Month: August 2024

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan lodged a formal protest via China’s embassy against what it called an incursion by a Chinese survey ship into…

Rescuers are searching for a helicopter that went missing in Russia’s far east with 22 people on board. The Mi-8 helicopter took off on Saturday…

Associated Press MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older…

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin “Agent…

AP Education Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When she was in fifth grade, Scarlett Goddard Strahan started to worry about getting wrinkles. By the…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When the air raid siren bellows in the dead of night, the women in arms rush to duty. Barely two months since…

AP Education Writer Girls are bombarded on social media with advice from influencers touting elaborate skin care routines with high-priced serums,…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan, a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death, is trying to address a…

Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — It’s a worrying question for health officials in one of the richest and most developed areas…

AP Education Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When she was in fifth grade, Scarlett Goddard Strahan started to worry about getting wrinkles. By the…

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Earth sizzled through a summer with four of the hottest days ever measured, Vice President Kamala Harris…

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At first glance, there’s little that a 78-year-old former president and a 23-year-old internet personality…

AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Defending champion Novak Djokovic has lost at the U.S. Open one night after Carlos Alcaraz did. Djokovic bowed out…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump intend to urge a judge to dismiss the federal election subversion case against the…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States military and Iraq have launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired two missiles targeting a Liberian-flagged container ship in…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tropical Storm Shanshan is slowly making its way into central Japan, halting trains and leaving underground passages…

Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in on an issue that threatens to thwart a $4 billion settlement in…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge has rejected a push for a new trial in a multimillion-dollar political conspiracy case against rapper…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man suspected of abducting a 9-year-old girl from a New York City supermarket and sexually assaulting her has been killed in a…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, one of Mexico’s most-feared drug lords, has been released from a U.S. prison after…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump now says he will vote no on a Florida ballot measure that would repeal the state’s six-week…

Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo authorities have closed the ethnic Serb minority’s so-called parallel institutions in five…

Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday. A new law set to take effect…

Associated Press Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year. The decision makes…

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police said Saturday that a man will face misdemeanor charges after he stormed into the press area at Donald Trump’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen.…

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the…

Associated Press Nebraska’s top election official says organizers have collected enough signatures to ask voters to repeal a new law that uses…

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey judge has ruled that smoking will be allowed to continue in Atlantic City’s casinos.…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are moving to halt proceedings in his New York hush money criminal case and postpone next…

AP Technology Writer Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday that they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse…