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SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Supreme Court ruled Thursday that former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is not eligible to run for governor because he does not meet the state's three-year res...
Feb 17, 2022
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in a quadruple slaying in 2005. Gilbert Ray Postelle, 35, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAles...
Feb 17, 2022
KADIMA-ZORAN, Israel (AP) - After a year-long jam, a mammoth Israeli strawberry is entering the record books. Weighing a whopping 289 grams (10.19 ounces, more than half a pound), the titanic berry th...
Feb 17, 2022
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A senior U.S. official said Thursday that Russia has delivered its response to American and NATO proposals about Ukraine and European security. The Kremlin's response was given to...
Feb 17, 2022
BANGKOK (AP) - No, English speakers and others using the Roman alphabet aren't going to have to start calling the Thai capital by its local name, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, and drop the more familiar "Ba...
Feb 17, 2022
PARIS (AP) - President Emmanuel Macron says France will withdraw its troops from Mali but maintain a military presence in neighboring West African nations. Announcing the move during a Thursday news c...
Feb 17, 2022
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia has added as many as 7,000 troops near the Ukraine border in recent days, contrary to claims by President Vladimir Putin that troops would be pulled back from the region, a...
Feb 16, 2022
PETROPOLIS, Brazil (AP) - The death toll from devastating mudslides and floods that swept through a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state has reached 58, local authorities said Wednesday. The cit...
Feb 16, 2022
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A second former Minneapolis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in George Floyd's killing has taken the stand at their trial. J. Alexander Kueng is test...
Feb 16, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is ordering the release of Trump White House visitor logs to the House committee investigating the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, once more rejecting former President Dona...
Feb 16, 2022