Month: June 2024

By The Associated Press On a lazy summer weekend a year ago, Russia was jolted by the stunning news of an armed uprising. The swaggering chief of a…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In a country where racial segregation was once brutally enforced, South…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid was held without a point, so Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton…

SEATTLE (AP) — A judge has paused parts of a new Washington state parental rights law derided by critics as a “forced outing” measure. News…

By FU TING Associated Press A 17-year-old vocational school student from rural China has become a celebrity on Chinese social media after getting…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Each year from June to September, a heavy band of rain makes its way from India’s…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The torrential rains hitting El Salvador caused the deaths of another six…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. government inspections of avocados and mangoes in the Mexican state of Michoacan will gradually resume. U.S. Ambassador Ken…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former CEO of a publicly traded health care company based in Nevada has been found guilty of a multimillion-dollar insider…

STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two Lockheed Martin subsidiaries have agreed to pay the federal government $70 million for overcharging the Navy for…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man arrested in the slaying of a Louisiana woman and abduction of her two daughters and subsequent death of one of them has…

ATLANTA (AP) — Reality TV star Julie Chrisley’s sentence for bank fraud and tax evasion has been thrown out by federal appeals judges, who…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer and was sentenced to 30…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An 88-year-old Montana man has been sentenced to two years in a federal prison medical facility for his role in two bank…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Belinda Bukovitz was jolted into action by the sound of police outside her home shouting through a…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A former top law enforcement official is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying he…

SELDEN, N.Y. (AP) — A New York county has reached a settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by police in his home in 2011. Suffolk County…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Mitch Landrieu, national…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released body camera footage shows a chaotic encounter on a Minneapolis street last…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Days before the National Transportation Safety Board is set to explain why first responders were wrong to blow open…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging its…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — At least six people have died from heat-related causes this year so far in sizzling metro Phoenix,…