Concerned about North Korea, South’s Yoon seeks more US help
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has used a joint address to Congress…
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Former New Mexico governor remembered as Hispanic role model
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, who reorganized the state’s government into a cabinet-based system in the mid-1970s,…
Continue Reading Supporters of Israel’s judicial overhaul rally in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of right-wing Israelis who support a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the…
Continue Reading Intelligence chief: Russian spy ring had ‘source’ in France
By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — The French chief of counterintelligence has given new details about a Russian spy ring…
Continue Reading Monument to Coretta Scott King dedicated in Atlanta
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta has a new monument and garden celebrating and honoring the legacy of civil rights activist…
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House Republicans pass US debt bill, push Biden on spending
House Republicans narrowly passed sweeping legislation Wednesday that would raise the government’s legal debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion in exchange…
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Brittney Griner gets emotional discussing Russian detainment
By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Hope bounced around Brittney Griner like a buoy and an anchor. Hope of returning home, hope of a…
Continue Reading Sunak says UK, Italy ‘aligned’ as he meets far-right Meloni
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has declared that Britain and Italy are “very aligned” in values as…
Continue Reading White woman whose claim caused Emmett Till murder has died
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting…
Continue Reading DEA chief grilled over probe into no-bid contracts, hiring
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press Lawmakers grilled U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram on Thursday over…
Continue Reading Missing yacht with 3 Russians, 2 Egyptians reaches safety
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missing yacht with three Russians and two Egyptians onboard has reached safety in Djibouti in east Africa,…
Continue Reading Railroad workers rescue 3-year-old from tracks in New York
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say a New York railroad conductor sprinted to scoop up a 3-year-old boy who had wandered onto the tracks. The…
Continue Reading Israeli army kills alleged Palestinian attacker in West Bank
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Authorities say Israeli security forces have shot and killed a suspected Palestinian assailant in the West Bank.…
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Gap cuts 1,800 corporate jobs amid sales slump
The Gap is laying off 1,800 corporate workers, roughly three time the number of headquarters jobs it cut last fall, as the struggling chain cuts…
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California to vote on ambitious locomotive emission rule
Every day, locomotives pull rail cars filled with food, lumber, oil and other products through railyards near neighborhoods in Oakland, Commerce, San…
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Funding to support oral histories in boarding school era
The U.S. government is embarking on an effort to record the oral histories of survivors and descendants of boarding schools that sought to…
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Florida Gov. DeSantis says Disney lawsuit is political
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday shrugged off Disney’s lawsuit against him as politically motivated, and said that it was time for the iconic…
Continue Reading Kansas legislators impose sweeping anti-trans bathroom law
By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas enacted what may be the most sweeping transgender bathroom…
Continue Reading Jerry Springer, politician turned TV ringmaster, dies at 79
By DAN SEWELL Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring…
Continue Reading Correction: Immigration-Asylum story
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published April 27, 2023, about U.S.-Mexico border crossings, The Associated Press incorrectly identified an…
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