Month: April 2024

By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds…

By DEEPA BHARATH, DAVID CRARY and MARIAM FAM Associated Press The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida mother has been sentenced to a month in prison and three months of home confinement…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Movie theater owners who gathered in Las Vegas this week for the annual CinemaCon convention and…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Garland’s films have vividly conjured a virus-caused pandemic (2002’s “28 Days…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has released security camera video of the moments when Ecuadorian authorities forced their way into Mexico’s embassy,…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats pounced Tuesday on an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that permits enforcement of an…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Luke Combs leads the nominees for the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods to his name, it was…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman whose execution was delayed in 2022 amid growing doubts she fatally…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has laid off 100 doctors who are taking…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A state audit has found that California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Myrtle, an ancient green sea turtle that has delighted visitors to the New…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona will soon join 14 other states that have banned abortion at all stages…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The basketball world can’t get enough of Caitlin Clark and now that the college season is…

By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter…

BROWNVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a Long Island doctor who was headed to upstate New York to see the solar eclipse with her family fell out…

By REBECCA BOONE and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An 18-year-old man planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The wife of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski says…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress on Tuesday are calling for the immediate release of Russian opposition…

By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer Despite gains in faculty diversity at American universities over the last two decades, Black and Hispanic professors…

By The Associated Press George Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced…