Day: March 6, 2024

By WILL WEISSERT and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota ended his long-shot 2024 Democratic…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The Justice Department says a former sheriff’s deputy in central Kentucky has been convicted in federal court of violating…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected to vote to keep money flowing to scores of federal agencies before a…

COLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff whose office drew national scrutiny and an FBI investigation following a shooting last year in which a man…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With Rhode Island this week becoming the seventh U.S. state to launch internet gambling, industry…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Eight years after Donald Trump outlasted a crowded field of Republican presidential…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that authorizes spending nearly $700 million on Universities of Wisconsin…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press An employee of a rural Missouri boarding school is accused of bloodying a boy’s face while boxing. The man is the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Protesters have commandeered a pickup truck and used it to ram down the wooden doors of Mexico City’s National Palace.…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing has refused to disclose who worked on the door plug that blew off a jetliner in January, according to the…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The European Union and Germany say they will give Albania nearly $88 million to turn the three main bus lines in the capital…

By EVENS SANON and BERT WILKINSON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian politicians started pursuing new alliances Wednesday,…

By ALBERT STUMM For the Associated Press Sleeper trains are regaining momentum in Europe thanks to travelers who are concerned about climate change…

By ALBERT STUMM Associated Press A growing number of climate-conscious Europeans want to give up flying in favor of long-haul trains, especially…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Hondurans call it the “Trial of the Century,” but it’s…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Wednesday to deploy the National Guard to the…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to electing a woman president, the ceiling holds. Nikki Haley’s exit from…

By SUSIE BLANN and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port of…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A county executive in the New York City suburbs has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings barely changed in January but remained at a high level, suggesting that the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president.…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a passenger shot aboard a bus in Philadelphia has died from his wounds, marking the third time in three days that…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors abruptly dropped their criminal case midtrial Wednesday against three men…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 34-year-old Royal Caribbean cruise employee is accused of hiding cameras inside bathrooms of passenger cabins to spy…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway has reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A visit from a rare, fine-feathered tourist has interrupted one of Las Vegas’ prominent shows. The Bellagio said in a social…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s activists and pro-government media say Islamic State militants have killed at least 18…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has weakened a proposed climate disclosure rule…

LONDON (AP) — A Cabinet minister in Britain has apologized and paid damages to an academic she had accused of expressing sympathy for Hamas.…

By The Associated Press Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow has called on his supporters to join a protest of this month’s…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says more than 8,500 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada will restore funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, a government…

MILAN (AP) — The humanitarian rescue group SOS Humanity on Wednesday protested Italy’s seizure of its migrant rescue ship Humanity 1, fresh from…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The royal palace in Norway says the infection that sent Europe’s oldest monarch to a hospital while traveling in…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón is launching her intended signature project in April.…

By JOEAL CALUPITAN and AARON FAVILA Associated Press ABOARD BRP SINDANGAN (AP) — The Philippine navy says it will not allow China to remove a…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Protesting Polish farmers on tractors have blocked highways leading into Warsaw while…