National-World

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The only maritime shipping terminal currently operating in the Port of Baltimore is preparing to…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled off ships…

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Disney shareholders rallied behind longtime CEO Robert Iger, voting Wednesday to rebuff activist investor Nelson Peltz and…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The youngest children of an octogenarian couple who were killed inside their Florida…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota lawmakers expecting a legal challenge to a congressional age limit, if passed…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s Republican governor is calling on state lawmakers to move forward with a…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s highest election authority has restored a newly elected pro-Kurdish mayor’s right to hold office.…

FALLSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man charged in the fatal shooting of three family members in suburban Philadelphia and related carjacking…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two Florida brothers have pleaded guilty to insider trading charges, admitting they made over…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After the decisive failure of a ballot measure that would have provided public funds for a…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Federal health officials say that new U.S. hepatitis C infections dropped slightly in 2022.…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden teamed up with Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to promote his…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The attorney for a worker burned in a 2022 explosion during renovation work on the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials will likely reduce their benchmark interest rate later this…

OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — A body that washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario in 1992 has been identified as a Buffalo man who is believed to have died…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police have arrested a Tennessee man suspected of an Easter brunch shooting at a…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s parliament speaker has resigned and relinquished her seat in the legislature over allegations of corruption.…

By JACQUELINE LARMA and ENRIC MARTI Associated Press If she had lived, there would have been so many more photos. Anja could have gone to Kabul for…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Long before Caitlin Clark broke records, packed arenas across the country like Taylor Swift in…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has refused to offer clarity on what legislative district boundary…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition parties demanded Wednesday that the Conservative government publish…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Central University says one person was shot at a dormitory on campus.…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s time to take another trip to Italy, to the charming, cobblestoned streets of the…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden says that when the nation’s top teachers visit the White House this year,…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For Kirk Lynn, it was like a scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He was in a library at…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press A floating crane that’s been hauling away shattered steel from a collapsed Baltimore bridge played a much different…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press FRYEBURG, Maine (AP) — More severe weather is coming across the nation. A major spring storm is expected to…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Christopher Durang, a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The April 8 total solar eclipse is quickly approaching. The right way to enjoy this rare cosmic…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Police in Paris have removed about 50 migrants, including families with young children, from the…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer Rugby players from a women’s team based in a Paris suburb say they were targeted by racist remarks during…

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) — Four miles from the nearest plowed road high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say they have charged one of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party with a second…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A 2nd grade teacher in rural Tennessee has been chosen as the 2024 National Teacher of…

PRAGUE (AP) — Former Czech President Milos Zeman has been released from a hospital following surgery for a blood clot in his leg. That’s…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say a fire in a tailoring shop has killed seven people, including two children, in the Indian city of Aurangabad. The blaze…

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egyptian state media say the bodies of six foreign aid workers killed…

NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Walter’s “Little Mercy” has won the 2024 Academy of American Poets’ First Book Award. Walter will receive $5,000…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A cruise ship reportedly carrying 1,500 passengers is stuck in the Spanish port of Barcelona due to the visa problems of a…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s army says extremist-linked rebels have killed at least a dozen people in a…

By ALEX NISHIMOTO Edmunds The Genesis GV80 made quite a splash when it entered the midsize luxury SUV segment. With its smooth ride, high-quality…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the organization is debating a plan to provide more…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are scolding the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court says it will rule on whether to dissolve the political…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Most of the best hotels for baseball fans are located just a block from the nearest baseball stadium, but one unique…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s president has declared a state of disaster over a devastating El Nino…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The head of Russia’s national security council says the United States shares blame for the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African health officials say the 8-year-old lone survivor of a bus crash that killed…

ISTANBUL (AP) — A deadly fire that spread through an Istanbul nightclub during renovations was likely caused by welding sparks coming into contact…

MADRID (AP) — Luis Rubiales is reportedly returning from the Dominican Republic amid a judicial probe into the business deal to hold the Spanish…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century.…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai wildlife officials laid out a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central Thai city…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A huge disparity between the men’s and women’s weight rooms drew attention…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s constitutional court has upheld an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has led thousands of people in a moment of silence to pray for the aid workers killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza. At…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation has fallen again in Europe, to 2.4% in March. It’s welcome news for…

LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism police investigating the stabbing of a journalist who works for a TV channel critical of the Iranian…

BEIJING (AP) — Violent rain and hailstorms have killed seven people in eastern China’s Jiangxi province, where three people fell from their…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Mourners have gathered outside a southern Finland school, a day after a shooter killed a…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press BOUAR, Central African Republic (AP) — Nearly 5,000 fighters have put down their arms in Central African Republic…

By SAM METZ Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A show at Morocco’s Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is one of the first…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto said on a visit to Japan that he wants to “further…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Wednesday after Wall Street broke its record-breaking bull run with…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Human Rights Watch says Colombia and Panama are failing to protect the hundreds of…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Officials say the aftermath of last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio doesn’t qualify as a public…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An estimated $1.09 billion Powerball jackpot that ranks as the 9th largest in U.S. lottery history is up for grabs. The…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia has seen furious battles over election laws ever since Democrat Stacey Abrams’ narrow loss to…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A push for a revenue package that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and fees…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press In the moments before the cargo ship Dali rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge and sent it…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As travel continues to boom following pandemic-related slumps, U.S. Customs and Border…

The Associated Press XENIA, Ohio (AP) — On April 3, 1974, a deadly tornado barreled through Xenia, Ohio. It killed 32 people, injured hundreds and…

By GARY FIELDS and AMELIA THOMSON DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds that most Americans share many core values on what it…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A crowd of people, some weeping, gathered at a rain-soaked amusement park in South…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The vote in Wisconsin to approve a pair of proposed constitutional amendments that would limit…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press Writer ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — John Barth, the postmodernist writer whose whimsical novels revolved around the art of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Supporters of the Palestinians’ request for full membership in the United Nations have…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — A Biden administration-appointed review board has issued a scathing indictment of Microsoft…

ENID, Oklahoma (AP) — Voters in the northwest Oklahoma city of Enid have recalled a city council member with ties to white nationalism. Unofficial…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former police officer who prosecutors say was the ringleader of a campaign donations scheme to help New York City Mayor Eric…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Javier Milei has struggled to navigate nationalist sensitivities around…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology Group, the newly public parent company of his Truth…