Month: December 2023

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters. Across an…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. food inspectors found “extremely high” lead levels in cinnamon at a plant in Ecuador that made applesauce…

By JIM SALTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The largest nursing home in St. Louis has closed suddenly, forcing about…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and PAUL J. WEBER McALLEN, Texas The U.S. government has shut down railroad crossing operations in two busy Texas border towns.…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors has been convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend during a…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to review a gag…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The attorney for a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is arguing that his client had…

By MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it is conducting more on-site…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College athletes who have transferred multiple times but were denied the chance to compete…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Nikola Corp. has been sentenced to four years in prison for his conviction for…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Authorities say a boarding school building partially collapsed in central Romania on Monday, leaving one person dead and…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A deadly outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe continues to grow.…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — France’s foreign minister is urging Lebanese leaders to work on reducing tensions along the border…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision by state regulators to grant a major…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department has created a database to track records of misconduct by…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America A 5-year-old boy who had been living at a temporary shelter for migrants in Chicago has died.…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a trial in North Dakota’s lawsuit for the federal…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial…

By DAVID CRARY Associated Press The Catholic church, in its doctrine, still rejects same-sex marriage and condemns any sexual relations between gay…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote on an Arab-sponsored resolution calling…

By KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press If you’re looking to make pretty Christmas cookies without any fuss or fancy decorating, drop cookies are a…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching a new program to cover Indigenous…

LONDON (AP) — British media report that comedian Russell Brand has been questioned for a second time by police investigating allegations of sexual…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has called for the resignation of the state prosecutor in Guanajuato in light of the state’s high…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities have arrested a player on the Sacramento Kings’ G League affiliate and his girlfriend in the killing of a woman…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice via a once-popular YouTube channel called “8 Passengers,”…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for how such blessings can…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winners of the I Love My Librarian Award took on a lot more than selecting books…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to deliver a speech by Pakistan’s…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — The Maryland Stadium Authority has approved a lease extension for the Baltimore Orioles at…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Attorneys for a Kentucky woman who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion have…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on Russia over its war against of Ukraine, targeting the lucrative diamonds industry as…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leonard Bernstein was a towering figure on Broadway. So it seems only fitting that the new…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Aleksandar Vucic likes nothing more than to win. Critics say he cheats, but Serbia’s…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson.…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sebastian Siemiatkowski is a co-founder and CEO of Klarna, the Sweden-based company that’s one of…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities added popular detective novelist and dissident Grigory Chkhartishvili, known under the pen name Boris Akunin, to…

PARIS (AP) — The wax figure of actor Gerard Depardieu has been removed from Paris’ most famous wax museum, following negative reactions from…