US: Number of unruly air travelers lower, still too high
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say unruly passengers are becoming a bit less common on airline flights, but they are still causing disruptions…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say unruly passengers are becoming a bit less common on airline flights, but they are still causing disruptions…
Continue ReadingBy AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A state agency that investigates civil rights abuses has found that the manager of a suburban…
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a Philadelphia newscaster’s lawsuit against Facebook…
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited Hawaii this week as the remains of 68 Korean and six presumed U.S. service members were…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE and MARK HUMPHREY Associated Press COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a gunman attacked a grocery store in an upscale suburb…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The chief investigator for a Boston museum still working to recover $500 million worth of…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A movie year of fits-and-starts, delays and reversals has sometimes been difficult to track. Knowing…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nations, companies and corporations are pledging billions of dollars to feed the world in…
Continue ReadingHEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a Northern California man has pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter charges in the drowning of his…
Continue ReadingBURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) — The purportedly haunted Rhode Island farmhouse where the spooky happenings that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has overwhelming passed legislation to provide funding for Israel’s missile defense…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Azerbaijan has filed a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Armenia of a…
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The three candidates hoping to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor, and the four…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An appeals court overturned a federal judge’s sweeping order that required the city and…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A fourth Wisconsin voter out of roughly 3 million who cast ballots in the 2020 presidential…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press A former Louisiana State Police trooper has been charged with a civil rights violation for…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say four members of an alleged California militia group have pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque city officials plan to use ground-penetrating radar as they research…
Continue ReadingBy PEDRO SERVIN Associated Press ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguay’s crucial outlet to the sea has fallen to its lowest level since at least…
Continue ReadingROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Police arrested a man who allegedly took a Subway shop employee’s purse during an Illinois robbery attempt that was caught…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Following a 2020 census in which the pandemic made access to group housing difficult, Census Bureau officials say…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Three presidents and seven foreign ministers are warning that a…
Continue ReadingFORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Officials say media calls to Fort Meade on Thursday were mistaken for callers portraying members of the media during an…
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court has denied the state attorney general’s request to recuse all Jackson County judges from…
Continue ReadingGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school district has received cash from President Joe Biden’s administration to make up for state pay cuts…
Continue ReadingBY MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This week’s phone call between President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani has celebrated 40 years of his Emporio Armani line with a retrospective show at his…
Continue ReadingMENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — The father of a man charged with fatally shooting four people in Minnesota and leaving their bodies in a vehicle abandoned…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Shaquille O’Neal, Tyra Banks and Kevin Hart are among the celebrities taking part in a live-streamed special intended to boost…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Medical providers and Montana residents with compromised immune systems are challenging…
Continue ReadingREDDING, Calif. (AP) — A woman has been arrested on suspicion of starting a Northern California wildfire that spread rapidly, burning homes and…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved nearly $1 billion in new spending to prevent…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the current course of U.S.-Turkey relations “does not bode well.” In a briefing to…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rates rose slightly this week continuing a months-long trend of little movement. They remain under 3%.…
Continue ReadingEATONTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia inmate has been found guilty of murder in the slayings of two prison guards shot during a bloody escape in 2017.…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government is allowing the environmentalist group Sea Shepherd to return to the Gulf of California to help efforts…
Continue ReadingBy TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor in closing arguments at the sex-trafficking trial of R. Kelly has asked jurors to make…
Continue ReadingBy RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A man who was paralyzed when an Iowa police officer shot him in April is suing the…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials have made more than two dozen recommendations aimed at further safeguarding…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Have you heard the one about climate change? It was hard to miss late Wednesday and early Thursday,…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is trying to ease concerns of a fuel crisis after oil giants BP and…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Bill and Melinda Gates’ private foundation announced Thursday it will spend more than $900 million over the…
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — The widow of a passenger killed in a helicopter crash in Georgia is suing the pilot’s estate and two helicopter companies,…
Continue ReadingMORICHES, N.Y. (AP) — A bull that escaped from a farm on Long Island and eluded searchers for two months has been captured. Suffolk County SPCA…
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM Associated Press Conductor Riccardo Muti has extended his contract as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by one year…
Continue ReadingBy SALLY HO Associated Press At the United Nations this week, the pandemic-era rules of engagement for General Assembly week are strict for kings,…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. safety investigators are asking anyone who witnessed a fiery Tesla crash near Miami that killed two people to send them…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration is imploring Iran to quickly return to talks on its nuclear program…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Catholic Church authorities say that retired Bishop Edward Janiak has died at age 69. He had been punished by…
