Month: March 2024

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian markets retreated Friday, with Hong Kong’s benchmark falling 2%, after a mixed batch…

By RISHI LEKHI and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of farmers are protesting in India’s capital to press their…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Math enthusiasts around the world, from college kids to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day on Thursday, which is…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — City officials in eastern China have apologized to local journalists after authorities…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A brother contemplated suicide. A sister stopped going to school. A father barely speaks. With…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The father of a Michigan school shooter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a…

By ALI SWENSON and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s paroled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has launched a series of public appearances with an early morning…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — As Vladimir Putin heads for another six-year term as Russia’s president, there’s little…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More people moved to a county rich with citrus groves located between two of…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden travelled to Michigan’s premier bellwether county of Saginaw…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — A pinky and thumb extended with the remaining fingers curled down: That’s the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press WILSON, Okla. (AP) — Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press COSCUEZ, Colombia (AP) — Deep inside mountain tunnels where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women…

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected one bid by…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For the past five years, Alaska’s annual Iditarod sled dog race has gone off mostly…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — If some U.S. lawmakers have their way, the United States and China could end up with something in…

SYDNEY (AP) — Rescuers say falling rocks inside a gold mine in Australia killed one worker and left another with life-threatening injuries. Another…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An open seat to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office has become one of the…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has toured a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic that…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. report says many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un joined troops training on a new model of tank and drove…

FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Sioux Falls man charged in the death of a deputy who was struck…