estimates that donors gave $3.1 billion this year on what…

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Maui officials are on standby to prevent ash from August’s deadly wildfire in Lahaina from flowing into storm drains.…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Safety officials are releasing details of their investigation into a close call between a FedEx…

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — An Iowa teen who is believed to be one of the earliest victims of a notorious California serial killer has been identified…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man protesting against the Chinese government during the recent…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Daryl Hall has accused his longtime music partner John Oates of committing the…