Maurice Williams, writer and lead singer of ‘Stay,’ dead at 86
AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maurice Williams, a rhythm and blues singer and composer who with his backing group the Zodiacs became one of…
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maurice Williams, a rhythm and blues singer and composer who with his backing group the Zodiacs became one of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were safe after firefighters worked to douse a fire at…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer There were wins for Liverpool and Arsenal and records for the prolific Mohamed Salah and the enduring James Milner on the first…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) — Roberto Garcia crossed the border from Mexico in 2009 looking for a better life. For the past eight years, he has…
Continue ReadingRussia is keeping up its assault on Ukraine even as Ukrainian forces push into Russia’s Kursk border region. A Russian missile sparked a blaze in…
Continue ReadingCNN By Nadeen Ebrahim, Kareem Khadder, Nic Robertson and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Jit, West Bank (CNN) — When Moawya Ali saw a wave of Israeli…
Continue ReadingAP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is on tap to give the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israel airstrike in Gaza killed at least 18 people, all from the same family, on Saturday,…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Madonna will fund an artistic project involving youths, she announced during her 66th birthday celebrations in Pompeii. While touring…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi, Kareem El Damanhoury, Eugenia Yosef and Sarah El Sirgany, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli strike has killed at least 10 people in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto weakened into a tropical storm late Saturday as it moved away from Bermuda over open waters…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NABATIEH, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon early Saturday killed at least 10 Syrian nationals, according to…
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Body camera footage was released Friday showing the fatal police shooting of Victoria Lee, a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s medical workers began a countrywide strike Saturday to protest the rape and killing of a trainee…
Continue ReadingBy Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — Russia is “rapidly approaching” a key military hub in eastern Ukraine, a local official has said, as Moscow…
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, Kareem Khadder, Nic Robertson and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Jit, West Bank (CNN) — When Moawya Ali saw a wave of Israeli…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first week of a former politician’s murder trial has wrapped up in Las Vegas. The jury tasked with…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press EVART, Mich. (AP) — Alison Smith stared at the virtually empty dairy barn inside the Osceola County Fairgrounds, once bustling…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Now that it’s back-to-school season, parents should add one more crucial item to the checklist. An eye exam. The American…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — As the American city that has hosted more political conventions than any other, Chicago has pretty much seen it…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Public health experts from some of the nation’s leading research universities have deployed a massive medical trailer to rural…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Sarah Bagheni had a headache, fever, and itchy and unusual skin lesions for days, but she had no inkling that…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Ron DeSantis’ senior political aides were gathered last year at the Florida governor’s campaign headquarters, an office…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Of the thousands of delegates expected to gather Monday at the Democratic National Convention, just 36 will…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has a history with China. And Republicans are seizing on it. The Democratic vice…
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The arrest of five people in the overdose death of Matthew Perry has revealed key details about the…
Continue ReadingBy Kareem El Damanhoury and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Doctors in war-torn Gaza have detected a case of polio for the first time in 25 years,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia is marking 79 years of independence with a ceremony in its future new capital of…
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Sudzha, Russia (CNN) — Bodies decomposing in the street. Bullet-marked civilian cars lining the road. Half of…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Two Alaska State Troopers have been charged with misdemeanor assault after using pepper spray, a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Militants with ties to the Islamic State group have killed 16 villagers in northeastern Congo and kidnapped…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew McNicol, CNN (CNN) — Tears streamed down Bisan Abuaita’s face as she reunited with her teammates at Jordan’s Queen Alia Airport…
Continue ReadingTIARET, Algeria (AP) — An outpouring of fans greeted Algerian boxer Imane upon arrival back in her hometown on Friday and at a parade in Tiaret,…
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Sudzha, Russia (CNN) — Bodies decomposing in the street. Bullet-marked civilian cars lining the road. Half of…
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Sudzha, Russia (CNN) — Bodies decomposing in the street. Bullet-marked civilian cars lining the road. Half of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen in northern Nigeria have ambushed vehicles conveying some university students and abducted 20 of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — When Denisha Mitchell was asked why she filled out paperwork to serve as an Arizona elector for the independent…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon that slammed the Tokyo area with heavy rains and brought mudslide warnings in northern Japan is…
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, Niamh Kennedy and Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz raised eyebrows on Friday when he said Israel…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Mexico is defending cross-border anti-drug cooperation after Mexican prosecutors complained the Americans…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities say arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plummeted 33% in July to the lowest level since…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It was strange and surprising when Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord landed at an airfield near El Paso, Texas…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” —…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for The-Dream, a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, are seeking the dismissal of a woman’s…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Massachusetts pharmacist charged with murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents from a 2012 U.S. meningitis…
Continue ReadingSUDZHA, Russia (AP) — A trail of destruction lies in the path that Ukrainian forces carved on their risky incursion into Russia, blasting through…
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer The launch of Venu Sports will be delayed after a federal judge granted FuboTV’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the…
Continue ReadingAP Economics Writer Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a ban on “price gouging” by food suppliers and grocery stores, as part of a broader…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A tiny Florida college is once again at the center of the state’s culture wars after a dumpster left the campus library filled…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Dirt track race car driver Scott Bloomquist has died in a plane crash in Tennessee. The sheriff’s office in Hawkins County…
Continue ReadingHATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi poultry processing plant has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor that requires it to…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A white Florida woman was convicted Friday of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black neighbor after the jury rejected her…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials have decided to allow the Green Party’s presidential candidate to remain…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A newlywed couple and the bride’s mother were killed in a crash after a semitruck overturned on Interstate 70 west of Denver…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas jury has begun deliberating whether the parents of a former student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018…
Continue ReadingRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian health ministry says it has recorded the first case of polio in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in…
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — Nearly 150,000 Montreal homes were put under a boil water advisory after a broken water main erupted into a “geyser” that…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A former Washington, D.C., city employee was found guilty of manslaughter Friday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nearly a year after AI-generated nude images of high school girls upended a community in southern Spain, a juvenile court this…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police in Haiti say inmates have broken out of a prison in the central coastal town of Saint-Marc as…
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Deliberations have begun after attorneys presented their closing arguments Friday in the civil trial…
Continue ReadingCNN By Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A giant panda has given birth to twins after more than a decade of trying to mate successfully,…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bipartisan package of 10 bills to crack down on retail theft.…
Continue ReadingAP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is hiking pay for educators in the early childhood program Head Start as part of an…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Harvard University and three graduate students have settled a federal lawsuit over claims of sexual harassment. The lawsuit accused…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation to establish a national monument to commemorate the 1908 race riot…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has tapped his former chief of staff to serve temporarily as a U.S.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down a Missouri rule requiring disclosure of “social objectives” in…
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Mostafa Salem, Alex Marquardt, Ben Wedeman and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — International mediators are making an urgent push…
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a…
Continue ReadingELK RIVER, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say they won’t charge a woman who left her newborn in a box on the side of a Minnesota road 35 years ago.…
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer The investigation into the death of “Friends” star Matthew Perry has led to a sweeping indictment that pulled in five people…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — A brawl has broken out among Turkish lawmakers during a heated debate over the fate of a jailed opposition delegate. Televised…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges she orchestrated a scheme to defraud Elvis Presley’s family…
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — The U.S. has called on Sudan’s military to join talks aimed at calming the country’s grinding conflict as the country faces a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first images out of Ferguson, Missouri surfaced 10 years ago — the bloodied body of a man left for…
Continue ReadingLOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man is charged with strangulation and child abuse after he allegedly grabbed a teen by the neck and threw him on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is out with a string of new proposals on food prices, taxes, housing…
Continue ReadingThis week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from Lainey Wilson and Sabrina Carpenter, George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As California’s attorney general, Kamala Harris successfully defended the death penalty in court, despite her…
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Russell, the lead singer of the bluesy ’80s metal band Great White whose hits included “Once…
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer Many rural hospitals have closed in the last decade in the United States and a recent report from the Center for Healthcare Quality…
Continue ReadingAP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge in optimism by Democrats over the prospects of Vice President Kamala Harris lifted U.S. consumer…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Irish police say they are investigating a potential terrorism motive in an attack on a chaplain at an army barracks in County Galway.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Civil rights groups across Ohio are decrying proposed ballot language for a fall redistricting amendment…
Continue ReadingAP Media Writer If you’re not looking too closely, some recent Kamala Harris ads may give the false impression that some leading news…
Continue ReadingBy Jillian Sykes and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — Six years ago, a passing driver in Austin, Texas, found the body of a 28-year-old woman in a silver…
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — China has expressed its “very dramatic” alarm over a mid-range missile system that the U.S. military recently…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Wyoming has been among the most conservative states in the county, and voters on Tuesday will select the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — African leaders will meet in Zimbabwe on Saturday for a scheduled summit of the 16-nation Southern African…
Continue ReadingThe running mates of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are coming under greater scrutiny as the presidential election heats up. Ohio…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of people marched through various Indian cities Friday to protest the rape and murder of a trainee…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto began to pound Bermuda late Friday with heavy winds and rain after officials in the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rick Scott’s bid for renomination for a second Senate term tops the list of races that Florida…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JIT, West Bank (AP) — Israeli leaders on Friday roundly condemned a deadly settler rampage in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Firefighters are tackling blazes across Turkey as dry, hot and windy weather conditions cause a series of fires.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska voters are set to shrink the pool of contenders for its highly sought-after U.S. House seat from a dozen…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk have urged civilians to speed up their…
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