Month: March 2024

By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first step toward filling the seat vacated by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy kicks…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile strike on Odesa in southern Ukraine on Friday killed at least 14 people and injured 46 others, local…

By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The most high-profile election in Ohio’s primary on Tuesday will be the Republican contest to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Pattie Boyd was at the epicenter of the Swinging 60s, but not always the center of attention. The…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sought to mobilize support for his brand of…

Croatia will hold a parliamentary election on April 17. The country’s president on Friday scheduled the vote after parliament dissolved a day…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Former Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski appeared before a special parliamentary committee Friday to testify about his…

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — A ship carrying 200 tons of aid is approaching the coast of Gaza to inaugurate a sea…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An official says a rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast, leaving at least 16 people…

LONDON (AP) — System outages at McDonald’s have been reported around the world on Friday, shuttering restaurants and leading to social media…

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s markets regulator has renewed its efforts to pep up the stock market, pledging to raise the quality of companies listed…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Teenage pitchers are throwing a baseball harder than ever as they try to attract attention…

BERLIN (AP) — Official data shows Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped by one-tenth last year as renewable energy grew in importance, the…

By LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top White House lawyer is encouraging House Speaker Mike…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say they have gathered new evidence of “horrific” torture of…

LONDON (AP) — Prince William and Prince Harry both took part in an awards ceremony in honor of their late mother Princess Diana. But the estranged…

BERLIN (AP) — The leaders of Germany, France and Poland plan to meet in Berlin to discuss support for Ukraine. They are seeking to send a signal of…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Reporter SAN FRANCISO (AP) — Gerald Levin, who led Time Warner Media into a disastrous $182 billion merger with the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian markets retreated Friday, with Hong Kong’s benchmark falling nearly 2%, after a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan and Honda have agreed to work together on developing electric vehicles and auto…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and his wife have arrived in South Korea with his Los Angeles Dodgers…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States circulated the final draft of a United Nations Security Council…

By LORI HINNANT, VASILISA STEPANENKO, SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian has successfully imposed its…

By LORI HINNANT, VASILISA STEPANENKO, SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — He and his parents were among the last…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s election-year provocation, debuted at the SXSW Film and TV…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a ship in the Red Sea,…

MEADVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A truck driver accused of killing a pregnant Amish woman in her rural home is headed to a Pennsylvania courthouse for a…

By THOMAS PEIPERT and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Thousands in Colorado were without power as authorities closed highways and…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer CASEY, Ill. (AP) — Former state Sen. Darren Bailey is challenging five-term Rep. Mike Bost in the March…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Going into this election year, the United States is slogging through a housing affordability…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump dominated the Republican presidential primaries on his way to a third…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia has announced it will restore funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians. Several weeks ago, the agency…

SEATTLE (AP) — More passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 jet when part of its fuselage blew out in January are suing — including one…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Defense attorneys for Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge to dismiss a grand jury indictment…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Seventy-eight protesters have been ordered to do five hours of community service and pay restitution to avoid criminal…

Associated Press GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — A driver who said his pickup’s steering locked up right before he hit a group of bicyclists near Phoenix…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new series on Apple TV+, premiering Friday, tells the lesser-known aspects of the assassination of Abraham…