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Human rights group urges Thailand to stop forcing dissidents to return home
By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international human rights organization has urged the Thai government to stop forcing…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international human rights organization has urged the Thai government to stop forcing…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union opened fresh investigations into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors’ star witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump is returning to the witness stand as defense lawyers try to…
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Military officials in Ukraine say their units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s…
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have raised the alert level for Mount Ibu, a volcano in North…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said Thursday a “foreign influence” bill…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have lifted the immunity from prosecution of one of the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s top candidates…
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — U.S. Census Bureau estimates show America’s Northeast and Midwest cities…
Continue ReadingBy MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press A sweeping Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that…
Continue ReadingBy MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when…
Continue ReadingViolence has raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day, hours after France imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal…
Continue ReadingNONTHABURI, Thailand (AP) — Dozens of pro-cannabis advocates in Thailand gathered at the health ministry on Thursday to oppose the government’s…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says 42 people have been rescued while another three are missing after a boat believed to have been…
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court ruled in favor of the government’s contentious plan to drastically boost medical school admissions…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s national carrier Finnair is resuming flights to Estonia’s second largest city in June after two of its…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Honda is reaffirming its commitment to electric vehicles, investing 10 trillion…
Continue ReadingKELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Auto technology has evolved. Many newer cars use wireless key fobs and push-button starters. The…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press SVAY CHOK, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia and China have begun 15-day military exercises as questions…
Continue ReadingBy JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the…
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A car carrying migrants has skidded off road and slammed into a wall in southern Croatia, killing four people and injuring…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a fire at a residential building in western Germany has left three people dead and two others with life-threatening…
Continue ReadingBy VERONICA ANDREA SAUCHELLI, MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press RIETI, Italy (AP) — Ella Anthony knew it was time to leave her…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda to establish an annual day to…
Continue ReadingBANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — A hospital official says Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is in stable but serious condition after being shot…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday after U.S. stocks rallied to records on hopes that inflation is…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with…
Continue ReadingBy MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The United Nations’ top court opens two days of hearings on Thursday into a request from South…
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — More than 100 Filipino activists on wooden boats have decided not to sail closer to a…
Continue ReadingSavannah Gankiewicz of Hawaii has been crowned Miss USA 2023, more than a week after the previous titleholder resigned citing her mental health.…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating Maine’s deadliest mass shooting is…
Continue ReadingBy MOLLY QUELL and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other party leaders have agreed on a…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America will gather Thursday night for its annual gala, a high-profile event raised even…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — ESPN’s broadcast of the Connecticut Sun’s game against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever had the highest viewership for a…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2020, the top enlisted leader of the Air Force went public with his fear of…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where…
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SABANA DE MENDOZA, Venezuela (AP) — At an intersection packed in four directions, rallygoers scream and…
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW and MATT BROWN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since…
Continue ReadingVENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A judge has decided that a Southern California college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards will take place Thursday at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas,…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JENNIFER PELTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors’ star witness will…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies.…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported that its economy contracted at an annual rate of 2% in the first quarter of the…
Continue ReadingBy TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI Associated Press KASAMA, Zambia (AP) — Bridget Chanda is intent on helping educate Zambia’s deaf community about climate…
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii study examining the health effects of last year’s deadly wildfires on…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer It’s not a rock. It’s the Athens Rock Lobsters. Ah-ah-ah-ah! The minor-league hockey team that will begin play…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola will soon premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has…
Continue ReadingBy MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a…
Continue ReadingBy ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s biggest pop star, Anitta, has released a music video depicting rituals of the…
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press The Dali container ship experienced a near perfect storm of calamities before it struck Baltimore’s Francis…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Sudanese people “are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” with famine,…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a police pursuit that went through two states and involved two separate shootouts with law…
Continue ReadingBy FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A bus carrying people to work in a watermelon field in central Florida was…
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A new abortion clinic is going to open in southeast Kansas this fall, bolstering the…
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge says Delaware’s vanity license plate program is unconstitutional because it…
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martinez stands over an insanely hot grill at the first…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a measure Wednesday that could have earmarked up to $5 million for gun-detection…
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Family members of a Navy veteran who died after a police officer pressed a knee to his…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial disclosure reports for the president and vice president are out and they show Vice President…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relations with American Indian tribes is accusing the team, its charity…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says it will investigate conditions in…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new political action committee has begun pouring money into a key Oregon…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has removed Cuba from the State Department’s short…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. security officials say America’s foreign adversaries will again seek…
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Rory McIlroy has all the momentum he could want heading into the PGA Championship as he tries to end a drought in the…
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a…
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a Texas man accused of fatally shooting two New Mexico women and taking one of their children is now…
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Actor Angie Harmon has filed a lawsuit against Instacart and a former Instacart shopper who fatally shot her dog in March…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of reported sexual assaults across the military decreased last year, and a…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico fell more than 6% in April to the fourth lowest month of the Biden…
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Visa has announced major changes to how its credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S.…
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill making climate change a lesser priority under state law and banning offshore…
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Astros starter Ronel Blanco has received a 10-game suspension for violating MLB’s prohibitions…
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Port of New Orleans’ president and chief executive officer has resigned to pursue an opportunity in the private sector.…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Musher and dog trainer Rick Mackey has died. He won the grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congress has passed a bill that is designed to add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories and to give air…
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press Pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University…
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area voters will weigh in on the recall of another politically progressive prosecutor in November. Alameda…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open men’s final will shift to ABC from ESPN this year but the women’s title match will remain on the cable outlet a…
Continue ReadingBy NOREEN NASIR Associated Press Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (AP) — In this seaside community that calls itself “God’s Square Mile at the Jersey…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy in some quarters for his proclamations of conservative…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A second teen has pleaded guilty in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The New York Giants are appearing on a new version of “Hard Knocks.” The Giants, HBO, NFL Films, Skydance Sports announced…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, an amateur musician, may have thought he had the…
Continue ReadingBY AHMED AL-HAJ and FATMA KHALED ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni authorities have deployed security forces and armored vehicles across…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to participate in two general…
Continue ReadingEDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Candian officials say favorable winds are expected to push an “out of control” wildfire away from Canada’s oil sand…
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Netflix and the NFL announced a three-year deal for the streaming giant to carry games on Christmas Day. Netflix will…
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The judge has refused to discard a $38 million verdict in the landmark trial about physical…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says the crash of a single-engine airplane in southeastern Montana killed the pilot and…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caitlin Clark has helped increase the popularity of women’s basketball, and the…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul…
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan court ordered the release Wednesday of journalist José Rubén Zamora, jailed for nearly 2 years on money…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life after he was shot by an assailant following a political event. The…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A former warehouse assistant for the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia has pleaded guilty to…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of Brazil’s Petrobras is stepping down after a fight over dividends, sending share of the…
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