Month: March 2024

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say twelve miners have been killed in a explosion inside a coal mine in southwest Pakistan. Authorities rescued…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets were mostly higher Wednesday ahead of expected guidance by the Federal Reserve on the…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund have reached a preliminary agreement for the release…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ plans to arrest migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally were…

By DAVID CRARY Associated Press Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press CYWINY WOJSKIE, Poland (AP) — Polish farmer Piotr Korycki says his business has been badly destabilized by…

By BABACAR DIONE and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand little to no…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sentencing continues Wednesday for white former law enforcement…

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man is scheduled to be put to death in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years. Willie James…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican attorneys general in two dozen states are pushing back against a proposed…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An interactive exhibit opening Wednesday at the National WWII Museum will use artificial…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Dubai sovereign wealth fund that’s the single-largest shareholder in the…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand said Wednesday it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise financial penalties for those…

TOKYO (AP) — A South Korean tanker capsized off an island in southwestern Japan early Wednesday, and the coast guard said it had rescued four crew…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision by England’s public health service to…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden talks to his supporters, he can make the presidential election sound like…

By BECKY BOHRER and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press OSO, Wash. (AP) — Landslides occur around the world and have helped shape the Earth as we know…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s term wound down in the…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press LYNDON, Vt. (AP) — One of Vermont’s historic covered bridges has fallen under threat from modern technology.…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Election misinformation will pose a formidable challenge this year as billions of people in…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police say they’ve found no explosives at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome after searching the site following a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest measures of U.S. inflation have turned out to be hotter than expected. As a…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia has received its most senior Chinese leadership visit in nearly seven years with stability…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Businessman Dave Taylor has defeated 10 of his fellow Republicans…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is suggesting that he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A report by a European business group says that uncertainty and “draconian…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A Supreme Court decision that lets Texas arrest and deport migrants – at least for…

INDEX, Wash. (AP) — The bodies of two people recovered over the weekend after they fell into the water at a dangerous swimming area in Washington…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina officials are preparing to remove over 1.2 million…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would outlaw paid…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Catastrophic hunger is so dire in two world hotspots that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong performance among voters who cast their ballots Tuesday — the day of the election in…

Associated Press PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — A new clerk was chosen Tuesday to oversee elections in a deep-red rural Nevada county that has been roiled by…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Officials and residents of a town southeast of Yemen’s capital say nine members of one family…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range…

By The Associated Press JetBlue Airways will end service at several cities and reduce flying out of Los Angeles in a move to retrench and focus on…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A human body has been found in a western New York reservoir that supplies drinking water to parts of Rochester, prompting a…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press The Yurok Tribe will be getting back a slice of its ancestral land dotted with redwoods and a key creek for salmon…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Former NHL enforcer Chris Simon has died. He was 52. A spokesperson for the NHL Players’ Association said Simon…

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Fire officials say four people were killed and four others were hurt in a multiple vehicle crash in suburban Seattle. Puget…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware’s Republican presidential primary is over before it even began. State lawmakers…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal agents were involved in a shootout early Tuesday as they tried to serve a search warrant at the Little Rock home…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major automaker made a deal with California to cut greenhouse gas…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and JIM SALTER Associated Press ZEARING, Iowa (AP) — Four members of a rural Iowa family are accused of abducting and abusing…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Two of the Vermont communities hardest hit by the catastrophic summer flooding have put in…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Caitlin Clark’s audacious logo 3-pointers and record-breaking accomplishments have driven…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state senator says he’s seeking to make it harder for people to challenge the…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court has upheld a lower-court decision that affirmed a local…