Month: January 2024

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — American consumers bought 15.6 million new vehicles last year. The numbers indicate car buyers were…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A decade-old cold case of a veteran who went missing without a…

HILLBURN, N.Y. (AP) — New York state troopers have killed a person in a shootout on a major highway, after stopping a vehicle identified in a…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A court in Argentina has delivered a blow to labor rule changes announced by President Javier Milei as part of…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and 12 allies has given what amounts to a final warning to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Education policy adviser has resigned to protest the…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new law that would allow police in the state…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has coordinated with Israel, Egypt and others in rescuing the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — While Black people make up 5.4% of California’s population, law enforcement agencies reported that they accounted for 12.5% of…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Flooding from a burst water main at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has disrupted…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature has returned to the Capitol in Lincoln to kick off the 2024…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to determine whether former President Donald Trump can keep…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Colorado ruling that…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a way to help Alzheimer’s drugs seep inside the brain faster…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has recovered the flight data recorder from the Air Force CV-22B Osprey that crashed…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is criticizing House Republicans on…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republicans want to unseat Maine’s secretary of state for barring former President…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois landlord charged with murder, attempted murder and a hate…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Kevin Hines regretted jumping off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge the moment his…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri city will pay nearly $3 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it and six other St. Louis…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped the last remaining charge against a northern Virginia elections…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University is trying to move past the firestorm brought on by the plagiarism…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The runway fire in Tokyo is providing a key test of the safety of carbon-composite material on planes. Composite…

By The Associated Press Iranian officials said that at least 95 people were killed Wednesday after back-to-back explosions at an event commemorating…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Dominican prosecutors investigating Wander Franco amid…

By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A well-known gay rights activist in Uganda has been stabbed by unknown assailants, and…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A California man accused of firing dozens of gunshots from a high-rise condo near the Las Vegas…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hamas and Hezbollah have accused Israel of carrying out an airstrike that killed a top…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie is allowed to seek…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The lethal injection of an Oklahoma man set to die next month has been paused for 100 days so…

LONDON (AP) — A sign directed the animals to line up to be counted and several of the 74 Humboldt penguins did just that, waiting patiently…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has agreed that the fact that the suspect was found lying on top of a badly…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina has arrested three men under suspicion of belonging to a terror cell as the country hosts a major Jewish…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Firefighters were battling a fire at the home of Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill on Wednesday afternoon, according…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press Michigan state Sen. Kristen McDonald Rivet has announced that she will seek a U.S. House seat in Michigan being…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Authorities in western Michigan are looking into missing persons cases and unsolved homicides after interviewing a…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will push for schools to reemphasize phonics in…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s policymakers concluded last month that inflationary pressures were…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Forest rangers have rescued an upstate New York hiker who survived a wet wintry night trapped above a cliff on a…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has squashed an attempt to release more records…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The killing of a top Hamas commander in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a Beirut…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has once again renewed taxpayer-funded protection for former…