Author Archives: Associated Press

SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France (AP) - At least the dead will always be there. All too many have been, for 76 years since that fateful June 6 on France's Normandy beaches, when Allied troops in 1944 tur...

ATLANTA - The tenor of the protests set off by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police has taken a turn from the explosive anger that has fuelled the setting of fires, breaking of windows and...

A person with knowledge of the situation says the NBA's Board of Governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Fla. The forma...

NEW ORLEANS - Drew Brees apologized Thursday for comments that were "insensitive and completely missed the mark" when he reiterated his opposition to Colin Kaepernick's kneeling during the national an...

MINNEAPOLIS - Mourners converged in Minneapolis on Thursday for the first in a series of a memorials to George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police has sparked turbulent protests around the world...

MINNEAPOLIS - Prosecutors on Wednesday expanded their case against the police who were at the scene of George Floyd's death, charging three of the officers with aiding and abetting a murder and upgrad...

MINNEAPOLIS - Protests were largely peaceful and the streets in cities across the United States were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off sometimes violent demo...

WASHINGTON - American cities erupted in violence and destruction in a seventh straight night of unrest, with several police officers shot or run over, amid boasts and threats from President Donald Tru...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd's family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck...

NEW YORK - Cities around the U.S. braced for another round of violent protests Monday while struggling to keep police in line and prevent the kind of heavy-handed tactics that contributed to the unres...