Month: January 2024

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are making a last-ditch effort to avoid having the liberal-controlled…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a federal agent in Tucson in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison. Authorities say…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Dueling political factions are demonstrating on the streets of Venezuela’s…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — Oliver North says he was pushed out of the National Rifle Association after raising allegations…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Titus Kaphar wanted to find a way to talk to his children about his life experience, his…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s only member of the U.S. House of Representatives is running for governor…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Lily Gladstone knew she wanted to be somewhere special when the Oscar news came. And that somewhere was with the…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis’ water company has lifted a boil-water advisory for more than 600,000 people, five days after the precaution was…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Angela Patton has devoted her career to listening to the needs of young girls. Over a decade…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he has once again pardoned two politicians who were arrested earlier this month amid a bitter…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says her late brother was a fierce and visionary…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man has been arrested hours after he claimed responsibility for starting a building fire in…

By DENIS POROY Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Stunned residents, some breaking down in tears, pulled soggy and muddy furniture from their homes…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Times plans to lay off 94 newsroom employees. That’s according to the head of the journalists’ union who…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Ever since Israel was attacked on Oct. 7, a main Israeli highway has been flanked by…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is asking a judge to toss out much of the evidence in the…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s influential Orthodox Church has voiced strong opposition to the center-right government’s plans to legalize…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Last weekend’s four NFL divisional round playoff games averaged 40.0 million viewers on television and digital platforms,…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Osgood, who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, was host of the…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has denied a requested temporary block on a part of the state’s…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico legislators are holding a public hearing on a bill that seeks to prohibit…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The manslaughter retrial for the man who fatally shot New Orleans Saints star Will Smith almost eight years ago has been delayed…

By ALBERT AJI and OMAR AKOUR Associated Press DAMASCUS (AP) — Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned recent presumed Jordanian airstrikes against…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Public universities would be prohibited from giving preferential treatment in admissions to…

By DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s statistics and geography institute has announced it will…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has told top athletes he hopes that France will reach the top five of the Paris Olympics medal table,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. has reached a plea deal in a New York City…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS wants to rewrite its complicated letters to taxpayers and speak to people in plain…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s federal appeals court has rejected Donald Trump’s request to reconsider a gag order restricting the former…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Activists in Mexico have published photos of steel and cement pilings from a government project driven directly through the…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian authorities say that three people have died in a heli-ski helicopter crash. The Royal Canadian Mounted…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police say a former Haitian vice-consul who had been stationed in the Dominican Republic has been gunned down near an…

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Former Georgia mascot Uga X, whose eight-year run included back-to-back national championships, has died. Uga X was part of the…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — The European Commission has announced an in-depth investigation of German airline Lufthansa’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the federal home energy assistance program served more than 7 million families in the last fiscal year, an all-time…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer After a bruising year for the film industry, Christopher Nolan’s atomic hit “Oppenheimer” emerged…

By The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is defending himself against the state auditor’s…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Police say an elderly man fatally shot his wife and then himself at an assisted living facility in Florida. Staff at…