Month: June 2024

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Wednesday in Asia ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve on interest…

GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say in a report issued Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday will likely make official what’s been clear…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s top trade official is predicting China will lift a ban on Australian…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed the country’s expanding relationship with…

By OMAR ALBAM and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — For more than a decade, a steady flow of Syrians have crossed the border from…

By MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — As Muslims worldwide prepare to celebrate Eid Al-Adha, Senegal’s locally bred star…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca for the…

The lead investigator in the case of a woman accused of leaving her Boston police officer boyfriend for dead in a snowbank acknowledged disparaging…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Survivors and the families of victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre had hoped by now to have a permanent memorial in place…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to back out of a deal he made last year to pay doctors…

By TERESA CRAWFORD and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press WAUBEKA, Wis. (AP) — Each June, the people of Waubeka venerate perhaps the…

By VIVIANNE WANDERA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In Kenya’s capital, a woman cooking with firewood engulfs herself in smoke as she…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An extreme weather phenomenon known as the dzud has killed more than 7.1 million animals…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court is delivering verdicts in the trial of nine men suspected of…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to online scams and foreign disinformation, it pays to be female. Or at least to…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Across the U.S., thieves have been targeting electric-vehicle charging stations, intent on stealing…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Less-expensive gas likely slowed U.S. consumer inflation in May. But when the…

By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has a lot of work left to do, and little time to do it.…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Apollo Theater is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. The bastion of Black music and…

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…