Month: March 2024

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Panama’s Electoral Tribunal has disqualified former president Ricardo Martinelli’s candidacy in the country’s May…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — For the Paris Olympics, it could almost be a new sport: Score points by hunting down mosaics that a…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump are poised to have the biggest day of the…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Primaries in North Carolina will mark an exceptional change in the state’s U.S. House delegation. Dozens of…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Republicans will choose who they want to replace the retiring chief justice of the state Supreme Court. Justices…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina primary voters are choosing potential successors to term-limited…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach is trying to break up with spring break, but it’s not yet clear whether…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A man who purchased a gun with his son four days before the teen used that weapon in a mass…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have unveiled a bill that would install requirements for…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Nashville say that multiple people have died after a small plane crashed Monday night near an interstate highway,…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines says Chinese coast guard ships blocked Philippine vessels from a disputed South China Sea shoal, causing…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California man was arrested on suspicion of smuggling refrigerants into the U.S. from Mexico. Federal prosecutors said…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has defended an exclusive deal his…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii report says regulatory costs account for more than half of the price of a…

BEIJING (AP) — China is increasing its defense budget 7.2% this year in a similar increase to last year’s. It’s already the…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak to anyone…

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Two snowmobilers have been killed in separate avalanches in Washington state and in Idaho. Two snowmobilers riding in the…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie-ammunition supplier has testified at trial that he provided only inert dummy rounds…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang has announced that China’s economic growth target for this year is around 5%, in line with last year’s…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are warning that a gag order sought by New York prosecutors ahead of…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGEW, Alaska (AP) — A veteran musher had to kill a moose after it injured his dog shortly after the start…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen has announced that she has officially filed for reelection in a presidential battleground state that…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has called the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills a plot to invade…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some guns will be banned at voting locations, and the waiting period for purchasing firearms is being extended to seven…

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Two years ago, Russell Wilson exuberantly declared he intended to play a dozen…

CLOQUET, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say the man who fatally shot a Super 8 hotel clerk and a guest in a small Minnesota town doesn’t appear to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have invited the prime minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, to address a…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican-dominated Kentucky House has voted to remove any role for the state’s…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Migrants bound for the U.S. are once again crossing the Darien Gap in…

By ACACIA CORONADO and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily halted a new Texas law…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a civilian U.S. Air Force employee has been charged in federal court in Nebraska with transmitting…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has lifted its COVID-19 testing requirement for those who plan to be…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers are on the verge of a compromise that will give police officers who…

BOILING SPRING LAKES, N.C. (AP) — Two people are facing arrest warrants in North Carolina in a poaching case involving hundreds of Venus flytraps.…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gun violence prevention advocates who gathered Monday at the Utah State Capitol called…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than a week after staging rival events on the banks of the Rio Grande River along the…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in North Carolina will decide a full slate of primaries Tuesday, including contested races…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have rescued 100 migrants found on a smuggling vessel in distress off the country’s southern…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department says 11 people were hurt over the weekend while trying to climb over a wall that separates…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new job for the longtime supporter who has led Walt Disney…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tara VanDerveer managed to compartmentalize her emotions as she chased down and eclipsed Mike…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A Missouri Girl Scout troop that made bracelets to raise funds for children in Gaza was ordered to stop and…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A key hearing over the future of Puerto Rico’s crumbling power company and its…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer’s 42-year-old son has pleaded not guilty to charges related to the events that preceded the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has acknowledged for the first time that seven National Guard recruits drowned in an army training accident…

By COREY WILLIAMS and SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press More than 1,400 pages of emails, text messages and other documents released Monday reveal…