Stock market today: Wall Street’s worst week in a month closes out with more losses
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street racked up more losses Friday to close out its worst week in a month. The S&P 500…
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Israel says two Americans held hostage by Hamas, a mother and daughter, have been released
By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on Friday freed an American woman and her…
Continue Reading Britain’s opposition Labour Party wins 2 big prizes in momentum-building special elections
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections. They snatched…
Continue Reading Dark past of the National Stadium in Chile reemerges with opening ceremony at the Pan American Games
By PATRICIA LUNA and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The National Stadium in Santiago will host the opening ceremony of…
Continue Reading What’s that bar band playing ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’? Oh, it’s the Rolling Stones!
By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Those miracles of modern science, the Rolling Stones, celebrated the release of their first…
Continue Reading Long lines at gas pump unlikely, but Middle East crisis could disrupt oil supplies, raise prices
By MATTHEW DALY, DAVID McHUGH and STAN CHOE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the current crisis in…
Continue Reading US commitment to Ukraine a central question as Biden meets with EU heads during congressional chaos
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has welcomed European Union leaders to the White House. The meeting comes as he…
Continue Reading Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty over efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in Georgia
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday just as jury selection was getting…
Continue Reading Donald Trump is dominating the GOP primary and settling into a new role: Defendant
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is settling into a new role: defendant. The front-runner for the…
Continue Reading After 189 bodies were found in Colorado funeral home, evidence suggests families received fake ashes
By JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying…
Continue Reading Republicans are facing death threats as the election for speaker gets mired in personal feuds
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the thing that was supposed to make Rep. Jim Jordan the 56th speaker of the House. An…
Continue Reading A slain Maryland judge presided over the divorce case of man identified as a suspect in his killing
By LEA SKENE, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police are searching for a man suspected of fatally…
Continue Reading So-called toddler milks are unregulated and unnecessary, a major pediatrician group says
By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A pediatricians’ group is warning powdered drink mixes known as “toddler milks” are unregulated,…
Continue Reading Colombian president’s statements on Gaza jeopardize close military ties with Israel
By MANUEL RUEDA and ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Escalating tensions between Colombia and Israel over the Gaza war could…
Continue Reading Ruins and memories of a paradise lost in an Israeli village where attackers killed, kidnapped dozens
By SAM McNEIL Associated Press KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — Nir Oz is one of more than 20 towns and villages in southern Israel that were ambushed…
Continue Reading Violent threats from Virginia to Texas disrupt Muslim groups trying to raise money for Palestinians
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A national Muslim civil rights group said Thursday it is moving its annual banquet out of a Virginia hotel that received bomb…
Continue Reading Abreu, Alvarez and Altuve help Astros pull even in ALCS with 10-3 win over Rangers in Game 4
By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Houston manager Dusty Baker and third baseman Alex Bregman really have no explanation…
Continue Reading Baltimore firefighter dies and 4 others are injured battling rowhouse fire
By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A rapidly intensifying blaze that engulfed multiple rowhouses in northwest Baltimore late Thursday…
Continue Reading 4 dead in central Washington shooting including gunman, police say
TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) — Police say a 19-year-old man shot four people in central Washington state, killing three of them, and then killed himself.…
Continue Reading Army private who fled to North Korea charged with desertion, held by US military, officials tell AP
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army private who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the…
Continue Reading A main suspect in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has been arrested after 2 years
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s national police say a former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of…
Continue Reading France bestows further honor on former United Nations ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The government of France has bestowed a further honor on Atlanta’s Andrew Young. French…
Continue Reading Texas releases another audit of elections in Harris County, where GOP still challenging losses
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A second Texas audit in as many years of elections in Harris County, the third-most populous…
Continue Reading Britney Spears’ book ‘The Woman In Me’ makes private details public, and public events personal
By MARIA SHERMAN and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears’ highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in…
Continue Reading Chicago-area man charged with hate crimes for threatening Muslim men
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says a suburban Chicago man has been charged with two hate crimes for allegedly verbally abusing and threatening…
Continue Reading Major water main break impacts thousands, prompts state of emergency in a northern New York county
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A state of emergency has been issued in a northern New York county where the Fort Drum U.S. Army base is located, following…
Continue Reading Marte hits walk-off single in ninth, D-backs beat Phillies 2-1 and close to 2-1 in NLCS
By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — More than 15 minutes after the game, Ketel Marte stood at his clubhouse locker, gulping water…
Continue Reading Niger junta says it thwarted an escape attempt by detained president Bazoum ousted in July coup
NIAMEY The junta in Niger says it has thwarted an escape attempt to by the West African nation’s outed president. In a communique read late…
Continue Reading Woman whose body was found in a car’s trunk in US had left South Korea to start anew, detective says
By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A police detective has testified that a woman whose body was found in the trunk of a…
Continue Reading 300-year-old painting stolen by an American soldier during World War II returned to German museum
By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — After going missing nearly 80 years ago, a baroque landscape painting was…
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