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Lebanon says Israeli agents likely killed Hezbollah-linked currency exchanger near Beirut 04/18/2024 04:05am • BEIT MERI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s interior minister alleged Wednesday that the mysterious abduction and killing of a Hezbollah-linked Lebanese currency exchanger in a villa on the edge of a quiet mountain resort town earlier this month was likely the work of Israeli intelligence operatives. Th China-born Zhou Guanyu will be a star regardless of who wins the Chinese Formula 1 race in Shanghai 04/18/2024 03:09am • Formula 1 returns to China this weekend after a five-year absence. And no matter who wins on Sunday, the star locally will be China-born driver Zhou Guanyu. Despite his so-so results, Zhou is a being promoted as a celebrity in China. He’s the subject of a new film as the first Chinese driver to co Party's over: Coyotes end tenure in the desert with raucous atmosphere before move 04/18/2024 02:15am • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Mullett Arena buzzed like few times in the two years since the Arizona Coyotes moved in, the fans amped for one last desert hurrah. For 60 minutes, they got one last chance to watch the team they came to love before the franchise as they know it is no more. The Coyotes are movi Poland's president becomes the latest leader to visit Donald Trump as allies eye a possible return 04/18/2024 02:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump met Wednesday in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders as Europe braces for the possibility of a second Trump term. The presumptive Republican nominee hosted Duda at Trump Tower, where the Takeaways from this week's reports on the deadly 2023 Maui fire that destroyed Lahaina 04/18/2024 01:10am • HONOLULU (AP) — More than half a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Maui town, officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong and how to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. But two reports released this week are filling Attorney general won't file criminal case against LA officer in 2021 shooting that killed teen 04/18/2024 12:56am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Attorney General declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store in 2021, killing a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room, authorities said Wednesday. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. fire Communications breakdown left authorities in the dark and residents without alerts amid Maui fire 04/18/2024 12:50am • HONOLULU (AP) — As unpredictable wildfires roared across Maui last August, the head of the emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the island amid the unfolding crisis, while a broad communications breakdown left authorities in the dark and residents without emergency aler Panama's presidential frontrunner skips third and final debate ahead of May 5 election 04/18/2024 12:29am • PANAMA CITY (AP) — Six of the eight candidates vying to be Panama’s next president laid out their plans to generate jobs and to manage the country’s water crisis in their final debate Wednesday night before the country’s May 5 election. Former government minister José Raúl Mulino, who has Israelis grapple with how to celebrate Passover, a holiday about freedom, while many remain captive 04/18/2024 12:27am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Every year, Alon Gat’s mother led the family's Passover celebration of the liberation of the ancient Israelites from Egypt thousands of years ago. But this year, Gat is struggling with how to reconcile a holiday commemorating freedom after his mother was slain and other family m South Carolina making progress to get more women in General Assembly and leadership roles 04/18/2024 12:21am • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — At first glance, the all-male South Carolina Senate subcommittee deciding whether to approve a proposal to remove the sales tax from feminine hygiene products was a reminder that as recently as 2012 the state had no women in its Senate. But progress is being made. The electio Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream, thanks to Modi's decade in power 04/18/2024 12:20am • AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream. Nobody has done more to advance this cause than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of India’s most beloved and polarizing political leaders. And no entity has had more influence on his political philos New Black congressional district in Louisiana bows to politics, not race, backers say 04/18/2024 12:20am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Politics and race are both factors in a pending court challenge of Louisiana's new congressional maps. How much weight each carries is a major question before three federal judges whose ruling could affect the balance of power in the next Congress. At issue is a congressional m Congress moving swiftly on bipartisan action to punish Iran after revenge attack on Israel 04/18/2024 12:17am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran's attack against Israel over the weekend has spurred a flurry of bipartisan legislative action in Congress, uniting lawmakers against the country even as the risk of a larger regional war looms. Several measures introduced and passed in the House and Senate seek to both pub A Georgia beach aims to disrupt Black students' spring bash after big crowds brought chaos in 2023 04/18/2024 12:06am • TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia's largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police officers and barricades closing off neighborhood streets. While the beach will remain open, officials are blockin Climate change concerns grow, but few think Biden's climate law will help, AP-NORC poll finds 04/18/2024 12:02am • Like many Americans, Ron Theusch is getting more worried about climate change. A resident of Alden, Minnesota, Theusch has noticed increasingly dry and mild winters punctuated by short periods of severe cold — symptoms of a warming planet. As he thinks about that, future generations are on his mi