Month: December 2023

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Behind bars in penal colonies or in self-exile abroad, Russian opposition figures vow…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A century-old territorial dispute is boiling over between…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Two of Houston’s most powerful and longest serving political titans are facing off in a mayoral…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protests aimed at pressuring nations to move…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council took no immediate action at a closed emergency…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A win in Iowa for Nikki Haley doesn’t necessarily mean a win in the state’s…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story published December 7, 2023, about a cash payment program for Californians leaving prison, The Associated Press used…

Associated Press Attorneys for Amazon have asked a federal judge to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the e-commerce…

The Associated Press Three University of Nevada, Las Vegas, faculty members died this week and another was critically injured when a lone gunman…

MIAMI (AP) — Max Strus didn’t win a Larry O’Brien Trophy during his time in Miami. He won an Emmy instead. Strus, who left the Heat for the…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, facing scrutiny for his decadelong friendship with…

DALLAS (AP) — Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines are saying no to a contract offer hammered out by their union and the airline. The Transport…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana secretary of state is appealing a ruling that a law stipulating voting requirements for a candidate’s party…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Police say they have “exhausted all available investigative avenues” in the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fox News is pushing back against a former reporter’s lawsuit saying he was targeted and…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is meeting with his South Korean and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say 11 people are dead following a clash between gunmen from a criminal gang and residents of a small…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A judge has voided the result of a Louisiana sheriff’s election that was decided by a…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — All members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation expressed outrage with the U.S. House leadership’s move to block…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Retiring Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the ousted House speaker, says he is endorsing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have raided and closed 31 drug stores in the Baja California coastal city of Ensenada, after they were…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Recent assaults on two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners have renewed concerns about…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union negotiators have clinched a deal on the world’s first comprehensive artificial…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s office has concluded that two of its deputies were…

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O’Neal, the heartthrob actor who went from a TV soap opera to an…

MILLINOCKET The Maine Warden Service says a man checking the thickness of ice on a wilderness lake crashed into the icy water and drowned. Wardens…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has been hit with new criminal charges in California accusing him of scheming…

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — A county prosecutor’s office says one of its law clerks passed the State Bar of California exam at age 17. The Tulare…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immigration agency says its agents have detained two Iranians who they say were under observation by the FBI. The…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A pregnant woman in Kentucky has filed a lawsuit demanding the…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Guatemala have asked a court to strip President-elect Bernardo Arévalo of his immunity. It was the third time…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge is prohibiting the separation of families at the border for purposes of…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman has voiced hope that a coalition of countries formed to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The solid hiring revealed in Friday’s jobs report for November, along with a raft of…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Coach Dan Campbell and quarterback Jared Goff aren’t the only popular Detroit Lions these days. A movie about the…