Month: December 2024

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 47.5%, carrying out its first rate cut…

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said. Meek, 16, was…

WAKEFIELD, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say four people died in a New Hampshire home on Christmas Day due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. Police…

AP Business Writers Sales rose this year during the holiday shopping season even as Americans wrestled with elevated prices for many groceries and…

AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Center for SafeSport abruptly fired one of its investigators last month after learning he’d been…

Americans still dreaming of a really big Christmas present can keep that dream alive during Friday’s Mega Millions drawing for a jackpot worth…

Associated Press Viewers may gasp, cringe or cry out watching characters die on Netflix’s “Squid Game,” but those simulated deaths have a…

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Electric vehicles had another whirlwind year around the globe, driven by buyers in China, and growth in parts of…

PHOENIX (AP) — A shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix left two people injured by gunfire and another person stabbed in an incident related to…

AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims…

The World Health Organization’s director-general said airstrikes on Yemen’s main airport occurred as he was about to board a flight in the Houthi…

Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court has convicted an opposition party leader of inciting social disorder and sentenced…

Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique. (AP) — Mozambique’s police chief says at least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in the…

Associated Press The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It…

Associated Press HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like…

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian operator of a cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria says it has been hit by a series of…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek traffic police are warning drivers in areas with ice and snow to use snow chains after long traffic jams were reported…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As a Democrat who immersed himself in political news during the presidential campaign, Ziad Aunallah has much in…

Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Finnish police say authorities detained a ship linked to neighboring Russia as they investigate whether…

NEW YORK (AP) — What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors. U.S. stocks ripped higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy…

The Wednesday crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan has killed 38 of 67 people on board. Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 was en route…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish migration rights group says more than 10,000 migrants died in 2024 trying to reach Spain by sea. Tens of thousands of…