Month: February 2024

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A strong performance in financial markets, particularly an outsize gain for the stock market in…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Sébastien Haller could lead Ivory Coast to the Africa Cup of Nations title one year…

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were seeing double when they met in Washington, D.C.,…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Any parent who’s ever called one of their children by the other’s name — or even the…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Federal authorities have launched an investigation to determine why a private jet tried to make an emergency landing on a…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The enduring image of the 2022 World Cup was Lionel Messi holding aloft soccer’s biggest…

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss police say three Dutch citizens have been found dead in western Switzerland after an apparent hiking accident. Police said in a…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With fireworks, feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash for the kids, numerous…

By BALINT SZLANKO Associated Press Violence has continued this week in the Gaza Strip as well as across the broader Middle East. The U.S.…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer There’ll be lots of parties across the country for this weekend’s Super Bowl between the San Francisco…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Here are some basics on how betting on the Super Bowl works. The point spread is the…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The three candidates in Indonesia’s presidential election have held their final…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has hit back at criticism over the conduct of its parliamentary elections, which were held amid sporadic militant attacks…

By RIAZAT BUTT LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan held parliamentary election l ast Thursday, with 44 parties fighting for a share of 266 seats in…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Will she make it? Taylor Swift’s last song will still be ringing in the ears of thousands of…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A hospital official and AP journalists say Israeli airstrikes have killed…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killed at least seven…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Behemoth sound trucks known as electric trios are a fixture of Brazil’s Carnival…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — As the world’s third-largest democracy prepares for national elections on…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays that haters love to hate. It feels forced,…

By ALBERT AJI and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press Damascus (AP) — The Syrian military says Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites on the…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tommy Hilfiger threw himself a welcome home party Friday night at Grand Central’s Oyster…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Among those paying tribute to MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer are prison reform advocates. They…

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — War-scarred Sarajevo is looking back to happier times from February 1984 as…

By MICHAEL ELSEN-ROONEY of Chalkbeat NEW YORK (AP) — Derry Oliver was in fifth grade when she first talked to her mom about seeing a therapist. She…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Diversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities…

By STEVE PEOPLES, ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have been reminded of President Joe Biden’s…

By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press Dozens of Indigenous activists have traveled to Las Vegas to gather outside the Super Bowl and demand the Kansas…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A Catholic laywoman who lived in 18th-century Argentina and joined the Jesuits in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say they are investigating 58 suspected North Korean cyberattacks between…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese President Macky Sall defended his decision to postpone elections as violent…

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A nurse at a California jail has been found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2019 death of an inmate who…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Hershey is cautioning on its 2024 profit growth as the company contends with rising cocoa costs that are…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The doink cam is one of many innovations that CBS will use during Sunday’s NFL title game between Kansas City and San…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is downplaying sharp criticism from President Joe Biden and a senior national…

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published February 7, 2024, about the color red, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of San Francisco…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and NICK PERRY Associated Press SACO, Maine (AP) — A shelter-in-place order remains in effect for the downtown area of Saco,…

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to threatening a federal judge in Florida who is overseeing the criminal case against former…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate is slogging past far-right Republican opposition to helping…

Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale say they won’t charge a gallery owner whose racist…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in Illinois say a Minnesota man charged in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago girl more than 50…

By ALMA SOLÍS Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Not a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering nor going into political asylum in…