Month: March 2024

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. military has flown forces in to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti…

VENICE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities were working to assist a beached whale that is stranded on a sandbar off Florida’s Gulf Coast. The Venice Police…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Officials have seen the crescent moon in Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest…

By ADRIANA MORGA AND COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than 75 million student loan borrowers have enrolled in the U.S.…

By The Associated Press Muslims around the world are welcoming the arrival of Ramadan, a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, intense prayer, charity and…

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Police in Arkansas say at least three people were killed and several others injured in an early morning shooting. Officers…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden made abortion and reproductive rights a central theme of his State of…

By FRANCISCO SECO Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — For AP Photographer Francisco Seco, taking photos of daily life in cities around the world is…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian and allied officials have criticized Pope Francis for saying that Kyiv should have…

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police say that rescue authorities have launched a search for six cross-country skiers missing in the Alps in difficult weather…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, America’s president stripped naked on a…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has signed a trade agreement with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland on Sunday…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Rep. Katie Porter faces an uncertain future after being trounced in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s almost time for the Oscars. The 96th edition is Sunday, with a few new elements. The biggest switch from previous…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s foreign minister says the past two years for his…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The first photo of Kate, the Princess of Wales, since her abdominal surgery nearly two months ago…

By SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of Tibetans in exile have held a protest march in New Delhi to commemorate the 65th…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a motorcycle packed with explosives has detonated in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing two…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Netherlands’s National Holocaust Museum is opening in a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king. Israeli President Isaac…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In Hollywood, the night before the Oscars isn’t a time to rest. For quite a few…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-dominated state Legislature has concluded a session…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says police have detained 33 people suspected of ties to the Islamic State group who were…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi oil giant Aramco has reported a $121 billion profit last year, down from…

By JOSH KELETY/AP, ERIC SCICCHITANO/CNHI NEWS and CARSON GERBER/CNHI NEWS HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A 100-year-old American World War II veteran plans to marry his 96-year-old fiancee in…

By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer Virginia high school teacher Joe Clement keeps track of the text messages parents have sent students sitting in…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press It’s easy to blame the latest spasm of violence in Haiti on longstanding poverty, the legacy of…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding a general election Sunday against a backdrop of corruption scandals…

JOSH KELETY/AP HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hi, “Oppenheimer.” When Hollywood gathers for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the…

SARGENT’S PURCHASE, N.H. (AP) — Two people were rescued and emergency crews were attempting to rescue a third at a ski area on the…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia bill that would provide a framework for public school teachers on…

By AMIR AMAN KIYARO Associated Press NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia (AP) — Once-lush fields lie barren. Mothers, faces etched with worry, watch helplessly…

By RAJANISH KAKADE Associated Press MUMBAI, India (AP) — Krystyna Pyszková of the Czech Republic has been crowned Miss World at a glittering…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature has voted to allow some students…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300…

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — An Auburn University student connected on a long-distance shot, draining a length-of-the-basketball court putt on Saturday to…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Officials say no recoverable oil remains in the water after a sheen was reported off the Southern California coast,…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that he believes Israeli Prime Minister…

By ALI SULTAN Associated Press ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — Authorities in Zanzibar say eight children and an adult have died from eating sea turtle…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch has conducted the first powered test flight of a new…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regrets using the term “illegal” during…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On the Friday before the Oscars, the center of Hollywood seemed to be at a private home in Los…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — What seemed like an aberration a decade ago when militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in…

By The Associated Press Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who turns 93 next week, has been married four times — and is engaged again, his…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Interest in the late scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer has extended beyond the Oscars this…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s Central Electoral Commission has decided to hold a vote on April 21 to oust four ethnic Albanian mayors whose…