Month: April 2024

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing in a bid to promote…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Russian businessmen Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven won a court case Wednesday over a European…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s second attempt to test-launch a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex has been aborted. The launch of…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has revealed details of his government’s plan to stimulate the economy by giving…

MONACO (AP) — Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday it…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced its first-ever limits for several common types of…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Internet service providers will be required to be more transparent about the cost and performance of…

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Search and rescue operations are underway at a hydroelectric plant close to the northern Italian city…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Finance Ministry has denounced a report by Fitch Ratings that kept its…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A Florence appeals court on Wednesday opens a new slander trial against Amanda Knox based…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Wednesday in Asia after U.S. stock indexes held at a near standstill ahead…

By ANDREI POPOVICIU Associated Press PIKINE, Senegal (AP) — A new approach in Senegal is mixing a small number of hard-of-hearing students into…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated on Wednesday a promise to retaliate against Israel over the killings…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press LAPOVO, Serbia (AP) — Zeljko Ilicic saved his first horse from certain death 12 years ago and found his calling. The…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is calling on Nebraska Republicans to put pressure on…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Reminders of the 2002 Winter Olympics are nestled in every nook and cranny of…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Chad Daybell, a self-published doomsday fiction author, is on trial in Idaho in the deaths of…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the trial of an Idaho man charged with killing his wife and his…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire is set to be sentenced for…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An eagerly awaited report Wednesday on consumer prices will show whether inflation is…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is being…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Tara VanDerveer, the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, announced her…

SEATTLE (AP) — Court documents show a University of Washington football player has been arrested and charged with raping two women in Seattle.…

HONG KONG (AP) — At least four people were killed and another 12 injured in a fire in a building in Hong Kong. The fire broke out at a building…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and MORGAN LEE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has delivered a landmark decision in giving the…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Senate subcommittee has opened an investigation into the safety of Boeing jetliners,…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has laid off 100 doctors who are taking…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Warner Bros. isn’t resting on its “ Barbie ” laurels: The 100-year studio has its sights on a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s election’s chief said President Joe Biden could be left off the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The final curtain will come down this summer on Cirque du Soleil’s long-running Las Vegas show…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Senate has advanced legislation allowing the death…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a decision that could leave voters doing a double take, a California appeals court…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Southern California say an infant girl and her sister who were found on a busy…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías has been charged with five misdemeanors stemming from his arrest last September…