California fires may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias
By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say Northern California wildfires may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias,…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say Northern California wildfires may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias,…
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Spanish-language countdown will be included for the first time in the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve…
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has became the first state to prohibit “stealthing,” or removing a condom…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A jury has convicted a former Northwestern University professor of first-degree murder in the 2017 stabbing death of his boyfriend.…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric car maker will relocate its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A TV adaptation of the late Sue Grafton’s million-selling Kinsey Millhone mystery novels, a…
Continue ReadingBy PATTY NIEBERG, THOMAS PEIPERT AND COLLEEN SLEVIN The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman has been denied a kidney…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada-based technology company that had lobbied state lawmakers to let it form a…
Continue ReadingBy BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic members of a U.S. House committee questioned Arizona officials on the potential damage…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn Nets listed Kyrie Irving as ineligible to play in their home exhibition game Friday, another strong indication he has…
Continue ReadingBy PADMANANDA RAMA and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal is pushing President Joe Biden to…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released video that shows Minneapolis police officers talking about “hunting people” during unrest following the death…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Glenn Youngkin has not talked much lately about the 2020 election, President…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortions in Texas can resume under a federal judge’s ruling, but for how long? A conservative…
Continue ReadingNORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Officials say two human feet that washed ashore months and miles apart in South Carolina belonged to the same person.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Afghan man already facing charges in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a New York Times reporter and another…
Continue ReadingTUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Another armed Indigenous vigilante group has appeared in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. In a video posted on…
Continue ReadingBy DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 will mean more talk about Mrs. O’Leary…
Continue ReadingBy MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund says a report alleging she had a role in…
Continue ReadingCOLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man who fatally shot one person and wounded 14 others before killing himself at a Tennessee grocery store last month…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — It was 150 years ago that the Great Chicago Fire ignited, eventually killing about 300 people and consuming a major portion of the…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials from Mexico and the United States are developing a new framework for their…
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — U.S. Army officials have unveiled a new resource and training…
Continue ReadingMANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan opposition groups are saying next month’s presidential election is “void and illegitimate” because…
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville’s metro government has asked a judge to temporarily shut down a hot tub on wheels, saying the party vehicle…
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Meek Mill is back with his fifth solo studio album, “Expensive Pain.” This…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Steve Coll, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is stepping down after nine years as dean of the Columbia University journalism…
Continue ReadingRED LAKE, Minn. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a Minnesota man on charges of murder and other counts in the July killing of a Red Lake…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — A jury has convicted a man of capital murder in the 2015 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend, her husband and six children,…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general says a civil rights complaint has been filed…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published Oct. 7, 2021, about the Pentagon’s plan for climate adaptation, The Associated Press erroneously…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A new military investigation found the coronavirus pandemic curtailed trainings in 2020 and contributed to nine service members…
Continue ReadingBy DAN PARKS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Small arts organizations were among those hit the hardest by shrinking…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy says one of its fast-attack submarines struck an object while…
Continue ReadingLONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police say the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman by a Southern California school safety officer is being…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An Oregon man said he survived a recent train derailment in Montana by holding onto a grab…
Continue ReadingBy WILSON RING Associated Press The state of Vermont is proposing to remove the bald eagle from the state’s listing of threatened and…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal magistrate judge in Nevada is siding with Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers against a woman…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government said it is to relax travel rules further next week, a move that will open up…
Continue ReadingTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Officials have identified the armed passenger who died in a gunfight after fatally shooting a federal agent inside an Amtrak…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Illinois woman to four days in jail for not moving away while a grizzly bear with…
Continue ReadingARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old student accused in a shooting at a Texas high school has been released from jail after posting bond. Timothy…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump intends to assert executive privilege in a congressional…
Continue ReadingOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man accused of participating in the storming of the U.S. Capitol has pleaded guilty to a single count of disorderly…
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Counties in the San Francisco Bay Area will start easing their requirements for people…
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A senior U.S. official says the number of U.S.-bound Haitian migrants temporarily…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Noomi Rapace flew into Iceland to film “Lamb” on a Sunday and on Monday morning, she was literally delivering baby…
