Month: April 2024

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it has finalized a ban on consumer uses of …

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s population increased in 2023 for the first time in three years. The…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-French filmmaker and cartoonist, has won the 2024 Princess…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew more quickly in the first three months…

MILAN (AP) — A former Italian foreign minister has been convicted and sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for his role in the sale of…

By ERIK VERDUZCO and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say a shootout that killed four law…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Six years after being forced out as as national security adviser, H.R McMaster is releasing a…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Some 170 foundations, donors and advisors have signed on to a pledge started by the nonprofit Democracy Fund to make…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships have fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed shoal in the South…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Wildlife researchers say the wolf population on a remote Lake Superior island is stable. But they announced Tuesday…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say gunmen have fatally shot a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in the northwest.…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah,…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Telegraph newspaper group is back up for sale after a takeover bid by a United Arab Emirates-backed consortium collapsed.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money trial will resume with testimony from the third prosecution witness, Gary Farro, a banker who helped…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with deadly unrest that gripped the…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is launching its biggest store-label food brand in 20 years in terms of its…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A senior military official in Cambodia says the huge explosion over the weekend that killed 20 soldiers at an army base…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Twenty years after Poland joined the European Union, its finance minister says the country is still not ready to adopt the…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah made “encouraging progress” in recent talks in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will return to public duties on Tuesday when he visits a cancer treatment charity,…

LONDON (AP) — London police say a man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and two police officers on Tuesday in the east London…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris police have evicted migrants from a makeshift tent camp next to City Hall, the latest…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation and its Mexican counterpart dropped their joint bid to host the 2027…

By The Associated Press Officials from Hamas have left Cairo after talks with Egyptian officials on a new cease-fire proposal in Gaza, Egypt’s…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a gunman opened fire inside a mosque in western Afghanistan, killing at least six people as they were…

SHANGHAI (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him…

By ARIEL GILREATH of The Hechinger Report NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Last summer, Derrika Richard felt stuck. She didn’t have enough money to afford…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, as investors kept their eyes on potentially market-moving…

By GRACEY WAKARI Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano has erupted for a second time in two weeks, spewing…

By JOHN CARUCCI and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ralph Lauren has been known for many a grand fashion show over the years:…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his governing party’s major defeat in last…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, faces…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court is ruling Tuesday on a request by Nicaragua for…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a…

By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Cheng “Charlie” Saephan wore a broad smile and a bright blue sash…

By JIM VERTUNO, CEDAR ATTANASIO, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As upcoming commencement ceremonies grew…

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jordan Vassallo is lukewarm about casting her first presidential ballot for…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Voters are casting ballots in a special election to fill the upstate New York…