Month: February 2024

PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure because of striking employees demanding better maintenance of the…

By TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Mediators are making progress on an agreement for a…

The Associated Press EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Vigils took place across the nation on Friday and Saturday for an Oklahoma teenager who died the day…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Inside the ballroom at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, “Oppenheimer” was front and…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Since late last century and the early days of the web, providers of digital media like Netflix and…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The official two-week campaign period before Portugal’s early general election began on…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press WESTROZEBEKE, Belgium (AP) — It was the puddles of green sludge left by the tires of massive tractors in western…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leap year. It’s a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Nearly four months after a judge tossed out the results of a Democratic mayoral primary in…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Facing a housing shortage, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would tweak the…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusians will cast ballots Sunday in tightly controlled parliamentary and local…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox disagree on many issues but they were united…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The fiery, right-wing populist president of Argentina has spoken at the Conservative…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump trounced Nikki Haley on Saturday in the South Carolina primary, a victory that…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has declared former President Donald Trump the winner of the South Carolina…

By MARC BERMAN Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It took eight years but Jen Pawol made the leap from the minors to a major league game…

SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities in Washington state say former NFL player Richard Sherman was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of driving under the…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. stamp honoring John Wooden has been unveiled on the UCLA campus where he coached the…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are the overwhelming favorites to…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City fire officials say a lithium ion battery sparked a fire that killed one person and injured 17 others at an apartment…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico businesswoman is accused of defrauding the U.S. government and two…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico say at least 10 people have died from a crash between a tractor-trailer and a pick-up truck carrying…

By JOSH BOAK and LINLEY SANDERS The Associated Press Washington (AP) — Many voters in South Carolina’s Republican primary want a United States…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter for speeding through a red light and killing a…

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The brother of the man charged with killing a Georgia nursing student has been accused of presenting a fake green card to police…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JILL COLVIN Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump cast November’s presidential election…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The eldest son of Mexico’s president says his telephone number has been published on social media and that he has received…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press The killing of a 22-year-old nursing student has once again put the spotlight on dangers faced by female athletes who…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban singer and cabaret diva Juana Bacallao has died. She was 98 and had still performed until recently. Cuba’s Ministry of…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A court in Cyprus has ordered two men to remain in police custody for six days on suspicion of people smuggling. The men…

NEW YORK (AP) — Tributes poured in Saturday for Flaco, the beloved Eurasian eagle-owl that became a feel-good New York story after escaping its…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Although the South Carolina primary has been the focal point of the GOP presidential nomination…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Billionaire Warren Buffett is known as one of the world’s greatest investors, and the 93-year-old has a devout…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s intelligence department says it has captured two members of the Islamic…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Polls suggest South Africa faces a historic turning point in a national election in…

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board say a helicopter that was carrying the CEO of one of Nigeria’s…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A court in Tunisia has sentenced former president Moncef Marzouki to eight years in…