Month: January 2024

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of four African countries, meeting…

ATLANTA (AP) — Dexter Scott King, the younger son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has died after battling prostate cancer. The…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A proposal to enshrine the right to an abortion in the Maine Constitution is moving forward.…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince is pleading for the release of six nuns kidnapped last week and demanding that…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Rio de Janeiro have say that a purported leader of an organized crime group…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed sanctions on six companies it says are responsible for trying to undermine stability in…

By KATE BRUMBACK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A judge on Monday ordered court records to be made public in the…

By STEVE PEOPLES, HOLLY RAMER, and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — As the last major challenger in Donald…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dozens of Missouri Department of Corrections staff members are urging Gov. Mike Parson to grant clemency to a man scheduled…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city intends to wipe out more than $2 billion in medical debt for up to 500,000 residents.…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The 600,000 residents of Memphis, Tennessee, are on their fourth day of living under a boil…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 30,000 professors, librarians, plumbers, electricians and other workers in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are recommending that airlines inspect the door plugs on more Boeing 737s after one of the panel blew off a…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Five children have died and a sixth is being treated for burns after fire tore through a house in northern Indiana. The…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that Spanish authorities acted illegally when they sent unaccompanied child migrants back to…

By MARK N. MENGONFIA AND CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s new President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has been sworn into…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has hit Iraqi airline Fly Baghdad and its CEO with sanctions for…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has paid tribute to Wolfgang Schaeuble. The former finance minister and…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government inquiry into the deaths of four divers in Trinidad who became trapped in a pipe while doing maintenance…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Eggers’ “The Eyes & the Impossible,” the great adventure of a very fast dog,…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum says he will not seek a third term as governor.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former business partner of presidential son Hunter Biden who was seeking to…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted a former high-ranking member of a pro-Syrian government…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — A little-known federal agency, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, was tapped by…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has…

TINLEY PARK, Ill. (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman and her three adult daughters who were found slain inside their suburban Chicago home…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The “American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair are the cover stars…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. health officials are urging millions of parents to book their children in for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots amid a…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Authorities in Turkey are investigating eight bodies that washed up in the Mediterranean province of Antalya. They include…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Schiaparelli, piloted by the inventive Daniel Roseberry, inaugurated with a celebration of…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says Iran’s foreign minister will visit the country next week. The trip follows unprecedented attacks on either…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaica has adopted stronger domestic violence laws as the government aims to better protect victims on the island…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump has picked up another endorsement from Nikki Haley’s home state of South…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad attacked a graft probe into his associates as…

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The Guinea soccer team has appealed to fans to “celebrate carefully” after several supporters were killed in…