Month: May 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has left in place lawyer Michael Avenatti’s conviction for plotting to extort up to $25 million from Nike.…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will be formally nominated as the Democratic…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press CURACA, Brazil (AP) — All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil’s…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A former head of the Dutch intelligence agency and counterterrorism office is tipped…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police fatally shot a stabbing suspect and wounded the person he was trying to stab after the suspect refused to drop his…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The Georgian parliament has overridden a presidential veto of the “foreign…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces the prospect of his ruling party’s…

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer T-Mobile is buying U.S. Cellular’s wireless operations and certain spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Many people start no-buy challenges at the beginning of the year and commit to keep going until…

Associated Press OpenAI says it’s setting up a safety and security committee and has begun training a new AI model to supplant the GPT-4 system…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese town that erected a huge black screen last week in an attempt to stop tourists from…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The self-imposed rules of a no-buy challenge are simple: participants pledge to stop buying…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and THALIA BEATY AP Business Writers Melinda French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to…

BERLIN (AP) — Official data show another big increase in the number of people gaining German citizenship last year. According to figures released…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s top diplomat says that Congo has released a Polish man who was sentenced to life in prison on espionage…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Missile attacks twice damaged a Marshall Islands-flagged, Greek-owned ship…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Toyota introduced plans to cast a futuristic spin on the traditional internal…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — For the first time in over a decade, 270 Syrians have traveled on a direct flight from…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most…

NEW YORK (AP) — Closing arguments in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial have begun, giving prosecutors and defense lawyers one final…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested six people, including a former organizer of the city’s…