Month: April 2023

BOSTON The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for four missing fishermen in the waters off of Cape Ann in Massachusetts. Coast Guard aircraft found an…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Engineering faculty at the University of California Los Angeles say they have developed…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has gone through House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s plan to trim the deficit and its…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer This time it’s for real. Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue checks that helped…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19…

PARIS (AP) — Online registration for a lottery draw where winners can buy tickets for next year’s Olympic Games in Paris has closed. Entries for…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice John Roberts is being asked to testify to Congress as scrutiny mounts…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his…

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a…

By MATTHEW LEE anmd LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is moving additional troops and equipment to a Naval base in…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amazon is asking Virginia for nearly $153 million in state incentive payments. It…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Defense Ministry says it has begun talks to sell an advanced missile defense system…

Pulitzer prize winning digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division as it cuts about 15% of its entire staff. In a memo sent to…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to host Colombian President Gustavo Petro for…

By TIM SULLIVAN and AARON MORRISON Associated Press In suburban Detroit, it was a lost 14-year-old looking for directions. In Kansas City, it was a…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Prime Minister and the European Union’s environmental chief have…

DETROIT (AP) — The number of people killed on U.S. roadways decreased slightly last year, but government officials said the 42,795 people who died…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is touting “unprecedented” climate…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says that a veteran diplomat who was appointed less than three weeks ago to promote Dutch…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The former chair of the Wisconsin Parole Commission who until this week was also an alderman in Racine has been charged with a…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCESCO STATI Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Texas-born princess piled her four yapping bichon frise dogs into a taxi…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press WEST BATH, Maine (AP) — A sister who discovered a crime scene in which four people were shot to death arrived…

By DANIEL COLE and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press GANGES, France (AP) — Hundreds of protesters opposed to the law raising the retirement age from…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week but remains low by…