Plane veered off flight path after both pilots fell asleep, Indonesian authorities say
By Manveena Suri and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Indonesia’s transport ministry will launch an investigation after two Batik Air pilots fell…
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Plane veered off flight path after both pilots fell asleep, Indonesian authorities say
CNN By Manveena Suri and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Indonesia’s transport ministry will launch an investigation after two Batik Air pilots…
Continue Reading Nationwide review finds patchwork, ‘broken’ systems for resolving open records disputes
By JOSH KELETY/AP, ERIC SCICCHITANO/CNHI NEWS and CARSON GERBER/CNHI NEWS HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in…
Continue Reading 80 years after D-Day, a World War II veteran is getting married near beaches where US troops landed
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A 100-year-old American World War II veteran plans to marry his 96-year-old fiancee in…
Continue Reading Why you should stop texting your kids at school
By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer Virginia high school teacher Joe Clement keeps track of the text messages parents have sent students sitting in…
Continue Reading Why is Haiti so chaotic? Leaders used street gangs to gain power. Then the gangs got stronger
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press It’s easy to blame the latest spasm of violence in Haiti on longstanding poverty, the legacy of…
Continue Reading Portugal’s election could add momentum to Europe’s drift to the right due to corruption, hardship
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding a general election Sunday against a backdrop of corruption scandals…
Continue Reading Nationwide review finds patchwork, ‘broken’ systems for resolving open records disputes
JOSH KELETY/AP HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was…
Continue Reading Russia’s new guided bomb inflicts devastation and heavy casualties on the Ukrainian front lines
By Tim Lister and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN (CNN) — Russia has begun using a powerful aerial bomb that has decimated Ukrainian defenses and tilted…
Continue Reading ‘Oppenheimer’ set to overpower at the Oscars Sunday night
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hi, “Oppenheimer.” When Hollywood gathers for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the…
Continue Reading Rescue effort launched to assist 3 people at New Hampshire’s Tuckerman Ravine ski area
SARGENT’S PURCHASE, N.H. (AP) — Two people were rescued and emergency crews were attempting to rescue a third at a ski area on the…
Continue Reading West Virginia bill letting teachers remove ‘threatening’ students from class heads to governor
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia bill that would provide a framework for public school teachers on…
Continue Reading Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children
By AMIR AMAN KIYARO Associated Press NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia (AP) — Once-lush fields lie barren. Mothers, faces etched with worry, watch helplessly…
Continue Reading Czech Republic’s Krystyna Pyszková is crowned Miss World in India
By RAJANISH KAKADE Associated Press MUMBAI, India (AP) — Krystyna Pyszková of the Czech Republic has been crowned Miss World at a glittering…
Continue Reading West Virginia lawmakers OK bill drawing back one of the country’s strictest child vaccination laws
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature has voted to allow some students…
Continue Reading 5 of her kids were abducted from a Nigerian school. All she has left is hope and prayers
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300…
Continue Reading Auburn student makes a 94-foot, length-of-the-court putt and wins a car
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — An Auburn University student connected on a long-distance shot, draining a length-of-the-basketball court putt on Saturday to…
Continue Reading Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry visit family of Uvalde shooting victim
By Sharif Paget and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visited Uvalde, Texas on Saturday and met…
Continue Reading Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry visit family of Uvalde shooting victim
CNN By Sharif Paget and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visited Uvalde, Texas on Saturday and met…
Continue Reading Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry visit family of Uvalde shooting victim
CNN By Sharif Paget and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visited Uvalde, Texas on Saturday and met…
Continue Reading No recoverable oil is left in the water from sheen off Southern California coast, officials say
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Officials say no recoverable oil remains in the water after a sheen was reported off the Southern California coast,…
Continue Reading Biden: Netanyahu ‘hurting Israel’ by not preventing more civilian deaths in Gaza
By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that he believes Israeli Prime Minister…
Continue Reading 9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar’s Pemba Island
By ALI SULTAN Associated Press ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — Authorities in Zanzibar say eight children and an adult have died from eating sea turtle…
Continue Reading Stratolaunch conducts first powered flight of new hypersonic vehicle off California coast
By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch has conducted the first powered test flight of a new…
