Caregivers: Returning orca Lolita to Northwest is risky
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a…
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UConn wins March Madness with 76-59 smothering of SDSU
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer HOUSTON (AP) — After six games and 240 minutes of pure dominance that ran through March, then part of April, it…
Continue ReadingTrump charged with 34 felony counts in hush money scheme
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER, JENNIFER PELTZ and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A stone-faced Donald Trump made a momentous…
Continue ReadingTrump at courthouse for arraignment. Here’s what to expect
By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Former President Donald Trump has come to a New York City courtroom for his arraignment on…
Continue ReadingAustralia bans TikTok from federal government devices
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has become the last of the “Five Eyes” security partners to ban the…
Continue ReadingFormer top aide to Maryland governor dead after manhunt
By SARAH BRUMFIELD and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A one-time chief of staff for former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan died Monday after…
Continue ReadingFire races through clothing market in Bangladesh capital
DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — Firefighters are working to control a massive fire that burned through a clothing market and spread to other small…
Continue ReadingSlashing suspect in Canada charged with terrorism
SURREY, British Columbia (AP) — A suspect accused of slashing a person’s throat on a bus in the Canadian province of British Columbia has been…
Continue Reading2 charged in killings linked to NYC nightclub robberies
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have arrested two men in connection with two killings that investigators believe were part of a series of…
Continue ReadingFlorida Senate passes 6-week abortion ban backed by DeSantis
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Senate has approved a bill to ban abortions…
Continue ReadingOn India’s shore, rising salinity means daily water struggle
By UZMI ATHAR, Press Trust of India KOCHI, India (AP) — Anthony Kuttappassera’s family has lived in the same house at the edge of the Arabian…
Continue ReadingWashington state man pleads guilty in Jan. 6 insurrection
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of entering the U.S. Capitol with a pro-Trump mob during the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection has…
Continue ReadingHomes destroyed, 4 reported dead from Papua New Guinea quake
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful earthquake in Papua New Guinea has killed four people and destroyed more…
Continue ReadingRussia rejects US claims its UN council presidency is a joke
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador is dismissing U.S. and European Union descriptions of its…
Continue ReadingEagleCam shows heavy winds blow nest from tree; eaglet dies
By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Viewers of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources EagleCam were…
Continue ReadingExecution set for man convicted of stabbing woman 37 times
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of breaking into a woman’s Florida Panhandle apartment and fatally stabbing her 37 times in 1986 is set…
Continue ReadingADB forecasts China, India to power strong growth in ’23
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The Asian Development Bank says China’s recovery from the pandemic and strong demand…
Continue ReadingVenezuela opposition envoy urges Biden to ease oil sanctions
By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — The new representative of Venezuela’s opposition in the U.S. is urging the Biden…
Continue ReadingGeraldine Brooks, Saeed Jones win Anisfield-Wolf prize
NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and poetry by Saeed Jones are among this year’s winners of the Anisfield-Wolf…
Continue Reading‘Psychotic crack’ led woman to kill stepson, defense says
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A prosecutor says a Colorado woman knew what she was doing when she stabbed her young stepson 18…
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