Year: 2024

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press CARMEL, N.Y. (AP) — A formidable opponent of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who twice tried to mount coups…

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament’s commissioner for the armed forces says the country’s military still has “too little of…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The race for the White House isn’t the only one with big…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities have barred visitors to the country’s imprisoned former Prime Minister…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in southeastern Poland say that an alert tax driver prevented a scam in which an elderly woman would have lost the…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A court in Belgium has sentenced prominent far-right activist Dries Van Langenhove to a year in…

LAKE ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) — Former New York Mets and Yankees star Darryl Strawberry is recovering from a heart attack and is at SSM Health St.…

RUSHVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities have identified the five people killed in a fiery collision between a school bus and semitruck on a highway in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican secretary of state is trying to defuse outrage over Pope Francis’ latest diplomatic…

OAK RIDGE NORTH, Texas (AP) — A man suspected of several robberies in southeastern Texas was fatally shot Monday night by officers with a joint…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The trial has begun in Norway for a man accused of aggravated terrorism for the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ+ festival in…

By ALBERT STUMM Associated Press Even in Ireland many people have thought of their cuisine as basically stews, meat pies and potatoes. But…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Not even education can close the pay gap that persists between women and men, according to a…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s vice chancellor has launched a program initially worth up to 4 billion euros to help…

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — A 68-year-old man fell of a sailboat at a marina in the Florida Everglades and was bitten by a crocodile as he tried to swim…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press When the U.S. Postal Service launched Project Safe Delivery last year, officials pledged they would be “doubling…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europe’s oldest monarch, Norwegian King Harald V, has received a permanent pacemaker. The palace said Tuesday the…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego began airing the first television ads of his U.S. Senate…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday while taking off from an air base in western Russia,…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Now that retirement spans more years than ever, you might need to rethink how you’re envisioning that stage of your…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the 1970s influential disco band Chic and esteemed Finnish classical music…

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Police in California have arrested a man wanted in connection with the deaths of a mother and her 11-year-old daughter in…