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Mexico’s cartel violence haunts civilians in the lead-up to June elections
By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Cartel violence haunted the central Mexican town of Huitzilac days after a mass…
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Cartel violence haunted the central Mexican town of Huitzilac days after a mass…
Continue ReadingBy MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel will respond to charges of genocide at the United Nations’ top court after…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s break from his hush money trial in New York includes a…
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge is considering Alec Baldwin’s request to dismiss a grand jury…
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan is reducing its reliance on the Chinese mainland as it seeks to insulate itself from…
Continue ReadingBy SHARON LURYE Associated Press On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court laid out a new precedent: Separate but equal has no place in American schools.…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump’s…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Power has been knocked out to nearly 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area as southeastern Texas gets pummeled by severe…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Football Australia says three A-League players have been arrested for alleged betting corruption after police claimed they…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has again denied that her…
Continue ReadingKENT, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have pushed this Congress into…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration says it will cost more than $20 billion…
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN and SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Thursday voted to keep…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys have discussed in court whether classified documents might play…
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence, two kids named…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is reporting improved economic prospects since its January forecast…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A measure to repeal a now-defunct Nebraska law that would use public money to fund private…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Justice Department documents show a federal prosecutor in Arkansas stepped down from…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday proposed an end to new coal leasing from federal…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against a Mississippi school district over a dress code policy based…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who met two 15-year-old girls on Snapchat, sexually abused them while traveling through three states and…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Google is asking that a federal judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Every WNBA team will start using charter flights to travel to games by May 21. The league is following through on plans to…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge is rejecting a lawsuit by a former Democratic congressman running for Georgia state…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency watchdog said the agency distributed about $3 billion to…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man has been convicted of killing four people at his ex-girlfriend’s home in suburban Denver…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials are cautiously optimistic that an overall decline in reported sexual…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld four voting restrictions passed by Republican…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer A key Boeing supplier that makes the fuselages for its popular 737 Max airplanes is laying off about 450 workers.…
Continue ReadingUNION CITY, Ga. (AP) — An Atlanta police officer who authorities say shot and killed a Lyft driver who was driving him home was arrested and…
Continue ReadingBy LEKAN OYEKANMI and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says early estimates show a barge collision in…
Continue ReadingLANSING, Mich. (AP) — Six men face charges in connection with the theft of more than 400 vehicles worth about $8 million in Michigan. The state…
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Five Americans are facing prison sentences of up to 12 years in the Turks and Caicos Islands on charges they…
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian lawmakers have begun yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office as authorities continue various…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prosecutors say former South African President Jacob Zuma will go on trial for…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The sports streaming platform planned by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery finally has a name. The joint venture will be…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget office has pleaded not guilty to extortion, bribery,…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced three arrests in a complex stolen identity scheme that…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is creating a new process aimed at cutting the…
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbot issued a full pardon Thursday to a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted…
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia lodged a complaint over statements by the U.S. ambassador after he said the…
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the…
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bad Bunny’s sports representation firm sued the baseball players’ association Thursday,…
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP National Writer SPRING, Texas (AP) — Gymnastics star Simone Biles says she is better equipped to handle the challenges that await…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus “Megalopolis” at the…
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit man who dropped a teenager’s body into a dumpster has been convicted of second-degree…
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have announced raids and the seizure of property of 104…
Continue ReadingFORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — A wildfire that has forced thousands of people out of their homes in Canada’s oil sands hub city of Fort McMurray,…
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups have signed a “commitment…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Creating the NFL schedule is a complicated process that requires tens of thousands of computers coming up with…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — An aid group says that the number of unaccompanied children who arrived in the northern Italian city of Trieste through the Balkan…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has evoked language adopted by the far-right Proud Boys extremist group as he supports…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press Police records show that officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country…
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A disability rights advocate made a complaint to New York State Police…
Continue ReadingROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) — The chancellor of the California State University system has suspended the president of its Sonoma campus for…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A fiery crash involving a tanker truck has shut down a stretch of Colorado’s main east-west highway on the outskirts of Denver. The…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden campaign says Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a truck driver has been killed after a tank holding waste material depressurized at a Phoenix facility that is being…
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand…
Continue ReadingBy MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press VERON, Dominican Republic (AP) — As soaring violence and political turmoil grip…
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Through its long history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has offered a way for people to get a…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper who’s charged with murder for fatally shooting a motorist as he tried to pull away from a traffic…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF MARTIN and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson says the bodycam footage of the…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez says his wife has breast cancer and will require a…
Continue ReadingBy ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s government is making a last-minute effort to convince…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials have voted to provide more details to voters than normal to avoid…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg is sitting for a second day of…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to deliver a rebuke to President Joe Biden for putting a pause on a…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. fell for the second straight week, giving some relief to home…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — In an increasingly vitriolic political climate, the last thing needed in the runup to the June…
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say human bones found inside the chimney of a Wisconsin music store in 1989 have been identified as those of a man…
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAM METZ Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Lawyers in Tunisia took to the streets on Thursday to protest a string…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the…
Continue ReadingBy RYAN KRYSKA AP Sports Writer EA Sports has revealed an image of the College Football 25 cover that features Michigan running back Donovan Edwards,…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes.…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from ingesting a substance containing a…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Drake is the leading nominee for next month’s BET Awards, followed closely by Nicki Minaj. The Canadian rapper…
Continue ReadingLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Xander Schauffele made four birdies over his first seven holes Thursday to kick off the PGA Championship, while Tiger Woods…
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court has sentenced dozens pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 30 years in prison over deadly riots that…
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A majority of European Union countries are calling for more agreements with countries…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the association representing athletic directors of Football Bowl Subdivision schools is stepping down this fall after…
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP National Writer SPRING, Texas (AP) — Gymnastics star Simone Biles says she is better equipped to handle the challenges that await…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have dismantled a major methamphetamine distribution network of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel after making a…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To say Cage the Elephant’s latest album had a turbulent birth would be an understatement.…
Continue ReadingBy TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has appeared before a top court via video link, his first such…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remain at historically low levels even as other…
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say at least eight worshippers were killed and 16 others injured in…
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to…
Continue ReadingBy EUGENE HOSHIKO and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — A U.S. Navy strike group’s flagship aircraft carrier has left its…
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — White men are most likely to lead the largest, best-funded nonprofits, while women of color tend…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international human rights organization has urged the Thai government to stop forcing…
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