Month: February 2024

SYDNEY (AP) — Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has become the first Pacific leader to address Australia’s parliament. He vowed…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is set to nearly double state legislators’ pay at the start of next year. That will…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A total solar eclipse is coming to North America. On April 8, the sun will pull another disappearing act across…

By JULIE WATSON and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Here’s what we know about the search for five U.S. Marines who were aboard…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — As Indonesia votes this month to replace popular President Joko Widodo, all three…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s ranks are depleted by two years of war. As it battles Russia,…

By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — How it began: President Joe Biden was urgently seeking more money…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JONATHAN J. COOPER and GABE STERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Donald Trump is expected to sweep Nevada’s Republican…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal to remain…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new book describes a series of conversations between the mother of an American hostage who was…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A special commission organized to investigate the response to the Lewiston, Maine, mass…

By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer Like a lot of mothers, North Dakota state Rep. Emily O’Brien struggled to find infant care when her…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of progressive lawmakers are fighting back against a multimillion-dollar campaign to…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former youth minister in the Baptist church, Oklahoma Sen. James…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a symbolic snub in Nevada’s primary, Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign…

By CIARÁN GILES and RAF CASERT Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Thousands of farmers in Spain have staged a second day of tractor protests across…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — The destruction of the Aral Sea in Central Asia has been labeled by the U.N. as the…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say a murder suspect who was awaiting extradition to the United States has…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers involved in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial told the judge they had no information…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The European climate agency says for the eighth straight month in…

DETROIT (AP) — Henry Fambrough of the iconic R&B group The Spinners has died. He was 85. A spokesperson for the group says Fambrough died…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol reiterated that the country would not seek its…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Self-help author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson is suspending her long-shot Democratic…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block the University of California from renaming a leading law school whose…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A group of Alabama lawmakers has unveiled a sweeping gambling bill that could authorize a…

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. says it is paying $1.5 billion for a stake in “Fortnite” maker Epic Games. It said Wednesday it will…

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is electing a new parliament Thursday as surging militant attacks and…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Not only is CPKC lagging the trend of major freight railroads agreeing to provide paid sick time…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — As El Salvador’s electoral body begins a vote-by-vote count of the country’s elections…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden has zipped through a trio of tony fundraisers in Manhattan. The president was…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating an outbreak on a luxury cruise ship where more than 150 people…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Over 500 mudslides. Half of downtown Los Angeles’ yearly rainfall in just three days. A wind gust of 102 mph. Those are some…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press Las Vegas (AP) — While police were pursuing and apprehending a man who climbed a Las Vegas Strip landmark, NFL,…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee city must pay $500,000 as part of a settlement with the American Civil…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Christian Bale has broken ground on a project he’s been pursuing for 16 years…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale plans to run for U.S. Senate, upending a race…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three months after an arson fire at a state-leased storage space shut down a major Los…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Members of the Guardian Angels roughed up a man they’d misidentified as a “migrant”…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department special counsel investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents has completed…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says a contract worker stole an agent’s car from the bureau headquarters in…

BOSTON (AP) — The lawyer for a former Massachusetts State Police trooper who was allegedly part of a scheme to take bribes for giving passing…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disney has reported stronger-than-expected earnings in the final three months of 2023.…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police in Haiti have killed at least four armed environmental protection agents during…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since before Charlie Chaplin made bread rolls dance in “The Gold Rush,” cinema and cuisine have…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer says he heard gunshots but did not witness…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge who presided over the trial that resulted in an $83 million award to writer E. Jean…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press Two Ohio departments have backed off proposed rules that would have made the state just the…

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The long road of bringing the World Cup in cross country skiing back to the U.S. has hit one…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas was not, in fact, impeached by the House. A…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast’s seemingly miraculous progression to the Africa Cup of Nations…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Asian American assistant chief has been named interim chief of the Los Angeles Police…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The mother of a Michigan school shooter is the first parent in the U.S. to be found criminally…