Month: April 2024

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A crowd of people, some weeping, gathered at a rain-soaked amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to a beloved giant panda before her departure to China on Wednesday. Fu Bao has been a major attraction at the Everland theme park near Seoul since

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A push for a revenue package that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and fees in the Maryland General Assembly is raising concerns among some leading Democrats. That’s because Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan has made the race for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat

By GARY FIELDS and AMELIA THOMSON DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite the country’s deep political polarization, most Americans share many core beliefs about what it means to be an American, according to a new poll. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 9 in 10 U.S.

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press In the moments before the cargo ship Dali rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge and sent it crumbling into the water, a flurry of urgent warnings crackled over radios and enabled police to block traffic from getting on the span, likely saving lives. But those warnings

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expanding the use of technology to process the ever-growing number of passengers as travel booms following coronavirus pandemic-related slumps. During fiscal year 2023, the agency processed nearly 400 million travelers at the ports of entry. That’s a 24% increase over the

The Associated Press XENIA, Ohio (AP) — On April 3, 1974, a deadly tornado barreled through Xenia, Ohio. It killed 32 people, injured hundreds and leveled half the city of 25,000. Nearby Wilberforce was also hit hard. As the Watergate scandal unfolded in Washington, President Richard Nixon made an unannounced visit to Xenia to tour

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A crowd of people, some weeping, gathered at a rain-soaked amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to a beloved giant panda before her departure to China on Wednesday. Fu Bao has been a major attraction at the Everland theme park near Seoul since

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The vote in Wisconsin to approve a pair of proposed constitutional amendments that would limit how state elections are run and paid for fell largely along party lines. That’s according to an Associated Press analysis of initial vote totals. The results generally tracked the overall partisan split

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Wednesday after Wall Street broke its record-breaking bull run with its worst day in weeks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slid 0.8% in morning trading to 39,511.88. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 1.3% to 7,782.50. South Korea’s Kospi dropped 1.4% to 2,714.18. Hong Kong’s

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press Writer ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — John Barth, the postmodernist writer whose whimsical novels revolved around the art of literature, has died. He was 93. Johns Hopkins University, where Barth was an emeritus professor, confirmed his death in a statement Tuesday. Barth authored 20 books including “Giles Goat-Boy” and “The Sot-Weed

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century rocked the island during the morning rush Wednesday, damaging buildings and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries, and the tsunami threat largely passed about two hours