Month: April 2024

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — For three years, many Atlantic City casino workers have been trying to get their elected…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio is pulling out all the stops for Monday’s total solar eclipse, as it braces for…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said it would pause the…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A Dominican judge denied a request by Wander Franco to…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal job safety officials are beginning their investigation into the collapse of a crane in downtown Fort…

INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) — Skiing power couple Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have announced they’re engaged to be married.…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as his special envoy…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three long-retired Philadelphia police detectives must stand trial, accused of lying under…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new Hulu limited-series called “We Were the Lucky Ones” follows a Jewish family in Poland during World War…

NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are calling for a vote to join the United Auto Workers…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man found guilty but mentally ill in the killing an Indianapolis police officer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is advancing a bipartisan bill to allow people convicted of felonies to…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Karen Nickel has been dealing with lupus and other illnesses for years, illnesses she blames on childhood exposure to…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman who was injured during…

MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP) — Family members described an American tourist who was killed in Africa when a bull elephant charged the truck she was…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The English indie-pop band Glass Animals, who made a splash with the song “Heat Waves”…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian police say that underpaid and exploited Chinese laborers working for an unauthorized…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The authoritarian president of Belarus says his country will suspend participation in the troubled Conventional Forces in…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce a significant new plan next week to cancel federal student…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In times of triple-digit inflation, Argentines are used to seeing prices for…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says foul play is suspected in the disappearance of two Kansas women whose…

Associated Press BOGOTÁ (AP) — Colombia suffered a series of attacks Thursday night and Friday morning, marking the first major assault against…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s top court has overturned a decision to hand over a South Korean mogul…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mortgage rates are expected to come down later this year, but any benefit to homebuyers could…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Zach Edey of Purdue is The Associated Press Player of the Year in men’s college…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the…

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur province…

MARSHALL, Mich. (AP) — Wildlife officials say an animal a Michigan hunter thought was a big coyote when he shot it in January has been determined…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday defended a new $20 billion federal…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bronny James will enter the NBA draft after one season at Southern California that was shortened…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Attorneys for a condemned Missouri man say the state’s execution protocol allows for…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has launched a new currency to replace its previous one that in recent months…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who…

MONCURE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane experiencing engine problems struck two vehicles as it landed on a highway near a North Carolina…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say an incendiary device has been thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany but caused only minor damage. No one…

NEW YORK (AP) — An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said as…