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By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press A trial of a former government official charged with killing his wife has riveted Kazakhstan with lurid video of…
Continue ReadingBy JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press A trial of a former government official charged with killing his wife has riveted Kazakhstan with lurid video of…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A U.S. Army reservist who provided the clearest warning ahead of…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man who fatally shot retired NFL star Will Smith after a car crash in 2016 is preparing to…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is thought to have extended its surprisingly healthy streak at the start of…
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Legislation forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell the video-sharing platform or…
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities in Australia say dozens of pilot whales have beached on the country’s western coast and wildlife…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer SHANGHAI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has opened his first full day of meetings in China by…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN COON Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah hockey fans welcomed the former Arizona Coyotes to their new home Wednesday. Players and…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly all inmates have been transferred out of a troubled women’s prison set to be shut…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The former Instagram influencer known as “Jay Mazini” has been sentenced to seven years in prison after admitting he stole…
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reggie Bush has his Heisman back. The Heisman Trust reinstated the former Southern California…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police in Australia say five teenagers accused of following a violent extremist…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD (AP) — The Connecticut Senate has passed one of the first major legislative proposals in the U.S. to reign…
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge has ordered 18 months of preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvian men while they are investigated…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — An Indigenous group in Brazil says its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican legislative leaders in Ohio are negotiating with Democrats to assure…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled Chinese businessman is set to face an anonymous jury at his May fraud trial. Guo…
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Several relatives of patients who died while awaiting a new liver say they want to know if their…
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD and JOSH KELETY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Eleven Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-dominant House has spiked legislation…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of peole have gathered under a full moon across Australia and New…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new rule in California aims to limit health care price increases to just 3% each year.…
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — County commissioners in rural New Mexico have extended authorization of a migrant detention…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing has reported a $355 million loss for the first quarter. But the CEO said the results announced on Wednesday…
Continue ReadingBy RICK CALLAHAN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The “rat hole” is gone. A Chicago sidewalk landmark some residents…
Continue ReadingWEST RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that a body found at the home of a former Washington state police officer who killed…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Another Republican candidate has jumped into the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race. Ian Cain on Wednesday formally launched his…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has met at the White House with Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American girl…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has declined to dismiss hundreds of lawsuits filed against rap star Travis Scott over his…
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign, she refused to endorse Donald Trump for…
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas has released a hostage video showing a well-known Israeli-American who…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A top U.S. military official says there’s been no final decision on whether or not all U.S.…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s office says a Chinese former student at Boston’s Berklee College of Music has been sentenced to nine…
Continue ReadingCAMERON, La. (AP) — Up to $20,000 is being offered for information leading to a criminal conviction or civil penalty involving a dolphin that was…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by…
Continue ReadingKISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The longtime boyfriend of a central Florida mother whose teenage daughter was reported missing in February has been charged…
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The No. 1 pick in the NFL draft already has traded hands, with Carolina sending it more than a year ago to…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Student protests over Israel’s war with Hamas have popped up on an increasing number of U.S. college campuses following…
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A new study finds little change in the number of people taking a key medicine for opioid addiction even though…
Continue ReadingBy CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MAE ANDERSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For millions of American workers, the federal government took two actions this…
Continue ReadingGUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors have charged a fifth member of an anti-government group with killing and kidnapping two Kansas women.…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has granted clemency to 16 people who were convicted of non-violent…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s capital city has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by survivors of a man who died after police officers…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors urged jurors to convict a former Colorado sheriff’s deputy of murder and other…
Continue ReadingBy ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — Amnesty International says authorities in Togo have repressed the media and prevented civilians…
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ, REBECCA BOONE and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court heard its first test on Wednesday of…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears unveiled a nearly $5 billion proposal for an enclosed stadium next door to…
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines flight attendants have ratified a new contract that will boost their pay by about one-third over four years. The…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Democratic governor in Kansas has vetoed a broad package of tax cuts for the second time…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has used the launch of the Wounded Warrior Project’s annual Soldier Ride from…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A former Connecticut city alderman has been sentenced to 10 days behind bars for joining a mob’s assault on the U.S. Capitol…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The big U.S. aid package for Ukraine and other allies that President Joe Biden signed…
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A fired minor league umpire sued Major League Baseball on Wednesday, claiming he was sexually…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan…
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Relatives of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova say it’s…
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A company started by a Texas billionaire oilman has announced a deal with Venezuela’s state-owned…
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s signing of legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. runs counter…
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A state investigator in Michigan says he considers former President Donald Trump and some key allies to…
Continue ReadingLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas panel has prohibited election officials from accepting voter registration forms signed with an electronic…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The FBI has determined that a young Black man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a rural…
Continue ReadingBy IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda says it’s ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal aviation official says one of the two pilots aboard an airplane carrying fuel…
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s top official has taken the first steps toward removing a faculty member who was…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Some public school teachers in Tennessee could gain new powers to carry concealed guns into the classroom, a year…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Botswana’s foreign minister says his country was approached by the U.K. to take…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury has rejected a woman’s lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars against…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are announcing…
Continue ReadingTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials say U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. of New Jersey has died after a heart attack this month that left him hospitalized.…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER, JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement…
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is poised to become the latest Republican-led state to impose criminal penalties for…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl when he was robbed at a Houston ATM…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore…
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Neighbors Pakistan and Iran have pledged to enhance efforts at a “united front” against…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron showed off his sporting prowess again –this time as Paris…
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. agriculture officials say dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus in an…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italy’s Ministry of Culture has banned art loans to the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the United States following a long-running…
Continue ReadingVIENNA (AP) — A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost has been sold at an auction in Vienna for 30 million…
Continue ReadingBy DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer Allergy season is here, but it doesn’t have to make you miserable. Experts say people can manage most symptoms…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than one-quarter of U.S. adults over age 50 say they expect to never retire and 70% are…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “ Barbenheimer ” is a hard act to follow. The summer of 2023 brought a new enthusiasm for…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Are you ready for some movies this summer? There’s action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and…
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Besides being an accomplished actor, John Lithgow is a Harvard graduate who was a Fulbright Scholar at the London…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prosecutor general has told the parliament that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people under…
Continue ReadingFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Relatives say a 74-year-old woman charged in the armed robbery of a credit union in Ohio last week is a victim of…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has agreed to probe allegations of corruption made against the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez by a…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The head of the Paris airports operator says skies over the French capital will be closed completely for six hours as part of the…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A teenage suspect who allegedly made derogatory remarks about LGBTQ+ people before opening fire at a backyard punk rock show now…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Expectations are tempered for the financial prospects of summer of 2024 at the movies. There are fewer superheroes…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliamentary speaker says he will seek criminal charges against a lawmaker who allegedly punched a colleague…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II will be digitized and made…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators say they’ll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The German chancellor says Europe must continue to step up its help for Ukraine even after the approval of a big U.S. aid package.…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Welsh police say a suspect has been arrested after three people were injured in a “major incident” at a school in Wales.…
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team of experts from the U.N. nuclear agency has inspected the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi…
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