Month: June 2024

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government has canceled the passports of six overseas-based activists under the new…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Party Bus, a 3-year-old bull bred for bucking, has performed in his first and last rodeo.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises were sighted this year in the Gulf of California. But…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace’s Republican primary victory in South Carolina on Tuesday was powered by a…

SYDNEY (AP) — Former Australian rugby league international Jarryd Hayne has had his rape conviction overturned on appeal. The New South Wales Court…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has asked the state Supreme Court to authorize another execution using nitrogen gas. The request comes months after…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press The family of a Texas man who died after an altercation with jailers, including one who pinned his knee to the…

By ERIC TUCKER and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group…

NEW YORK (AP) — National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in the embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, says it has ended…

By RAÚL VERA Associated Press YAJALON, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of residents displaced by violence that intensified this week in the southern…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace has won the Republican nomination after a tumultuous second term in…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have thwarted attempts by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to set up a new…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has cracked walls and caused other minor damage in a fishing community in southwestern South…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s legal woes are not over after his…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the…

CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old man has entered a plea of not guilty in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Chicago police officer. Xavier L. Tate Jr.…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Lawyers for the gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket say he should…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A pastry competition kicked off what Chef Emeril Lagasse calls a kind of “culinary Olympics” taking place in New Orleans…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline has been given the go-ahead to start…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has tried to assure frustrated senators she is not attempting to cover up the…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press An off-duty security guard has been charged with second-degree murder by prosecutors who say that he fatally shot…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — American investor Martin Shkreli is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly retaining and sharing…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s prized turncoat witness at the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has been…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals…