News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Former Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo has received two life sentences after being found guilty in the grisly…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A fourth Republican presidential debate has been set for next month, with heightened polling…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Law enforcement officials say they found a staggering $8.5 million worth of psychedelic mushrooms during a bust in…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Election officials in Mississippi’s most populous county had to scramble to complete required poll worker training after an…

By BRENDAN FARRINGOTN Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida dentist on trial in his ex-brother-n-law’s slaying says he never…

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities said the second of four men who escaped from a central Georgia jail last month has been captured. The Bibb County…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Less than a week after his death, a foundation has been established in the name of Matthew Perry to help people dealing with…

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has requested guidance from the state’s Supreme Court about conflict-of-interest…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Utah prosecutors have charged a former county clerk with three felonies and other counts for…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles police say a California legislator was arrested on suspicion of drunken…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tensions are high in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the Copa Libertadores soccer final…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has shaken northwestern Nepal and has been felt in  neighboring India. But there have been no…

MAINZ, Germany (AP) — German soccer club Mainz has terminated the contract of Dutch forward Anwar El Ghazi following his social media posts about…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the National Rifle Association over comments from a former New York state…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia has ruled that a teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Even Christiane Amanpour felt it was odd that CNN’s best-known international journalist had…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers slightly changed the format of its second public meeting on the controversial Dakota Access…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Can former President Donald Trump run for his old job again after his…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Three federal judges in North Dakota have dismissed a lawsuit brought by Republican district…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a Trump era-ban on bump stocks, the gun…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities have convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina city is paying a $500,000 settlement to a man whose treatment by a…

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Travis Kelce has declined to discuss Taylor Swift’s status for Sunday’s game in…

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Garrett is among four male candidates to…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government agency in Jamaica found that security forces were not wearing body cameras when they fatally shot or…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s President Gabriel Boric faces a deeply polarized country,…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline Move Afrika: A Global Citizen Experience, a new initiative…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Voters in Ohio will decide next week whether to legalize…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A businessman who orchestrated a $180 million check-kiting scheme and used the proceeds to live a lavish lifestyle and amass one…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s Cabinet has approved her proposal to make the prime…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s intelligence chief has resigned after less than a year in the post saying…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Marine Corps veteran who served as a politically appointed State Department official in…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have given audiences thrilling, terrifying front-row seats to…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Thousands of Texas Rangers fans lined a two-mile stretch near the team’s ballpark hours before a parade Friday to…

By MATTHEW LEE and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press TEL AVIV (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning Israel that it risks destroying…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two men have been shot to death while visiting a graveyard during Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday. Prosecutors say two…

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A gas explosion has collapsed part of a brick multifamily building north of New York City and trapped victims in the…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press The new president of the Boy Scouts of America plans to reverse the trend of declining membership and improve…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man accused of carrying a pitchfork and assaulting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise…

By ISABEL DEBRE, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Weeks after ordering northern Gaza’s 1.1…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey have agreed on a new location for a police station to replace the one set on…

NEW YORK (AP) — After nearly three decades, Jeff Bezos is leaving Seattle. In a Instagram post, the Amazon founder announced plans to return to…

By SAM METZ Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Archaeologists have unearthed more ancient ruins of what they believe was once a bustling port…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Trump returned to the witness stand Friday to testify at the civil fraud trial accusing his…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State prosecutors have added hate-crime allegations to charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon against a…

BANGKOK (AP) — The leader of Myanmar’s army-installed government has declared its military will carry out counterattacks against a powerful…

BEIRUT (AP) — Leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group is speaking out for the first time since the start of the Israel-Hamas. Hassan…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Outrage over the price of basic housing is spurring calls for a tax on mansions in a…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorado voters will decide two statewide ballot measures Tuesday that would affect their…

SENECA, S.C. (AP) — A driver tried to crash through the exit gates of a South Carolina nuclear plant Thursday night about an hour after security…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of Virginia’s legislature is up for grabs in Tuesday’s off-year general election.…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New York voters will decide of a variety of races and ballot questions in Tuesday’s general…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police say they’ve  made seven arrests on suspicion of smuggling people into Hungary into Hungary as part of…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — Legal settlements could provide local and state governments $50…

By The Associated Press The Russian Orthodox Church has called for an apology from Alla Pugacheva, the country’s most renowned pop singer who…

Officials have released the names of two workers trapped when a coal mine preparation plant collapsed earlier this week in eastern Kentucky. News…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press SAN AGUSTÍN ETLA, México (AP) — Daniel Dávila knew he would become a devil at age 12. He prepares…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Historical Association is working on a new experience for tourists in…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time in three months, the national debate over reproductive rights focuses on…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — King Charles III has met with religious leaders about promoting peace and security…

MADRID (AP) — A wildfire abetted by winds from Storm Ciarán has burned some 2,000 hectares (4,900 acres) of land in eastern Spain and forced the…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear seeks a second term in the heavily Republican state on…

LOCKHART, Texas A Texas man has been convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Moroccan immigrant who had pulled into his driveway. A…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Maine voters will decide the fate of eight statewide ballot measures in a referendum election…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Every seat in New Jersey’s General Assembly is up for grabs in Tuesday’s general election.…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Topping the list of notable races in Tuesday’s general election in Texas are the mayoral races…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russia unleashed a wave of nighttime drone and missile attacks…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Tuesday’s general election in Pennsylvania will fill a vacant state Supreme Court…