Month: May 2023

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Phoenix has become the largest U.S. city to successfully challenge its population count from the 2020 census after…

PARIS (AP) — Ten noted thinkers, writers and filmmakers, including Ken Loach and Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux, have signed an open letter…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says that for the first time in Syria’s 12-year war people in every…

Authorities are asking the public to share any video or information as they investigate a weekend shooting that left eight teens wounded outside a…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, her family announced Tuesday. Carter, now 95,…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo have flared anew this week after Kosovo’s police…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — International Monetary Fund has  signed off on an initial loan of $900 million and…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Drivers are lining up at gas stations across Nigeria after the country’s new leader…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities on the European island nation of Malta have contested accusations made by a…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill Tuesday that…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina gas station owner has been charged with murder in the death of a…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press If you like your summer reads to be like your summer movies — big, explosive and fast-paced, then look no…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top wrestlers have held off for now from throwing their medals into the country’s sacred Ganges River as part of an…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says Palestinian gunmen have shot and killed an Israeli man near the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the…

By CARLA BRIDI and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA (AP) — The Brazilian president’s strong support of Venezuela’s authoritarian…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal court ruling cleared the way Tuesday for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s settlement of thousands of…

By JIM VERTUNO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — On the way to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton becoming a rising figure in…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, HANNAH FINGERHUT and ERIN HOOLEY Associated Press DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa mayor says five Davenport residents are…

BERLIN (AP) — A central figure in a German tax evasion scandal has been convicted and sentenced to more than eight years in prison, the second…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Tuesday’s eighth anniversary of one of the saddest days…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens…

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A lower-level German soccer team called its punishment for stopping a game in protest after racist abuse was apparently…