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'Grandissimo': Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni welcomes home Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner 01/30/2024 01:15pm • ROME (AP) — Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner returned to Italy on Tuesday amid great fanfare and headed straight to a private meeting with Premier Giorgia Meloni. “Grandissimo,” Meloni said when Sinner walked into her office in the Chigi Palace. “I want to show you something,” Meloni Oklahoma asks teachers to return up to $50,000 in bonuses the state says were paid in error 01/30/2024 12:45pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With four young children and a fifth on the way, Kristina Stadelman was ecstatic after qualifying for a $50,000 bonus for taking a hard-to-fill job as a special education teacher in Oklahoma. She used the money to finish home improvements and buy a new car for her growing fami Man wanted for allegedly killing girlfriend and leaving body at Boston airport is arrested in Kenya 01/30/2024 12:02pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A man wanted for allegedly killing his girlfriend and leaving her body in a parking lot at a Boston airport before flying to Kenya has been arrested, Kenyan police said Tuesday. Kevin Kangethe, 40, was apprehended at a nightclub Monday following a tipoff, Director of Criminal After a record year, Norway's giant oil fund pledges to push sustainable energy 01/30/2024 10:12am • STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The manager of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund pledged Tuesday to push major oil and gas companies to speed up preparations for the “inescapable” transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels while also twisting arms in U.S. boardrooms to take control of Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing 01/30/2024 09:51am • TOKYO (AP) — Japanese transport officials raided a Toyota-affiliated plant Tuesday after the company admitted to cheating on engine testing, as Toyota Motor Corp. reported it sold over 11 million vehicles in 2023 to retain its status as the world’s top car manufacturer. Hours after the probe be 'How can I not do this?': DC organizers work to steer young people away from crime and violence 01/30/2024 07:00am • Concern about crime in D.C. has prompted a number of actions on the local and federal level. The latest crime data from D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department shows a number of categories of crime are down when compared to the same time last year: homicide is down 38% while assault with a dangerou Departing US road safety chief says agency has the people and knowhow to regulate high-tech vehicles 01/30/2024 06:32am • DETROIT (AP) — In the past 15 months, no one has been more responsible for safety on the nation's roads than Ann Carlson. For much of that time she has served as acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, where she started as chief counsel in 2021. But on Wednesday Ukraine's strikes on targets inside Russia hurt Putin's efforts to show the war isn't hitting home 01/30/2024 12:03am • The wail of air raid sirens is commonplace in Belgorod, a Russian border city whose residents are on edge following a Ukrainian missile attack on a New Year's holiday weekend that left dozens of people dead and injured. A spectacular explosion rocked a huge fuel export terminal on the Baltic Sea What is Tower 22, the military base that was attacked in Jordan where 3 US troops were killed? 01/29/2024 11:03pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — A little-discussed United States military desert outpost in the far reaches of northeastern Jordan has become the focus of international attention after a drone attack killed three American troops and injured at least 34 others there. The base, known as Tower 22, sits near the de 'Don't hit me': DC rabbi reports attack by Lyft driver who kicked him out of vehicle 01/29/2024 10:20pm • D.C. police are investigating the Sunday morning assault of a rabbi by a ride-share driver who allegedly demanded the rabbi get out of the car moments after picking him up. Lyft said the driver has been suspended over the incident, which occurred around 10:15 a.m. Rabbi Menachem Shemtov, direc Police say Minnesota man dressed as delivery driver in home invasion turned triple homicide 01/29/2024 10:01pm • A Minnesota man was charged with murder Monday after authorities say he posed as a package delivery driver, entered a home and demanded money before he shot three people in the head, including at least one at point-blank range. Alonzo Pierre Mingo, 37, was charged with three counts of second-degree Toyota urges owners of old Corolla, Matrix and RAV4 models to park them until air bags are replaced 01/29/2024 08:33pm • DETROIT (AP) — Toyota and General Motors are telling the owners of about 61,000 older Corolla, Matrix, RAV4 and Pontiac Vibe models to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators are at risk of exploding and hurling shrapnel. The urgent warning Monday covers certain Corolla compact Malaysia charges ex-minister for not declaring assets, as graft probe targets Mahathir's allies 01/29/2024 08:08pm • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia charged a former minister on Monday with failing to declare assets, the latest step in a corruption probe that’s targeting several people connected to a former prime minister. Former Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin, who left office more than 20 years ago, i Toyota chief apologizes for cheating on testing at group company — again 01/29/2024 08:04pm • TOKYO (AP) — Toyota chief Koji Sato apologized Monday to customers, suppliers and dealers for flawed testing at a group company, following a series of similar problems in recent years. The apology came a day before Chairman Akio Toyoda is to announce a “global vision” for the Toyota Motor Corp Woman stabbed teen girl 8 times in McDonald's parking lot during violent rampage in Md., documents say 01/29/2024 08:00pm • The Baltimore woman accused of injuring several people during a string of violent crimes across Prince George’s County on Thursday stabbed a teenage girl eight times in a McDonald’s parking lot, according to charging documents. Tanay Stallings-Brown, 31, is facing dozens of charges, including