The Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
Updated: 19 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and NICOLE WINFIELD
The Vatican repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery theory that, backed by papal decree, legitimized the colonial seizure of Native land.
Updated: 43 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and NICOLE WINFIELD
The 86-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, ate breakfast, read the newspapers and was working from his hospital room at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, according to a statement from spokesman Matteo Bruni.
Updated: 47 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press
Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended the country's participation in the New START treaty last month.
Updated: 48 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press
The arrest comes amid the bitter tensions between Moscow and Washington over the fighting in Ukraine.
Updated: 2 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO
It marks the second time in the new Congress that the Biden administration has signaled opposition to a Republican measure, only to soften his stance and let the legislation eventually become law.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence is set to arrive Wednesday in the United States, where will reunite with his family after being held for more than two years, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer
The legislation would let the TSA ban people convicted or fined for assaulting or interfering with airline crew members.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand and insisted the ski collision wasn’t her fault.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Immigration authorities said they released 15 women when the fire broke out, but have not explained why no men were let out.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and TRAVIS LOLLER, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press
Hundreds of people have gathered at a candlelight vigil to mourn the three children and three adults slain in a school shooting in Nashville.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday signed a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors, joining at least 10 other states that have enacted laws restricting or outlawing medically supported treatments for transgender youth.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
In a statement, Disney said all agreements were above board and took place in public.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday swept aside the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill regulating some of the most personal aspects of life for transgender young people — from banning access to gender-affirming health care to restricting the bathrooms they can use.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
China threatened retaliation on Wednesday if U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets with Taiwan’s president during her upcoming trip through Los Angeles.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MARY CLARE JALONICK
The bill would block and prohibit U.S. transactions with TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., within 30 days.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The White House said the president would reaffirm the administration’s commitment to support the people of Mississippi for “as long as it takes.”
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JANIE HAR
It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN
The auction was the first in the Gulf in more than a year and drew interest from industry giants including ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
The informant, who identified himself in court only as “Aaron," was a defense witness at the trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Prosecutors charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in connection with the 2020 death of a man who screamed “I can’t breathe” while multiple officers restrained him as they tried to take a blood sample.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The children slain at The Covenant School were Hallie Scruggs, described by an aunt as “always on the go”; Evelyn Dieckhaus, her family's “shining light”; and William Kinney, whose family has said little publicly so far.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Since the current storm-naming system was adopted in 1953, a total of 96 names have been retired from the Atlantic basin list.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Opening his second democracy summit, Biden looked to spotlight hopeful advancements over the past year.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
At least 293 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-owned U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since late 2021, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JOHN RABY Associated Press
Within about four minutes after police arrived on campus, the shooter was taken down.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MARC LEVY
Fetterman has been in treatment for clinical depression after suffering a strok last May.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL R. SISAK
The break, which was scheduled in advance when the panel was convened in January, coincides with Passover, Easter and spring break for the New York City public school system.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Pope Francis was hospitalized with a lung infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in the hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ROB MAADDI
The NFL now has seven minority team presidents, including five who are Black and three women, and nine general managers, including eight Black men.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Advocates believe it's important to get naloxone to the people who are most likely to be around overdoses, including people who use drugs and their relatives.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The letter warns that AI systems with “human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity”
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A Massachusetts man whose SUV crashed through the glass storefront of an Apple store, killing one man and injuring nearly two dozen other people, has been charged with murder, prosecutors said.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
At least the first 10 days of April will be rough, an expert meteorologist said.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Supporters, including Republican senators, say the repeal is crucial to prevent future abuses and to reinforce that Iraq is now a strategic partner of the United States.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Republican lawmakers accused top bank regulators Wednesday of dawdling as Silicon Valley Bank hurtled toward the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history and questioned whether tougher regulations would have made a difference.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JAMEY KEATEN and COURTNEY BONNELL
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee pointed to an ongoing, possibly criminal conspiracy tied to nearly $100 million in accounts belonging to a family of American taxpayers that the bank did not disclose.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm, saying it was meant to fire up public debate about the hi-tech treat.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Lafayette police Lt. Matt Gard said someone outside of the apartment called 911 after the shooting to report that a child was not breathing.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
It’s the second consecutive year that the show will be hosted by Dolly Parton but marks the first time Garth Brooks will take the stage to host an awards show.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A United Airlines flight bound from Houston to Rio De Janeiro has returned to Bush Intercontinental Airport for an emergency landing shortly after takeoff, the airline said.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and HOLLY MEYER and ANNIE MA
Around the U.S., private schools generally do not face as many requirements as public schools for developing security plans.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The Biden administration wants to build 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 — enough to power more than 10 million homes.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Greek authorities are investigating whether other attacks on Jewish sites in Athens were being planned.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 5:55 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK and HANNAH FINGERHUT
Six in 10 U.S. adults say the government spends too much money. But majorities also favor more funding for infrastructure, health care and Social Security.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 9:54 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and LARRY NEUMEISTER
FTX filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, when it ran out of money after the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 9:44 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARIA VERZA
Images from the scene showed rows of bodies lying under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:38 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
A shooter opened fire inside a private school in Nashville on Monday.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:35 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Friday’s powerful explosion at R.M. Palmer Co. killed seven people, sent 10 to the hospital and damaged several other buildings.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 8:20 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
An appellate court has ordered a new hearing on vacating the conviction of Adnan Syed in the case chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.”
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