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Cranes arriving to start removing wreckage from deadly Baltimore bridge collapse

Mar. 29, 2024 01:13 AM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — The largest crane on the Eastern Seaboard was being transported to Baltimore so crews on Friday can begin removing the wreckage of a collapsed highway bridge that has halted a search for four workers still missing days after the disaster and blocked the city's vital port from...

Building a new Key Bridge could take years and cost at least $400 million, experts say

Mar. 29, 2024 00:16 AM EDT

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Rebuilding Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge could take anywhere from 18 months to several years, experts say, while the cost could be at least $400 million — or more than twice that. It all depends on factors that are still mostly unknown....

Many Americans say immigrants contribute to economy but there's worry over risks, AP-NORC poll finds

Mar. 29, 2024 00:03 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more worried about legal immigrants committing crimes in the U.S. than they were a few years ago, a change driven largely by increased concern among Republicans, while Democrats continue to see a broad range of benefits from immigration, a new poll shows. ...

Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill?

Mar. 28, 2024 11:23 AM EDT

Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and...

The Moscow concert massacre was a major security blunder. What's behind that failure?

Mar. 29, 2024 00:08 AM EDT

Hours before gunmen last week carried out the bloodiest attack in two decades in Russia, authorities made an addition to a government register of extremist and terrorist groups: They included the international LGBTQ+ “movement.” That addition to the register followed a Russian...

UN top court orders Israel to open more land crossings for aid into Gaza

Mar. 28, 2024 19:11 PM EDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court on Thursday ordered Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into the war-ravaged enclave. The International...

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children

Mar. 28, 2024 06:24 AM EDT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them stunned. One toddler died from a brain injury caused by...

Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is the only survivor

Mar. 29, 2024 03:08 AM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities...

House Republicans invite President Biden to testify at public hearing as impeachment inquiry stalls

Mar. 28, 2024 17:28 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses. Rep. James Comer, chair of the House...

Mob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper to death hours before Holy Week procession

Mar. 29, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

TAXCO, Mexico (AP) — A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco brutally beat a woman to death Thursday because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city’s famous Holy Week procession. The mob formed after an 8-year-old girl...

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Huawei’s profit more than doubles in 2023, sales up 9.6% as cloud and digital businesses grow

Mar. 29, 2024 04:25 AM EDT

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese telecoms gear company Huawei Technologies has reported its profit more than doubled last year as its cloud and digital businesses thrived in spite of U.S. sanctions. The Shenzhen-based company reported a net profit of 87 billion yuan ($12 billion), helped...

Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly higher after another set of Wall St records

Mar. 29, 2024 04:23 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday in quiet holiday trading, with markets closed in Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore and India, among other places. Many world financial markets were closed on Friday for Good Friday. In India, markets were closed for the Holi...

The EU plans to fast-track some financial aid to Egypt. The usual funding safeguards will not apply

Mar. 29, 2024 04:19 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union intends to fast-track some of its aid money to Egypt using an urgent funding procedure that bypasses parliamentary oversight and other safeguards, according to the president of the bloc’s executive branch. The 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion)...

Syria reports Israeli airstrikes near the city of Aleppo. A war monitor says 42 people are dead

Mar. 29, 2024 04:05 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army says Israeli airstrikes early Friday near the northern city of Aleppo killed or wounded “a number of” people and caused damage. An opposition war monitor said the strikes killed 42, most of them Syrian troops. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory...

A moderately strong earthquake has struck southern Greece. No injuries or damage have been reported

Mar. 29, 2024 03:49 AM EDT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has struck southern Greece off the coast of the western Peloponnese. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake, which was also felt in the Greek capital and as far away as the southern island of...

5 dead and over 100 hospitalized from recalled Japanese health supplements

Mar. 29, 2024 03:27 AM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — In the week since a line of Japanese health supplements began being recalled, five people have died and more than 100 people were hospitalized as of Friday. Osaka-based Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. came under fire for not going public quickly with problems known...

Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. An 8-year-old is the only survivor

Mar. 29, 2024 03:08 AM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities...

'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions

Mar. 29, 2024 03:06 AM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — “Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film. Japanese filmgoers' reactions understandably were mixed and highly...

Republican panel's selection to be Rep. Buck's likely replacement is a saving grace for Boebert

Mar. 29, 2024 02:47 AM EDT

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado Republican panel made a surprising decision Thursday night, choosing a former mayor, Greg Lopez, to be U.S. Rep. Ken Buck's likely replacement until the November general election, a saving grace for Rep. Lauren Boebert's bid for another term in Congress. ...

A Christian nun in Lebanon prays for the Shiite Muslim fighters of Hezbollah. A furor ensues

Mar. 29, 2024 02:41 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The nun stood in front of a group of young students at a Lebanese Christian school and asked them to pray for the “men of the resistance” in southern Lebanon who she said were defending the country. The men to whom nun Maya Ziadeh was referring are members of the...