Month: February 2024

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The White House says that U.S. President Joe Biden will host Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico says he and three other bishops met with drug cartel…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAM METZ Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian coast guard retrieved the bodies of nine people who died after…

ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate has given final approval to an agreement with Albania to house migrants during the processing of their asylum…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden Administration is easing its restrictions on banking giant Wells Fargo, saying the bank…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Board of Education has voted to censure and seek the resignation of a board member whose social media post…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lyme disease cases in the United States jumped nearly 70% in 2022. Health officials say it’s due…

WASHINGTON (AP) — From allegations of plotting to overturn an election he lost to illegally stowing classified documents at his Florida estate,…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The U.S. will build up to five military bases for the Somali army in a project that seeks…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the local U.N. office on human rights to suspend its operations and gave its…

By ANNIE MA and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who are struggling to repay federal student loans because of financial…

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy mistook the sound of an acorn hitting his patrol vehicle’s roof for a gunshot and…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — At least four migrants have died and the search continues for two more who are missing after a boat carrying more than two dozen…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week to its highest level in 10 weeks, a…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly is poised to take its first votes on regulating the use of artificial…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Egyptian soccer club Al Ahly has canceled a trial for South Africa midfielder Teboho…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Trey Smith shared the WWE title belt to help calm a young boy in the aftermath of the…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Auto workers held waves of walkouts. Hollywood actors and writers picketed for…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Multimillionaire Republican businessman Eric Hovde is planning to launch a bid for U.S. Senate…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A watchdog report has found that the kind of systemic failures that enabled the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s emir has dissolved parliament, the latest dissolution to strike the oil-rich nation’s legislature…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will join Anna Wintour as co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala. Vogue and the…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s medical board has approved some guidance abortion providers would need to…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011,…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin is dead. Assembly Speaker…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Several Los Angeles firefighters were injured, two critically, when an explosion occurred as they responded to a truck with…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford’s top executive says that last fall’s contentious United Auto Workers’ strike changed…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press ROXBORO, N.C. (AP) — Front-runners for North Carolina’s major-party nominations for governor in next…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Deliberations have started over again with a replacement juror in the murder trial of a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Friends and colleagues of Manuel Rocha knew him for an aristocratic, almost regal,…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Manuel Rocha was well known in Miami’s elite circles for an aristocratic, almost…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to stop dirty money from flowing through the…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A constitutional amendment supported by Republicans that attempts to limit diversity, equity…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration struggled to properly vet and monitor the homes where they placed a…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press A woman who died in the mass shooting after a parade for the Kansas City Chiefs and their Super Bowl victory DJed…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in Trinidad and Tobago say a preliminary investigation into a mushrooming oil spill in waters near Trinidad…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Throughout her career, Jennifer Lopez has been hailed as an epochal, prolific and hard-working…

BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of commuters have been left stranded around Boston after power outages hit several lines of the beleaguered transit…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press SAINT-GILLES, Belgium (AP) — As record amounts of cocaine are seized in Europe, drug-related violence is…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the first things that struck director S.J. Clarkson about “Madame Web” was that…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The jury at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival has pushed back on political questions as…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Lt. Gov. Tammy Miller announced her campaign for governor on Thursday. Gov. Doug…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans pulled back their spending in January after splurging during the holiday…