Month: March 2024

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bannings and attempted bannings of books continue to hit record highs. That’s according…

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake has shaken Montenegro and neighboring countries, but there are no reports of casualties…

LONDON (AP) — The British government on Thursday published an official definition of “extremism.” Groups that get the label will be barred from…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese high court has ruled that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed Thursday in lackluster trading. Japan’s Nikkei 225 reversed course…

By RISHI LEKHI and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian farmers are protesting in the Indian capital to press their demand for new…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Math enthusiasts around the world, from college kids to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day on Thursday, which is…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — City officials in eastern China have apologized to local journalists after authorities…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A brother contemplated suicide. A sister stopped going to school. A father barely speaks. With…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury in Michigan is set to resume deliberations in a trial that will determine whether another…

By ALI SWENSON and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — As Vladimir Putin heads for another six-year term as Russia’s president, there’s little…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s paroled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has launched a series of public appearances with an early morning…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More people moved to a county rich with citrus groves located between two of Florida’s…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Michigan’s premier bellwether county of Saginaw…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — A pinky and thumb extended with the remaining fingers curled down: That’s the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press WILSON, Okla. (AP) — Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press COSCUEZ, Colombia (AP) — Deep inside mountain tunnels where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women…

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday on…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For the past five years, Alaska’s annual Iditarod sled dog race has gone off mostly…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Since its inception, TikTok has been intended only for non-Chinese markets, unavailable in mainland…

SYDNEY (AP) — Rescuers say falling rocks inside a gold mine in Australia killed one worker and left another with life-threatening injuries. Another…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An open seat to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office has become one of the…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to tour a clinic in Minnesota that performs abortions…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After four decades in fashion, the queen of the catwalk is getting her own exhibition. The Victoria…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. report says many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has joined his troops in training to operate newly…

FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Sioux Falls man charged in the death of a deputy who was struck…

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say people have been injured during law enforcement exercises at an FBI training facility in Southern California.…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The shakeup of Walt Disney World’s governing district more than a year after it was taken…

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — A Utah man died after being caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in western Montana, Ravalli County officials…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a former rideshare driver in connection with an antisemitic attack on a passenger at San…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the Orthodox Church in the post-communist Balkan country,…

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county report they confirmed a staggering 645…

By The Associated Press The nation’s chief accident investigator says she’s gone to the top of Boeing — the company’s CEO — and…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARC LEVY Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is unveiling a plan to fight climate change.…

TRAPPE, Pa. (AP) — George Parker Widman, a longtime Associated Press photographer and 1988 Pulitzer finalist, has died at the age of 79.  An…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of dousing a woman with acid in Hawaii last year…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The death of a Oklahoma high school student who was nonbinary who died the day after a fight…