Month: February 2024

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press SANTA ANA, El Salvador (AP) — Tears welled in Alex’s eyes and he pressed his head into his hands as he thought about more than a year of birthdays and holidays without his mother, who was swept up by El Salvador’s police as she walked to work in a clothing

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Tradeoffs between strong growth and a healthy environment are not dominating the headlines in the runup to the Feb. 14 presidential election in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy. But the vote is highlighting the choices to be made as the country seeks to profit from its

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press BIJELJINA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — In cities along a section of the Drina River, which forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, there are simple, durable gravestones marking the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in recent years trying to reach Western Europe. Their often decomposing bodies

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press How will America’s suburbs vote this year? A special election in New York next week may offer clues. The race for the congressional seat once held by George Santos is shaping up to be a bellwether in the fight for control of the House, as candidates test political messages that

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Chants of “Now! Now! Now!” ring out at nearly every protest in Israel imploring the government to do everything possible to win the immediate release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas. But a small group of hostages’ families is pushing a different message: Let the army

By JOHN HANNA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools that they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or nonbinary even if they’re not out at home. Republican Kris Kobach is doing so even though Kansas is not among the states with a law

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Classified documents were found in a damaged cardboard box in President Joe Biden’s cluttered Delaware garage, near where golf clubs hung on the wall. A photo in former President Donald Trump’s indictment, meanwhile, shows stacks of boxes filled with documents under a chandelier in an ornate Mar-a-Lago bathroom. In

By AAMER MADHANI, GEIR MOULSON and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the Republican holdup on sending new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia was “close to criminal neglect.” The comment came as he huddled with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on Friday

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press PARKSLEY, Va. (AP) — The owners of a Haitian food truck are suing a small town in Virginia over allegations that a town council member cut the food truck’s water line and screamed, ‘Go back to your own country.’ The married couple from Haiti is suing the town of Parksley

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of negotiations and delays, the Senate has voted to move forward on legislation that would provide wartime aid to Ukraine and Israel. Thursday’s vote was far from a final one. But it was a momentary victory for Republican Leader Mitch McConnell,

By DAVID KOENIG and LINLEY SANDERS Most U.S. adults believe that air travel is generally safe in the U.S., despite some doubts about whether aircraft are being properly maintained and remain free from structural problems. About 7 in 10 U.S. adults say planes are a “very” or “somewhat” safe method of travel, according to a

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Authorities in a northern Indian town have imposed a curfew and ordered police to shoot violators after clashes over the construction of a Muslim seminary and a mosque left five people dead and more than 150 injured. An Uttarakhand state official said the violence in Haldwani

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s little doubt that Jon Stewart changed late-night comedy as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” from 1999 to 2015. He’s coming back for a second act during wildly different times. He begins hosting “The Daily Show” on Monday nights next week, through at

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer PHOENIX (AP) — For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the man whose death reignited a movement against systemic racism. Now hundreds

By RIAZAT BUTT and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The former prime minister of Pakistan expected his party would claim an easy victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, sending him to the top job for a fourth time. Instead, Nawaz Sharif faces a difficult path to power. Independent candidates backed by his

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A U.S. general says combat exercises between the United States and the Philippines that involve thousands of forces each year will not be affected by America’s focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Maj. Gen. Marcus Evans, commanding general of the U.S. Army’s

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has easily won Thursday’s Nevada caucuses, the second Republican presidential contest held in the state in just three days, but the only one that will have an official impact on the race for the GOP nomination. The Associated Press declared Trump the winner

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s Supreme Court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by casino mogul Steve Wynn against The Associated Press. The legal case centered on a 2018 AP article about accounts to Las Vegas police from two women who alleged sexual misconduct by Wynn. He had argued that

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — With “Eternity in a Moment,” the Japanese photographer and filmmaker Mika Ninagawa has created an immersive installation in Tokyo where a visitor walks through rooms with various motifs. She tells The Associated Press that her recent works have explored the humble yet miraculous in everyday life, a

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin used an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to push his narrative on the war in Ukraine, urge Washington to recognize Moscow’s interests and press Kyiv to sit down for talks. Putin repeated his claim the full-scale invasion in February 2022 — which Kyiv and

NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say a Brooklyn woman has been sentenced in connection with a sprawling COVID-19 fraud scheme. The 32-year-old admitted to defrauding emergency programs during the pandemic. Officials say she misused her call center job, part of a New York program meant to provide healthcare workers with isolation rooms in

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military has conducted new airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The U.S. Central Command said Friday that American forces destroyed four explosive-loaded drone boats and seven mobile anti-ship cruise missile launchers that could target vessels in the Red Sea. It said the targets presented an imminent threat and

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There was nary a sandworm in sight Thursday night on the runway of Christian Siriano. But he definitely had “Dune” on his mind as he kicked off New York Fashion Week. These people of the sand had places to go and people to see in

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden worked so closely with the ghostwriter he is accused of sharing government secrets with, Mark Zwonitzer, that he once declared that he’d trust the author “with my life.” Zwonitzer ghostwrote Biden’s two memoirs, 2007’s “Promises to Keep” and “Promise Me, Dad,” which was published

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un restated he has no desire for diplomacy with South Korea and that the North would annihilate its rival if provoked, state media said Friday, in the latest of his belligerent statements that are raising tensions in the region. During

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is urging the international community to mobilize and do everything possible to stop the war in Sudan, saying “what is happening is horrible.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said there is no military solution to the conflict between forces supporting rival generals that began

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico legislators would create a unique educational endowment of at least $50 million to help Native American communities create their own student programs, including efforts to teach and preserve Indigenous languages, under a proposal endorsed Thursday by the state House. The bill from Democratic