Author Archives: Associated Press

Investors have a big appetite for fake meat. The shares of Beyond Meat, the purveyor of plant-based burgers and sausages, more than doubled Thursday in its Nasdaq debut. It's the first pure-play maker...

KOLKATA, India - Cyclone Fani tore through India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 205 kilometres (127 miles) per hour and affecting weath...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the ``Star Wars'' films, has died. Mayhew's family said in a statement Thursday that he died at his home in Texas on Tuesday. He was 74. No ca...

Unhappy with the status quo, more than 200 of the world's top female hockey players declared Thursday they will not compete in North America next season in a dramatic attempt to establish a single, ec...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A North Carolina college student slain while confronting a gunman in his classroom was being given a hero's send-off Thursday as his body is taken back to his hometown with a police ...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and Pres...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - More Florida classroom teachers could carry guns in school under a bill passed Wednesday by state lawmakers, the latest response to last year's mass shooting at a Parkland high sch...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Students at a North Carolina university were gathered for end-of-year presentations in an anthropology class when a gunman burst in and opened fire with a pistol, killing two and wou...

LONDON - A British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Judge Debora...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Wary Venezuelans braced for another day of upheaval Wednesday as both the opposition and Nicols Maduro's loyalists vowed to take to the streets, hoping to tip the balance in an ag...