Month: May 2024

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian center-left government says it wants to add 7 billion kroner, or $630 million to the Scandinavian…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The European Union has announced an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Human Rights Watch has accused Kenyan authorities of not responding adequately to ongoing…

By SUSIE BLANN and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has struck the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa with ballistic…

PARIS (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI. It adds to…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have arrested a 16-year-old male on suspicion of attacking a synagogue with Molotov cocktails and say they plan…

By COLLEEN LONG and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is detouring to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with…

By BEN FINLEY and MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Arrest warrants must be served to alleged criminals if society is going to…

By The Associated Press If the Israel-Hamas war stopped today, it would still take until 2040 to rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A European court has upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty…

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll has climbed to 48 as search efforts continue in southern China after a highway section collapsed in a mountainous…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The parliament of Georgia has cancelled its plenary session following massive protests against a proposed law that critics…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Toothbrushes used to be simple, powered only by your hand so they never broke down. Nowadays,…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has given Chevron another six months to come up with a revised plan to…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets wobbled in Thursday trading after U.S. stocks swung to a mixed finish with the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s parliament has approved legislation mandating a new, independent…

SYDNEY (AP) — A judge has denied bail to a 15-year-old boy alleged to be in a network planning terrorist acts and who claimed to be a friend of…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Defense Ministry says a huge explosion at a military base in the southwest that killed 20 soldiers and…

By MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia is preparing to mark the anniversary of a school shooting last…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of voters in England and Wales will cast their ballots on Thursday in an array of local…

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — A convicted sex offender is asking the Norwegian Supreme Court to declare social media…

By RYAN KRYSKA AP Sports Writer Gamers’ appetites for immersive sports video games have not changed much since the heyday of EA Sports’…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in new cloud and…

By DAVID KLEPPER and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood stars seldom weigh in on politics, so videos showing two celebrities…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Rep. David Scott faces multiple Democratic primary opponents in his quest for a 12th…

By MARIA CHENG and CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Scientists say a new form of mpox detected in a mining town in Congo…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge is scheduled to sentence a California scuba dive boat captain for criminal…

By DAVID BAUDER and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after…

By ANITA SNOW and MORGAN LEE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is following through on promises to undo a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — A haunting new video released in the early morning hours is the latest effort by the…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is usually akin to a…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Michael Blowen can step outside his house anytime and visit retired racehorses at Old…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban will soon be gone from the law books, but not from the campaign…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Herbert Rubinstein was 5 years old when he and his mother where taken from the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution,…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian soldiers say they are worried fortifications are not being built quicky enough…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump faces the prospect of additional…

By KRYSTA FAURIA, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tensions are growing on the UCLA campus…

PHOENIX (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner says she thought about killing herself during her first few weeks in a Russian jail after her 2022 arrest…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — African climate-tech startups are increasingly raising money from private sources, but…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider is suing the makers of the documentary…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands lawmakers have chosen former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manale  as the…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to release from jail a former FBI informant…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riot…