Month: June 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County’s top judge has asked state regulators to review allegations that an attorney was handcuffed to a chair after a…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI just ahead of a scheduled Wednesday hearing on the case. Musk in February…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The leader of Armenia has declared his intention to pull out of a Russia-dominated…

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — One of the several former players on an American Legion baseball team in South Dakota charged last year with rape has pleaded…

By CIARÁN FAHEY and FANNY BRODERSEN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The currywurst promises to be among the most tantalizing gourmet treats on…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government has approved a package of measures meant to boost security for leading politicians and others…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate lawmakers are set to question top federal officials about the rise of illegal…

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer Juan Soto has been on baseball cards with Ken Griffey Jr., Mike Trout and other big stars. But this one, well, this…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is heading to Italy for a meeting with his…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have arrested six suspects in an international poaching ring…

By DAVID McHUGH and KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writers FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union is moving to hike tariffs on electric vehicles…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died. She was 80. Her…

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Multi-million-dollar works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama and Alberto Giacometti…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republicans responded to Hunter Biden’s conviction on federal gun charges Tuesday with…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected Wednesday to vote on a resolution holding Attorney General Merrick…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a helicopter has crashed in southeastern Jiangxi province and three people on board are missing. The crash…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The three-story building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland is at risk of becoming the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GISELA SALOMON Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A fleet of Russian warships and aircraft on Wednesday entered…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bestselling author V.E. Schwab has a 7-figure book deal. Tor Books announced Wednesday that it has agreed to terms on a two-book,…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is celebrating what it considers a liberation day, marking the…

By PETER SMITH and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptists already can kick out churches that believe women can serve as…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces fired missiles and drones at the Kyiv region and five other areas of Ukraine…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it has urged Russia to return Indian citizens recruited by Russia’s army after two were killed recently in the war in…

By JEROME PUGMIRE and CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writers BERLIN (AP) — A recent surge in violence around soccer games is contributing to concerns over…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Russian woman has been detained and questioned in Denmark for allegedly helping a foreign intelligence agency to…

LONDON (AP) — The British economy failed to grow in April in a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made the return of growth a central…

BERLIN (AP) — German energy company Uniper says a tribunal has awarded it more than 13 billion euros (nearly $14 billion) in damages for gas that…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s government says the Alpine country’s next parliamentary election will be held on Sept.29.  The government, which is…

By GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The Malawi government says that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has threatened to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing’s…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lawmakers in the Polish parliament have observed a minute of silence to honor a young…

By LEA SKENE and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities anticipate commercial shipping traffic through the Port of Baltimore…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Acropolis is closing for five hours due to heat wave temperatures in Greece that also prompted many schools to close. The…

PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron is addressing French voters for the first time since he called for a snap national election following a…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Oversight Committee panel that launched an investigation into the safety and oversight of…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Hungary has agreed not to veto the military alliance from giving support to Ukraine.…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At least 35 people died in a building fire early Wednesday in Kuwait, the country’s state-run news agency…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special judge’s court in Bangladesh has indicted Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13…

By BASSEM MROUE and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a massive barrage of rockets into northern Israel…

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Six years ago, Ilkay Gündogan’s place on the German national team was in…