Month: February 2024

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four Roman Catholic bishops met with Mexican drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAM METZ Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian coast guard retrieved the bodies of nine people who died after…

ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate has given final approval to an agreement with Albania to house migrants during the processing of their asylum…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration eased some of the restrictions on banking giant Wells Fargo, saying the…

SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer is dead after standoff lasting over 24 hours at a home in northern…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed legislation censuring a conservative member of the…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lyme disease cases in the United States jumped nearly 70% in 2022. Health officials say it’s due…

WASHINGTON (AP) — From allegations of plotting to overturn an election he lost to illegally stowing classified documents at his Florida estate,…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The U.S. will build up to five military bases for the Somali army in a project that seeks…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin lawmakers have passed bills designed to regulate artificial intelligence, joining…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government has ordered the local U.N. office on human rights to…

By ANNIE MA and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who are struggling to repay federal student loans because of financial…

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy mistook the sound of an acorn hitting his patrol vehicle’s roof for a gunshot and…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — At least five migrants have died and the search continues for one more who is missing after a boat carrying more than two dozen…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week to its highest level in 10 weeks, a…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Egyptian soccer club Al Ahly has canceled a trial for South Africa midfielder Teboho…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Trey Smith shared the WWE title belt to help calm a young boy in the aftermath of the…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Auto workers held waves of walkouts. Hollywood actors and writers picketed for…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Cleveland-Cliffs is shutting down a northern West Virginia tin production facility…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Multimillionaire Republican businessman Eric Hovde is planning to launch a bid for U.S. Senate…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A watchdog report has found that the kind of systemic failures that enabled the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s emir has dissolved parliament, the latest dissolution to strike the oil-rich nation’s legislature…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will join Vogue’s Anna Wintour as co-chairs of…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s medical board has approved some guidance abortion providers would need to…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A truck’s fuel tank exploded early Thursday in a neighborhood south of downtown Los…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press ROXBORO, N.C. (AP) — Front-runners for North Carolina’s major-party nominations for governor in next…