Month: February 2024

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing to offer $85 million in funding to improve job…

By WILL WEISSERT and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is signing an executive order aiming to better protect…

PARIS (AP) — France’s Senate is voting on a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution. The measure was…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official is calling for a new defense industry strategy to respond to security…

MOSCOW (AP) — The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will take place…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Organizers of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have agreed to relax their ban…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — As Hong Kong moves toward enacting a new national security law, more than three years after…

GENEVA (AP) — Telecoms operator Swisscom has confirmed it’s in talks with Vodafone Group toward a possible purchase of its Italian subsidiary for…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Widespread strikes in Greece have halted trains and ferries in protests timed to coincide with the anniversary of a deadly…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower on Wednesday after U.S. stocks held near their record levels in a…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s government is lifting some curbs on property deals after home prices fell to a…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The hour of Thomas Eugene Creech’s death has been set, and it is rapidly approaching. On…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Rather than trying to keep their seats in Congress, two of North Carolina’s U.S. representatives are vying for…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian warlord Salvatore Mancuso has been returned to his native…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Thousands of law enforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics are expected to pack…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The parents of hundreds of thousands of U.S. children with physical or intellectual disabilities…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate who has long said he’s innocent and claims that his conviction more than 20…

By EDNA TARIGAN and ACHMAD IBRAHIM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has awarded an honorary four-star…

ROME (AP) — Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was on hand Tuesday for the arrival in Rome of an Italian family of three just hours after…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer says a recommended sentence of 100 years in prison for the…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is holding parliamentary elections this Friday, yet the real question may not be…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Court documents show that the star trial witness in the killing of a 20-year-old nursing…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. asylum officers were instructed nearly a year ago to apply a higher screening standard…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Ukraine’s president will co-host a summit with Albania’s government on…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A drone small enough to fit in one’s hand flew inside one of the damaged reactors at the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear a challenge Wednesday to a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden is set to appear Wednesday on Capitol Hill for a closed-door deposition with…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean and U.S. militaries will begin large-scale annual military drills next…

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — One person was injured when a tour helicopter crashed on a remote beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The Kauai Fire…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At least one quarter of Gaza’s population – 576,000 people – are one step away…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Courtroom testimony by an independent gun expert Tuesday cast new doubt on Alec…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department has hosted a screening of the award-winning Associated Press-PBS “Frontline” Ukraine war…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have won their party’s primaries in Michigan. However,…

By ROBERT YOON and MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press declared former President Donald Trump the winner of…

By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press declared President Joe Biden the winner of Michigan’s Democratic primary…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is being allowed to take effect by…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana, a state grappling with one of the highest rates of incarceration and violent…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A rocket has exploded off the side of a ship traveling through the Red Sea off…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is one step closer to what would be a landmark shift in…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The estate of Donna Summer is suing rappers Ye and Ty Dolla $ign alleging they…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Trial began Tuesday for a man accused in the deadly shooting ambush of Baltimore police officer…