Continue Reading Republican senator used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico to attack Biden border policies
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union…
Continue Reading Biden says he regrets using term ‘illegal’ to describe suspected killer of Laken Riley
By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regrets using the term “illegal” during…
Continue Reading Vanity Fair and Saint Laurent toast ‘Oppenheimer’ at a historic home before Oscars
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On the Friday before the Oscars, the center of Hollywood seemed to be at a private home in Los…
Continue Reading A decade since the Chibok abduction, more than 1,400 Nigerian students have been kidnapped
By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — What seemed like an aberration a decade ago when militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in…
Continue Reading Colorado Bureau of Investigation finds DNA scientist manipulated data in hundreds of cases over decades
By Emma Tucker and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — A now-former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation manipulated or omitted…
Continue Reading Rupert Murdoch, 92, plans to marry for 5th time
By The Associated Press Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who turns 93 next week, has been married four times — and is engaged again, his…
Continue Reading Report and letter signed by ‘Opie’ attract auction interest ahead of Oscars
By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Interest in the late scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer has extended beyond the Oscars this…
Continue Reading Kosovo OKs referendums in 4 Serb-majority municipalities on whether to oust ethnic Albanian mayors
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s Central Electoral Commission has decided to hold a vote on April 21 to oust four ethnic Albanian mayors whose…
Continue Reading Pope Francis: Ukraine should have the courage of the ‘white flag,’ negotiate end of war with Russia
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine, facing possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with…
Continue Reading 2 women drove a man’s body to a bank to withdraw his money, Ohio police say
ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank in order to withdraw money from…
Continue Reading Boeing says it can’t find work records related to door panel that blew out on Alaska Airlines flight
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door…
Continue Reading United Airlines plane diverted to L.A. in air carrier’s 4th emergency in a week
By Rebekah Riess and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Mexico City was diverted to Los Angeles Friday…
Continue Reading Gold sculptures worth more than $1.3 million stolen from Italian art exhibition
By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 50 gold pieces of art created by Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni were stolen from an exhibition…
Continue Reading Another top donor says it will resume funding the UN agency for Palestinians as Gaza hunger grows
Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians says it will resume its funding. Sweden’s decision…
Continue Reading Spain’s prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state
BILBAO, Spain (AP) — Spain’s prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Pedro…
Continue Reading A family-run workshop keeps the legacy of the Mexican fireworks alive despite the danger
By FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Every year, in the first week of March, hundreds of giant paper-mache bulls stuffed with…
Continue Reading Gunmen kidnap 15 children in yet another school abduction in northern Nigeria
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say armed men have invaded a school in northwestern Nigeria and abducted…
Continue Reading El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It’s now been in effect for two years
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s lawmakers have granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for the 24th consecutive one-month…
Continue Reading Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the…
Continue Reading The US is dropping aid into Gaza. Here’s why that will do little to ease a humanitarian crisis
By Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — The US has joined several other countries in airdropping aid into Gaza, which is grappling with a humanitarian…
Continue Reading A paramilitary group at war with Sudan’s military endorses a cease-fire during holy fasting month
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese paramilitary group battling the country’s military in a nearly yearlong ruinous conflict…
Continue Reading Sporting Gijón official apologizes for Women’s Day video of girl cleaning lines off soccer field
MADRID (AP) — An official at Spanish soccer club Sporting Gijón has apologized for a video meant to commemorate International Women’s Day that…
Continue Reading Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, says she experienced ‘cruel’ bullying and abuse during her pregnancies
By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has said she experienced “cruel” online bullying and abuse, the “bulk” of…
Continue Reading Alabama woman set for a plea hearing months after police say she faked her own kidnapping
BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A new plea hearing has been set for an Alabama woman accused of falsely telling police she was abducted last summer after…
Continue Reading What is DEI and why is it dividing America?
