Month: March 2024

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A dozen countries across Africa have suffered a major internet outage as multiple undersea…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Lawmakers in the European Parliament have adopted a non-binding resolution saying Russia should return gold and other…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities say a woman has been charged with illegally buying guns used in the…

By YURAS KARMANAU and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Ukrainians living in regions illegally annexed by Russia are being coerced to vote in the…

By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen says athletic director Trev Alberts’ sudden decision to take the same job at…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president has urged security agencies not to pay ransoms to rescue nearly 300…

ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Intense storms that swept through Kansas and Missouri on Wednesday brought whipping winds, possible…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN & MATT LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a group of three extremist Israeli West Bank…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A young Belarusian woman who died after being attacked and raped in central Warsaw has been…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has praised the progress made by the 14 countries in the…

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The jury is deliberating in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the Michigan father of a teenage boy who killed four…

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — An independent French body in charge of a reparation program for victims of child sexual abuse…

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — The estranged wife of Long Island serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann says she believes he is not capable of the crimes he…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Composer Hans Zimmer’s film scores have soundtracked magic movie moments in “The Lion…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s high court has ruled that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Two men accused of fatally stabbing three Egyptian monks belonging to the Coptic Orthodox…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister is visiting Baghdad for high-level meetings, ahead of President…

By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Supreme Court’s approval hovering near record lows, two…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Linda Zullo would have loved Saturday. Jim Zullo, her husband, will coach in the New York state girls basketball…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Voters from Ohio to California head to the polls next Tuesday in primary elections where most of the focus will…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press America’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps…

By LOUIS PATRICK OKAMBA Associated Press BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — The health ministry says the Republic of Congo has recorded its…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jaromir Jagr is missing. Well, the bobbleheads of the former NHL star are anyway. The Pittsburgh Penguins say a shipment carrying…

By LUCA BRUNO and ANDREW DAMPF Associated Press ALBA, Italy (AP) — The purple pieces of vulcanized rubber track being produced at a factory in…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The 12 finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame this year represent four decades of play. They range from Atari…

MILAN (AP) — A humanitarian rescue group says survivors aboard a deflating rubber dinghy rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX’s mega rocket has blasted off on another test flight from Texas. This time, Elon Musk is aiming to…

Associated Press Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok, a day after the House of…

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press The Interior Department will be allocating more than $120 million to tribal governments to fight the impacts of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States picked up again in February, the latest sign…

By MATT OTT Associated Press The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits last week inched up but largely stayed at historically low levels…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers picked up their spending in February after a pullback the previous month,…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s parliament has dissolved to pave the way for a parliamentary election later this year. All 143 of a total of 151…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and DARREN SANDS Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Neglect, abandonment and destruction have been the fate of thousands of…