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Federal judge tosses Ohio voting restrictions on voters with disabilities
CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal judge has struck down part of Ohio’s new 2023 election law, which put restrictions on voters with disabilities who…
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND (AP) — A federal judge has struck down part of Ohio’s new 2023 election law, which put restrictions on voters with disabilities who…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The owners of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and NHL’s Blackhawks unveiled a $7 billion plan Tuesday to replace the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York watchdog panel says a judge who engaged in a prolonged, offensive rant after a melee erupted at a high…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development program for military families has been…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has approved a referendum sought by slave descendants to challenge rezoning changes that…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Among the throngs of tourists in cowboy attire who flock to Nashville’s famed downtown honky-tonks,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Yemen is warning that recent developments in the Red Sea, Israel and inside the country…
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a small airplane with three people aboard that went missing over…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KENITRA, Morocco (AP) — Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Forest Service has announced a plan to bring a massive area of Amazon rainforest currently…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris works to become the Democratic nominee for U.S. president, reaction across her…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Three-time Olympic gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin of Britain has withdrawn from the Paris Games after a video…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s lower house of parliament has passed legislation expanding the reach of a law on declaring foreign-funded organizations…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Wiz, a cloud security firm based in New York, has rejected a proposed $23 billion acquisition deal offered by Google parent…
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Within the span of five days in January, Sean Wang’s life changed about as dramatically as is possible for a young…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s population crossed the 23 million residents mark for the first time this year because of the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi government has announced an official ban on a Kurdish separatist group which has been engaged in a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening on his decision…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Secret Service resigned Tuesday in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former…
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The shades are on, the skinny tie is knotted and the fedora is perched just so — Dan Aykroyd is ready to…
Continue ReadingOAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile got into a pickle on a Chicago highway. The hot-dog shaped Wienermobile hit a car Monday morning…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHOACHI, Colombia (AP) — Sebastián Caqueza says a new law to ban bullfighting in Colombia by mid-2027 will not dampen his passion…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writers U.S. regulators are investigating why Delta Air Lines failed to recover as quickly as other airlines from a global technology…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The hurricane season roared into the U.S. with Hurricane Beryl hitting Texas in early July. And NOAA is…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The British government says it will end the controversial use of a barge to house asylum-seekers off the south coast of England. The…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that there is no longer a general danger to all civilians from the long-running conflict in Syria. In the…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in June for the fourth straight month as elevated mortgage rates…
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in St. Maarten say they have detained a suspect linked to the recent shooting of a politician in an attack…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say a suspected gunman in a mass shooting in a nursing home in Croatia is facing 11…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Belarus’ foreign minister has arrived in North Korea as experts predict that he and North Korean…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — These may be the most luxurious Olympics ever. A key sponsor is LVMH, the biggest seller of luxury goods in the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leone court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offenses following what authorities…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has given an 18-year prison sentence to a man found guilty of sending six letters containing explosives to Spanish…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press In under 48 hours, the head of the staunchly conservative public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention rankled fellow…
Continue ReadingEDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Multiple wildfires in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park sent up to 25,000 visitors and residents fleeing…
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A consortium of international human rights organizations is calling for Belarus not to execute a German citizen recently…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Pilots at Ireland’s national airline, Aer Lingus, have voted to accept a pay increase that ends a labor dispute that led to the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has been convicted by a London jury of directing a terrorist group.…
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer Five years after “Joker” won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, filmmaker Todd Phillips is returning with the sequel.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HINCKLEY, Minn. (AP) — At summertime social powwows and spiritual ceremonies throughout the Upper Midwest, Native Americans are…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing coalition and the conservative opposition have presented a plan to protect the country’s…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s police chiefs say that violence against women and girls has reached “epidemic levels” and police are treating it…
Continue ReadingRONKONKOMA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say two people were killed when a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff on New York’s Long Island.…
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has evacuated 123 of its citizens from Bangladesh in response to violent unrest that has killed dozens of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Kamala Harris was greeted by a massive, cheering crowd during the first rally of her newly announced presidential…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Coca-Cola is raising is full-year sales guidance after a stronger-than-expected second quarter. The Atlanta beverage giant said it…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Kamala Harris stepped onto the national political stage as Barack Obama was leaving. The loftiest forecasts in 2017…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Anti-government protesters in Kenya’s capital have clashed with an emerging pro-government group as weeks…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Three days before the start of the 2024 Olympics, France’s interior minister said about 1,000 people suspected…
