Month: April 2024

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An academic probe says that Norway’s Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol plagiarized parts of her masters’ degree thesis…

ATLANTA (AP) — Powerful storms rumbled over parts of the U.S. Southeast early Thursday, prompting a few tornado warnings, causing flash flooding,…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have offered a reward and asked possible witnesses to come forward with information regarding an arson attack on a…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Soelden has left two people dead. Rescuers were searching Thursday for…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Imprisoned Vietnamese author-blogger-journalist Pham Doan Trang will be this year’s recipient…

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government will add new restrictions on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products to…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean voters have handed liberals extended opposition control of parliament in…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Instagram said it’s deploying new new tools to protect young people and combat sexual…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tax pros say there are a few tips parents should keep in mind when filing their tax returns this…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian court has rejected a case brought by five women seeking compensation from Qatar Airways over invasive…

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has sanctioned two U.S. companies over what it says is their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Biden administration is handing out almost $830 million in grants for 80 projects around the…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority in Myanmar claim to have captured the last of the army’s…

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The start of the Masters has been delayed by at least one hour because of bad weather. The first round was scheduled to begin…

MADRID (AP) — A Czech tourist has died after falling into the sea while apparently taking photographs of huge waves during a storm on the Canary…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s ruling junta issued a decree suspending all political activities until further notice…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the U.S. will have to run…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnam court has sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is gathering Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa and a union representing cabin crew have reached a pay deal, concluding the last of several major disputes that have led to…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s interior minister says police have seized the third largest haul of cocaine in the country’s history. Ali…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament passed a law on Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Markets are waiting to hear what European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says a bus crash has killed 17 people and injured 16 others in the country’s southwest. They…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say special forces killed two people suspected of plotting terror attacks in a shootout in the country’s south…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday after U.S. stocks fell on worries that what had seemed like…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — The mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls a decade ago in Nigeria marked a new era of fear in…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, NC (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments related to voter fraud…

JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mister Cee, one of hip-hop’s pioneering DJs and a New York City radio personality…

By JANIE HAR and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Oakland’s airport is considering a name-change to include “San…

By STEPHEN WADE and AUDRY MCAVOY Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one of the greats of sumo wresting and a former grand…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As NBC News Group chairman, Cesar Conde, is already busy overseeing the network’s broadcast…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Frightening to some, exciting to others, baffling to many: Artificial intelligence has been…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — South Florida researchers are using biodegradable drinking straws to prevent…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When he was elected two years ago as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, Alvin Bragg…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Dusty Farr used to be someone else. Before his transgender daughter was suspended…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls’…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press RUN TA EK, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site…

By JACK JEFFERY, JULIA FRANKEL and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It was hours after sundown when eight aid trucks…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is heading to Congress to address U.S. lawmakers on the…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A new study has found that voters in 19 countries, including in three of the world’s…