By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s public university system will likely see existing diversity jobs cut…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINE FERNANDO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Republican lawmakers in states across the U.S. have been rejecting…
Continue ReadingBy ALBERTO MENDOZA Associated Press SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA, Mexico (AP) — The collapse of a stage in heavy winds at a campaign rally in northern…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A book presentation about neoclassical economic theory may not sound like a…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — State media say an explosion at an apartment building in Harbin, a city in northeastern China, has killed one person and injured…
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS MUREITHI, LUCA BRUNO and SARA LEMLEM Associated Press TRENTO, Italy (AP) — An Italian science museum has created a butterfly forest…
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Facing a room of Arab American activists from across the country angry at President Joe…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The FBI has raided a local prosecutor’s office and his private business in Mississippi’s capital city. Officials declined…
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A group representing the families of hostages held in Gaza has released new video footage…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ health department has appointed an outspoken anti-abortion OB-GYN to a state committee that reviews pregnancy-related…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — Charlie Colin, bassist and founding member of the band Train, best known for their early-aughts hits like “Drops of…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Centrist district attorney candidate Nathan Vasquez has ousted the incumbent progressive…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Rick Scott says he will run for Senate Republican leader when Mitch…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say power is expected to be restored to nearly all Houston area homes and businesses…
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have sent a letter to the leader of the World Anti-Doping Agency asking for…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing questions about his commitment to…
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The city of Oakland is selling its share of the Coliseum — home to the departing Oakland Athletics — to a local Black…
Continue ReadingBy CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says in a new rule that buy now, pay later lenders are…
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a Kansas City-area man charged with murder in the killings of a…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that it has handed out in Gaza in recent days a…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is stepping up its efforts to push migrants out of its overwhelmed shelters as it…
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to explicitly allow evidence of…
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — The person fatally shot by a Washington state trooper during an altercation on Interstate 5 last week has been identified as…
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons will go to trial next year over claims it allowed an environment where guards at a…
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press A lawyer for a woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend says a key prosecution witness conducted…
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five…
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The bank accounts of tens of thousands of U.S. businesses and consumers have been frozen in the…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana bill that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, a notable show of…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision regarding Idaho’s abortion ban may hinge on whether…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller on Wednesday acknowledged a court-ordered…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville councilmembers have rejected a plan to erect a glowing sign at Morgan…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nvidia on Wednesday overshot Wall Street estimates as its profit skyrocketed, bolstered…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s capital city has been tapped to host the National Folk Festival from 2025 through 2027. The Clarion Ledger…
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer TNT Sports will begin airing College Football Playoff games this upcoming season through a sublicense with ESPN. The…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A grizzly that bit into a can of bear repellent while attacking a hiker in Grand Teton National Park was likely…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police say they have arrested a suspect in connection with an outbreak of gunfire that left 11…
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Each of the Big Ten Conference’s new West Coast schools will make at least one appearance…
Continue ReadingBy AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP is announcing that nonprofits engaged in a variety of voter-engagement efforts can…
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada election officials can start tabulating in-person Election Day votes as…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The MacArthur Foundation will let loose another $100 million to a single…
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA and TERESA WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes said Wednesday that while he doesn’t agree with…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE and JONEL ALECCIA Associated Press A Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu — the second human case associated with…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s drought, heatwave and water shortages have gotten so bad that even police are blocking traffic in protest. In recent…
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was exonerated after spending eight years in prison for a murder has been charged in a…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press A federal judge has signed off on the $600 million class action settlement over last year’s disastrous Norfolk…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After several unexpectedly high inflation readings, Federal Reserve officials…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The UN’s World Food Programme says extreme weather attributed to the El Nino…
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