Associated Press images of migrants’ struggle are recognized with a Pulitzer Prize
By ADAM GELLER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Well before the year began, Associated Press journalists knew that surging migration through the…
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Social Security will not be able to pay full benefits in 2035 if Congress doesn’t act. Medicare has a little more time
By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Social Security and Medicare will not be able to fully pay benefits in just over a decade if lawmakers don’t act…
Continue ReadingJayne Anne Phillips’ novel ‘Night Watch,’ Eboni Booth’s drama ‘Primary Trust’ among Pulitzer winners
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum…
Continue ReadingNew York sues anti-abortion groups for promoting false treatments to reverse medication abortions
NEW YORK (AP) — New York is suing an anti-abortion group and almost a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for allegedly promoting an unproven method…
Continue ReadingWisconsin judge dismisses lawsuit challenging state’s new wolf management plan
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by animal welfare advocates seeking to invalidate…
Continue ReadingHusband of Florida woman missing in Spain is charged with her disappearance
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested a Florida man in connection with the disappearance of…
Continue ReadingSignatures submitted for ‘top two’ primary election in Republican-dominant South Dakota
By JACK DURA Associated Press Supporters of a “top two” primary election system in South Dakota submitted petitions with 47,000 signatures on…
Continue ReadingSlain nurse’s husband sues health care company, alleging it ignored employees’ safety concerns
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Home health care provider Elara Caring is being sued by the husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed…
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Forest Service road from Sunriver to the Deschutes River closing for several days of improvements
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Forest Service Road 9702600 and Deschutes River access off FSR 9702621 will be closed starting Monday, May 6 through at least…
Continue ReadingRussian journalist arrested for years-old social media posts amid intensifying crackdown
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian journalist who has worked for both state-funded and independent media has been detained and faces charges of…
Continue ReadingA gene long thought to just raise the risk for Alzheimer’s may cause some cases
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life…
Continue ReadingAmerican soldier was arrested in Russia and accused of stealing from a girlfriend, US officials say
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American soldier visiting a girlfriend in Russia’s port city of Vladivostok was…
Continue ReadingOne natural gas transport plan killed in New Jersey as another forges ahead
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press KEYPORT, N.J. (AP) — A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to…
Continue ReadingAfter AP investigation, family of missing students enrolls in school
By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Four months after The Associated Press wrote about an Atlanta family struggling to…
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FAA opens new probe into Boeing, this time involving 787 Dreamliner inspections
By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Investigators are probing whether Boeing employees failed to perform some quality inspections on its 787…
Continue ReadingLawsuit alleges decades of child sex abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers statewide
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades,…
Continue ReadingAfter Barstool Sports sponsorship fizzles, Snoop Dogg brand is attached to Arizona Bowl, fo shizzle
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Snoop Dogg is putting his name on the Arizona Bowl for what will be the first partnership between an alcohol brand and a…
Continue ReadingLidia Bastianich, Melody Thomas Scott and Ed Scott to receive Daytime Emmys lifetime achievement
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cookbook author, actor and producer will be the Lifetime Achievement honorees at the Daytime Emmys in June. Lidia Bastianich…
Continue ReadingHow a beach trip in Mexico’s Baja California turned deadly for surfers from Australia and the US
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated…
Continue ReadingJanet Jackson to play 2024 Essence Fest instead of the Smoothie King Center this summer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Janet Jackson will make her fourth appearance at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture this summer in New Orleans. Jackson was…
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