Month: May 2024

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…

By STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writers The inaugural season of the Professional Women’s Hockey League has set one attendance record…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press A Virginia judge has signed off on a prosecutor’s request to withdraw charges against five more people in…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have passed a sweeping bill to overhaul the state’s lax…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Jordan has stationed two helicopters in Cyprus to help the Mediterranean island nation combat potential forest fires until…

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Authorities say two suspects arrested in a fatal shooting on the Delaware State University campus are not students at the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The summer performance lineup at the amphitheater on Manhattan’s Little Island park will open June 6 with Twyla Tharp’s…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri panel found that fentanyl deaths among Missouri babies, toddlers and teens spiked as child welfare officials…

By SAM MEDNICK and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The head of the United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claims it…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has recognized the United States Military Academy with the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy for besting other…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s attorney general says city officials in Savannah overstepped their authority…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new fashion competition show on E! called “OMG Fashun,” challenges contestants to repurpose materials to…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Yogurt sold in U.S. grocery store may soon have new labels that say the popular food might help reduce the risk of…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s defense ministry says the country has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee’s election leader has been ousted by the mayor in a surprise move that comes just…

CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say an infant girl who was abducted from a park near Clovis, New Mexico has been found safe, and a suspect is in…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Hospital operator Steward Health Care has filed for bankruptcy protection, but pledged to maintain…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A spokesman says Polish prosecutors have discontinued an investigation into several human…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press Forecasters say millions of people in the central United States could see powerful storms Monday including…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Monday…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is running for re-election. The 82-year-old from Vermont announced Monday that…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NBC Sports has been without a permanent analyst in the 18th tower all year. That’s not going to change for the…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life…