Month: April 2024

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A top court in the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica has struck down colonial-era laws criminalizing gay sex.…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new exhibit inside the federal agency that’s responsible for enforcing the…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A photographer who worked for hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion says she was an abusive…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Top Mississippi lawmakers have started negotiating on what could become a landmark…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A minor league baseball team in Montana is calling out the U.S. Department of Interior for…

By JOSH CORNFIELD Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Adele, Mariah Carey and Garth Brooks tower over the Las Vegas Strip, peering out from…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government is rolling out new incentives to reduce electricity consumption…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer U.S. health officials are warning of counterfeit Botox injections after more than 20 people got sick. All of the…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Senate has voted for legislation meant to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A transgender Tennessee woman has sued the state’s Department of Safety and Homeland…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is calling for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation”…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Korean War veteran from Minnesota who still carries shrapnel in his leg from when he was…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A bill designed to ban LGBTQ+ Pride flags in Tennessee public school classrooms has…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press Former U.S. Rep. George Santos on Tuesday said he is dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican lawmakers have passed a bill that would let some teachers and…

By LEAH ASKARINAM and CHAD DAY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Dean Phillips will receive at least three delegates from the Ohio Democratic…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union auditors are struggling to work out whether some of the billions the bloc has sent…

By MARK THIESSEN and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A former Washington state police officer who court documents say had a child with…

BOSTON (AP) — A former Weymouth, Massachusetts, police officer has pleaded guilty to assaulting a man in his custody nearly two years ago by…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A worsening budget crisis at Argentina’s public universities is sending…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor Ashley Judd and singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc have helped the Biden administration…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — GoFundMe is expanding into Mexico, the company announced Tuesday. That marks 20 countries now…

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian police say that two former United Nations employees in Montreal have been charged with participating in a conspiracy to…

By The Associated Press Russian authorities say they have detained a top military official on suspicion of accepting a bribe. The arrest of Timur…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A large alligator made its way onto the runway at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida where it had to be captured and taken away…

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say a deputy who was a 20-year-veteran of a Houston-area sheriff’s office has died after being hit by a truck while…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Several crew members were injured when a car and truck collided on the Georgia set of the Eddie Murphy film…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cyberattacks on businesses are rising, including small businesses. It’s a troubling trend…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A unique book club at one of the nation’s largest jails brings together college students and…

NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) — Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they…

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A Doulgas DC-4 has crashed into the Tanana River outside Fairbanks, Alaska. It is not immediately known how many people…

By SOPHIA ROSENBAUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Henry knows that love can change your life. She’s had it happen personally and…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 in a way that makes sense. The most…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The man charged with starting a fire outside independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office earlier this month has…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council charged with selecting a new prime minister and Cabinet for…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former MIT researcher has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the killing of a Yale University graduate student in…

PARIS (AP) — Officials at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport have unveiled a new security baggage system and a dedicated baggage handling area ahead…

McRAE-HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say someone fishing with a magnet in a Georgia creek pulled up new evidence in a nine-year-old murder case.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — How sexy can a qualifying tennis tournament in New Rochelle, New York, be? When the on-court drama…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The defense attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing music…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico’s detective service has acknowledged the country is “the champion” of fentanyl production,…

DENVER (AP) — The NBA and Denver police are looking into an incident in which a man reported to be one of the brothers of Denver Nuggets star…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan have come a step closer toward normalizing relations after a bitter conflict over territory. Experts…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has halted the enforcement of a North Carolina law that made it a…