Month: March 2024

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press Virginia lawmakers have passed legislation that would legalize skill games, the slots-like betting machines that…

NEW YORK (AP) — A firetruck has plowed through the facade of a furniture store on New York’s Long Island. A Rockville Centre Police…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the Pentagon will lift the ban…

CANTON, Mich. (AP) — A sport-utility vehicle crashed into a Walmart and injured several people in suburban Detroit. A Canton police statement says…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska’s top election official has ruled voters will get to decide whether to repeal a law that pays for…

By KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dutch armed forces have been deployed to the Caribbean to help clean up oil affecting beaches in the island of Bonaire…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House has passed a bill that would give lawmakers authority over what…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A police department in suburban Chicago has released officer body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a…

GENEVA (AP) — Geneva-based commodities trading firm Gunvor said Friday that it has reached $661 million settlement with U.S. and Swiss prosecutors…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident and leading proponent of human rights…

LONDON (AP) — Irish President Michael Higgins is expected to spend the weekend in the hospital as a precaution after he felt ill. Higgins’…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there will be a state funeral for former Prime Minister…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Fanatics founder Michael Rubin says his company is being unfairly blamed for new Major League…

DETROIT (AP) — The family of a 70-year-old man who died after a Detroit police officer punched him in the face, causing him to fall to the ground,…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Yogurt sold in the U.S. can make claims that the food may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes based on limited…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has scored a tactical victory in his battles with British tabloids. Government…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman pleaded guilty Friday to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez after signing a cooperation deal with…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana University’s board of trustees has abandoned a plan that would have split…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A federal appeals court in Washington has ordered a new sentence for a retired Air Force officer who stormed…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone in a few states. A…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says a land mine exploded in central Mexico, killing four soldiers in what he called a…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Prosecutors charged a man with two counts of first-degree murder for the killing of a court employee who…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials says Americans with COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five…

By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Singer Marian Anderson is getting new recognition 30 years after her death. The pioneering Black…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is pushing back against a new set of subpoenas quietly sent out by…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The Duke men’s basketball program is in its second year of honoring patients of the…

By MARK STEVENSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press IRAPUATO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s presidential campaigns have officially begun with…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has pleaded guilty to the 2021 killing of a Yale graduate…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Zigman’s ”Émigré,” an oratorio portraying Jews who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai,…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The success of the African American Film Critics Association didn’t happen…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The man who launched New Jersey to years of national leadership in internet gambling and…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A judge in Montana ruled against restrictions in one of several developments this week on how abortion works in…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A national police spokesman says Haitian police were overwhelmed by a series of…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Vice President Han Zheng has pledged to provide more opportunities for foreign companies…

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators say a 66-year-old man accused of killing a woman when he was stationed in Germany as a U.S. soldier nearly 46…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A woman was convicted Friday of conspiring to murder missing mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos, who vanished from a…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she raised $12 million in February.…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish media are reporting that a car struck a crowd of people waiting at a tram stop in the northwestern city of Szczecin…

AARON HEMENS, IndigiNEWS KELOWNA, British Columbia (AP) — Just below the fog line hanging over the central Okanagan Valley, rows of saplings for a…

By MATT BROWN Associated Pres WASHINGTON (AP) — Black Americans have endured considerable injustices and barriers to prosperity and equality…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented by U.S. first lady Jill Biden has…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man has been exonerated and released after spending nearly 30 years on death row in connection with a fatal arson fire at a…