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Cranes arriving to start removing wreckage from deadly Baltimore bridge collapse

Mar. 29, 2024 07:58 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....

For years she thought her son had died of an overdose. The police video changed all that

Mar. 29, 2024 06:07 AM EDT

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.m., the moment that a doctor had pronounced him dead. As Goodwin swept and dusted the...

Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87

Mar. 29, 2024 08:58 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87. Gossett's nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica,...

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. ...

A growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails. The prospects for their release are unclear

Mar. 29, 2024 07:17 AM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family. All of them are U.S. citizens, and all are behind bars in...

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...

In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday celebrations

Mar. 29, 2024 09:08 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Christians participated in a customary Good Friday procession through the limestone walls of Jerusalem's Old City, commemorating one of the faith's most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The day’s...

Easter is March 31 this year. Here's why many Christians will wake up before sunrise to celebrate

Mar. 29, 2024 08:13 AM EDT

On Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn to celebrate their belief in the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God — as the sun rises. They gather outside on beaches and church lawns, in local cemeteries and national parks, marking the holy day at the very core of...

Investigators search for bodies of Easter pilgrims in bus that crashed off a bridge in South Africa

Mar. 29, 2024 09:02 AM EDT

MMAMATLAKALA, South Africa (AP) — Forensic investigators in South Africa were searching Friday for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire. An 8-year-old child was the only survivor of the crash that killed at least 45. ...

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US-funded Radio Free Asia closes its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns under new security law

Mar. 29, 2024 09:28 AM EDT

HONG KONG (AP) — The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening concerns about the city’s media freedoms. Bay Fang, the president of RFA, said in a statement Friday...

Jeffrey Donaldson, head of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, steps down amid police probe

Mar. 29, 2024 09:25 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — The leader of Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party has stepped down after being charged with allegations of a historic nature, the party said in a statement on Friday. Jeffrey Donaldson left his post with immediate effect pending the outcome of the judicial...

Leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, steps down amid police probe

Mar. 29, 2024 09:24 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, steps down amid police probe.

Former US Sen. Joe Lieberman and VP candidate to be remembered at hometown funeral service

Mar. 29, 2024 09:18 AM EDT

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Political dignitaries, family and friends are gathering Friday to honor the late Joe Lieberman at a funeral service in Stamford, Connecticut, the hometown of the four-term U.S. senator who grew up as the son of a liquor store owner and came within hundreds of votes of...

In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday celebrations

Mar. 29, 2024 09:08 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Christians participated in a customary Good Friday procession through the limestone walls of Jerusalem's Old City, commemorating one of the faith's most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The day’s...

Biden says he's working to secure release of Wall Street Journal reporter held for a year in Russia

Mar. 29, 2024 09:07 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — On the one-year anniversary of the Russian detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, President Joe Biden said the U.S. is working every day to secure his release. “Journalism is not a crime, and Evan went to Russia to do his job as a reporter...

Investigators search for bodies of Easter pilgrims in bus that crashed off a bridge in South Africa

Mar. 29, 2024 09:02 AM EDT

MMAMATLAKALA, South Africa (AP) — Forensic investigators in South Africa were searching Friday for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire. An 8-year-old child was the only survivor of the crash that killed at least 45. ...

EPA sets strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses in bid to fight climate change

Mar. 29, 2024 09:01 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation's largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The new...

Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87

Mar. 29, 2024 08:58 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87. Gossett's nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica,...

Chinese investigators arrive in Pakistan to probe suicide attack that killed 5 of its nationals

Mar. 29, 2024 08:58 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A team of Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan on Friday to join a probe into a suicide attack that killed five of its nationals earlier this week, officials said, as Pakistan continued its own investigations into the attack. The slain Chinese engineers and...