Search

Live updates | Fighting rages in southern Gaza and fears grow the war may spread in the region 01/03/2024 05:59pm • Heavy fighting raged in central and southern Gaza on Wednesday as fears mounted of a regional escalation following a strike in Beirut that killed one of the top Hamas leaders. Israel has refused to comment on reports it carried out the killing Saleh Arouri, the most senior Hamas member slain since Republicans want to impeach the Maine official who cut Trump from the ballot. They face long odds 01/03/2024 05:57pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republicans who want to unseat Maine's secretary of state for barring former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot will face long odds impeaching a stalwart and influential Democrat whose party holds firm control over both Legislative chambers. Shenna Bellows is the How to get on top of your personal finances in 2024 01/03/2024 05:28pm • While losing weight or learning a new language can be a good New Year’s resolution, the beginning of the year can also be a good time to get your finances in order. Your financial goals will likely change based on age, but there are still tried-and-true goals that people of any age should strive Osprey 'black box' from fatal Japan crash that killed 8 recovered with data intact, Air Force says 01/03/2024 05:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has recovered the flight data recorder from a CV-22B Osprey that crashed off the coast of Japan in late November with its data intact, which could provide valuable clues for investigators as to what caused the fatal accident. Eight Air Force Special Operations Comm What’s known so far about the deadly explosions in Iran 01/03/2024 03:59pm • At least 95 people were killed in Iran Wednesday after back-to-back explosions at an event commemorating the 2020 slaying of a prominent general by the United States, Iranian officials said. More than 210 people were wounded in the attack, for which there was no immediate claim of responsibility. He An apparent Israeli strike killed a top Hamas commander. How might it impact the Gaza conflict? 01/03/2024 03:45pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The killing of a top Hamas commander in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a Beirut apartment has given Israel an important symbolic achievement in its 3-month-old war against the Islamic militant group. But history has shown the benefits of such dramatic operations are often A hiker is rescued after falling down an Adirondack mountain peak on a wet, wintry night 01/03/2024 03:37pm • Forest rangers successfully rescued an upstate New York hiker who survived a frigid night on a rugged Adirondack mountain peak trapped above a cliff, after she slipped and fell hundreds of feet down from the summit. “I thought I might have froze to death. There were like 45-mile-an-hour winds (70 As a missile hits a Kyiv apartment building, survivors lose a lifetime's possessions in seconds 01/03/2024 02:39pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With trembling hands and labored breath, Serhii Slobodiannyk meticulously searched his fire-damaged apartment, seeking to salvage any of his family's treasured belongings following a Russian missile attack on Kyiv. “Everything I had worked for over 30 years was destroyed in The AP goes behind the scenes at PWHL opener to capture 'the birth of women's hockey' 01/03/2024 01:14pm • TORONTO (AP) — An hour before one of the most significant faceoffs in the history of women's hockey, New York players were roused by a commotion at the entrance of their dressing room. Enter Billie Jean King. “I just wanted to say, hi,” the former tennis star and gender equality champion said Edmunds recommends the best vehicles for achieving your New Year's resolutions 01/03/2024 12:11pm • Many of us will renew our vows to self-improvement in the form of New Year’s resolutions. For many of us, those commitments will unravel before summer. But if buying a new car is in your plans, why not tie it to a goal to last all year? There may be no better motivation than a daily reminder — y Thousands of doctors in Britain walk off the job in their longest-ever strike 01/03/2024 11:13am • LONDON (AP) — Patients faced canceled treatments after thousands of British doctors walked off the job on Wednesday, the start of a six-day strike over pay that was set to be the longest in the history of the state-funded National Health Service. Managers said tens of thousands of appointments and After tumbling in polls, Netanyahu clings to power and aims to improve political standing during war 01/03/2024 10:41am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In the wake of Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s days in office seemed numbered. Despite his reputation as the ultimate political survivor, the devastation of the attack and the security failures that allowed it to happen on his watch appe Fairfax County set to permanently allow outdoor dining — with a few new rules 01/03/2024 08:17am • Outdoor dining became a thing during the COVID-19 pandemic — Fairfax County, Virginia is set to make eating and drinking outside of a restaurant, bar, brewery or vineyard a permanent possibility. A proposed zoning ordinance amendment would automatically allow food and drink businesses to set up Sheikh Hasina once fought for democracy in Bangladesh. Her critics say she now threatens it 01/03/2024 07:00am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was Bangladesh's opposition leader in 2007, when hundreds of troops raided her home and took her to a court in the capital of Dhaka, where she was arrested on extortion charges. Hasina, who had served as premier in 1996-2001, slammed the charg South Korean police raid house of suspect who stabbed opposition leader Lee in the neck 01/03/2024 05:32am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police on Wednesday raided the residence and office of a man who stabbed the country’s opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, in the neck in an attack that left him hospitalized in an intensive care unit, officials said. The assault occurred when Lee, the leader