About 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa have been recruited to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine. In interviews with The Associated Press , some of the women said they were misled that it...
South Dakota removed hundreds of people from the state’s voter rolls as general election voting was underway because an agency mistakenly marked the residents’ citizenship status on a government form. South Dakota Republican Secretary of State Monae Johnson is pictured in her office on...
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Holding signs demanding truth and chanting for justice, several dozen people gathered Wednesday outside a graduation ceremony for Massachusetts State Police cadets demanding an explanation of how one of the recruits died during a training exercise. People display signs...
NEW YORK (AP) — When Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with podcaster Alex Cooper, the conversation didn’t start by parsing policy positions. The goal, Cooper told the Democratic nominee, was “to get to know you as a person.” And that was just fine with Harris, who said...
FILE - A copper water supply line, left, is shown connected to a water main after being installed for lead pipe, right, July 20, 2018, in Flint, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead...
This photo combo shows the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (Princeton University via AP and Noah Berger/AP Photo) STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of...
Heavy traffic flows northbound on Interstate-75 as people evacuate the Tampa Bay area ahead of Hurricane Milton's arrival late Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Ocala, Fla. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Milton weakened slightly Tuesday but remained a ferocious storm that could land...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minnesota police officer who was convicted of killing a Black motorist when she used her handgun instead of her taser during a traffic stop is out of prison and delivering presentations at law enforcement conferences, stirring up a heated debate over how officers...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Incumbent Eduardo Paes was re-elected for a fourth, non-consecutive term as the mayor of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, after winning an absolute majority of votes in the first round of Brazil's local elections. Leaflets for candidates in the municipal elections lie scattered in...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An oil spill is “highly probable” from a grounded New Zealand navy ship which sank and caught fire off the coast of Samoa, the Pacific island nation's acting prime minister said late Sunday. In this image released by New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF), HMNZS...
SAINT-MARC, Haiti (AP) — Nearly 6,300 people have fled their homes in the aftermath of an attack in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members that killed at least 70 people, according to the U.N.’s migration agency. People displaced by armed attacks receive food from a nongovernmental...
This photo provided by the Elephant Nature Park shows three of the roughly 100 elephants who are stuck in rising flood waters at the park in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (Darrick Thompson/Elephant Nature Park Via AP) BANGKOK (AP) — Chiang Mai, Thailand's northern city...
