Month: February 2024

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday after U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights.…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The man accused of firing the first shots at…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — United States President Joe Biden said Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during the upcoming Muslim…

By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was meeting Tuesday with the top four leaders of Congress to press…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump are marching toward their respective presidential nominations. But…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The voters of Bridgeport, Connecticut, are trying again to choose their mayor after the result of the last election…

By JAMES BROOKS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The century-old Geneva motor show is back in action for the first time in five…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say officers have raided a militant hideout in the country’s northwest, triggering an intense shootout…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A photographer told police he was punched in the face by Taylor Swift’s father on the…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Testimony at trial Monday turned emotional and argumentative as an eyewitness recounted the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued  by a music producer who accused the hip-hop mogul of sexually assaulting him and forcing him…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A lawsuit filed by one of the sons of the owner of the Houston Texans that had sought to have her…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republicans in the Tennessee House have voted to advance a bill that would prevent…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge struck down a California law banning possession of club-like weapons, reversing his previous ruling from three…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill requiring that public and private schools…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru has declared a health emergency in most of its provinces due to a growing number of…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah teachers will be free to display LGBTQ+ Pride flags and other social, political or…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The GOP-led Tennessee House has passed a bill that would largely ban displaying pride…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has voted to lay the foundation to attract nuclear…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited…

By JILL COLVIN and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Emergency crews responded Monday after a letter containing an unidentified white…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Mohegan tribe says it will end its management of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino at…

A 23-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting two teenagers at a Southern California movie theater during a 2021 showing of “The Forever Purge”…

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A case of old hockey cards possibly containing the game’s Great One has fetched more than $3.7 million after it was…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York Legislature are rejecting a congressional map drawn by the…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say Family Dollar Stores has pleaded guilty to holding food, drugs, cosmetics and other items under…

By MARK THIESSEN and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shooting at a home has left multiple people dead and…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Organizers of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have asked police not to march at…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The government of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has condemned a threat by the governor of the…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Andy Kim says in a federal lawsuit that New Jersey’s primary ballot design unconstitutionally favors candidates…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley was confronted in a New York courtroom Monday about a seamy episode from his past:…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine is set to go tuition-free after receiving a $1 billion donation from…

SEATTLE (AP) — Police say a 26-year-old man has been killed in a shooting on a light rail train in Seattle. The Seattle Police Department says…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Body camera footage released by Houston police on Monday showed off-duty officers with weapons…

By INDIA GRANT Associated Press ON THE MALINCHE VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — On the flanks of a central Mexico volcano, the country’s female…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal judges are hearing arguments over whether Mississippi’s legislative…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The political consultant behind robocalls that mimicked President Joe Biden’s voice says he…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison will pay $80 million to settle claims on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service connected to a massive…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A member of the jury that convicted a South Carolina man of a hate crime…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly 400 medical professionals in West Virginia have signed onto a letter condemning…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Duke coach Jon Scheyer wants the Atlantic Coast Conference to implement measures to prevent court-storming after…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy is on its…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Married people in West Virginia could be charged with certain acts of sexual abuse…

TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — The mother of a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy who vanished nearly a week ago and a man her son was staying have been formally…

By JEFF AMY and SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Students at two Georgia colleges are grappling with the killing of a nursing…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A U.S.-owned cruise ship with more than 3,000 passengers and crew onboard was…