Month: February 2024

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Former talk show host Oprah Winfrey is leaving WeightWatchers board of directors and donating all of her…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Early estimates suggest flu shots are performing OK in the current U.S. winter flu season. The…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Myanmar fighter jet has crashed and burned in the countryside in the central region of Magway, with…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials have cleared out a Bronx storefront illegally converted to house dozens of tenants that was run by the same…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants suspected of…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN MIAMI (AP) — The widow of a prominent Cuban dissident killed in a mysterious car crash has filed a wrongful death…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has delivered a blunt message to the West, warning that it…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will visit former President Donald Trump next week at…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the weirdest high schools in history, Cleopatra is dating class president Frida…

By MEG KINNARD and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign has vowed not to talk about her…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi…

By EDOUARD TAKADJI Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad’s prosecutor said on Thursday that an opposition leader was killed while…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A bill which criminalizes LGBTQ+ people in Ghana and their supporters has drawn…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s immigration minister says his country is reimposing the visa requirements on Mexican…

By The Associated Press The editor-in-chief of the renowned Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has been detained in Moscow after being…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Sen. John Cornyn has informed his colleagues that he intends to run for Senate…

LONDON (AP) — Prince William has condemned antisemitism during a visit to a London synagogue, the first time he appeared in public after he…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press McLEAN, VA. (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray says the U.S. expects to confront fast-moving threats to American…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Voters in this rural California county have twice voted for Donald Trump by wide margins while…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Chloe has revisited its vibrant 1970s essence, infused with Karl Lagerfeld’s indelible…

By LINDSEY BAHR and JAKE COYLE AP Film Writers Ahead of the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, Associated Press Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For AP writer Anne D’Innocenzio, losing her mother was hard enough. But…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish bishop has rebuked comments made by some priests on a weekly internet program wishing Pope Francis may die as soon as…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s interior minister acknowledged as a “defeat” the use of police batons against high…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Aid groups are appealing to the European Union to release tens of millions of euros in funding due…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has spent more than 166 million euros ($180 million) dealing…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Electronic Arts is cutting about 5% of its workforce, or approximately 670 employees, as layoffs in the…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Voters in a rural Northern California county will decide whether to recall a local elected…

NEW YORK (AP) — Charlamagne Tha God’s next book is an ode to hard truths and getting to the point. Black Privilege Publishing, a Simon &…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sally Rooney will have a new novel out this fall, “Intermezzo,” a story of love, family and…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low even as more high-profile…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve increased in January, the latest…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning composer John Williams has joined a new academy: the American Academy of Arts and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities say they had to abandon plans to send in drones for a second day to probe one…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On Oct. 7, when Hamas militants attacked numerous targets in Israel,…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On July 18, 1994, an explosion destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters…

DETROIT (AP) — Owners of Ford electric vehicles can now use much of Tesla’s charging network in the U.S. and Canada, but there’s a hitch.…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An off-duty police officer who abducted and murdered a 33-year-old woman in south London three years…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — Sixteen and 17-year-olds in one Vermont town will get to vote in the local elections next…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — In New Jersey, the Senate seat held by Democrat Bob Menendez has become competitive…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria will flex its muscle as a critical supplier for European countries seeking to lessen dependence on Russian gas as…

PARIS (AP) — Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29, once every four years. Some friends started the leap year…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — North Dakota will hold its Republican presidential caucuses on Monday. It’s the last chance…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Law enforcement agencies, civil defense officials and election administrators are meeting in…