Month: May 2023

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham’s recent switch from the…

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The driver of a semitruck that slammed into a passenger van on Interstate 5 in western Oregon, killing 7 people in one of the…

By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian priest has been detained on suspicion of abusing seminary students a decade ago…

LAYTON, Utah. (AP) — Police in Utah have arrested a man they say admitted killing multiple people whose bodies were found in a home. Police Lt.…

SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A Louisiana woman is seeking a venue change as she face charges in the death of a boy whose body was found last year inside a…

CARROLL, Iowa (AP) — Harrowing video of a driver speeding from Iowa police with an officer clinging to his hood and roof emerged this month during…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has met with Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire and stopped by a…

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A Memorial Day burial is planned for a U.S. soldier and Medal of Honor recipient whose remains were identified 73 years…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti say suspected gang members have ambushed a group of policemen, set their armored vehicle on fire…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and other Group of Seven nations are rolling out a new wave of global sanctions on…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s Supreme Election Board has announced the official results of Sunday’s election, with Recep Tayyip Erdogan…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court got rid of a pandemic-related immigration case with a single sentence. Justice…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — While the world awaits Ukraine’s spring battlefield offensive, its leader, Volodymyr…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — No more premium stay in a galaxy far, far away: Disney World’s “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser” hotel is…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell indicated that the Federal Reserve will likely forgo an increase…

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Smiles, a handshake and what Tunisian President Kais Saied called a “historic meeting” with the long-ostracized…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco officials are investigating Twitter after six former employees allege that owner Elon Musk’s leadership…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty.…

MILAN (AP) — An Italian composer has been commissioned by Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opera to write a new opera based on Umberto…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Nicole Holofcener found a fast friend in Julia Louis-Dreyfus a decade ago, when she cast her as a kind of alter-ego in…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The parents of three transgender children in Florida are trying to get a federal…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Target is recalling almost 5 million candles over laceration and burn hazards, according to a Thursday notice…

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Some 700 people have been evacuated from four small towns in western Spain owing to a wildfire…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top army general has fired the country’s paramilitary leader, his former ally turned rival, as the deputy of the…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — A court in Slovakia has acquitted for a second time a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018…

BERLIN (AP) — Officials at a hospital in western Germany have expressed regret after it emerged that one of their surgeons got a cleaner to assist…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming options include rapper Jack Harlow’s acting debut, the return of Kesha and new projects…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An aide to Polish President Andrzej Duda says that the object that entered Poland’s airspace last year and was found in…