Threats to return to war in Yemen hinder efforts to start peace talks, UN envoy says
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior U.N. official says public threats to return to war in Yemen are hindering…
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Originally Published: 15 AUG 23 18:04 ET Updated: 15 AUG 23 18:54 ET By Clare Duffy and Sean Lyngaas, CNN New York (CNN) — Link loading times to…
Continue Reading AP, other news organizations develop standards for use of artificial intelligence in newsrooms
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has issued guidelines for its journalists on use of artificial intelligence,…
Continue Reading Off-duty LA County deputy fatally shot by police at golf course
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — An off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been fatally shot in an encounter with police officers at a Southern…
Continue Reading Nicaraguan government seizes highly regarded university from Jesuits
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s government has confiscated a prestigious Jesuit-run university alleging it was a “center of terrorism,” the…
Continue Reading Kentucky gubernatorial rivals Andy Beshear and Daniel Cameron offer competing education plans
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has proposed awarding the largest pay raise in decades to…
Continue Reading Target Q2 sales fall on muted spending, Pride month backlash, and it cuts profit outlook for 2023
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Target reported its first quarterly sales drop in six years, dragged down by…
Continue Reading New Jersey’s gambling revenue was up by 5.3% in July. The Borgata casino set a new monthly record
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s casinos, New Jersey horse tracks that take sports bets, and their…
Continue Reading Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 88
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Jerry Moss, a music industry giant who co-founded A&M Records with Herb Alpert and rose from a Los Angeles…
Continue Reading House Oversight Committee member asks chairman to refer Dan Snyder to the DOJ for investigation
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform is asking the…
Continue Reading Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, the US tells families
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Plea agreements under consideration may mean that the suspected architect…
Continue Reading Massachusetts trying to jump-start effort to replace Cape Cod bridges
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is hoping to jump-start the replacement of the two bridges…
Continue Reading Georgia prosecutor seeks March trial date for Trump and 18 others in election case
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor in Atlanta who obtained an indictment this week against former President Donald…
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Fulton County district attorney wants Trump trial to begin March 4, 2024
Originally Published: 16 AUG 23 15:11 ET By Marshall Cohen and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked a…
Continue Reading Fires and other disasters are increasing in Hawaii, according to this AP data analysis
By SETH BORENSTEIN, MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press KIHEI, Hawaii (AP) — Hurricane-fueled flash floods and…
Continue Reading An appeals court backs some abortion drug limits, pending the Supreme Court’s approval
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mail-order access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would end…
Continue Reading 14 more members of Minneapolis gangs are charged in federal violent crime initiative
By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Officials have announced that 14 members of Minneapolis-based gangs have…
Continue Reading Ada Deer, influential Native American leader from Wisconsin, dies at 88
By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ada Deer, an esteemed Native American leader from Wisconsin and the…
Continue Reading A former fundraiser for Rep. George Santos has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former fundraiser for U.S. Rep. George Santos was indicted Wednesday on federal charges that…
Continue Reading Devastated Tuohys ready to end conservatorship for Michael Oher, lawyers say
By ADRIAN SAINZ and TERESA M. WALKER Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A prominent Memphis couple with a longstanding relationship to former…
Continue Reading New study finds far more hurricane-related deaths in US, especially among poor and vulnerable
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Hurricanes in the U.S. the last few decades killed thousands more people than meteorologists traditionally…
Continue Reading Tennessee man who killed 8 gets life in prison in surprise plea deal after new evidence surfaces
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who had been facing a death penalty trial in the killings of eight people…
Continue Reading Armed Utah man shot by FBI last week carried AR-15 in 2018 police encounter, records show
By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 75-year-old man shot by officers trying to arrest him for social media threats he made against…
Continue Reading New Jersey OKs slightly better settlement over polluted land where childhood cancer cases rose
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey has accepted a revised settlement over chemical dumping that turned a Jersey…
Continue Reading Federal Reserve minutes: Too-high inflation, still a threat, could require more rate hikes
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Federal Reserve officials last month still regarded high inflation as an ongoing…
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Mexico’s federal government to compensate families of migrants killed in Juarez detention center fire
JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Monday, the National Institute of Migration announced it will compensate the families of the migrants killed in a…
Continue Reading Gruesome video circulating on social media recalls darkest days of Mexico’s drug cartel brutality
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gruesome video circulated Wednesday on social media may have recorded the last moments of five kidnapped young men, and has…
Continue Reading Kansas prosecutor says police should return computers and cellphones seized in raid on newspaper
By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press MARION, Kansas (AP) — A police raid that drew national attention to a small Kansas newspaper over…
Continue Reading Former Brazilian military police officer convicted in 2015 deaths arrested in New Hampshire
BOSTON (AP) — Immigration officials say a former Brazilian military police officer who was convicted of multiple murders and sentenced to more than…
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Men’s mental health struggles often go undiagnosed, experts say
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Mental health struggles affect everyone. For American men, experts say many suffer in silence — afraid of how people will…
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