Month: February 2024

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister has ruled out any further concessions to protesting farmers, on the eve of their planned rally that…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Authorities in Cape Town launched an investigation after a foul stench swept over…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi has begun a hunger strike in prison, joining other government critics striking…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police have taken a suspect into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of two people last week in a dorm…

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Officials have asked Gov. Maura Healey to send in the Massachusetts National Guard to quell violence and address security…

ENGLEWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy says he was just doing his job when he quickly came to the aid of a mom and two children in a…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has mentioned Alexei Navalny’s death in a social media post more…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States has circulated a rival U.N. Security Council resolution that would…

WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Eleven suspects have been arrested in an investigation into illegal drugs allegedly delivered by drones into a federal prison…

By MELANIE LIDMAN and ELEONORE HUGHES Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says Brazil’s president will not be welcome…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A drunken driver who sped through a red light in Wisconsin and smashed into another vehicle, killing five of her passengers…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have detained a Guatemalan man wanted by the United States for…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five Argentines and one Mexican are dead following an accident on a highway that links beach resorts on Mexico’s Caribbean…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Virginia bank says it will delay plans to auction off land at West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s posh resort in an…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Aid organizations fear a new humanitarian crisis in the restive eastern Congo…

By JACK DURA and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting in a suburban Minneapolis…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Lionel Messi has made another conciliatory gesture to fans in Hong Kong and mainland China by…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe. The…

By TORRENCE BANKS and ANDREW CHODES / Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Shirley Povich…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, has signed new legislative district maps into…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley is using the closing days of the South Carolina GOP primary matchup with Donald…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times is being honored with George Polk Awards for Foreign Reporting and Photojournalism for its coverage of the war…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities say Mexican soldiers have killed 12 gunmen in a shootout near the Texas border. The security department of the…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Even seniors like virtual reality, whether it is flying in a plane, soaring over…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general says the Taliban set unacceptable conditions for attending a meeting about Afghanistan. Antonio…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press It was the winter of 2021 when Philbert Shorty’s family found his abandoned car stuck in the mud outside the small…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, made a dramatic return home after more than a a decade of…

LONDON (AP) — An asylum-seeker who piloted an inflatable dingy that ripped apart while crossing the English Channel to the U.K., killing four…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A tribal clash in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands in which more than 20 people…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Early every morning, just as she reaches her workplace at a labor union…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An anarchist group has claimed responsibility for an attempted bomb attack against a senior judge in Greece last week,…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has launched a naval mission to help protect cargo ships in the Red Sea. Attacks on civilian maritime traffic by…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Republicans have been softening their stance on Russia ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Retirement spending isn’t always linear. Financial planners talk about three phases in retirement: the go-go years,…