Author Archives: Associated Press

TOKYO - Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved the removal of South Korea from a list of countries with preferential trade status, prompting retaliation from Seoul where a senior official summoned the Jap...

BERLIN - The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island's ice sheet and causing massive ice los...

JUNCTION CITY, Ky. - A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the...

KINSHASA, Congo - The man who became the second confirmed Ebola case in Congo's major crossroads city of Goma has died, officials said Wednesday, adding that he may never have known he had the virus. ...

WASHINGTON - Bernie Sanders is calling for revolution. Marianne Williamson would rather see a psychic, "moral uprising." The 67-year-old self-help author and spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey now vyi...

GILROY, Calif. - Only a few days ago, Gilroy was known for one thing: Garlic. The rural community near San Francisco lived and breathed the prized, pungent crop. Now it's the site of the latest U.S. m...

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. - A gunman described as a disgruntled Walmart employee fatally shot two co-workers and wounded a police officer before he was shot and arrested Tuesday morning at a Walmart store in n...

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. - A shooter killed three family members at a home in a small Wisconsin town, then went to a residence in a nearby community and opened fire on more people, sheriff's officials sai...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday signed a bill ensuring that a victims' compensation fund helping those impacted by the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks never runs out of money, ending years of leg...

LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushed Britain closer to a no-deal exit from the European Union on Monday, insisting he will not hold Brexit talks with EU leaders unless the bloc lifts its refus...