Japan’s imperial family hosts a poetry reading with a focus on peace to welcome the new year
By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A mother’s love and a yearning for peace flowed from Japanese Empress Masako’s poem,…
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Angst over LGBTQ+ stories led to another canceled show. But in a Wyoming town, a play was salvaged
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press WHEATLAND, Wyo. (AP) — Oliver Baez spent two months rehearsing a scene for a school play in which his character…
Continue ReadingStock market today: Wall Street hits record high following a 2-year round trip scarred by inflation
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street returned to record heights Friday to cap a punishing, two-year round trip dogged by…
Continue ReadingNevada Republican Senate primary candidates take aim at absent front-runner in debate
By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Seven Republicans vying for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Nevada…
Continue ReadingNATO holds its biggest exercises in decades next week, involving around 90,000 personnel
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will launch its biggest military exercises in decades next week with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months of…
Continue Reading2 weeks of winter storms kill dozens and cause cold chaos in parts of the US, but a thaw is coming
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two weeks of storms that have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death from…
Continue ReadingTexas prosecutor convenes grand jury to investigate Uvalde shooting, multiple media report
By ACACIA CORONADO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor has convened a grand jury to investigate the Uvalde…
Continue ReadingMan who built plane that crashed off California coast recalls selling to enthusiast young pilot
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was…
Continue Reading10 people dead after a landslide buries a house in the southern Philippines, officials say
DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — A landslide set off by days of heavy rain buried a house where people were holding Christian prayers in the southern…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea says it tested a nuclear-capable underwater drone in response to rivals’ naval drills
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response…
Continue ReadingMexican marines detain alleged leader of Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped, killed Americans
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican marines have detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed…
Continue ReadingMan cleared in a 1996 Brooklyn killing said for decades he knew who did it. Prosecutors now agree
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting in New York has been exonerated.…
Continue ReadingA baby lived because an Oregon teen couldn’t stand by after she saw 3 people get electrocuted
By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland,…
Continue ReadingLawsuit in Chicago is the latest legal fight over Texas moving migrants to U.S. cities
By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Texas transportation company is taking the nation’s third largest city to…
Continue ReadingWe could see the world’s 1st trillionaire in the next decade. Here are some of today’s richest 1%
NEW YORK (AP) — The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today’s richest 1%. In an…
Continue ReadingAfter Taiwan’s election, its new envoy to the US offers assurances to Washington and Beijing
By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan’s top diplomat in Washington has a message for both the island’s Chinese adversaries and…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea calls on divided UN council ‘to break the silence’ on North Korea’s tests and threats
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Korea is calling on the divided U.N. Security Council “to break the silence”…
Continue ReadingNearly 30 years later, family of slain California college student sues school for wrongful death
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — The family of a California college student who vanished nearly three decades ago has sued the school, alleging it…
Continue ReadingA county official vetoes a stadium tax for an April ballot, affecting Kansas City Chiefs and Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County Executive Frank White has vetoed an ordinance that would have put a 3/8th-cent sales tax renewal on the…
Continue ReadingMan gets 65 years in prison for Des Moines school shooting that killed 2 students
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Iowa man to 65 years in prison for killing two students at a Des Moines alternative school and…
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