Month: December 2023

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer Aaron Rodgers’ quest to make an improbable return this season for the New York Jets appears over.…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — More than 2,000 workers remain underground for a second day in a protest over pay and benefits at a platinum mine in…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The grand jury indictment of a man charged with killing four University of Idaho students was…

MILAN (AP) — A court in northern Italy has convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-Pakistani woman of murdering her after she refused her…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The super PAC supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has launched a television ad…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new law taking aim at Philadelphia’s progressive prosecutor…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis political leaders and people connected to a shuttered nursing home are calling for…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has protested to Iran after a court ruling implicated the Islamic republic in a plan to attack a synagogue last year. The…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A state panel says Minnesota’s new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Civil rights organizations on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging a new Texas law that…

MILAN (AP) — An Italian fashion blogger-turned-businesswoman has apologized after being fined 1 million euros by Italy’s anti-trust authority for…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to more than…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands have returned after a week to the streets in a dozen of major cities across Slovakia to keep protesting a…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors in Las Vegas can proceed with their criminal…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor says Republican Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant language is…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Advocacy groups say thousands of struggling families in New York City are waiting unacceptably long times to receive…

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a former Haitian senator to life in prison for conspiring to…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s first provincial elections in a decade saw a relatively low turnout and largely…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — South Carolina and Florida were the two fastest-growing states in the U.S. this year. New…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Regulators have unanimously approved an additional 6% rate increase to pay for remaining costs at…

BERLIN (AP) — A Syrian man has been convicted of murder, attempted murder and bodily harm over two knife attacks in Germany this year. He was…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For decades, Christmas tree growers and breeders have been preparing for a future of hotter…

PERRY, Ga. (AP) — A man serving prison time for concealing the death of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in two…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A woman who bought a vase for $3.99 at a Virginia thrift store recently sold it for $107,000. Jessica Vincent said he…

YORK, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania death row inmate who spent more than two decades locked up has been released from prison following the…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s military wants to mobilize up to 500,000 more…

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says parliament members from French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist majority and a conservative…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket company has launched for the first time since a crash in 2022. The New…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, Associated Press and RUBENS VALENTE, Agencia Publica Associated Press JACI-PARANA, Brazil (AP) — In an unusual series of…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer ATLANTA (AP) — It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A federal scientific agency says the lone remaining offshore wind project in New Jersey…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Members of a union representing German train drivers have voted overwhelmingly to stage open-ended…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Residents in Guinea’s capital on Tuesday struggled with rising costs of transportation…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hackers accessed Xfinity customers’ personal information by exploiting a vulnerability in software used by the company, the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Security Council members are in intense negotiations on an Arab-sponsored…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations…

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in Kentucky have identified the remains of a man found wrapped in heavy chains and sunk to the bottom of a lake…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government is defending a decision to remove a piece of artwork on display at its consulate in New York. The…

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Residents in a western Pennsylvania county are calling for the resignation of an official who is facing felony animal…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The physicians’ group behind Ohio’s new reproductive rights amendment is urging a…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An open records lawsuit against former Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says it’ll give Northern Ireland 3.3 billion pounds, or about $4.2…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina voting-rights advocates have sued to overturn redistricting plans drawn…

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities continue to investigate the cause of a house fire in northwestern Arizona that left five people dead,…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ authorization for Catholic priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples is in…