Month: August 2023

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press In a first-of-its kind auction for the Gulf of Mexico, a company bid $5.6 million Tuesday to lease federal waters…

By FRANK BAJAK and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 wrongfully convicted people from across the country have expressed their support for…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court says police reports about deaths and other incidents in…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — One of the largest wildfires in Louisiana history continues to burn through land and…

BOSTON (AP) — Couples filling out marriage certificates in Boston will no longer be required to identify their sex or gender. Officials say the…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Aug. 20 presidential election has been bogged down in court and legal…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s moon rover has confirmed the presence of sulfur and detected several other elements on…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A young, white gunman’s killing of three Black people over the weekend in Jacksonville,…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have ended a special session initially touted…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will send an additional $250 million in weapons and ammunition to Ukraine…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press With more than a year until the 2024 presidential contest, the field of candidates is largely set. Former President…

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a natural gas explosion destroyed the North Carolina home of Tennessee Titans cornerback Caleb Farley. The…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As John Eastman prepared to surrender to Georgia authorities last week for an indictment related…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A female dental assistant in Jamaica has been charged with murder and kidnapping after police say she abducted an…

A Louisiana-based nonprofit is calling for future engineers to get more education on past failures and how to avoid repeating them. The campaign by…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU’s top official will nominate the Dutch foreign minister as the next commissioner in…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago television news crew has been robbed at gunpoint while they were reporting on a string of robberies. Spanish-language…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is ending his bid for the presidency, dropping out of the 2024 race…

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS is giving the late game show host Bob Barker a last run on television with a prime-time tribute special that will air on the…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued an order mandating that his office approve…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska tight end Arik Gilbert has been arrested on suspicion of burglary after police received a report of a break-in at a…