Stratolaunch conducts first powered flight of new hypersonic vehicle off California coast
By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch has conducted the first powered test flight of a new…
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Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address…
Continue ReadingVanity Fair and Saint Laurent toast ‘Oppenheimer’ at a historic home before Oscars
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On the Friday before the Oscars, the center of Hollywood seemed to be at a private home in Los…
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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Washington state’s presidential primaries
By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — If former President Donald Trump clinches the Republican nomination on Tuesday for a second term…
Continue ReadingRupert Murdoch, 92, plans to marry for 5th time
By The Associated Press Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who turns 93 next week, has been married four times — and is engaged again, his…
Continue ReadingReport and letter signed by ‘Opie’ attract auction interest ahead of Oscars
By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Interest in the late scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer has extended beyond the Oscars this…
Continue ReadingKosovo OKs referendums in 4 Serb-majority municipalities on whether to oust ethnic Albanian mayors
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s Central Electoral Commission has decided to hold a vote on April 21 to oust four ethnic Albanian mayors whose…
Continue ReadingPope Francis: Ukraine should have the courage of the ‘white flag,’ negotiate end of war with Russia
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said in an interview that Ukraine, facing a possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with…
Continue Reading2 women drove a man’s body to a bank to withdraw his money, Ohio police say
ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank to withdraw money from his…
Continue ReadingDOJ opens criminal investigation into the Alaska Airlines 737 plane blowout, report says
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout…
Continue ReadingAnother top donor says it will resume funding the UN agency for Palestinians as Gaza hunger grows
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians said Saturday that it…
Continue ReadingSpain’s prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state
BILBAO, Spain (AP) — Spain’s prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Pedro…
Continue ReadingA family run workshop keeps the legacy of the Mexican fireworks alive despite the danger
By FERNANDA PESCE and ALEXIS TRIBOULARD Associated Press TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Every year, in the first week of March, hundreds of giant…
Continue ReadingGunmen kidnap 15 children in yet another school abduction in northern Nigeria
By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Armed men broke into a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early Saturday and seized 15…
Continue ReadingEl Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It’s now been in effect for two years
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s lawmakers have granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for the 24th consecutive one-month…
Continue ReadingBiden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the…
Continue ReadingA paramilitary group at war with Sudan’s military endorses a cease-fire during holy fasting month
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese paramilitary group battling the country’s military in a nearly yearlong ruinous conflict…
Continue ReadingSporting Gijón official apologizes for Women’s Day video of girl cleaning lines off soccer field
MADRID (AP) — An official at Spanish soccer club Sporting Gijón has apologized for a video meant to commemorate International Women’s Day that…
Continue ReadingAlabama woman set for a plea hearing months after police say she faked her own kidnapping
BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A new plea hearing has been set for an Alabama woman accused of falsely telling police she was abducted last summer after…
Continue ReadingWeather beatdown leaves towering Maine landmark surrounded by crime scene tape
SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — Crime scene tape surrounds the Skowhegan Indian, a local landmark in Maine, after an assault by Mother Nature. The towering…
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