Month: March 2024

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal trial over North Carolina’s photo voter dentification law remains set for…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A boat carrying 91 migrants has reached a small island south of Crete that is seeing a spike in the arrival of people…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press James Conlon will retire as music director of the Los Angeles Opera at the end of the 2025-26 season, ending a…

A federal judge has found the city of Flint, Michigan, in contempt for failing to comply with a court order that spelled out the steps it needed to…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney has started blocking its users from…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government could end its legal fight against a planned expedition to the Titanic…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Adult women who left marriages they entered as minors are calling on Missouri…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A prosecutor has told a jury that a Connecticut state trooper’s fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Volatile weather is expected to hone in on parts of Kansas and Missouri Wednesday night, and the…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police say they have rescued dozens of children used as labor at a religious…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden could face trial in Delaware on federal firearms charges as soon as June, in…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Republican candidate for U.S. Senate was arrested in 2020 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A blood test for colon cancer performed well in a study published Wednesday, offering a new kind of screening…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it will back legislation banning foreign state ownership of British newspapers…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government says that it has ordered two diplomats from Russia’s…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor…

By JACK DURA and JOSH FUNK Associated Press A Democratic legislator is calling for an inquiry into South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s trip…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is reporting the first data on cancer diagnoses among troops who worked with nuclear…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns is leaning into the push to pass a voucher plan funding private school…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk has abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” a talk show on his social media…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press Civil rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner has died at age 81. Joyce Ladner confirms her sister died…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin regents have selected a New Hampshire provost to replace UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Gow…

NEW YORK (AP) — The retired Concorde jet that belongs to New York’s Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a west side pier after a…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch soccer star Quincy Promes has reportedly been arrested by authorities in Dubai…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2015 murder of a 7-year-old boy who…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys plan to refile a lawsuit over zoning changes that they say threaten one of the…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce a running mate for his independent presidential campaign on March 26…

By RUTH ALONGA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A senior United Nations official says intensifying violence in Congo’s eastern region has…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The European Union’s maritime security force says it is tracking a Bangladesh-flagged cargo vessel that was boarded by…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The regional president of Catalonia has called an early election for May 12 after his…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has acquitted a New York state trooper who was charged with manslaughter after shooting an unarmed motorist to death…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is ordering more than 250 law enforcement officers and soldiers to the Florida Keys to help…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robotaxis will begin cruising the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say three men from Kansas City, Missouri, face firearms charges, including gun trafficking, after an…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital has extended geographical restrictions against online influencer Andrew Tate, who is…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry says it’s cutting short the missions of 50 of the nation’s ambassadors as part of…

By MEGAN JANETSKY, VICTOR R. CAIVANO & RODRIGO ABD Associated Press TUSAQUILLAS, Argentina (AP) — Irene Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military says it plans to direct many of the 1.4 million displaced…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor urged jurors to convict the father of a Michigan school shooter on Wednesday,…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who spent decades using an iron lung after contracting polio as a child has died at the…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina representative who finished second in last week’s primary for…