Month: May 2024

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota Senate ethics panel is expected to begin considering what to do with a…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump returns to his hush money trial…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stuntwoman Jeannie Epper has died at age 83. She did stunts for many of the most…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has defended its veto of a U.N. resolution calling on all nations to prevent a…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An extra day and the lure of an appearance by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia State Supreme Court candidate has filed a federal lawsuit claiming a state agency is…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal judges who threw out a congressional election map giving Louisiana a new mostly Black…

NEW YORK (AP) — A critic who has written passionate columns as a contributor for The Washington Post from his prison cell in Russia has won the…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Republican congressman is partially backtracking on his praise for a campus…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd is fighting an uphill battle in her attempt to pass a bill that would exempt cases…

CHICAGO (AP) — A nonprofit Chicago journalism production company has won two Pulitzer Prizes for local and audio reporting. The Invisible Institute…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Tennessee-based sanitation company is agreeing to pay more than half a million…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving forward with holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After massive downpours flooded California’s rivers and packed mountains with snow, the state has reported the first…

By ADAM GELLER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Well before the year began, Associated Press journalists knew that surging migration through the…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York is suing an anti-abortion group and almost a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for allegedly promoting an unproven method…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by animal welfare advocates seeking to invalidate…

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Court records say a Kansas City-area man who’s charged with killing his hospitalized wife told police he couldn’t take…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested a Florida man in connection with the disappearance of…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Home health care provider Elara Caring is being sued by the husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a 2021 ruling that NBA star Zion Williamson’s contract with a marketing agent was void…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The go-broke dates for benefit programs Medicare and Social Security have been…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Four months after The Associated Press wrote about an Atlanta family struggling to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum after the Civil War, has won the…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Rapper and media personality Snoop Dogg is putting his name on the Arizona Bowl for what will be the first partnership between…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American soldier has been arrested in Russia and accused of stealing. That’s…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors say they have opened an investigation after a Polish judge fled to the…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A lawsuit alleges that child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cookbook author, actor and producer will be the Lifetime Achievement honorees at the Daytime Emmys in June. Lidia Bastianich…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A state examination of the office that handles criminal prosecutions in St. Louis is being delayed…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Janet Jackson will make her fourth appearance at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture this summer in New Orleans. Jackson was…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press Friends, family and law enforcement officers gathered in Charlotte to remember the life of Deputy U.S. Marshal…

PARIS (AP) — How do you smooth over trade tensions with the all-powerful leader of economic powerhouse China? Charm him with a bottle of Cognac or…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Kentucky’s Republican secretary of state, Michael Adams, has been chosen to receive the John F. Kennedy…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Met Gala has inspired pajama-clad New Yorkers to fundraise for medical debt relief at an…