By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press MUEANG SUPHAN BURI, Thailand (AP) — Rescue workers are carrying out the grim task of recovering the remains of the 23 apparent victims of a fireworks factory explosion in central Thailand. Only part of the building frame stood at the site of the devastated factory in an otherwise-empty rice field
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jaedon LeDee scored 22 points as San Diego State beat Nevada 71-59 on Wednesday. LeDee had 12 rebounds and three steals for the Aztecs (15-3, 4-1 Mountain West Conference). Reese Waters scored 14 points and added seven rebounds. Lamont Butler shot 4 of 9 from the field
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A public school district in Michigan approved a resolution calling for a bilateral cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war while also encouraging its teachers to discuss the conflict in its classrooms following an emotionally charged meeting Wednesday. The resolution approved by the Ann Arbor Public Schools
Continue ReadingPANAMA CITY (AP) — A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important trade routes. The new cuts announced Wednesday by authorities in Panama are set to deal an even greater economic blow than previously expected. Canal administrators
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, GETTY IMAGES, CHRISTINE CORNELL, TRUTH SOCIAL @REALDONALDTRUMP By Eric Bradner and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is seeking to deliver a knockout blow to Nikki Haley in New Hampshire’s Republican primary, deploying racist dog whistles against the onetime South Carolina governor as the former president ramps up his campaign schedule and hammers his rival on the airwaves.
Continue ReadingBy PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Bogdan Bogdanovic did not remember much about the game, even though the Atlanta Hawks won a thriller with a basket at the buzzer. All he could think about was his friend. Bogdanovic played with a lump in his throat Wednesday night after fellow Serbian Dejan Milojević,
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches — and doesn’t exploit — people’s lives. Benanti is the Vatican’s go-to person
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s air force has launched retaliatory airstrikes on Iran allegedly targeting militant positions. The attack early Thursday killed at least seven people and further raised tensions between the neighboring nations. The strikes in Sistan and Baluchestan province follow Iran’s attack Tuesday on Pakistani soil
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A federal report into the halting and haphazard law enforcement response to a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was set to be released Thursday, reviving scrutiny of the hundreds of officers who responded to the 2022 massacre but waited more than an hour
Continue ReadingPALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Funeral services for former first lady Melania Trump’s mother are scheduled for a Florida church not far from the family’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Private services for Amalija Knavs are scheduled for Thursday at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea. That’s the congregation former President Donald Trump sometimes attends and where he and
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Kevin Durant sat in the front row. Bijan Robinson also was in the crowd, along with several current and former Arizona athletes. The star-studded crowd filled McKale Center to get a glimpse of Bronny James and the Wildcats wanted to put on a show of
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — States are seeing increased demand for their cash amid high interest rates. State treasurers say they have seen a significant increase in applications for little-known programs that use state funds to spur private investment with bargain-priced loans. Under the programs, states deposit money in
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Israel’s president and the head of ChatGPT company OpenAI will make appearances at the World Economic Forum on Thursday, the third day of the annual gathering of elites at the Swiss resort of Davos that discusses everything from conflict to computers and climate. Israeli President Isaac
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Five Republican candidates in Indiana are trying to stand out before an unusually crowded gubernatorial primary in May. Campaign finance reports filed Wednesday show the race could be the most expensive in the office’s history, with millions raised and spent over in the past year. The candidates
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been nearly two years since the United States and its allies froze hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian foreign holdings in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. That roughly $300 billion in Russian Central Bank money has been sitting untapped as the war grinds on,
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A second transgender candidate running for the majority Republican Ohio House could be disqualified from the ballot after omitting her former name on circulating petitions. The Mercer County Board of Elections will vote Thursday on whether Arienne Childrey, a Democrat from Auglaize County, is
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Fighting “human animals.” Making Gaza a “slaughterhouse.” “Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.” Such inflammatory rhetoric is a key component of South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the U.N. world court, a charge that Israel denies. South Africa says
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Illinois is adding tens of thousands of people to its population total, and California is getting misplaced sailors on an aircraft carrier put in the right location, after successfully asking for a review of their 2020 census figures. New York City also appears to have gotten an additional 1,090 people
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand has killed about 20 people, though the devastation at the scene has made the death toll uncertain. Rescue workers say no survivors have been found. The cause of the explosion is being investigated. The Lunar New Year falls
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal officials have briefed a congressional committee on their investigations into a jetliner that lost a panel of its fuselage in midflight this month and revealed that airlines have inspected 40 identical Boeing planes. The Federal Aviation Administration said it will review information from those inspections of Boeing 737
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