Month: May 2024

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday after U.S. markets were closed for the Memorial Day…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge is expected to weigh a union lawsuit against collective bargaining…

The Associated Press NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s historical society is close to gaining control of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks now…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas congressman Tony Gonzales is out to save his job in a GOP primary runoff that has put…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Aquaman might not mind if the oceans rise, but moviegoers might. That’s one of the…

By AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — During the presidential election four years ago, the Equal Ground Education Fund hired over…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The victims of last summer’s staggering 31-day streak of daily temperatures reaching 110…

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Over the past three weeks, Israel’s offensive in…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers in Donald…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Puerto Rico say lightning struck a beach in the northern coastal town of Isabela during inclement weather,…

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — A 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) stretch of a popular Southern California beach was closed for the Memorial Day holiday after a…

By DEBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Three players have quit Argentina’s national women’s team after a dispute with soccer…

CHICAGO (AP) — A commercial airliner’s engine caught fire Monday at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, the Federal Aviation…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s federal archaeology agency is accusing the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating the…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Residents in the western Canadian city of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, are being allowed to return home after…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Tyson was recovering Monday after falling ill a day earlier during a flight from Miami to Los Angeles, his representatives…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media says at least four people have been reported dead in a building collapse in the eastern…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — International donors meeting in Brussels say they will commit 7.5 billion euros, about $8.1…

ASUZA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an 81-year-old man who investigators say terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a…

CHICAGO (AP) — A man who spent 12 years in prison fora Chicago murder based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness is suing the city…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American quarry company has rejected the Mexican president’s campaign of criticisms and closures, and his offer to buy its…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma is the wild card in Wednesday’s election…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The office of Poland’s president says Andrzej Duda has spoken on the phone with Congolese president in an effort to…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Lawyers for nine Egyptian men cleared by a Greek court of involvement in a migrant shipwreck disaster say they remain…

Bill Walton, who starred for John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins before becoming a Basketball Hall of Famer and one of the biggest stars of basketball…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Furiosa won the holiday box office over Garfield by a hair. It was a close race, but the wasteland warrior of “…

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a Yuma man has been arrested for allegedly starting a wildfire in a national wildlife preserve in southwest…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Memorial Day with a pledge that the country would continue…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal lost in the first round of the French Open to Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 on…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uzbekistan leader Shavkat Mirziyoyev have held talks and signed a number of agreements aimed at…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico has risen to 157, with a tragically small number of the primates…

OCEANA COUNTY, Mich. (AP) — Police say a Michigan woman was killed when an out-of-control vehicle slammed into her during a drag-racing event, but…

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison sentence against a prominent political activist who attempted to challenge…

TOKYO (AP) — North Korea on Monday launched a missile into the sea, Japan and South Korea said, hours after North Korea announced plans to put a…