Month: May 2024

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week and remains historically low as the…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the fourth straight time as inflation dropped and the economy…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French officials inaugurated on Thursday a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine,…

By The Associated Press The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped…

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published May 2, 2024, about Donald Trump’s hush money trial, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland plans to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in just over four years at an…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A 36-year-old man accused of wielding a sword to kill a teenage boy, severely injure two police…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say double land mine blasts have killed one person and wounded at least 18 in the southwest. The first…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese investigators have determined that a collision during a nighttime drill caused the deadly…

By BASSEM MROUE, LEE KEATH and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for further…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian center-left government says it wants to add 7 billion kroner, or $630 million to the Scandinavian…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The European Union has announced an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Human Rights Watch has accused Kenyan authorities of not responding adequately to ongoing…

By SUSIE BLANN and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Ukrainian military official says the situation on the front line in…

PARIS (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI. It adds to…

By JAMEY KEATEN and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they reserve the right to remove any…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have arrested a 16-year-old male on suspicion of attacking a synagogue with Molotov cocktails and say they plan…

By STEVE PEOPLES and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law…

By BEN FINLEY and MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Arrest warrants must be served to alleged criminals if society is going to…

By The Associated Press Hamas said Thursday that it will send a delegation to Cairo as soon as possible to keep working on cease-fire talks, in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul…

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China has climbed to 48 as searchers dug for a second day through a…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s parliament canceled Thursday’s session following massive protests against a proposed law that critics…