Month: March 2024

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is almost certainly about to get its first woman president. Ruling-party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum leads in polls on the race leading to the June 2 vote. The second-place candidate is also a woman. A man running for a small third party essentially has no chance

By TERRY TANG and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Regina Lawless hit a professional high at 40, becoming the first director of diversity and inclusion for Instagram. But after her husband died suddenly in 2021, she pondered whether she had neglected her personal life and what it means for Black woman to succeed

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday is hosting a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who is visiting Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of Netanyahu, is sitting down with several senior Biden administration officials

By EVENS SANON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government has declared an emergency and a nighttime curfew in a bid to regain control of the streets after an explosion of violence over the weekend in which armed gang members stormed the country’s two biggest prisons. The 72-hour state of emergency

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump could learn Monday whether the Supreme Court will let him appear on this year’s ballot as he tries to close in on the Republican presidential nomination. The justices are expected to decide at least one case Monday, with signs pointing to resolution of

By JOSH BOAK and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A poll finds that a growing share of U.S. adults doubt that 81-year-old President Joe Biden has the memory and acuity for the job, turning his coming State of the Union address into something of a real-time audition for a second term. Roughly 6

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a new album from pop princess Ariana Grande, a docuseries on National Geographic that follows female leaders of the animal kingdom and the Emma Stone-led “Poor Things” landing on Hulu, just in time for the Academy Awards. Also, Theo James stars in Guy Ritchie’s

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government began steps Monday to suspend the medical licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors, days after they missed a government-set deadline to end their joint walkouts, which have severely impacted hospital operations. Nearly 9,000 medical interns and residents have been on strike

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts headed to the International Space Station on Sunday where they will oversee the arrivals of two new rocketships during their half-year stint. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Russia’s

HONG KONG (AP) — Japan’s Nikkei 225 share benchmark topped 40,000 on Monday for the first time as strong demand for technology shares keeps pushing the index higher. By midday in Tokyo, the index had gained 0.8% to 40,226.83. Shares in computer-chip related companies rallied, with Renesas Electronics Corp. jumping 5.8% and Advantest Corp. up

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The foreign minister of the Philippines is urging regional neighbors to stand together more strongly in upholding the rule of law in the South China Sea, where China is forcefully pursuing territorial claims in conflict with other nations.. Enrique Manalo spoke Monday at a forum on

By MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, notching her first victory of the 2024 campaign. Her victory Sunday at least temporarily halts Donald Trump’s sweep of the GOP voting contests, although the former president is likely to pick up

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week. The ASEAN-Australia Special Summit that starts in Melbourne on Monday marks 50 years since Australia

NEW YORK (AP) — Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management are upping their offer to acquire Macy’s in a deal now valued at $6.6 billion. The investment firms announced Sunday that they had submitted an all-cash proposal of $24 for each of the remaining shares in Macy’s they don’t already own — up from a

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the United States have begun large military exercises to bolster their readiness against North Korean nuclear threats. The joint exercises that started Monday will last 11 days. They involve computer-simulated command post training called the Freedom Shield exercise and separate field exercises.

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72. ESPN confirmed Mortensen’s death on Sunday. There was no immediate word on the cause or place of death. “Mort was widely

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders on Sunday came out with a package of six bills setting full-year spending levels for some federal agencies, a step forward in a long overdue funding process beset by sharp political divisions between the two parties as well as infighting among House Republicans. The release

VALERIE GONZALEZ McALLEN, Texas (AP) — As firefighters battle against strong winds in their efforts to contain the unprecedented wildfires in the Texas Panhandle, humanitarian organizations are pivoting their attention to dozens of families believed to be displaced by the blazes. The Hutchison County United Ways says they’ve heard that at least 150 homes have

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting and lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbles down its sides toward the sea. The La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina island began erupting Saturday around midnight. Officials with Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute say it could be the volcano’s largest

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press Joe Biden has made more use of immigration “parole” than any American president to bypass an uncooperative Congress, but he’s hardly the first. The presidential power faces a key test in this year’s race for the White House. It has been a centerpiece of Biden’s strategy to channel immigrants through

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 61,000 pounds of steamed chicken soup dumplings sold at Trader Joe’s are being recalled for possibly containing hard plastic, U.S. regulators announced Saturday. The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service noted that the now-recalled dumplings, which are produced by the California-based CJ Foods Manufacturing Beaumont Corp., may be

NEW YORK (AP) — Mournful fans of Flaco the Eurasion eagle-owl are gathering in New York City to say goodbye to the beloved celebrity creature who became an inspiration and joy to many as he flew around Manhattan after he was let out of his zoo enclosure. A memorial was planned late Sunday afternoon in

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Iowa’s Caitlin Clark has become the all-time NCAA scoring leader, breaking the late Pete Maravich’s 54-year-old record when she made two free throws after a technical foul was called in the No. 6 Hawkeyes’ game against No. 2 Ohio State. Clark entered the game needing 18 points to pass

AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old boy was critically injured in a shooting near the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park after police exchanged gunfire with a group of people. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says that on Saturday, Cobb County Police Department officers were assisting with crowd control near the park’s entrance

CLEVELAND (AP) — Drivers on an Ohio interstate came upon an unusual traffic hazard over the weekend — a pair of horses trotting against traffic. The animals were police horses on the lam and weaved through traffic, slowing and then stopping it on Interstate 90 in the downtown Cleveland area on Saturday afternoon. Cleveland Police

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There are few times in a American presidency that the art of speechwriting is more on display than during a State of the Union. President Joe Biden will deliver the annual address on Thursday. It’s an occasion when the vast array of a president’s policy aspirations

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (AP) — Top surfers Gabriel Medina of Brazil and Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia have won the final qualifier for the upcoming Olympics following nine days of volatile weather. The competition held in Puerto Rico and organized by the International Surfing Association began in late February with 266

By The Associated Press Six alleged Islamic State group members have been killed in a “counterterrorism” operation in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Commitee (NAC) reported Sunday. According to a statement by NAC, late on Saturday the six men barricaded themselves into an apartment in Karabulak, a town in Russia’s semi-autonomous

NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida woman who says she was struck and dragged by a New York City bus and left partially paralyzed has been awarded $72.5 million in her lawsuit against the city’s transit agency. A city jury found in favor of 68-year-old Aurora Beauchamp, who was hit by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she no longer feels bound by a pledge that required all GOP contenders to support the party’s eventual nominee in order to participate in the primary debates. The Republican National Committee made the pledge a prerequisite for all candidates, and nearly every major one signed, except

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Movie theaters were looking for a savoir and “Dune: Part Two” is delivering on the promise. Armed with sandworms, big screen spectacle and the star power of Timothée Chalamet, Denis Villeneuve’s science fiction epic stormed the North American box office this weekend earning $81.5 million in ticket sales. That