Month: May 2024

By TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has appeared before a top court via video link, his first such…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remain at historically low levels even as other…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say at least eight worshippers were killed and 16 others injured in…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to…

By EUGENE HOSHIKO and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — A U.S. Navy strike group’s flagship aircraft carrier has left its…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — White men are most likely to lead the largest, best-funded nonprofits, while women of color tend…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international human rights organization has urged the Thai government to stop forcing…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union opened fresh investigations into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that…

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors’ star witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump is returning to the witness stand as defense lawyers try to…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Military officials in Ukraine say their units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have raised the alert level for Mount Ibu, a volcano in North…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said Thursday a “foreign influence” bill…

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have lifted the immunity from prosecution of one of the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s top candidates…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — U.S. Census Bureau estimates show America’s Northeast and Midwest cities…

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press A sweeping Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that…

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when…

Violence has raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day, hours after France imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal…

NONTHABURI, Thailand (AP) — Dozens of pro-cannabis advocates in Thailand gathered at the health ministry on Thursday to oppose the government’s…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says 42 people have been rescued while another three are missing after a boat believed to have been…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court ruled in favor of the government’s contentious plan to drastically boost medical school admissions…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s national carrier Finnair is resuming flights to Estonia’s second largest city in June after two of its…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Honda is reaffirming its commitment to electric vehicles, investing 10 trillion…

KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Auto technology has evolved. Many newer cars use wireless key fobs and push-button starters. The…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press SVAY CHOK, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia and China have begun 15-day military exercises as questions…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A car carrying migrants has skidded off road and slammed into a wall in southern Croatia, killing four people and injuring…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a fire at a residential building in western Germany has left three people dead and two others with life-threatening…

By VERONICA ANDREA SAUCHELLI, MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press RIETI, Italy (AP) — Ella Anthony knew it was time to leave her…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda to establish an annual day to…

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — A hospital official says Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is in stable but serious condition after being shot…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday after U.S. stocks rallied to records on hopes that inflation is…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The United Nations’ top court opens two days of hearings on Thursday into a request from South…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — More than 100 Filipino activists on wooden boats have decided not to sail closer to a…

Savannah Gankiewicz of Hawaii has been crowned Miss USA 2023, more than a week after the previous titleholder resigned citing her mental health.…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating Maine’s deadliest mass shooting is…

By MOLLY QUELL and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other party leaders have agreed on a…