Month: June 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has ordered a lawyer for rapper Young Thug to spend the next 10 weekends in jail after finding him in contempt.…

Associated Press TIARET, Algeria (AP) — Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. plans to add several new features to Apple Pay and Apple Wallet later this year that…

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is on his way to South Korea in his sixth overseas trip as governor. The Republican left late Monday for a…

LONDON (AP) — Animal rights activists pasted a cartoon image over a portrait of King Charles III on Tuesday at a London art gallery, the latest in…

Russian warships have conducted drills in the Atlantic while en route to Cuba. It’s part of Moscow’s efforts to project power amid the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s historic Chapultepec Castle has been seen flying the Targaryen flag, and officials in Mexico aren’t amused. The…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have thwarted attempts by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to set up a new encampment at…

PARIS (AP) — The Palace of Versailles has been briefly evacuated after plumes of smoke were spotted amid construction work near the Marble Court,…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer While Canada has seen a steep decline in children playing hockey in the sport’s birthplace, the United States…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — In 2022, a veteran of the Bauer Hockey equipment giant said the number of kids playing…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL’s dedication to expanding flag football starts at the top. Commissioner Roger Goodell has been fully…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A new poll finds that people around the globe have greater confidence in President Joe Biden to do the right…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball says experience was a major reason Caitlin Clark was left off the U.S. Olympic roster that was…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — With his execution drawing near, Missouri inmate David Hosier is “accepting his fate.”…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to quickly revise its civil law to…

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is backing away from a weekend report that a ship may have struck something in Lake Superior…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Commerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Buy now, pay later” services are a popular way that shoppers pay for goods. Because…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change,…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s government says it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Warner Bros. Discovery and the French Tennis Federation made official on Tuesday what had been revealed over the…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four Florida police officers have been indicted in connection with a 2019 shootout…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Production has started at Senegal’s first offshore oil project. The Australian…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank has upgraded its outlook for the global economy, estimating that it will…

by BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French opposition parties on the left and the right are scrambling to form alliances for the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — In her first television interview since she was assaulted last week, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Author David Wroblewski has reached special status among contemporary authors: a two-time…

DERA ISLAMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s authorities say security forces have killed 11 militants in an overnight operation in a former…

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — The humanitarian organization Direct Relief is helping community health…

By KEVIN McGILL NEW ORLEANS Scientists using more modern methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher levels of the…

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. International Organization for Migration says a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Far-right leader Geert Wilders says the four parties negotiating to form a coalition…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of House Democrats is warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for…

By MATTHEW LEE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.N. Security Council’s vote…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia and its ally Belarus have launched a second stage of drills intended to train their troops in tactical nuclear weapons, part…