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Diversity, equity and inclusion programs have come under attack in boardrooms, state legislatures and…
Continue Reading Weather beatdown leaves towering Maine landmark surrounded by crime scene tape
SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — Crime scene tape surrounds the Skowhegan Indian, a local landmark in Maine, after an assault by Mother Nature. The towering…
Continue Reading Irish prime minister concedes defeat in vote over constitutional amendments about family and women
By MICHAEL KEALY and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded defeat Saturday as two constitutional…
Continue Reading Caribbean leaders call a emergency meeting Monday on Haiti, calling the situation there ‘dire’
By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders have called for an emergency meeting in Jamaica with the United…
Continue Reading On eve of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City offers little festivity as Gaza war rages
By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual…
Continue Reading A French frigate ‘destroys’ a German sub in Norway’s waters in NATO’s biggest drills since Cold War
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press ABOARD THE FRENCH FRIGATE NORMANDIE (AP) — Large NATO drills in the frigid fjords of northern Norway may be just…
Continue Reading Irish government loses public votes to update ‘sexist’ constitution
By Lauren Kent, Amy Cassidy and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The Irish government conceded on Saturday that it had lost two referenda to change…
Continue Reading Pakistan’s lawmakers pick Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s president for a second time
By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s lawmakers have chosen Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s new president.…
Continue Reading 2 killed including a 16-year-old in Russian artillery strikes in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say two people including a teenage boy have been killed in Russian artillery attacks. Russia…
Continue Reading Man arrested after DNA helps crack cold case killing nearly 40 years later as police link him to another case
By Amanda Jackson and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — For more than 35 years, two families in Virginia have been left without knowing who brutally…
Continue Reading Insurer delays and denials hamper patients seeking at-home breathing machines
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Doctors around the country say insurers are making it harder to get coverage for home ventilators that patients with…
Continue Reading A surge of illegal homemade machine guns has helped fuel gun violence in the US
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom’s Cincinnati home when a hail…
Continue Reading Biden leans into his age and effectiveness in his first post-Super Tuesday ad in battleground states
By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making no excuses for his age in the first campaign ad of a…
Continue Reading At least 10 dead and 10 missing as landslide and flash floods hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island
PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 10 people…
Continue Reading US Treasury official pushes Lebanon to halt the flow of funding to Hamas
By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A top U.S. Treasury official has pressed Lebanese authorities to prevent funds from being funneled to…
Continue Reading Intense rainfall sweeps across Dubai and the wider United Arab Emirates, disrupting flights
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Intense rainfall has swept across Dubai and the wider United Arab Emirates, causing localized flooding and…
Continue Reading NH troopers shoot and kill armed man during a foot pursuit with a police dog, attorney general says
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general says police shot and killed a man during a foot chase after he was taken down by a police…
Continue Reading Senegal’s presidential candidates kick off campaigns after violent protests over a delay of the vote
By BABACAR DIONE and JACK THOMPSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Presidential candidates in Senegal have kicked off their election…
Continue Reading Poland’s foreign minister says the presence of NATO troops in Ukraine is ‘not unthinkable’
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister says the presence of NATO forces “is not unthinkable” and…
Continue Reading Romania wins legal battle against a Canadian miner over failed plans to open a gold mine
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Romanian government has won a yearslong legal dispute with a Canadian mining company seeking damages over failed…
Continue Reading Scientists inch forward in efforts to resurrect an extinct giant
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A bold plan to genetically engineer a version of the woolly mammoth, the tusked ice age giant that disappeared 4,000…
Continue Reading Italy grapples with its patriarchal history as femicide cases shock the nation
CNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled.…
Continue Reading Italy grapples with its patriarchal history as femicide cases shock the nation
By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN. Video by Alessandro Gentile (CNN) — Some are stabbed, some are shot, some are strangled. But…
Continue Reading Violence is battering Haiti’s fragile economy and causing food and water shortages
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left…
Continue Reading Who are the Russian dissidents still serving time after Alexei Navalny died behind bars?
