Month: April 2024

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet of more than 1,000…

LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at age 94, the University…

BROWNVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a Long Island doctor who was headed to upstate New York to see the solar eclipse with her family fell out…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s Electoral Court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho teenager is charged with attempting to providing material support to the terrorist…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The wife of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski says…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress on Tuesday are calling for the immediate release of Russian opposition figure Vladimir…

By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer Despite gains in faculty diversity at American universities over the last two decades, Black and Hispanic professors…

By The Associated Press George Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is expressing dissatisfaction with the country’s first presidential debate ahead of the election…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York appeals court Tuesday to lift…

BELVIDERE The top prosecutor in a northwestern New Jersey county has resigned amid a state probe into allegations that the office lied about…

NEW YORK (AP) — A 1938 copy of the comic that first “introduced Superman to the world” has sold for a record-setting $6 million, the auctioneer…

SOUTHOLD, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a driver led police on a 45-minute chase on New York’s Long Island, drove off a 100-foot cliff into Long…

MILAN (AP) — Italian media are reporting that an explosion at a hydroelectric plant Tuesday in the Apennine Mountains south of Bologna has left at…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media say gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Iran’s restive southeast, killing six policemen and wounding two. A…

NEW YORK (AP) — Ina Garten’s long-awaited memoir, first announced in 2019, will be published Oct. 1. The title, Garten and Crown revealed…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister says this week’s slaying of a local politician by what…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Small Business Administration is offering assistance to those affected by the bridge…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Eight new position-specific helmets for quarterbacks and linemen have been approved by the NFL and the NFL…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A mountain goat that escaped from its owner and somehow got stuck under a Kansas City bridge has survived a rocky rescue…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The quintessential rock musical “The Who’s Tommy”  is thrillingly alive again on…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is escalating her criticism of House…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Koreans vote Wednesday for a new parliament in a hotly contested election…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Beyoncé has made history once again. Her latest album, the epic “Act ll: Cowboy Carter,” hit…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown Jr.…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Investigative Committee says a court has sentenced three people to up to life in prison for leading people into the…

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Some windows were broken and street signs taken down, but celebrations following UConn’s second consecutive men’s…

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — This week’s Champions League soccer games will go ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat. A media…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Coming up with the best tax strategy in retirement can be much trickier than it seems, and tax…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Irish lawmaker Simon Harris has been elected prime minister by a vote in parliament. At 37,…

By SAM METZ Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — An activist who criticized Morocco’s decision to normalize relations with Israel has been…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 200 chemical plants nationwide must reduce toxic emissions likely to cause cancer…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations migration agency says 38 migrants are dead and 22 others have been…

FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — Thousands of visitors to northern New England communities in the path of the total solar eclipse were told to pack their…

By HILLEL ITALIE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press When an illustrated edition of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” was released in…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train…

ST. JOSEPH TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Officials say the driver of a semitrailer-truck rammed a police vehicle in southwestern Michigan, crashed it into…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N.’s atomic watchdog says an explosion caused by an alleged drone attack at…