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s defense minister says the country has raised the combat readiness of its troops on the border with Kosovo…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — A resident says a Baptist pastor and three other men were killed and a town of 2,000 homes all but abandoned this past weekend in…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British director Roger Michell has died at age 65. His movies include the hit romcom “Notting…
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed COVID-19 booster shots for…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One of the founders of the Taliban says the hard-line movement will once again carry out…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway is in need of a boost these days so it has smartly called on one of its most…
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A group of politicians and activists who lost to their Kremlin-backed opponents in Russia’s…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two lawsuits say a South Carolina lawyer charged with trying to arrange his own death…
Continue ReadingHELSINKI (AP) — NATO member Estonia says a Russian air force plane violated its airspace in what the Baltic nation alleged was the sixth such…
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Sam has formed in the Atlantic and is expected to become a major hurricane. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the…
Continue ReadingBy MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker has submitted his…
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Retired Roman Catholic Bishop John McCormack has died after a career in which he faced…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Once hailed as a prototype for a new kind of federal jail and the most…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-monopoly commission has fined 17 soccer teams for conspiring to impose a cap on the salaries of female…
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say they have broken a gang that smuggled more than 100 migrants from Bosnia into Croatia and on toward…
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press Washington National Cathedral says an artist renowned for his works depicting African American life will design new…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the Boy Scouts of America moves through its complex bankruptcy case, it’s encountering…
Continue ReadingBy ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press Millions of people have found solace during the pandemic in cuddling a dog or cat. For a…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian lawmakers have approved a law aimed at limiting the influence of oligarchs on politics. The move comes a day after…
Continue ReadingBy KHADIJA KOTHIA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police investigating the killing of a 28-year-old woman in London say they are probing…
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA and JUAN LOZANO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — A camp where almost 15,000 migrants had waited along the Texas border just…
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN, MATTHEW LEE, DANICA COTO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press U.S. officials say the Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti…
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has gone to court in the Netherlands to get permission to receive a COVID-19 vaccine so he can…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press WOODLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey plans to restore vast tracts of a coastal tree species threatened by…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, got a hawk’s-eye view of New York…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week for a second straight…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s Central Bank has unexpectedly cut the main interest rate by one percentage point, bowing to President Recep Tayyip…
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria has closed its airspace to all Moroccan planes in the latest escalation of diplomatic tensions between the two…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press STILLWATER, N.Y. (AP) — Veterans are helping with an archaeological dig at the Saratoga National Historical Park…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A woman with Down syndrome has lost a court challenge against the British government over a law…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is unveiling plans that would require smartphone makers to adopt a single…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — An Australian economist arrested when Myanmar’s military seized power in February has made a court appearance in the capital where…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England kept its main interest rate at the record low of 0.1% but warned that inflation is…
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize ceremonies will be reined in for a second year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The winners of this year’s…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union legal adviser says software installed in Volkswagen cars to alter the amount of pollutants coming out of their…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — With increasingly strong talk in support of Taiwan, a new deal to supply Australia with nuclear…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, Now, a 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has sent 24 fighter jets toward Taiwan in a large display of force. The move comes after the self-governing island…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Fears that a Chinese real estate developer’s possible default on multibillion-dollar debts…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark is siding with the United States in the dispute with its fellow EU member France over a major Indo-Pacific…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA and BALAZS KAUFMANN BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says he’s hopeful that the new…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The father of three young girls who were killed last week in New Zealand says his…
Continue ReadingBy RENATA BRITO and BARRY HATTON Associated Press TODOQUE, Canary Islands (AP) — The advance of lava from a volcanic eruption on one of Spain’s…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Dubai real-estate company known for its deals with former President Donald Trump says it has received…
Continue ReadingBRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Chicago-based aerospace giant Boeing has announced plans to build a new type of drone military aircraft in Australia.…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is sharply limiting domestic production and use of highly…
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian President Kaïs Saied has issued presidential decrees bolstering the already…
Continue ReadingBy KARIN LAUB Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — For the first time in Germany, climate change is perhaps the most dominant issue in an election…
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A local official in Kenya says seven people are dead after their boat capsized on Lake Victoria. The Homa Bay county…
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A former school principal who was extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle was ordered to stand trial on 70…
Continue ReadingTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Relatives of a six-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy are appealing for privacy during a custody battle.…
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