As Baldwin faces charges, gun safety on sets ‘gets louder’
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — As actor Alec Baldwin faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death…
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A year after Kazakhstan’s deadly riots, questions persist
By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press Wisps of fog hung over central Almaty, Kazakhstan, last month as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev somberly…
Continue ReadingPolice: Heroic actions kept shooter from doing more harm
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police in Indiana said Friday that heroic actions by a Walmart employee and law enforcement officers kept a gunman who shot…
Continue ReadingRally for tech stocks helps soften Wall Street’s rough week
By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A rough week on Wall Street dominated by worries about a weakening economy ended Friday with a broad…
Continue ReadingJapan to lower COVID-19 to flu status, further easing rules
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19…
Continue ReadingDespite tear gas, Peru protesters vow to keep demonstrating
By DANIEL POLITI and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Peru’s capital Friday…
Continue ReadingConfidential document reveals key human role in gunshot tech
By GARANCE BURKE and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — In more than 140 cities across the United States, ShotSpotter’s artificial…
Continue ReadingKentucky GOP seeks school closure records from governor
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Republicans are trying to pry open correspondence that Democratic Gov. Andy…
Continue ReadingJudge fines Trump, lawyer for ‘frivolous’ Clinton lawsuit
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida judge has sanctioned former President Donald Trump and one of his attorneys, ordering…
Continue ReadingRussia’s FSB opens espionage case against American
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Federal Security Service says it has initiated an espionage case against a U.S. citizen. In a brief statement, the FSB…
Continue ReadingMarch for Life eyes Congress for post-Roe abortion limits
By ASHRAF KHALIL and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A half century after Roe v. Wade, March for Life supporters on Friday…
Continue ReadingDefense chiefs fail to resolve dispute on tanks for Ukraine
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Ukraine will have to wait longer to find out if it will get…
Continue ReadingPolar bear emerged unseen from snowstorm to kill mom, son
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Summer Myomick bundled her baby against the freezing winds whipping off the Bering Sea…
Continue ReadingChina keeping 1 hour daily limit on kids’ online games
By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — As the week-long Lunar New Year holidays in China draws near, children have something more than…
Continue ReadingNew Zealand’s Ardern has many possibilities for a second act
By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — When Jacinda Ardern announced this week she was stepping down as New Zealand’s…
Continue ReadingTrain station’s opening in Bangkok ushers in new travel era
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand is ushering in a new age of train travel with Southeast Asia’s…
Continue ReadingEx-NYPD union boss admits theft of about $600,000 from union
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police union president, known for his combative style and insulting…
Continue ReadingFire burns makeshift homes in shadow of Seoul’s skyscrapers
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A fire has destroyed about 60 makeshift homes in a densely packed neighborhood…
Continue ReadingSundance celebrates the ‘magic’ of being back in-person
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival met the moment by going virtual for the past two years because of…
Continue ReadingMore bodies found in Tibet avalanche; death toll rises to 28
BEIJING (AP) — More bodies have been found following an avalanche that buried vehicles outside a highway tunnel in Tibet, raising the death toll to…
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