Month: September 2024

Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Joe Wiederien was an unlikely candidate to challenge a Republican congressman in one of the nation’s…

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities say 281 inmates escaped after devastating floods brought down a prison’s walls in the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5…

Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Joe Wiederien was an unlikely candidate to challenge a Republican congressman in one of the nation’s…

Associated Press KENYON, Minnesota (AP) — Serving coffee after Sunday worship outside Holden Lutheran Church, Jeff Davidson said he remains…

MIAMI (AP) — Heavy winds and rains from a storm in the Atlantic that wasn’t quite organized enough to get a name hit a stretch of the…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Authorities say Moroccan security forces stopped groups of people who sought to force their way across the border into…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has been…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.N. says the Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan. It’s…

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maria Lettini already knew about the backlash going on in the United States against ESG investing, which takes…

AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some public figures are honored with namesake buildings or monuments. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a strain…

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — An influential French member of the European Union’s powerful executive branch has resigned. Thierry Breton…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan erupted with joy Monday as the samurai series “Shogun” won a record 18 Emmys for its first season. It took…

Associated Press KEHL, Germany (AP) — Germany has begun random checks at its borders with five Western European nations, expanding a system of…

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea has left between 20 and 50 people dead, a United…

Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian union leader freed from prison after serving time for her part in a strike against the…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the weekend bombing that killed two police officials in restive…

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers and home buyers, business people and political leaders have been waiting for months for…

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Trade unions and thousands of disgruntled workers are demonstrating in the Belgian capital to protest the threat…

Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has met with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome. The center-left British leader…

Associated Press Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the beloved pop group the Jackson 5, has died. He was 70. Jackson was the third of…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sunday was to be a day of relative rest for Donald Trump, a rare breather this deep into a presidential…

Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Donald Trump is leaning on a pair of former Democrats whose idiosyncratic views left them ostracized from…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats are pumping $25 million into expanded voter outreach across 10 states as part of their effort to protect…

AP National Writers BLUFFTON, South Carolina (AP) — On the first day of his American National Government class, Prof. Kevin Dopf asks how many of…

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Libertarian President Javier Milei of Argentina has presented the 2025 budget to Congress,…

AP Business Writer Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a record as Wall Street geared up for Federal…

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of her new memoir, Hillary Clinton offers up what sounds like a far-off wish: “I hope I’m alive…

Associated Press The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic says he felt pressured to get…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An apparent attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump as he played golf in Florida has rocked a…

AP Entertainment Writer The last Emmys — in January, the 75th edition — went reunion crazy on such a big birthday, with cast reunions of such…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Four people were wounded at a Brooklyn train station Sunday when police officers shot at a man threatening them…

Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump wasn’t harmed in Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt as he…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Two earthquakes have struck off the northern coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia Sunday but there…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Practitioners of various religions have marched down Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. They…