Month: April 2024

By ERIKA KINETZ and SOLOMIIA HERA Associated Press DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s justice minister says she plans to tighten the country’s rules on espionage, which currently is explicitly banned if…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Monday’s total solar eclipse might become one of the year’s most filmed and photographed events. As the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Thursday after a firm finish on Wall Street, as expectations remained…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto has held talks with Malaysia’s leader on bolstering bilateral ties as…

BANGKOK (AP) — Panicked passengers have jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand, and all 108 people on board are…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops launched waves of Shahed drones against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, killing four people and…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer It’s never really the end of the road for Kiss. The hard rock quartet have sold their catalog, brand name and IP…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican lawmakers and the Democratic governor in Kansas have brokered a deal on…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will celebrate on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America as…

By The Associated Press Video and photos of suspects in a mass shooting show them apparently being brutalized by Russian security forces — without…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its Western allies are feuding with Russia over its diamond…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have plenty of stern words to say about 87-year-old British billionaire…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California school districts are preparing for the impacts of a new minimum wage for fast…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press NEW GLARUS, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate race between Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican Eric Hovde…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press A New York prosecutor is investigating a slew of abuse complaints made after Netflix started streaming a scathing…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Senior finance and central bank officials from Southeast Asia and major…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is headed to a China determined…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Voter rejection of a stadium sales tax plan for the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs has…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — There’s a renewed push to meet kids where they are when it comes to seeing a dentist.…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a death row inmate for shooting and killing two people in…

By JOHNSON LAI and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Rescuers searched for dozens of people out of contact Thursday a day after…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians want the Security Council to vote later this month on their revived…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say thieves stole as much $30 million in a burglary at a Los Angeles money storage facility in one of the largest…

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Defending national champion UConn’s trip to a second consecutive Final Four is having a…

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian authorities say they prevented nearly 600 stolen vehicles from being exported overseas after searching 390 shipping…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — An MS-13 gang member has admitted to participating in the brutal killing of four young men on Long Island in 2017. Edwin…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Plans are underway to airlift a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off Canada’s…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers have passed a series of bills targeting LGBTQ+ residents this year, including two this week that prevent public…

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say Southern California sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 17-year-old boy with mental health issues…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican drug cartel not only forced vendors to buy chicken at wildly inflated prices — they sold them chicken “not fit for…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot meant to help small business owners in New York City…

DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say a man who shot someone to death at a Muslim-owned tire shop in Dallas has been sentenced to 37 years in prison on…

BY MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister has warned his French counterpart against deploying troops to Ukraine in a rare phone call and noted that…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana state House Democratic leader Phil GiaQuinta is running to be Fort Wayne’s…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An environmental group is challenging the U.S. Energy Department’s decision to award…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A major South Korean computer chipmaker said Wednesday it plans to spend more than $3.87 billion in Indiana to build a…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors in Michigan are recommending at least 10 years in prison for two parents who are the…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon organizers will soon have to pay a bridge toll, just like every other…