Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra gets new music director
By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For 17 seasons the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra has been under the musical…
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By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For 17 seasons the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra has been under the musical…
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — The husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says he was deeply moved by a “solemn and…
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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Three weeks into the new era of the House Republican majority, the risks of…
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Hours before sunrise, migrants at one of Mexico’s largest shelters wake up and go…
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By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia was once the Arab world’s hope for a new era of democracy. Now it’s in…
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hundreds of climate activists have blocked one of the main roads into The Hague,…
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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines says it will take steps to assess and prevent abuses including rape and…
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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Italy’s prime minister has held talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based…
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LONDON (AP) — Struggling U.K. airline Flybe has collapsed for the second time in less than three years. The flyer initially limped into bankruptcy…
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By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A retired army general has defeated a populist billionaire in a runoff vote to choose the new…
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By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Italian designer Sabato De Sarno has been named the new creative director of Gucci, and will unveil…
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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president has suspended Parliament until Feb. 8, when he said he…
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MILAN (AP) — Italy’s premier says Italian diplomatic property has been the target of vandalism in Berlin and Barcelona. Premier Giorgia Meloni…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has clarified his comments about homosexuality and sin. In a note, he is making clear…
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced a series of punitive steps…
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Two Indian air force jets have crashed in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, killing one pilot. The Indian air force said on…
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By JUSTIN KABUMBA, DENG MACHOL and CARA ANNA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — When Pope Francis arrives in Congo and South Sudan next week,…
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop has defended the military government’s…
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press A MILITARY BASE IN SOUTHEASTERN POLAND (AP) — On the front lines in Ukraine, a soldier was having trouble…
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By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Ronna McDaniel has become the longest serving leader of the Republican…
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By MEG KINNARD, HOLLY RAMER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump kicked off his 2024 White House…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI and KWIYEON HA Associated Press YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — A Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to promote its…
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of people were injured in a massive traffic pileup amid snowy conditions in southern Wisconsin on Friday, which blocked…
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SEATTLE (AP) — Four white men with white supremacist ties were sentenced in federal court in Seattle Friday for a 2018 assault on a Black DJ at a…
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MONTARA, Calif. (AP) — The driver of a car that plunged 250 feet off a treacherous cliff in northern California, injuring his two young children…
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The interim manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to…
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — In the months he was held in detention in Texas during his legal fight to remain in the U.S.,…
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By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-controlled government has enacted a new law on registration of political parties…
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The outrage, frustration, sadness and anger over the killing of Tyre Nichols was evident around the NBA on…
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A woman who told police she was groped by a former state lawmaker said she is outraged by him calling the incident…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City prosecutors say severed cables and a speeding driver were responsible for a Jan. 7 subway crash that killed one…
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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has ruled that New York state should pay former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legal bills as he defends himself against a lawsuit…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan authorities say they have arrested 24 settlers after they allegedly attacked an indigenous community as part of a…
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By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Inside a warehouse at the industrial Port of Portland lies what some…
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By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities on Friday charged a second teenager with murder in the shooting deaths of…
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By AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s Senate Republican leader says that a committee will investigate a…
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By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Air Force general in charge of the nation’s air- and ground-launched nuclear missiles has…
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By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is axing free grocery delivery for Prime members on orders less than $150. In an email…
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Jersey man who joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more…
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt told reporters Friday that he is baffled over how $12.7…
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DUXBURY, Mass. (AP) — A baby has died after his 32-year-old mother in Massachusetts was charged with injuring him and killing two of her other…
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By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has yet to make herself available to the Capitol press…
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A camera atop Hawaii’s tallest mountain has captured what looks like a spiral swirling through…
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By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Police body-camera video from a deadly shooting this week in Ohio shows officers shooting a man…
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By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s federal police searched the home of a nephew of former President Jair Bolsonaro…
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A key stretch of the main vehicle travel route between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City will be closed all weekend as part of a…
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By ANDREW SELSKY and RIO YAMAT Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man accused of torturing a woman he held captive in Oregon, and who was…
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A teenage girl who, along with a younger boy, engaged in a shootout with Florida deputies from a home they had broken…
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By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota landowners testified for and against a carbon capture company’s use of eminent…
