Year: 2024

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Officials say six members of a religious congregation in Haiti and a teacher have been kidnapped while gathered in…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the eastern Caribbean said they were trying to locate two people…

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man has been acquitted in a retrial in the beating death of a college student from Tennessee a decade ago.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — More than two dozen people gathered at an Oklahoma church for a vigil for Nex Benedict, a…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron was greeted with boos and whistles at the opening of the Paris…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press Areli Sanchez’s daughter, Aida, used to be one of 20 million American kids who ride a diesel bus to school each…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett credited his longtime partner — the late Charlie Munger — with being the…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The resignation letter was short and direct. “I can no longer be…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Police in Vienna say they have launched a criminal investigation after three women were…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS has lifted travel, commercial and economic…

By ALICIA LEÓN Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — The death toll from a dramatic fire that left two residential buildings charred in the…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli officials will meet Saturday night on the next steps…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — An Australian tourist has gone missing in Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls National Park, home…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Ministry of Defense says a World War II-era bomb whose discovery prompted one of the largest peacetime evacuations in…

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with Hindu devotees has overturned and fallen into a pond in northern India, killing at…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Britain struck 18 Houthi targets in Yemen, answering a recent…

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has canceled an audience scheduled for Saturday as a precaution after coming…

By EMMA BURROWS and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, a top…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ever since Myanmar’s military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks,…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has opened in an official ceremony its first…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press Olfa Hamrouni doesn’t know much about her granddaughter; not her favorite toy nor food — is it the pasta the…

By JOHN HANNA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally…