Month: May 2024

By ELISE MORTON and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The Russian state news agency Tass says a court in St. Petersburg has…

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — America’s first Black astronaut candidate has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’…

By ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Me. (AP) — Robert Bukaty has covered nearly every type of story and event for The Associated Press…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — A month before Kevin Costner puts the first installment of his multi-chapter Western “Horizon:…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — With an assist from Paul McCartney the Paralympic Games is starting its 100-day race to the opening…

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say armed robbers who used a motorbike as a battering ram made off with “several million” dollars’…

By LAURIE KELLMAN and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has suffered a “hard landing.” That’s according…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Elise Stefanik, a House Republican leader seen as a candidate to be Donald Trump’s running mate, delivered a speech…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A long-planned series of Catholic pilgrimages has begun across the United States this weekend, with pilgrims…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Many Democrats campaigning for the Senate this year say they support suspending the…

By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Testimony in the hush money trial of Donald Trump is set to conclude in the…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press French security forces are working to retake control of the highway to the international airport in…

By LEFTERIS PITARAKIS Associated Press BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s defense minister says the country’s populist prime…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — More heavy rains in Afghanistan have triggered flash floods, raising the death toll to 47 in the…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police say two people have died and five are missing following a boat collision on the Danube River in Hungary. Hungarian…

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed 20 people in central…

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — There was gunfire in Congo’s capital early Sunday morning as armed men in military uniform clashed with a top…

By SAMYA KULLAB and ELISE MORTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia reported some 60 drones and several missiles shot down over its…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces what could be his final court hearing in England over whether…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A lawsuit over a Virginia prison inmate’s death has raised broader questions about…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities have warned residents to be aware of wild bears in the country’s northeast…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two Democratic primaries for U.S. House seats in Oregon could help reveal whether the…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The final report of the U.K.’s infected blood inquiry will be published Monday, six years after it…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE and JACK THOMPSON Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Internet-enabled phones can play a unique role in sub-Saharan Africa,…

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AP) — Two Chinese warships have docked at a commercial port in Cambodia, in preparation for joint naval exercises between…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s 88-year-old King Salman will undergo medical checks after suffering from a high temperature and…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge’s decision in a lawsuit against Ohio’s ban on most abortions could be…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press JACUMÉ, México (AP) — Botanists and citizen scientists armed with the iNaturalist app on their smartphones are…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press A Florida man will soon learn whether he will be sentenced to death or life in prison for fatally shooting five…

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Disneyland performers who help bring Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and other beloved characters to life at the Southern…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan has met with…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dressed in black and white, the crowd of angry teenagers squeezed into a narrow…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Voters in the Dominican Republic will take to the polls…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Elon Musk has arrived in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali to…

By SIMINA MISTREANU and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s new president takes office Monday. Lai Ching-te is…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say dive teams found the two bodies of two men inside a plane found upside down in an Alaska lake.…

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — A man suspected of shooting his 6-month-old son multiple times after taking the boy and his mother hostage was found dead of…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler arrived at the golf course in plenty of time. Once he got there, nothing…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and veteran political adviser who worked on a number of GOP presidential…

Associated Press KYLE, Texas (AP) — When are 706 people named Kyle in the same place not enough? When a world record is at stake. Another attempt…

By SAM METZ Associated Press JEBENIANA, Tunisia (AP) — Hundreds of anti-migrant protestors have marched through the streets of a Tunisian town…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Republicans have elected to the Republican National Committee a conservative activist who…

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Six people were killed Saturday in Idaho in a two-car accident that included a large passenger van, authorities said. Ten…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say three people died and three others were wounded in an early morning shooting in Ohio’s capital over the…

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Authorities say residents ordered out of Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta due to a nearby wildfire…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Arizona’s attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and…