Month: May 2024

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says that Russia last week launched a satellite that could be part…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — New federal certification rules have been finalized for train dispatchers and signal repairmen…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has again authorized Juneteenth as a state holiday this year. Ivey’s office said Monday that June…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Denver has launched an ambitious new program to support migrants, and hundreds…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press A Pennsylvania woman will serve four to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting a county prosecutor…

By MELANIE LIDMAN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli and Hamas top leaders have joined a list of people accused of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer testifying at Bob Menendez’s bribery trial says a New Jersey businessman…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule in Texas…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Abortion access advocates in Nevada say they have submitted almost twice the number of petition…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s Supreme Court has ruled that two Republican candidates for the state…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The taxpayer costs for the racial profiling verdict arising from then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court says a North Carolina regulatory board didn’t violate a drone…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Organizers of the Essence Festival of Culture have revealed that legendary soul group Maze featuring Frankie Beverly will be…

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, lost more than $300 million last quarter.…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities in Alaska say a moose has killed a 70-year-old man in the community of…

COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee community college says one of its professors who was swept away by an ocean wave during a study-abroad trip in…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge will reopen the sentencing hearing for the man who broke into Nancy…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Prosecutors say a man charged with crashing two law enforcement vehicles during a police…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials say a woman hiker died after falling from a trail in the Columbia River Gorge. The Multnomah County…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Philadelphia has mandated that all city employees return to working full-time in their offices as of July 15.…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers will have to pay out of their own pockets if they lose defamation…

The Associated Press CRYSTAL BEACH, Texas (AP) — One person has been killed and nearly 300 arrested during a weekend event on Texas’ Gulf…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman is appealing the dismissal of her lawsuit that accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers have failed to pass a state Equal Rights Amendment that would have…

By The Associated Press Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — An American Airlines flight attendant who authorities say tried to secretly record video of a…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE AP Legal Affairs Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of a Black teenager wrongly convicted and executed in Pennsylvania in…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist Rob Hale has surprised the graduating class at the University of…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Violence has intensified in southwestern Colombia with a bomb blast injuring six people in…

By JOSHUA G0ODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Austin Maddox has been arrested in Florida as part of an underage sex sting. Jacksonville…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish president has criticized the Eurovision Song Contest, accusing the annual event of allegedly encouraging…

By JULIA FRANKEL and PHIL HOLM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — New satellite images analyzed by the Associated Press show that sprawling tent…

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — A new study tracks how cockroaches spread around the globe to become the survival experts we…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Studio Ghibli, the Japanese anime factory of surreal ecological wonders that has for 39 years…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A judge has found that an Ohio law prohibiting cities from banning the sale of flavored tobacco products is…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky court has postponed pro golfer Scottie Scheffler’s appearance on charges he…

HANFORD, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed over California’s decision to take over monitoring groundwater use in part of the fertile San…

By CLAIRE RUSH and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press A California congressman says tribes should be more involved in the decision-making process…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency warns that cyberattacks against water…

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Hall of Famer David Ortiz is committed to his post-career work like he was swinging a bat…

NEW YORK (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s move into tennis will now include a multiyear deal to sponsor the WTA women’s rankings. The WTA released word of…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer University presidents around the country are scheduled to meet this week to vote on whether to accept a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — While Donald Trump’s hush money trial entered its sixth week in New York, an origin story for…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI says it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after some users…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The death of Iran’s president is unlikely to lead to any immediate changes in Iran’s…

Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals on Wall…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s main international airport has reopened for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say a bridge near Galveston, Texas, that was damaged last week when a barge carrying…