Month: March 2024

By SEAN MURPHY and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press SKELLYTOWN, Texas (AP) — First, the flames came storming across the vistas of the Texas Panhandle,…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As mourners prepare for the funeral of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, who was killed near…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is demanding that a county on Long Island rescind its ban on transgender athletes competing…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press The University of Florida is eliminating its chief diversity officer position, scrapping the program’s staff…

By The Associated Press Thousands of mourners gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny two weeks after his…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University has begun sending documents from its investigation into convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The latest rail layoffs this week, combined with an investment fund’s ongoing campaign for…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Democratic lawsuit that…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has begun airdrops of emergency humanitarian assistance into Gaza.…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writers BOSTON (AP) — Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and upended…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers have passed legislation that would legalize skill games, the slots-like…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man has been exonerated and released after spending nearly 30 years on death row in…

NEW YORK (AP) — A firetruck has plowed through the facade of a furniture store on New York’s Long Island. A Rockville Centre Police…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the Pentagon will lift the ban…

CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A sport-utility vehicle has crashed into a Walmart in suburban Detroit, injuring several people. The Canton Township…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska’s top election official has ruled voters will get to decide whether to repeal a law that pays for…

By KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dutch armed forces have been deployed to the Caribbean to help clean up oil affecting beaches in the island of Bonaire…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House has passed a bill that would give lawmakers authority over what…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A police department in suburban Chicago has released officer body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a…

GENEVA (AP) — Geneva-based commodities trading firm Gunvor said Friday that it has reached $661 million settlement with U.S. and Swiss prosecutors…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is standing by a longtime adviser whose properties were raided by…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident and leading proponent of human rights…

LONDON (AP) — Irish President Michael Higgins is expected to spend the weekend in the hospital as a precaution after he felt ill. Higgins’…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term spending measure that keeps one set of federal agencies operating through March…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will hold a state funeral for Brian Mulroney, the prime…