Stock market today: Japan’s Nikkei leads Asian market retreat as Middle East tensions flare
By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks tumbled Friday, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 2.4% on heavy selling of…
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks tumbled Friday, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 2.4% on heavy selling of…
Continue ReadingBy BABA AHMED and CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Street vendors in Mali’s capital of Bamako peddle water sachets,…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-haul carrier Emirates says it is halting local check-in for passengers traveling on its flights as the…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Marijuana advocates are gearing up for April 20. Known as 4/20, marijuana’s high holiday on…
Continue ReadingBy ADIL JAWAD Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Five Japanese autoworkers have narrowly escaped an attack by a suicide bomber who detonated…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors that the…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces across the front line to prepare to grab more land this…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — They may look like little monsters. And their seemingly endless racket may be a nuisance. But…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Iran has fired air defense batteries after reports of explosions near a major airbase and nuclear site where drones were…
Continue ReadingBy PAMELA SAMPSON Associated Press RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) — When Ben Binyamin was left for dead, his right leg blown off during the Hamas attack on…
Continue ReadingBy MATT BROWN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Eight years after 11 million leaked secret financial documents revealed how some of the…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY CHEA and JANIE HAR Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California pet owners struggling to find a rental that accepts their furry,…
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley have appealed aspects of their convictions on federal…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The 12 students and one teacher killed in the Columbine High School shooting will be remembered in…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A third panel of potential jurors is…
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months…
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sometime in the next few days or even hours, the “miners” who chisel bitcoins out…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The World Health Organization has approved a new version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in…
Continue ReadingBy MARK BAKER and KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A leader of the conservative group Turning Point Action has resigned from the organization…
Continue ReadingBy Daria Tarasova-Markina, Antonia Mortensen, Christian Stern, Anna Chernova and Mariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — A Polish man has been charged over…
Continue ReadingCNN By Alex Marquardt, Helen Regan, Hamdi Alkhshali, Artemis Moshtaghian and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Israel has carried out a military…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, Braden Walker and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google says it will combine the software division responsible for Android mobile…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Commercial flights began diverting their routes early Friday morning over western Iran without explanation as…
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, Helen Regan, Hamdi Alkhshali, Artemis Moshtaghian and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Israel has carried out a military strike…
Continue ReadingCNN By Simone McCarthy and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s response if Israel takes any further military action against it would be…
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s response if Israel takes any further military action against it would be “immediate…
Continue ReadingSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — An unfair labor complaint has been filed against the University of Notre Dame for classifying college athletes as…
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians are voting in a six-week election that’s a referendum on Hindu…
Continue ReadingREXBURG, Idaho (KIFI) — Sunnier weather brings more construction. The City of Rexburg is currently heading up their CRABS Project. This includes…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court says the state attorney general’s office must pay…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority…
Continue ReadingBy GISELA SALOMON and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration says it has sent about 50 Haitians back to their…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced the creation of two new…
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan and Rhea Mogul, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — Polls opened Friday for the first and largest phase of India’s marathon general…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The director of a group that advocates for female sports fans says she and other Paris Saint-Germain supporters were subjected to…
Continue ReadingMECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania school district has canceled an upcoming appearance by actor and children’s book author Maulik Pancholy.…
Continue ReadingBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a man accused of starting a fire outside independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont…
Continue ReadingThe Madison County Sheriff’s Office shared a video on social media Thursday of an officer using a spike strip to stop a high-speed chase on US…
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A coalition backed by some of the nation’s largest retailers has announced it has…
Continue ReadingBy JULIA CARNEIRO Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A U.S. congressional committee has released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is…
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced nearly $200 million in grant money to cities and…
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Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware has narrowly cleared the Democrat-led…
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina has requested to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A huge heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Horizons…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky will use a lottery to award licenses to businesses…
Continue ReadingBryan Kohberger, the man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in late 2022, was out for a drive the night they were killed,…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House congressional leaders are toiling on a delicate,…
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group is now recommending that all pregnant patients be…
Continue ReadingSOUTH MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities say more human remains, including a torso, that are believed to belong to a missing woman have washed up on a…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry, the son of King Charles III and fifth in line to the British throne, has formally…
Continue ReadingROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — An 18-year-old Maryland high school student was charged with planning to commit a school shooting after investigators…
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Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A giant prehistoric snake longer than a school bus slithered around what is now India 47 million years ago,…
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Several publishing houses joined bestselling authors and Penguin Random House this week in a federal lawsuit…
Continue ReadingBy Richard Roth and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States on Thursday blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution that would…
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution on Thursday that would have…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania House Democrats are proposing a process to determine if state representatives…
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary has revived the discussion about the staggering gap in gender…
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary has revived the discussion about the staggering gap in gender equity…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner is not running for reelection this year in his…
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has advanced legislation that would reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance tool as…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is contemplating scrapping the most futuristic aspect of its highly anticipated and…
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