Month: January 2024

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More people cast votes in Tuesday’s contest between former President Donald Trump and former…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An official in Mali says more than 70 people are dead after an informal gold mine collapsed late…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican tribunal has rejected a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by the Holy See’s former…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Just over a month after taking office in Argentina, right-wing President…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior team have taken a leave of absence from their current clubs in…

BY FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of the severe…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new Republican superintendent of public schools is facing bipartisan…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey utility regulators have given preliminary approval to two new wind farms off…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The election year has begun in Algeria and both those in power and those in the opposition are quietly making moves as…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Democratic-aligned groups this week have filed campaign finance…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Philharmonic will play excerpts of music from the Academy Award-nominated “Maestro” on the life of former music…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — British billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur soccer club,…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Most passenger cars in the European Union still emit the same quantity of carbon dioxide as 12 years ago. The European Court of…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Barely 400,000 votes have been cast in two rural Republican primaries over the span…

By KRISTINA LINNEA GARCIA Associated Press Hawaii is hard on building preservationists. Development and other pressures have reduced the number of…

By PETER SARAMBA Associated Press DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Tanzania’s main opposition party have marched in the…

Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Guatemala attorney general leading efforts to prosecute President Bernardo Arévalo and his party is…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legal online sports betting in North Carolina is poised to begin in March on the eve of…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Jon Stewart is rewinding the clock, returning to “The Daily Show” as a weekly…

HOUSTON (AP) — Heavy rains in Texas on Wednesday closed schools and elevated flooding risks around Houston in another round of soaking downpours…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An American scientist has sparked a trans-Atlantic tempest in a teapot by offering Britain advice on…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are scrambling to come up with new legislative district maps that would…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For a rock star, Ty Segall may come across as surprisingly unassuming and demure. Perhaps even…

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The specter of academic plagiarism — a hot topic in the U.S. — has now reached the…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government is denying reports that it sentenced six army generals to death or…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI The Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s parliament overwhelmingly voted to pass a controversial…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says that he’s worried that the war in Ukraine has…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it has no plans to introduce conscription, after the head of the British…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A man is suspected of stabbing to death his girlfriend’s 6-year-old son in the boy’s Baltimore home, authorities said. No…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press The mother of an intellectually disabled girl who was allegedly led from school grounds by three male students and…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The often-nominated Diane Warren and past winners Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt and sibling duo…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A poetry collection, a coming-of-age novel and a history of deep sea exploration are unlikely…

LONDON (AP) — A major nuclear plant that Britain’s government hopes will generate affordable, low-carbon energy could cost up to 46 billion…