China welcomes Ya Ya the panda home after 20 years abroad
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday afternoon in Shanghai after departing from the Memphis…
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Florida Gov. DeSantis says Disney lawsuit is political
By MOSHE EDRI and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday shrugged off Disney’s lawsuit…
Continue Reading Rights groups say second Uyghur dies in Thai detention
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights organizations are urging Thailand to improve conditions in its immigration…
Continue Reading Take Our Kids to Work Day turns 30, hopes donations rebound
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At Michigan State University, children of employees can spend Thursday seeing what its like to…
Continue Reading Tense face-off: Philippines confronts China over sea claims
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed…
Continue Reading Turkey’s Erdogan appears via video link after health scare
By SUZAN FRASER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated a nuclear power plant…
Continue Reading Spain swelters in temperatures more typical of summer
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national weather service says temperatures are set to “reach values typical of summer” across most of the country. A…
Continue Reading Fighters rampage in Darfur as Sudan extends fragile truce
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Armed fighters have rampaged through a main city in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur, battling…
Continue Reading California passes 1st-in-nation emission rules for trains
By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California approved Thursday a first-in-the-nation, ambitious rule…
Continue Reading 7 killed in fire on passenger train in southern Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say seven people were killed when a passenger train caught fire in southern Pakistan. Railways official Mohsn…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Facebook’s parent Meta leads tech higher
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is opening higher after Meta Platforms became the latest Big Tech stock to report fatter profits than expected for the…
Continue Reading Poland probes parts of aerial military object found in woods
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors and security service personnel in Poland are investigating the remains of an aerial military object that was…
Continue Reading 2 Chinese navy ships head to Singapore for joint drills
BEIJING (AP) — China’s military has dispatched a pair of navy ships to take part in joint drills with Singapore’s navy and join in a…
Continue Reading King’s coronation part of long evolution for Queen Camilla
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When Camilla, Britain’s queen consort, is crowned alongside her husband next week, the moment…
Continue Reading Australia lifts minimum wage for skilled migrant workers
By ROD McGUIRK Asspociated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will end a decade-old freeze on the minimum wage for skilled migrant workers…
Continue Reading Food prices fall on world markets but not on kitchen tables
By PAUL WISEMAN and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis — a flaky, chewy…
Continue Reading Tunisia rounds up migrants at sea in unprecedented numbers
By MEHDI EL-AREM and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press OFF THE COAST OF SFAX, Tunisia (AP) — A young man wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with…
Continue Reading Excitement builds for Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ at CinemaCon
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Universal started out its CinemaCon presentation with the big one: New footage from Christopher…
Continue Reading What is the latest on Netanyahu’s corruption trial?
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has resumed after a…
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Woman found dead in a car in Brawley
Deputies are investigating after a woman was found dead in her car in…
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