By DASHA LITVINOVA and KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth…
Continue Reading Portugal is electing a new parliament and government. Here’s what to know about the major issues
By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered…
Continue Reading A cleaner finds 2 dead babies in glass bottles in a vacated Hong Kong apartment. Police arrest 2
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say a cleaning person found two dead baby boys in glass bottles in the living room of a vacated apartment.…
Continue Reading Italy’s migrant detention centers in spotlight after death of Guinean and calls to close them down
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pressure is building on authorities in Italy to close a notorious Rome migrant detention center…
Continue Reading Kenyan activists are on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge
By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi is the co-founder of a community-based organization called Usikimye, which means…
Continue Reading A lonely radio nerd. A poet. Vladimir Putin’s crackdown sweeps up ordinary Russians
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted…
Continue Reading Female representation remains low in US statehouses, particularly Democrats in the South
By LEAH WILLINGHAM and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly 130 years since the first three women were elected to…
Continue Reading The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it’s a time of confusion
By TERRY TANG Associated Press TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. “I’m dreading it. I just…
Continue Reading How the US military is scrambling to build a floating dock for urgently needed aid to Gaza
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive floating pier that will allow ships to sail up to Gaza and offload…
Continue Reading UN chief: Legal equality for women could take 300 years as backlash rises against women’s rights
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN chief says legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender…
Continue Reading Heading platoons, repairing machines and doing twice as much: How the war has changed the lives of Ukrainian women
By Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Most of the men in Oksana Rubanyak’s platoon are at least 10 years older than her. Before the war,…
Continue Reading As a fifth term for Vladimir Putin looms, Russia is stepping up its war on its own people
By Clare Sebastian, CNN (CNN) — On February 26, one of Russia’s longest-serving human rights activists stood up at the end of his trial in a…
Continue Reading The Biden-Trump rematch comes into view with dueling visits to Georgia
By BILL BARROW and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The 2024 presidential election campaign will pick up Saturday where the 2020 contest…
Continue Reading Armed men attack police stations near National Palace as Haiti’s gang violence spirals
By Michael Rios, Richard Roth, Sahar Akbarzai and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Two police stations near Haiti’s National Palace were attacked by…
Continue Reading Michigan residents urged not to pick up debris from explosive vaping supplies fire that killed 1
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities investigating a fire and explosions that rocked a suburban Detroit building filled with vaping industry…
Continue Reading Hawaii firefighters get control of fire at a biomass power plant on Kauai
LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — Firefighters in Hawaii have gotten control of a large fire at a biomass plant on Kauai Island. KITV Island News reports crews…
Continue Reading Iran’s repression of protesters and women amounts to ‘crimes against humanity,’ UN report says
By Eve Brennan and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s “repression of peaceful protests” and “institutional discrimination against…
Continue Reading Mexico-bound plane lands in LA in 4th emergency this week for United Airlines
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A United Airlines jetliner headed to Mexico City from San Francisco has made an…
Continue Reading AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the March 12 presidential contests
By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Super Tuesday put former President Donald Trump within reach of clinching his third consecutive…
Continue Reading WWE strikes deal with Logan Paul and KSI’s Prime, will feature brand on center of ring mat
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer WWE has struck a deal with YouTube stars Logan Paul and KSI’s beverage brand Prime that will see its logo…
Continue Reading 9 killed in western Wisconsin traffic crash involving a semitruck and a van, report says
DEWHURST, Wis. (AP) — A crash at a western Wisconsin highway intersection involving a semitrailer and a van has reportedly killed nine people. KSTP…
Continue Reading Roswell police have new patches that are out of this world, with flying saucers and alien faces
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Famous for being the spot where a spacecraft purportedly crashed in 1947, Roswell, New Mexico, is a mecca for…
Continue Reading Helicopter crashes along US-Mexico border, Texas authorities say
LA GRULLA, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Texas say a helicopter has crashed along the U.S-Mexico border. Texas Department of Public Safety Lt.…
Continue Reading Nathan Hochman advances to Los Angeles County district attorney runoff against George Gascón
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman and progressive incumbent George Gascón have…
Continue Reading Russian oligarch went to Moscow in effort to broker complex prisoner exchange that included Navalny, sources say
By Sebastian Shukla, Alex Marquardt and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — A multi-country prisoner exchange that might have freed Russian opposition…
Continue Reading Veteran Miami prosecutor quits after judge’s rebuke over conjugal visits for jailhouse informants
By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI, Florida (AP) — A veteran prosecutor in Miami has quit after a judge found that state investigators…
Continue Reading Maui officials aim to accelerate processing of permits to help Lahaina rebuild
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Local officials in Hawaii plan to open an office that will speed up Maui County’s notoriously…
Continue Reading How Black women coined the ‘say her name’ rallying cry before Biden’s State of the Union address
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press Hard-line Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State…
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