Month: June 2024

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government has canceled the passports of six overseas-based activists under the new…

SYDNEY (AP) — Former Australian rugby league international Jarryd Hayne has had his rape conviction overturned on appeal. The New South Wales Court…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Party Bus, a 3-year-old bull bred for bucking, has performed in his first and last rodeo.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf of California. But…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace’s Republican primary victory in South Carolina on Tuesday was powered by a…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has asked the state Supreme Court to authorize another execution using nitrogen gas. The request comes months after…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press The family of a Texas man who died after an altercation with jailers, including one who pinned his knee to the…

By ERIC TUCKER and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group…

NEW YORK (AP) — National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in the embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, says it has ended…

By RAÚL VERA Associated Press YAJALON, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of residents displaced by violence that intensified this week in the southern…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s weather agency says a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck a region near the southwestern county of Buan. It…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s legal woes are not over after his…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the…

CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man has entered a plea of not guilty in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Chicago police officer. Xavier L. Tate Jr.…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Lawyers for the gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket say he should…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A pastry competition kicked off what Chef Emeril Lagasse calls a kind of “culinary Olympics” taking place in New Orleans…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline has been given the go-ahead to start…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has tried to assure frustrated senators she is not attempting to cover up the…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press An off-duty security guard has been charged with murder after authorities say he stopped three teens outside a…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — American investor Martin Shkreli is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly retaining and sharing…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s prized turncoat witness at the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has been…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A reworked version of a bill that originally caught flak for removing a pandemic-era…

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police say a transit bus fled from officers responding to a dispute on board, leading them on a wild and lenthty chase into…

CLAYTON, Ohio (AP) — State troopers in Ohio say a truck hauling more than 150 pigs overturned on an Ohio interstate highway ramp. Troopers say the…

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy Ray Cyrus has filed for divorce from singer Firerose after seven months of marriage.…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system.…

By CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s elections commission says it’s reviewing its contract with a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Same-sex spouses were typically younger and were more likely to be employed than those in opposite-sex marriages,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report says violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating…

By SUSAN HAIGH and DAVE COLLINS Four campaign workers have been charged with mishandling absentee ballots during the 2019 Democratic mayoral primary…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that investigators are looking into the killings of four women and two…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The Biden administration is pushing to prevent medical debt from being considered in most decisions made over whether…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal appeals court says a mentally ill man charged with killing three people at a Colorado…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer The sport of cricket is as foreign to most Americans as driving on the left-hand side of the road or drinking…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Former president Donald Trump’s company says he is not the holder of liquor…