Continue ReadingAP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. customers who bought a new General Motors vehicle last quarter paid an average of just under $49,900, a price…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Welcome aboard, hope you are standing comfortably. For the horses on the U.S. eventing team, the journey to France…
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — A pedestrian walkway in a massive housing project has collapsed in the southern Italian city of Naples, killing two people and…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer Before there was Michael Phelps or Mark Spitz winning multiple Olympic gold medals in swimming for the United States — there was…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan security forces have arrested dozens of people who tried to walk to the parliamentary building in…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — China’s Baosteel says it will acquire Nippon Steel’s 50% stake in their auto steel joint venture for about $242 million. The…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin (AP) — A roaring crowd of battleground state voters greeted Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday as she…
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Eleven prominent Algerian opposition figures have written an open letter this week, denouncing “the authoritarian…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to raise spending to create more jobs and spur economic growth. In her…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s defeated Conservatives will spend more than three months picking a new leader to replace former Prime…
Continue ReadingAsian stocks mostly fell on Wednesday as markets digested Japanese and Australian business data, after U.S. stocks held relatively steady as earnings…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Mudslides triggered by heavy rain in a remote part of Ethiopia have killed at least 229 people. Local…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to form a government together. The two groups made the…
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer When it comes to climate, extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to America’s hurricane…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SILVERDALE, Wash. (AP) — Voters in Washington state will decide this fall whether to keep one of the country’s more…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have arrested the founder of the country’s tech giant Kakao Corp. on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Several thousand mourners have attended the funeral for a Ukrainian former lawmaker best known for her…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — The daughter of the late Colombian artist Fernando Botero has helped to turn the streets and piazzas of the Italian…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will consider legislation this week that aims to protect children from dangerous online content,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An approaching typhoon has prompted the cancellation of air force drills off Taiwan’s east coast. But…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Family members of a woman slashed and stabbed to death in 1998 pressed Utah officials Tuesday to proceed with next month’s…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — On a recent morning in an Afro-Caribbean community in northeast Puerto Rico, Dr. Pedro Juan Vázquez…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week is looming as a fraught one…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s “determined to get as much done” as he possibly can in his…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AGUA CALIENTE, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is working hard to shore up the loyalty of the armed forces…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nearly 40 million people were living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS last year, over 9 million weren’t…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Canary Islands are struggling to deal with thousands of teenagers and children traveling…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Insiders who were close to Joe Biden’s struggles are describing a president who was dogged in his…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has budgeted millions of dollars to protect small, unauthorized Jewish farms in the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the formulaic “pass the torch” drumbeat thumped on from lawmakers wanting him to quit the race, President…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Monday signed a bill that bans bullfights in the South American…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An energy group says a $1.3 billion chemical production facility to be built in Louisiana by Japanese…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The head of an oversight board that investigates allegations of misconduct by New York City police officers has…
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — At least a half-dozen homes lay in ruins Monday after one of many dangerous wildfires in the West suddenly swept into a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off victories in other legal cases, Donald Trump on Monday pressed a New York appeals court to overturn the…
Continue ReadingRUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — A southern New Mexico village that was ravaged by wildfires in June and then battered off-and-on by flooding across burn scars…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from his reelection bid and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian legislators have begun an investigation into the alleged importation of contaminated fuel into the…
Continue ReadingDAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Police say one person has been injured during a shooting inside an Iowa mall. Davenport Police in a Facebook post said the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Party plans to push forward with a virtual roll call in which delegates to its convention can…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which a Southwest Airlines jet flew as low as 150 feet over water while it was…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top U.N. envoy for Syria told the Security Council the threat of terrorism is “resurging” with…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An armed group has killed at least 26 villagers in central Mali near the border with Burkina Faso. A local…
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer A week after Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president, President Joe Biden’s team used Musk’s social media platform X…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Several Republican lawmakers seized on gender and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the Secret Service as among the reasons…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Pentagon strategy says the U.S. must invest more to upgrade sensors, communications and space-based…
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