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 U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley than in any previous presidential primary of either party in New Hampshire’s history. As of the latest vote tally on Wednesday afternoon, nearly 318,000 Granite State Republicans and independents

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 last week, and a search continues amid fears the toll could rise. The senior official at the government’s National Geology and Mining Directorate confirmed the details to The

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican tribunal has rejected a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by the Holy See’s former auditor general. Libero Milone and his late deputy had sued the Holy See for 9.3 million euros. They claimed they were essentially extorted by Vatican police and forced to resign in 2017 or

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Just over a month after taking office in Argentina, right-wing President Javier Milei on Wednesday was facing a general strike in rejection of his decree targeting unions as well as his economic and labor reform proposals.  Argentina’s largest labor union, known by its acronym CGT,

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 recent days. Michael McLeod and Cal Foote of the New Jersey Devils, Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers, Dillon Dube of the Calgary Flames and Swiss club Ambri-Piotta’s Alex Formenton

BY FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of the severe drought in the Amazon last year that sent rivers to record lows, isolated hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins. That’s according to researchers from World Weather Attribution, which

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new Republican superintendent of public schools is facing bipartisan criticism for appointing a right-wing social media influencer from New York to a state library advisory committee. Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters announced Chaya Raichik’s appointment to the committee on Tuesday, saying she is “on

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey utility regulators have given preliminary approval to two new wind farms off the state’s coast. And both would be considerably farther offshore than earlier projects that drew opposition from beachgoers who don’t want to see wind turbines on the horizon. The state Board

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 mounting political and economic challenges plague the oil-rich North African country. No candidate has stepped forward to challenge President Abdelmajid Tebboune, but a leading opposition party this week called

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Democratic-aligned groups this week have filed campaign finance complaints against No Labels. They are hoping to crimp the centrist group’s pipeline of campaign cash and force it to follow the same rules as formal political parties. For months, No Labels has stockpiled

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Philharmonic will play excerpts of music from the Academy Award-nominated “Maestro” on the life of former music director Leonard Bernstein on Feb. 14. The movie’s star and director, Bradley Cooper, will participate in a post-performance conversation at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — British billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur soccer club, pleaded guilty Wednesday to insider trading and conspiracy charges in New York. The 86-year-old businessman entered the plea in Manhattan federal court six months after he was charged in the case. He had

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 Auditors said Wednesday that the 27-nation bloc must “shift up gear” to come close to a zero-emissions car fleet, with electric vehicles playing a crucial role. According to the

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 of eight days. But both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are behaving like their parties’ nominees already. Trump’s double-digit victory Tuesday in independent-minded New Hampshire, where he was considered more

By KRISTINA LINNEA GARCIA Associated Press Hawaii is hard on building preservationists. Development and other pressures have reduced the number of historic homes, but there’s an effort to preserve and share those remaining. Take the Liljestrand House, which was designed by architect Vladimir Ossipoff in 1948 on a mountain overlooking Honolulu. It’s one of Hawaii’s

By PETER SARAMBA Associated Press DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Tanzania’s main opposition party have marched in the commercial capital in the first such demonstration since political gatherings were banned several years ago. They seek changes to the constitution and election laws ahead of elections next year. The Chadema party

Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Guatemala attorney general leading efforts to prosecute President Bernardo Arévalo and his party is refusing to step down. “I am not going to resign,” Consuelo Porras said in a recorded video message Wednesday. The video was released by her office on the same day that Arévalo had said

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex marriage despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church. Government officials said Wednesday that draft legislation would be put to a vote by mid-February. Greece would become the first Orthodox-majority country to legalize same-sex marriage

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 the region’s beloved Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament. Members of the state lottery commission voted Tuesday to set noon March 11 as the time in which sports

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Jon Stewart is rewinding the clock, returning to “The Daily Show” as a weekly host and executive producing through the 2024 U.S. elections cycle. Comedy Central on Wednesday said Stewart will host the topical TV show, the perch he ruled for 16 years starting

HOUSTON (AP) — Heavy rains in Texas on Wednesday closed schools and elevated flooding risks around Houston in another round of soaking downpours that have made for a soggy and dangerous week across large portions of the U.S. A stretch of wet and freezing winter weather has swept away vehicles in San Diego, led to

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An American scientist has sparked a trans-Atlantic tempest in a teapot by offering Britain advice on its favorite hot beverage. Bryn Mawr College chemistry professor Michelle Francl says one of the keys to a perfect cup of tea is a pinch of salt. The tip is included

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are scrambling to come up with new legislative district maps that would win Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ approval and head off the state Supreme Court from drawing lines that could be even worse for the GOP. The Assembly planned to vote on new maps

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For a rock star, Ty Segall may come across as surprisingly unassuming and demure. Perhaps even quiet. And although the indie musician doesn’t make a habit of talking during his shows, that muted posture shifts when he steps onstage with his electric guitar and facilitates the

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The specter of academic plagiarism — a hot topic in the U.S. — has now reached the heart of Norwegian politics. It has toppled one government minister and leaving a second fighting for her political career. Sandra Borch, Norway’s minister for research and higher education, resigned

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government is denying reports that it sentenced six army generals to death or life imprisonment for their surrender of a regional military command headquarters to an alliance of ethnic armed groups. The fall of Laukkaing near the border with China was the biggest defeat suffered

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI The Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s parliament overwhelmingly voted to pass a controversial internet regulatory bill that has been highly criticized as a move to stifle freedom of speech in the South Asian country gearing up for presidential election amid an economic crisis. The “Online Safety” bill, passed

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 been forgotten as the country prepares to mark two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion. UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi also told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday that it

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world. And in many cases, it’s happening at rates faster than in the past 40 years. That’s according to researchers whose work was published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Groundwater is one of

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 Army said a “citizen army” would be needed to fight a future war with a country like Russia. Chief of the General Staff Gen. Patrick Saunders said preparing for a

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 arrests had been made as of Wednesday in the Tuesday attack that killed Seron O’Neal, who was stabbed in the back multiple times and was pronounced dead at a hospital. But investigators

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press The mother of an intellectually disabled girl who was allegedly led from school grounds by three male students and sexually assaulted in a Starbucks bathroom and a nearby empty building filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Starbucks, Pittsburgh Public Schools and a property management company of negligence. The lawsuit alleges that

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 Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell are among the nominees for music awards for the 2024 Oscars. Warren is vying for original song with “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot.” This

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 to be found in the same section of your favorite bookstore. But they all have enough in common to be this year’s winners of Science + Literature awards, $10,000 prizes

LONDON (AP) — A major nuclear plant that Britain’s government hopes will generate affordable, low-carbon energy could cost up to 46 billion pounds, or $59 billion, and the completion date could be delayed to after 2029. The U.K. government says nuclear projects like the Hinkley Point C plant is a key part of its plans