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A ruling by a local Israeli court in favor of a Jewish man who prayed quietly at a flashpoint…
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — More than five days after an offshore pipeline ruptured off the Southern California…
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Meek Mill is back with his fifth solo studio album, “Expensive Pain.” This latest…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says fighting over the key Yemeni city of Marib last month…
Continue ReadingBy KARIN LAUB Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s foreign minister has pushed back against a report that the country’s monarch…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party and two smaller parties say they will deepen their talks next week on forming a new…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When the U.S. government issues the September jobs report on Friday, the spotlight…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Poet, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez is this year’s winner of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, a $250,000 lifetime…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The governors of four northeastern states are agreeing to share information about firearms…
Continue ReadingBy NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA says it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Mainstream Idaho Republicans concerned about a takeover by the surging far-right wing of the…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has ruled to enforce the collection of fines from Facebook for breaching Russian laws on illegal content. Officials…
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is gearing up in case of a bad flu season on top of the continuing COVID-19 crisis. Health officials…
Continue ReadingBy ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — English Premier League club Newcastle has been sold to Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — An Afghan man who worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan says the Biden administration has…
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer It could take U.S. regulators a few weeks to decide whether to clear COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has ruled that it will not allow a Burmese-English translator at the upcoming trial of Sean Turnell, an…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN McGRATH and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Hungary has offered neighboring Romania help in caring for…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel has ceremonially opened its gleaming pavilion at the world’s fair in…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — African health officials are optimistic that the world’s first malaria vaccine endorsed…
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Soaring temperatures fueled by climate change are making it harder to live in some of the…
Continue ReadingBy TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press NONTHABURI, Thailand (AP) — A flood-hit riverside restaurant in Thailand has become an unlikely dining…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press Leaders of the four Roman Catholic dioceses in Missouri are urging state leaders to end the use of the death penalty,…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “The Rescue” is the fullest, most detailed and most heart-pounding documentary portrait of just…
Continue ReadingBY KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has vaccinated millions more people against the coronavirus than previously thought.…
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two of the last remaining rural Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates are being…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and TIM REYNOLDS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities say 18 former NBA players have been charged with…
Continue ReadingBy JEAN-YVES KAMALE and CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The Virunga National Park in Congo says that Ndakasi, the mountain…
Continue ReadingORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The family of a slain college student says a deputy dismissed clues that should have kept the man now suspected of killing her…
Continue ReadingBy CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand say they are seeking four suspects in connection with the…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful magnitude 5.9 earthquake has shaken the Tokyo area, injuring more than 30 people and…
Continue ReadingBy MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Even before the pandemic bared the truth of a profit-driven nursing home industry with…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — AP WAS THERE: Great Chicago fire, Oct. 8-10,…
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s constitutional court has ruled that Polish laws have supremacy over those of…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France’s government has summoned the head of the French Catholic bishops’ conference after he said that secrets shared in the…
Continue ReadingBy MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Even before the pandemic bared the truth of a profit-driven nursing home industry with too few…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu is marking his 90th…
Continue ReadingBy SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia (AP) — Croatia has announced it will investigate reports and video footage alleging systematic…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s…
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The head of Oklahoma public schools will switch parties and run as a Democrat to challenge…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi is paying tribute to outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her “calm, determined” leadership…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer A major Hollywood strike could be on the horizon for some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment…
Continue ReadingBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russia has the potential to boost natural gas supplies to Europe as surging…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says Russia once again accounted for most state-sponsored hacking, with a 58% share of…
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV is reporting that speedboats belonging to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have intercepted U.S.…
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Poland’s president is urging the European Union to take “specific actions” to stop Belarus “pushing” migrants…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — The Spanish government is offering citizens who turn 18 years old next year 400 euros ($462) to spend on cultural activities. But the…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press Pfizer is asking the U.S. government to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, another sign that…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Afghanistan’s pavilion has finally arrived at the first world’s…
Continue ReadingBy JAY REEVES Associated Press PELHAM, Ala. (AP) — The death toll from flash floods caused by torrential rains in Alabama has risen to four.…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British bank NatWest faces a potentially hefty fine after admitting to three charges relating to anti-money laundering failures. The…
Continue Reading