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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Alex Murdaugh’s comments to police about his whereabouts around the time his wife and son were fatally shot…
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk and top aides to President Joe Biden have met in Washington to discuss…
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By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mike Rallis had his younger brother draped over his shoulders and was set to dump him to the…
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LISA RATHKE Associated Press (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York is considering whether the Vermont Law and Graduate School modified a pair…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who caused evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police on Capitol Hill when he claimed he had a bomb in his pickup…
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By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he takes “full responsibility” after…
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a 29-year-old woman used false documents to enroll as a New Jersey high school student and attended some…
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A timeline of events in the Tyre Nichols case, which sparked state and federal investigations into police brutality and led…
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration quietly ousted its former top official in…
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A sixth teenager pleaded guilty to charges in a 2022 shooting outside a Des Moines high school that left one person dead…
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Bu STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel won her bid Friday to lead the GOP for two more…
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has called on Congress to approve a proposal to move elections forward to late this year, a…
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By ADAM BEAM, TRAVIS LOLLER and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press On most weekends, Tyre Nichols would head to the city park, train his camera on the…
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By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national police agency says a counterterrorism intelligence…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts restoring the interior of Mexico City’s Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral said Friday they found 23 lead boxes…
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “A Thousand and One,” a drama about an impoverished single mother and her son in New York City, won the Sundance…
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By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Human Rights Watch says it has obtained a database leaked from the government…
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By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The fallout from the shooting of a teacher by a 6-year-old student in Virginia has…
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By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Groups representing social workers and women say they have succeeded in forcing a small…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. George Santos’ campaign committee is facing new questions from federal regulators after…
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By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the sound and fury about raising the nation’s debt limit, most economists say federal…
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By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press Video released Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struggling with…
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LONDON (AP) — A pop-up urinal crushed a man to death in London’s theater district Friday, police said. Firefighters used a winch to free the man…
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By The Associated Press Fierce battles in eastern Ukraine have thrown a new spotlight on a private Russian military group led by a rogue millionaire…
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By RAQUEL REDONDO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A spate of gender-based violence, coupled with the early release of several sex offenders, has…
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LONDON (AP) — Actress Sylvia Syms, who starred in classic British films including “Ice Cold in Alex” and “Victim,” has died, her family…
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has commemorated the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by focusing on people…
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By SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press The families of five passengers killed in a plane crash off the North Carolina coast have settled wrongful death…
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged three men in an alleged plot that…
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NEW YORK (AP) — The archives of the late Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne have been acquired by the New York Public Library. The material spans…
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has condemned the United States over its decision to supply Ukraine with…
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PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs have started voting for a new president, choosing between a retired army general and a populist billionaire in a two-day…
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By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Bill Lawrence was developing his new Apple TV+ comedy ”Shrinking,” he introduced one…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two months after undergoing surgery for serious burns, Jay Leno is now contending with a number of broken bones after being…
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in August 2021, Renato Decena and Rosel…
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By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced Jeff Zients as his next White House chief of…
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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Court says it has charged a 74-year-old retired man with terrorism for allegedly sending six letters…
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s Supreme Court has removed the country’s deputy prime minister from office and from his parliamentary seat for…
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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years. The dirty snowball last…
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. plans to make it easier for gay and bisexual men to give blood. The Food and Drug…
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NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been nearly a decade since Smokey Robinson’s last album, but new music from the King of Motown is on the horizon.…
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel by Jesmyn Ward, the two-time National Book Award winner, is the story of an…
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By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities released video footage Friday showing Tyre Nichols being beaten by five Memphis…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge eased further in December, and…
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India will receive 12 cheetahs from South Africa next month that will join eight others it received from Namibia in September as…
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By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press ADVENTDALEN, Norway (AP) — Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a…
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By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling killed at least 10 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 20 others in a day, the…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief says taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes. Jeremy Hunt…
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By SAM METZ and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nichole Mason first became concerned when she learned administrators…
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tommy Paul says he went into his Australian Open semifinal against Novak Djokovic…
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