Month: May 2024

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The sports streaming platform planned by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery finally has a name. The joint venture will be…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget office has pleaded not guilty to extortion, bribery,…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced three arrests in a complex stolen identity scheme that…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is creating a new process aimed at cutting the…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbot issued a full pardon Thursday to a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia lodged a complaint over statements by the U.S. ambassador after he said the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bad Bunny’s sports representation firm sued the baseball players’ association Thursday,…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer SPRING, Texas (AP) — Gymnastics star Simone Biles says she is better equipped to handle the challenges that await…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus “Megalopolis” at the…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit man who dropped a teenager’s body into a dumpster has been convicted of second-degree…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have announced raids and the seizure of property of 104…

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — A wildfire that has forced thousands of people out of their homes in Canada’s oil sands hub city of Fort McMurray,…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups have signed a “commitment…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Creating the NFL schedule is a complicated process that requires tens of thousands of computers coming up with…

ROME (AP) — An aid group says that the number of unaccompanied children who arrived in the northern Italian city of Trieste through the Balkan…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has evoked language adopted by the far-right Proud Boys extremist group as he supports…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Police records show that officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck…

By The Associated Press Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A disability rights advocate made a complaint to New York State Police…

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) — The chancellor of the California State University system has suspended the president of its Sonoma campus for…

DENVER (AP) — A fiery crash involving a tanker truck has shut down a stretch of Colorado’s main east-west highway on the outskirts of Denver. The…

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden campaign says Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation…

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a truck driver has been killed after a tank holding waste material depressurized at a Phoenix facility that is being…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press VERON, Dominican Republic (AP) — As soaring violence and political turmoil grip…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Through its long history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has offered a way for people to get a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper who’s charged with murder for fatally shooting a motorist as he tried to pull away from a traffic…

By JEFF MARTIN and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson says the bodycam footage of the…