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 Tampa Bay hosts the Philadelphia Eagles in an NFC wild-card matchup Monday night. Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, and Yolanda Renee King will attend the game as special

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Brutally cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills stayed put across much of the U.S. Monday, promising the coldest temperatures ever for Iowa’s presidential nominating contest, holding up travelers, and testing the mettle of NFL fans in Buffalo for a playoff game that was delayed a day

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 talks in search of common ground. Centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with President Andrzej Duda on Monday to identify areas where they can cooperate. Both later said that they found no

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 missing Navy SEALs as details emerge about their mission. The SEALs were trying to take over a vessel carrying components for Iranian ballistic missiles headed for Somalia late

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Neighborhoods in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state are flooded more than a day after torrential rains that killed at least 11 people. The heavy weekend downpour wreaked havoc, flooding homes, a hospital basement, the metro line in the city of Rio de

By COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — More executives are feeling better about the global economy. But a growing number don’t think their companies will survive the coming decade without a major overhaul because of pressure from climate change and technology like artificial intelligence. That’s according to a survey of more than 4,700

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Emmys are ready to celebrate a quarter-century of television history — and honor the best in television (in some cases, two seasons ago). The strike-delayed 75th Emmy Awards are airing Monday night from Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles, with Anthony Anderson hosting the ceremony. While

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 but the stands are still covered in a white blanket hours before the Bills host the Pittsburgh Steelers in the storm-delayed AFC wild-card playoff game. The remnants of

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has congratulated the winner of Taiwan’s presidential election, Lai Ching Te — who had been strongly opposed by China — saying in a statement that he looks forward to “close collaboration.” Marcos’ congratulatory message is likely to be frowned upon by China, which claims the self-governing

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A human rights group says that a political prisoner has died in prison in Belarus after authorities failed to provide him with proper medical care. The death has spotlighted cruel conditions in the country’s prisons. The respected Viasna human rights center said Monday that Vadzim Khrasko

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 aircraft, following the failure of emergency exit door panel on an Alaska Airlines flight last week. The inspections come after Federal regulators grounded the 737 Max, and that Boeing

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 Office said Monday that Parliament will debate this week a proposal to make joining the group illegal in the U.K. under terrorism laws. The ban would take effect on Friday if

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday, after spending two weeks there to treat complications from surgery for prostate cancer he kept secret from senior Biden administration leaders and staff for weeks. He is expected to work from home as

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 weekend. Fifty-three-year old Fredrika Ballard of Southwick, Massachusetts, owned the Fly Lugu Flight School while 68-year-old William Hampton, of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, was a flight instructor. Twenty-nine-year-old Chad Davidson,

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 complex. President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland when the call came in Monday morning. A person familiar with the matter says fire

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police have opened a vandalism investigation into the spray-painting of a swastika on a wall adjacent to a Holocaust memorial in Philadelphia over the weekend. Authorities say the symbol, measuring about two feet by two feet and scrawled with green spray-paint, was reported Sunday on the wall adjacent to the Horowitz-Wasserman Holocaust

ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — Communities across the nation planned to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday with events ranging from prayer services to parades, but a dangerously cold winter storm was limiting some planned activities. President Joe Biden planned to spend the national holiday volunteering at Philabundance, a hunger relief organization in

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s new president has huge challenges to address now that he’s finally been sworn into office. After months of efforts to derail his inauguration, old guard legislators delayed Bernardo Arévalo’s swearing-in by 10 hours on Sunday. The ceremony ended up taking place very early Monday.

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military that is based in the country’s western state of Rakhine says it has seized a township bordering India and Bangladesh. Paletwa is the first township reported to fall to the Arakan Army. The group launched surprise attacks beginning in

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47 assault rifles from China and Russia. North Korean- and Bulgarian-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza. An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 surprise attack on

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The party of former three-time Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has officially launched its general election campaign with a rally in Punjab province. The rally that Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party held in the city of Okara came a week after Pakistan’s Supreme Court scrapped a lifetime

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian truck drivers and farmers are protesting again across the country again as negotiations with the coalition government over lower taxes, higher subsidies and other demands failed to reach any agreements. Long convoys of trucks and tractors disrupted traffic on Monday on the outskirts of Bucharest and other cities throughout the

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An independent analysis shows that most of the newly ordered maps redrawing Wisconsin’s political boundaries for the state Legislature would keep Republicans in majority control, but their dominance would be reduced. Seven sets of new state Senate and Assembly maps were submitted on Friday. The Wisconsin

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 after a failed moonshot. Astrobotic Technology says its lander is now headed back from the vicinity of the moon. Company officials expect the mission to end Thursday. They stress that the lander

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Thirteen years after they toppled the country’s longtime dictator, Tunisians are protesting President Kais Saied for democratic backsliding. Hundreds of members of opposition parties marched through the streets of the country’s capital on Sunday, blaming Saied for quashing the aims of the revolution that kicked

BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria say Turkish strikes have targeted dozens of infrastructure facilities wounding at least 10 people and cutting electricity and water supplies in wide areas held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the war-torn country. The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria said the 73 attacks over

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned Monday, as authorities in the enclave reported that the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war had surpassed

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Eight months after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States, a couple in their 20s sat in an immigration court in Miami with their three young children. Through an interpreter, they asked a judge to give them more time to find an attorney to file for

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 striking Houthi targets in Yemen. He’ll also face questions on Monday about why British lawmakers did not get a say on the military action. Four Royal Air Force Typhoon

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Online gambling is increasingly available to teenagers and young adults, which makes it easy to lose money and can lead to problematic gambling. To help kids avoid some of those dangers, parents can talk openly with their kids about the risks of gambling. Experts recommend preventing minors from accessing gambling

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 debate about the dangers of cigarettes and led to huge changes in smoking in America. Is it time for a similar report on vaping? Just as there were questions in

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A tropical cyclone has hit the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, bringing intense rains and powerful winds and leaving about a quarter of the households without electricity and tens of thousands of homes suffering water cuts. Nearby Mauritius was also on

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 valuable addition to the conservation efforts of the endangered species. The hippo was named Mikolas and has joined two female and one male pygmy hippos in the Dvur

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has defended his controversial decision to let priests bless same-sex couples but admitted that “solitude is a price” for difficult decisions. Francis doubled down and insisted “God blesses everyone” during a Sunday interview with an Italian talk show. But he acknowledged the remarkable opposition that his decision has sparked. Africa’s

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When the dust settles from Monday’s first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, the returns will reveal who had Republican caucusgoers’ vote, but they won’t shed much light on the types of people who voted or what was on their minds as they cast their ballots. That’s where AP VoteCast comes

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court in Cambodia has convicted four land rights activists of plotting to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions and has given them five-year suspended prison terms.  The four, who worked for the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community, were arrested and

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU Associated Press RECAK, Kosovo (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered in a village in southern Kosovo to commemorate the 25th anniversary of a mass killing of 45 ethnic Albanians by Serb forces. The deaths helped spark international intervention to end a 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Kosovo’s president, prime

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 mogul are accusing the company behind the scandal of not being sincere in dealing with the victims and say many have not received compensation. Hundreds of men have come

By WILL WEISSRT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee have announced raising more than $97 million in the final three months of last year. That haul was boosted by a star-studded December fundraising blitz that came even as the political world’s attention shifted to the start of the