Pentagon: China’s conducted spy balloon program for years
By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast was part of a large…
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Earthquake takeaways: Hope fading in frigid Turkey, Syria
GAZIANTEP, Turkey (AP) — The search for survivors of the earthquake that toppled thousands of buildings in Turkey and Syria has reached a critical…
Continue ReadingAppeals court backs North Carolina AG Stein on libel law
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided again with North Carolina’s attorney general in a…
Continue ReadingVirginia agency won’t release 1,700 records on Ford talks
By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s economic development agency says it has at least 1,700 emails and documents…
Continue ReadingPolish lawmakers approve law meant to help unlock EU funds
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lower house of parliament has given final approval to a new law on judicial accountability that the government…
Continue ReadingDemocrats won Pennsylvania House, but bipartisan gap remains
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Voters who kept three Pittsburgh-area Pennsylvania House seats in Democratic hands this…
Continue ReadingOrgans in exchange for freedom? Bill raises ethical concerns
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A proposal to let prisoners in Massachusetts donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their…
Continue ReadingParalegal angry by Alex Murdaugh theft, knew he loved family
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Alex Murdaugh’s paralegal is testifying at his double murder trial about the betrayal she felt when she…
Continue ReadingEarthquake stuns Syria’s Aleppo even after war’s horrors
By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — For years, the people of Aleppo bore the brunt of bombardment and fighting when…
Continue ReadingCalifornia proposal would reinstate prisoners’ voting rights
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters could decide whether to reinstate voting rights to people in prison on…
Continue ReadingNew Year’s Eve machete attack suspect pleads not guilty
NEW YORK (AP) — A Maine man charged with attacking police officers with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve has pleaded…
Continue ReadingMS-13 gang members in Central America sanctioned by US
By The Associated Press The United States Treasury Department has sanctioned two members of the powerful Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha. The…
Continue ReadingChasing Horse charged with federal crimes in sex abuse probe
By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and…
Continue ReadingOfficials: Jamaica policeman charged with abduction, rape
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Jamaica say they have charged a police officer with abducting and raping a woman following a traffic…
Continue ReadingTennessee House speaker mulls rejecting US education money
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Tennessee Republican lawmaker says the state should stop…
Continue ReadingMore than 200 discarded shotguns found in Oklahoma dumpster
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — Federal authorities say more than 200 shotguns have been found in a dumpster outside an Oklahoma firearms dealer. A…
Continue ReadingHaitian journalist snatched as kidnapping scourge continues
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s human rights office says another journalist has been kidnapped in an area of the capital controlled by a…
Continue ReadingAnother $237M granted to Honda battery plant project in Ohio
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s privatized economic development office has finalized an agreement that will…
Continue ReadingAI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound
By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how…
Continue ReadingIn earthquake rescues, noisy gear and digging, then silence
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press ADANA, Turkey (AP) — They lifted slabs of cement with enormous cranes and smashed rubble with jackhammers. Then,…
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