Month: February 2024

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marauding hyenas have killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has honored Annette Bening as its 2024…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators have passed a bill to remove barcodes from ballots. The measure would mandate that…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio sheriff’s deputy testified in a murder trial…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press Rap legend Jam Master Jay lay, mortally wounded, on his studio floor. One of his aides was in pain from a gunshot…

By AIDA SULTANOVA Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijanis are voting Wednesday in an election almost certain to see incumbent…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 380 mudslides. Nearly half of downtown Los Angeles’ yearly rainfall in just two days. A wind gust of 102 mph…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A witness has testified that the estranged husband of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos pressured him to get…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have arrested a 46-year-old American-Palestinian woman in the West…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to provide Israel with more military aid has gone down in defeat in the House. The vote…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A teachers’ union political group has filed a second legal effort to block taxpayer funds from…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A bill that would allow teachers and other staff in schools to be armed in the hopes of deterring school…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq’s government is focused on avoiding a domestic or regional spillover of the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A couple of major earthquakes in Oklahoma in recent weeks have raised concerns after years of…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans on Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that…

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore has been convicted on one count of mortgage fraud for lying on a loan…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Audubon has changed its name to the “Bird Alliance of Oregon,” in the latest example of a local chapter to…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a resolution condemning an op-ed piece that…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When rainstorms like this week’s powerful atmospheric river hit California, the earth begins…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has waived to adult court a 16-year-old boy charged in a shooting after a Juneteenth celebration last year that left six…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Virginia bank that is seeking to recover more longstanding unpaid business loans to the…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon believes it has identified the mechanical failure in an Osprey aircraft that led to a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Gina Carano has sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Fifteen years ago, bourbon barons poured whiskey out on the Kentucky Capitol steps to…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Authorities in northern Italy have culled a brown bear they deemed dangerous to humans, drawing…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press The Postal Service says a mix of environmental initiatives and cost-cutting business practices are going to reduce…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is teaming up with predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton next month…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Officials in Ecuador have named a likely source of contaminated ground cinnamon used in fruit pouches tied more…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — All of Georgia’s members of Congress have signed a letter that supports studying another…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee legislative staffer has been placed on leave after Democratic state Rep.…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A man accused of faking his own death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges continued to deny he is the man…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have confirmed a veteran of U.S.-Asian engagement and security as the State…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — R&B icon Usher has announced a new North American tour. After two years of his popular Las…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Football coaches from South Carolina’s three major school have joined together at…

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Captains of a Hawaii high school football team whose town was destroyed by a deadly wildfire are going to Super Bowl in Las…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A bill to require cash bail for 30 additional crimes is headed to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Red Solo cups – a staple of barbecues and beer pong – are usually synonymous with good times. But on…

STUDIO CITY, Calif. (AP) — A crewmember who was working on the Marvel Studios series “Wonder Man” has died following an accident on set. The…

LUTSEN, Minn. (AP) — An overnight fire has destroyed the historic Lutsen Lodge on Lake Superior in northern Minnesota. The only staffer present…

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Sebastián Piñera, the two-time former president of Chile, who in his second term faced a social upheaval followed by…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis heaps more pressure on the British monarchy, which is still…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Bolts that helped secure a panel to the frame of a Boeing 737 Max 9 were missing before the panel blew off the…

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia (AP) — Some residents in the Canadian Atlantic city of Cape Breton were anxiously awaiting rescue after a huge dump of heavy,…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has approved an agreement between two tribes and an eastern Nebraska county that gives Native American voters a…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a deputy shot and killed a man after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank.…

By The Associated Press The world premiere stage adaptation of Prince’s film and album “Purple Rain” is set for spring 2025 at an appropriate…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says it expects to collect hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid…