Month: May 2024

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has become the highest-level Republican to attend court with Donald Trump for his…

NEW YORK (AP) — David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie’s “Young Americans” and…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The University of Amsterdam has canceled classes and shut buildings for two days after the latest…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Following the ramming of a small boat by an orca in the Strait of Gibraltar, authorities…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition that includes entrepreneur and philanthropist Daniel Lubetzky, actor Liev Schreiber,…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a security guard trainee at an Amazon warehouse in Ohio was fatally shot by police after he…

LONDON (AP) — Mining giant Anglo American plc plans to break up its sprawling worldwide business — including the DeBeers diamond operation — as…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jimmie Johnson will attempt his own version of “The Double” when he becomes the first…

The Associated Press Georgia’s parliament has passed a law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Caitlin Clark’s much anticipated WNBA debut is set for Tuesday night in…

NEW YORK (AP) — New fiction from Jami Attenberg and books from young adult authors Kwame Mbalia and Robert Beatty and the latest book on science…

Authorities say at least one person is dead in Louisiana after storms slammed several southern states, including many areas previously hit during one…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite an outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows. Federal officials…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Top envoys from the U.S. and China huddled Tuesday in closed-door talks in Geneva to lay out their…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — As AI moves into medicine, perhaps no one has more to gain or lose than radiologists, the…

By LAURA UNGAR and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A new survey says medical providers were prescribing abortion pills to about 8,000 women a month…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The time has come to raise a red solo cup. Jason Aldean will pay tribute to the late Toby Keith at the 2024 Academy…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale prices rose sharply last month, a sign that stubbornly high inflation…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The media industry is crumbling, and late-night comedy on television has less than half of the…

PARIS (AP) — A French court ruled Tuesday that filmmaker Roman Polanski did not British actor Charlotte Lewis, who has accused him of raping her as…

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan say a missile fired by a drone struck a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban…

PARIS (AP) — Two French prison officers have been killed and three others seriously injured when their prison convoy was attacked in Normandy.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is returning to the witness stand for a bruising round of questioning from the former…

By FADI TAWIL and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press ARSAL, Lebanon (AP) — More than 300 Syrians refugees are heading back home from northeastern…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, has welcomed Denmark’s King Frederik and his Australian-born wife,…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — European carmaker Stellantis says it will begin selling electric vehicles from its Chinese partner…

By NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A young Thai activist who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of…

By DAVID SHARP and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press ORONO, Maine (AP) — Researchers around the world are racing to create large wind turbines…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have officially endorsed a major overhaul of the bloc’s failed asylum system. Tuesday’s move wraps…

PARIS (AP) — A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving…

BERLIN (AP) — The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years. Wagner, who…

BERLIN (AP) — An Austrian court has ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday began the third and final reading of a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests,…

By JOSH BOAK, FATIMA HUSSEIN, PAUL WISEMAN and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is announcing plans to slap…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Diego Maradona’s heirs want to stop the auction of a trophy he was awarded…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters left nearly 76 million people…