Month: January 2024

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Three members of the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be recognized as honorary Buccaneers team captains when…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Brutally cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills stayed put across much of the U.S.…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president and new prime minister say they remain divided on the subject of rule of law, despite one-on-one…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says Navy ships and aircraft are combing areas of the Gulf of Aden for two…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Neighborhoods in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state are flooded more…

By COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — More executives are feeling better about the global economy. But a growing number don’t…

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Emmys are ready to celebrate a quarter-century of television history — and honor the best in…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The sun is shining on Highmark Stadium, where the green artificial turf is clear of snow…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has congratulated the winner of Taiwan’s presidential election, Lai Ching Te…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A human rights group says that a political prisoner has died in prison in Belarus after…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Boeing told employees Monday that it plans to increase quality inspections of its 737 Max 9…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and should be banned as a terrorist organization. The Home…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday, after…

BOSTON (AP) — State police have identified the three people who died in a small plane crash in a remote, wooded area of Massachusetts over the…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire has sent emergency vehicles to the…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police have opened a vandalism investigation into the spray-painting of a swastika on a wall adjacent to a Holocaust memorial…

ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — Communities across the nation planned to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday with events ranging from prayer…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s new president has huge challenges to address now that he’s finally…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military that is based in the country’s western…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The party of former three-time Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has officially launched its…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian truck drivers and farmers are protesting again across the country again as negotiations with the coalition…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An independent analysis shows that most of the newly ordered maps redrawing Wisconsin’s…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. company’s lunar lander will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Thirteen years after they toppled the country’s longtime dictator, Tunisians are…

BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria say Turkish strikes have targeted dozens of infrastructure facilities wounding at least 10…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Eight months after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States, a couple in their 20s…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is due to face Parliament to explain why the U.K. joined the U.S. in…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Online gambling is increasingly available to teenagers and young adults, which makes it easy to lose money and can…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general released a report that settled a longstanding public…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A tropical cyclone has hit the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean,…

PRAGUE (AP) — A rare male pygmy hippopotamus born in a Czech zoo has debuted his first photoshoot to the delight of spectators. He is considered a…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has defended his controversial decision to let priests bless same-sex couples but admitted that “solitude is a…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When the dust settles from Monday’s first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, the returns will reveal…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court in Cambodia has convicted four land rights activists of plotting to provoke…

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU Associated Press RECAK, Kosovo (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered in a village in southern Kosovo…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Members of a group of men who say they were sexually abused as boys by a Japanese entertainment…

By WILL WEISSRT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee have announced raising more than $97…