Author Archives: Associated Press

SEATTLE - The NHL's newest team finally has its name: The Seattle Kraken. The expansion franchise unveiled its nickname Thursday, ending 19 months of speculation about whether the team might lean trad...

LOS ANGELES - Fox will be taking viewers out to the ballgame by adding a virtual crowd in parks during its baseball telecasts this season. The network revealed on Thursday that it will include compute...

LONDON - Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot. Brit...

By Calvin Woodward And Desiree Seals, The Associated Press ATLANTA - John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition ...

LONDON - In the end, Sir Tom didn't need to rise. On a day infused with emotion, Queen Elizabeth II tapped the blade of a sword once owned by her father on the slender shoulders of 100-year-old Tom Mo...

MITO, Japan - A return of stringent coronavirus restrictions in Israel, another daily record of reported cases in Japan's capital and outbreaks in remote areas such as China's Xinjiang region undersco...

LONDON - Britain, the United States and Canada accused Russia on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a COVID-19 vaccine. The three nations alleged that hacking group APT29...

GRETNA, La. - An appeals court has granted the killer of former Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Joe McKnight a new trial because his manslaughter conviction was delivered by a split jury. Ronald...

MINNEAPOLIS - Body-camera footage made public Wednesday from two Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd's arrest captured a panicked and fearful Floyd pleading with the officers in the m...

PROMACHONAS, Greece - Countries around the world are reimposing lockdowns and implementing new health checks at their borders in an effort to curb a resurgence of the coronavirus before it spins even ...