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May 1, 2024, 5:34 p.m.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Trailed by search dogs and police, María de Jesús Soria Aguayo and more than a dozen volunteers on Wednesday walked carefully through fields of weeds and dry earth with their eyes fixed on the ground. On ...
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May 1, 2024, 4:30 p.m.
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hiked up pressure on Hamas on Wednesday to accept the latest proposal for a cease-fire with Israel , saying the “time is now” for an agreement that would free hostages and ...
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May 1, 2024, 4:22 p.m.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a U.S.-Japan resolution to stop an arms ...
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May 1, 2024, 4:02 p.m.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Trailed by search dogs and police, María de Jesús Soria Aguayo and more than a dozen volunteers on Wednesday walked carefully through fields of weeds and dry earth with their eyes fixed on the ground. On ...
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May 1, 2024, 3:08 p.m.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill long sought by counties seeking help to manage huge influxes of mail-in ballots during elections in the presidential battleground state and to avoid a repeat of 2020's ...
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May 1, 2024, 2:59 p.m.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Months of relentless Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine, new drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows, with barely a building left intact, homes and municipal offices charred and a ...
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May 1, 2024, 2:13 p.m.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria ‘power’ ritual, police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca said Wednesday. Iván García Alvarez, the Oaxaca state police chief, said four men and ...
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May 1, 2024, 1:51 p.m.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Volunteer searchers said they have found a clandestine crematorium on the edge of Mexico City, though it was unclear if evidence found at the scene would back up that claim. It's the first time in recent ...
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May 1, 2024, 1:09 p.m.
Wheat for May was off 3.50 cents at $5.8150 a bushel; May corn rose 3.75 cents at $4.4325 a bushel, May oats was up 8 cents at $3.79 a bushel; while May soybeans gained 10.75 cents at $11.5575 a bushel. ...
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May 1, 2024, 12:39 p.m.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country. Four of seven council members with voting powers ...
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May 1, 2024, 12:20 p.m.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least 10 people and left 21 missing since Monday, the country's civil defense said Wednesday. An additional 11 people were injured and ...
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May 1, 2024, 12:18 p.m.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday announced his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel effective Thursday in the latest escalation of tensions between the countries over the Israel-Hamas war . Petro again described Israel’s siege ...
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May 1, 2024, 11:45 a.m.
Harvey Weinstein appears in court NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein arrived at court this afternoon for his first appearance since New York state's highest court dismissed his 2020 rape conviction. Weinstein’s attorney, Arthur Aidala (eye-DAL’-ah), says the preliminary hearing ...
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May 1, 2024, 11:09 a.m.
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Police in Norway say a man carrying two knives stabbed one person and threatened several others in the center of Oslo on Wednesday. The incident occurred outside one of the city’s biggest subway stations when an ...
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May 1, 2024, 10:42 a.m.
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there, an American general said Wednesday. The U.S. said last month it ...
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May 1, 2024, 10:26 a.m.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A humanitarian crisis is worsening in northeastern Mali where armed groups linked to Islamic State have besieged major towns leaving residents including some 80,000 children vulnerable to malnutrition, locals and an aid group warned Wednesday. The ...
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May 1, 2024, 10:07 a.m.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tourists were evacuated by air from Kenya's Maasai Mara national reserve Wednesday after more than a dozen hotels, lodges and camps were flooded as heavy rains battered the country. Tourist accommodation facilities were submerged after a ...
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May 1, 2024, 9:45 a.m.
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli leaders Wednesday in his push for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas , saying “the time is now” for an agreement that would free hostages and bring ...
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May 1, 2024, 9:25 a.m.
LONDON (AP) — Two London police officers remained hospitalized Wednesday, a day after suffering “horrifically serious” injuries as they rushed to stop a sword-wielding attacker on a suburban street, the city’s police chief said. Details about the attack, in which ...
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May 1, 2024, 9:16 a.m.
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there after pulling out earlier this month, an American general said Wednesday. ...
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