Month: July 2023

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Millions of people have quickly signed up to Meta’s new app, Threads, as it aims to compete with Twitter —…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken says a multinational force is needed to help…

HARTFORD A Connecticut state legislator who was attacked last month as she left a Muslim prayer service is making her first public comments about the…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees pitcher Jimmy Cordero has been suspended for the rest of the season by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred for…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern says the owner of the rail car that caused the fiery Ohio derailment in…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — An El Salvador court has sentenced former President Mauricio Funes to six years in prison for tax evasion, the…

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Country music star Toby Keith was back on stage over the Fourth of July weekend with his first shows since revealing last…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has disclosed some of the previously blacked-out portions of a warrant…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff’s Senate campaign said Wednesday that the California…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Drinking water from nearly half of U.S. faucets likely contains “forever…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The state of Vermont has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle all pending and potential lawsuits against it from…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press CABOT, Vt. (AP) — Dozens of Vermont school districts have sued chemical giant Monsanto over contamination in school…

By KEVIN McGILL, MATT O’BRIEN AND ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An order by a Louisiana federal judge sets up a high-stakes…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says a bystander’s cellphone footage showing a deputy…

SEYMOUR, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana legislator convicted of drunken driving in June is publicly acknowledging that he used “horrible” judgment.…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A neurologist says the man who gunned down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 does not have a psychiatric or…

SEATTLE (AP) — A 26-year-old member of the U.S. military accused of fatally shooting two women and wounding three other people at a music festival…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A super PAC supporting Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s run for the Republican presidential…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A passenger bus lost control and veered off a road and into a 75-foot-deep (25 meter-deep) gully in southern Mexico, killing at…

MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent Russian investigative reporter has received a brain injury and multiple fractures when she and a lawyer accompanying her…

UNDERWOOD, Wash. (AP) — Authorities have more than doubled the number of people battling a wildfire that has burned structures and forced the…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a trio of bills…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum says a fire destroyed eight Atlanta police motorcycles…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say that a criminal suspect has died when he detonated explosives inside a court building in the Ukrainian…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The office of Israel’s prime minister says a dual…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press Workers who picketed 19 major Southern California hotels over the long holiday weekend were back on the job…