Month: January 2024

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A group of Senate Republicans is urging the Justice Department to release its investigative file on…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein and the Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji are among the finalists for…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A bill to define antisemitism in Georgia law has passed the state Senate. The 44-6 vote on Thursday…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Illinois and electoral battleground Wisconsin this…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Bobbi Barrasso, a former U.S. Senate staffer and the wife of Republican Sen. John Barrasso, has died after a two-year…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The United States is expressing concerns over Sri Lanka’s controversial…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government has issued a disaster declaration and requested help from the international community to combat…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple has unveiled a sweeping plan to tear down some of the competitive barriers that it has built around its…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Volleyball has been the No. 1 girls sport in the United States for a decade. More than 90,000…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Time isn’t inverting: Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” is coming back to movie theaters for a week, including on…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an investigation into the relationships between leading artificial…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Mislabeled cookies containing peanuts that were sold at Stew Leonard’s grocery stores in Connecticut were recalled this…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Three white men convicted of hate crimes for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia…

BOSTON (AP) — Andris Nelsons has agreed to a rolling contract as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The 45-year-old Latvian has been…

NEW YORK (AP) — Colman Domingo, fresh off his Oscar nomination, has joined the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” to play the pop…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In the aftermath of World War II and the murder by Nazi Germany of 6 million Jews in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four municipal police officers are dead following an ambush-style attack on a road in Mexico in the north-central state of…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has a new slogan that’s not fit for kids’ ears. Shapiro…

SAMY MAGDY CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Egypt are engaged in an increasingly public spat over a narrow strip of land between Egypt and Gaza. That strip…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit on April 10,…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The family of an 85-year-old Florida woman who was killed by an alligator last year…

Herbert Coward, known for his “Toothless Man” role in the movie “Deliverance,” died Wednesday in a crash on a western North Carolina…

BY FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A high court in Ghana has sentenced to death six people, including three soldiers, after…

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A 350-pound black bear is dead months after captivating a northern Michigan neighborhood in May by perching in a tree.…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Court of Appeals has ruled that a former police officer should go to trial for a murder charge in the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Attorneys for the Republican National Committee say Michigan GOP Chairperson Kristina…

PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Middle school students in Perry, Iowa, have returned to classes for the first time since a 17-year-old opened fire in a shared…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state House and Senate are pursuing separate bills to remove computerized codes from most…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Fendi, under Kim Jones, has presented a mesmerizing collection blending minimalist futurism with…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian state news agency says Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious…

By MATT BROWN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The White House’s chief diversity and inclusion officer is departing the White House after three…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Jurors in Michigan have heard opening statements in the trial of the mother of a school shooter.…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has accused neighboring India’s intelligence agency of involvement in the extrajudicial…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No one will confuse musician John Leventhal with being the hot new thing. The six-time…

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A federal jury in South Dakota has convicted two men on several charges related to the 2022 kidnapping of an FBI employee.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the tsunami-hit nuclear plant in Fukushima has announced a delay of several more…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veteran Affairs to pay…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin state Assembly are set to pass a bill that would call…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of Robitussin cough syrup is recalling several lots of its medicine due to…