Month: February 2024

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and GABE STERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday ticked through a list of reasons he says a second Donald Trump presidency would be a “nightmare” for the country as he urged Nevada Democrats to vote for him in the state’s presidential primary this week and for

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — When Donald Trump left the White House three years ago, he was a one-term president whose refusal to accept his reelection defeat culminated in an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Today, he’s on the cusp of a stunning political turnaround. He’s poised to recapture the Republican

By JON GAMBRELL and TARA COPP Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — After a weekend of retaliatory strikes, the United States on Sunday warned Iran and the militias it arms and funds that it will conduct more attacks if American forces in the Mideast continue to be targeted, but that it does not want an “open-ended

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — When he left the White House, Donald Trump was a pariah. After years of bending Washington to his will with a single tweet, Trump was, at least for a moment, diminished. He was a one-term Republican president rejected by voters and then shunned by large swaths

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While sentencing a North Carolina man to prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, a Republican-appointed judge issued a stark warning: Efforts to portray the mob of Donald Trump’s supporters as heroes and play down the violence that unfolded on Jan.

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s almost time for the Grammy Awards, the daylong celebration of music that on Sunday also marks the start of an epic week for Taylor Swift. Swift is among the contenders for the Grammys’ top prize, album of the year. SZA is the leading nominee and the “Barbie”

LONDON (AP) — A British aircraft carrier that had been set to lead the largest NATO exercises since the Cold War will not set sail because of a propeller problem. The Royal Navy said the HMS Queen Elizabeth will not sail Sunday as had been planned. It will be replaced in the exercises off Norway’s

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Social media CEOs got grilled by Senate lawmakers this week in an emotional and often heated hearing about the dangers their platforms pose to children. Republican and Democratic senators came together in a rare show of agreement throughout the hearing, though it’s not yet clear if this will be

By BABACAR DIONE and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s police have made arrests and fired tear gas at opposition supporters protesting against the president’s decision to postpone elections scheduled for Feb. 25. The protesters in the capital of Dakar called on citizens Sunday to defend democracy amid a push for dialogue

DENVER (AP) — Two people were killed and four others injured after gunfire broke out during a confrontation at a late-night party in a residential area of Denver, police said Sunday. Evidence from the scene pointed to multiple shots being fired from multiple firearms, Denver police said. A 26-year-old man and a boy were killed.

By HELENA ALVES and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Parisians have voted to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park from this fall. It’s the latest leg in a drive by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the host city for this year’s Olympic Games

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A fire at a guesthouse in central Romania has left one person dead and two hospitalized, authorities said. Emergency service teams were deployed to the blaze in the town of Calimanesti in Valcea county where 10 people were staying at the guesthouse, according to the Department for Emergency Situations, DSU. Nine

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is the guest of honor at Sri Lanka’s 76th Independence Day celebrations. Sretta joined Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday at a low-key ceremony near the country’s main seaside esplanade that involved a military parade and parachute jumps. The

By The Associated Press Ukrainian shelling killed at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk, Moscow-installed officials said. At least one child was among the dead Saturday, local leader Leonid Pasechnik wrote in a statement on Telegram. A further 10 people were rescued from under the rubble by emergency services,

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newspaper heiress Patricia “Patty” Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint 50 years ago Sunday by the Symbionese Liberation Army, later joining her captors in a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery that earned her a prison sentence. The abduction and subsequent trial of Hearst, then a 19-year-old college

In a story published February 4, 2024, about the debate over local anti-crime and anti-nuisance ordinances, The Associated Press misidentified an official with the National Disability Rights Network. He is Cory Bernstein, not Corey, and he is a staff attorney, not the network’s executive director.

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press Hundreds of U.S. communities have enacted “crime-free” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict tenants after repeated calls to police or for emergency services. Proponents say the laws help reduce crime, but the U.S. Department of Justice last year found a Minneapolis suburb used its ordinance to illegally discriminate against

By FARAI MUTSAKA and SONJA SMITH Associated Press WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia’s president and founding prime minister Hage Geingob has died at age 82 while receiving treatment for cancer. The southern African nation has sworn in his deputy to complete the term in office. Geingob played a central role in one of Africa’s most

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Auburn’s Johni Broome met one of his favorite movie stars — and apologized to Morgan Freeman for how it happened. Broome, who scored 15 points in the 16th-ranked Tigers’ 91-77 victory over Mississippi on Saturday night, tried to save a ball from going out of bounds in the second half when