Odd spiral appears amid northern lights in Alaska night sky
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northern light enthusiasts got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing…
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Sudan hospitals struggle with casualties, damage in fighting
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — At the Khartoum Teaching Hospital, people wounded during street battles flowed into the wards. Supplies…
Continue Reading 2.5 years after signing, NJ environmental justice law begins
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (AP) — Two and a half years after it was signed into law, New Jersey’s environmental justice law…
Continue Reading Correction: World Bank-Food Workers story
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published April 14, 2023, about World Bank Group food service workers, The Associated Press erroneously reported a…
Continue Reading Federal judge halts Colorado ban on ‘abortion pill reversal’
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A federal judge temporarily halted enforcement of the new law in Colorado banning…
Continue Reading DeSantis seeks to control Disney with state oversight powers
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers ratcheted up pressure on Walt Disney World on…
Continue Reading Printing error forces Pennsylvania county to replace ballots
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Elections officials in a central Pennsylvania county are scrambling to fix an error on…
Continue Reading Police shooting of Jayland Walker might face more scrutiny
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The deadly police shooting of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, by eight officers last summer sparked protests…
Continue Reading Ben & Jerry’s workers announce plan to unionize in Vermont
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — About 40 workers at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop in the Vermont city where the company was founded announced…
Continue Reading Lincoln Center to hold 2nd Summer for the City festival
NEW YORK (AP) — Lincoln Center will hold its second straight Summer for the City festival that puts a greater emphasis on diverse offerings while…
Continue Reading Silicon Valley councilman defers plea on 49ers report leak
By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley councilmember delayed entering his pleas Monday on criminal charges for…
Continue Reading NY woman driven to wrong address fatally shot by homeowner
HEBRON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a 20-year-old woman on her way to a friend’s house in upstate New York was driven to the wrong address and…
Continue Reading No charges for officers in Jayland Walker police shooting
By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94…
Continue Reading Speaker McCarthy vows to pass debt bill — but can he do it?
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is pledging to pass legislation to raise the…
Continue Reading Funeral set for remaining victim of Louisville bank shooting
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Funeral arrangements have been made for the remaining victim killed in last week’s mass shooting at a bank in Louisville,…
Continue Reading Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren dies
BROOKFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Edward Koren, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, known for his hairy, huminoid creatures, has died. Koren…
Continue Reading Families displaced from California neighborhood seek $2B
By SOPHIE AUSTIN and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press/Report for America PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a…
Continue Reading Judge ends Hartford police consent decree despite concerns
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A judge has ended the nearly 50 years of federal oversight of police in Hartford,…
Continue Reading Slow start on World Bank reform angers climate-hit countries
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — World Bank meetings in Washington were supposed to be a first step in a new era of…
Continue Reading Convicted serial rapist sentenced to more than 150 years
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A convicted serial rapist in Indiana has been sentenced to life in prison. In a news release Monday, prosecutors said Marion…
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