Month: August 2024

AP Business Writer Stocks on Wall Street finished broadly higher Friday as the market closed out its fourth straight winning month with solid gains.…

AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Babygirl,” an erotic thriller about a female CEO who begins an affair with a younger, male intern, is…

Associated Press Racial differences in how schools discipline students received new attention 10 years ago, during a national reckoning with racial…

Associated Press The United States’ longest war is over. But not for everyone. Outside of San Francisco, surgeon Doug Chin has helped provide…

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A flash flood near the Grand Canyon sent hikers scrambling for shelter in rocky nooks and crannies and swept…

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Basketball Association formalized its giving over the past four years through a new $300 million…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military’s Gaza pier project says the mission was the biggest…

AP Media Writer By not submitting to a press interview in the month since becoming the Democratic choice for president, Kamala Harris set the stakes…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have confirmed attacks on military personnel and roads being blocked with vehicles in northern Sinaloa…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a solo backpacker whose body was found near a rugged and remote…

Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal jurors found a Colorado man guilty of kidnapping a woman on a ranch owned by Michael Bloomberg…

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been charged in federal court with engaging in a scheme to cover up efforts to develop…

Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge has denied another attempt by Texas to call for a migrant aid group from deeper…

Associated Press The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a Jewish family had the free-speech right to blanket their yard with signs decrying…

Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ecuador’s government says it has started dismantling infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling…

AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two 18-year-old men charged with killing former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor have pleaded…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former police officer in Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to five years in prison for fatally shooting a 27-year-old man…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador is nearly 2½ years into a state of emergency that has suspended key civil liberties. But President…

AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Dispatching errors and the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 74…

Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says a state lawmaker accused of sexual harassment by several women should give…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee who was convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook…

AP Aerospace Writer NASA’s record-holding astronaut is urging his two stuck-in-space colleagues to stay positive and “keep up the good work.”…

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — It’s a showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice. The justice,…

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Swedish supergroup ABBA has asked Donald Trump to stop using their music at campaign rallies, but the…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal agents in Puerto Rico say they have seized $6 million worth of cocaine and arrested two men from the Dominican…

AP Health Writer A Boar’s Head deli meat plant in Virginia tied to a deadly food poisoning outbreak repeatedly violated federal regulations,…