Tokyo’s fish market opens long-awaited seafood restaurants and spa to attract more visitors
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s fish market has opened a long-awaited outer section with Japanese-style seafood…
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Pakistani troops kill 22 insurgents in southwest after coordinated attacks over Iran strikes
By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistani security forces killed 22 insurgents in an operation this week…
Continue ReadingTakeaways from AP report on the DEA’s secret spying program in Venezuela
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — It was a plan the United States knew from the start would arguably violate…
Continue ReadingSecret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation…
Continue ReadingMark Zuckerberg’s long apology tour: A brief history
By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg has accumulated a long history of public apologies, often issued in the…
Continue Reading6 killings in likely cannabis dispute spotlight violence and risk in California’s illegal pot market
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The slayings of six men last week that authorities believe stemmed…
Continue ReadingFew are held responsible for wrongful convictions. Can a Philadelphia police perjury case stick?
By MARYCLAIRE DALE AP Legal Affairs Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nearly 3,500 people have been exonerated of crimes in the U.S. since 1989, and $4…
Continue ReadingOut of options, Rohingya are fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh by boat despite soaring death toll
By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — The United Nations’ refugee agency is reporting that one in every eight Rohingya who…
Continue ReadingChina has nudged Japan aside as No. 1 auto exporter, Japanese data show
TOKYO (AP) — Data from a Japanese auto industry association show that China overtook Japan as the world’s largest vehicle exporter last year.…
Continue ReadingTearful relatives of Maine mass shooting victims plead for change to prevent future tragedies
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Relatives of the victims of the deadliest shooting in Maine history are imploring an…
Continue ReadingPearl Jam throws a listening party for their new album that Eddie Vedder calls ‘our best work’
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Pearl Jam blasted out their forthcoming album to a few hundred family,…
Continue ReadingInside Donald Trump’s curious relationship with Fox News — and what it means for other candidates
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At this moment in the 2024 election cycle, complaining about Fox News — even if for different…
Continue ReadingRepublican lawsuits challenge mail ballot deadlines. Could they upend voting across the country?
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and JACK DURA Associated Press Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two…
Continue ReadingA Turkish family is still afraid to go home one year after deadly earthquake
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — A year after a powerful earthquake in southern Turkey reduced hundreds of thousands of…
Continue ReadingUK police hunt for a man suspected of throwing a ‘corrosive substance’ that injured 9 in London
LONDON (AP) — British police are hunting for a suspect after several people were injured with a corrosive substance in London. The Metropolitan…
Continue ReadingMyanmar’s resistance forces suggest terms for the military’s eventual handover of power
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s leading resistance group and allied ethnic armed groups battling the military government have released a political road…
Continue ReadingFederal judge dismisses case seeking to force US to pressure Israel to stop bombing Gaza
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. district judge in California dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that sought to force the Biden administration to do all it…
Continue ReadingFears grow that dam across Mekong River in Laos could harm World Heritage site of Luang Prabang
By DAVID RISING Associated Press LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Landlocked Laos doesn’t have the famous beaches of its Southeast Asian neighbors, so…
Continue ReadingA Hong Kong court convicts 4 people of rioting over the storming of the legislature in 2019 protests
By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has convicted four people for rioting over the storming of the city’s…
Continue ReadingOnline news site The Messenger shuts down after less than a year
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Messenger, an ambitious online news site that billed itself as a nonpartisan digital outlet and spent some $50…
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