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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 05:40 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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Takeaways: AP investigation reveals Black people bear disproportionate impact of police force

Mar. 29, 2024 06:17 AM EDT

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Black people accounted for a disproportionate number of people who died after being restrained, beaten or shocked with stun guns by police officers in the United States, according to an investigation by The Associated Press. The investigation, led by AP with...

He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead

Mar. 29, 2024 06:11 AM EDT

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. He was having a mental breakdown — and needed help. Barefoot and wearing only pajama pants and a sweatshirt in the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 5, 2019, Lowery pulled out his...

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...

Hijab wearing players in women's NCAA Tournament hope to inspire others

Mar. 29, 2024 06:03 AM EDT

N.C. State's Jannah Eissa and UC Irvine's Diaba Konate are leaving a big impact off the court, bringing visibility and inspiration to Muslim women by wearing hjiabs while they play. They aren't the first women to do it in NCAA Tournament play, but with record viewership and...

5 dead and over 100 hospitalized from recalled Japanese health supplements

Mar. 29, 2024 06:01 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...

Russia launches barrage of 99 drones and missiles on Ukraine’s energy system, officials say

Mar. 29, 2024 06:00 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure Friday, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country, Ukraine’s armed forces said. Air raid warnings across the country continued through the night...

A Lebanese nun's request to pray for Hezbollah fighters highlights schisms over the group's weapons

Mar. 29, 2024 05:55 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...

A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace

Mar. 29, 2024 05:54 AM EDT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea. On Friday, over a...

Georgia bill aimed at requiring law enforcement to heed immigration requests heads to governor

Mar. 29, 2024 05:44 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Legislature gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would require local jailers to check the immigration status of inmates and work with federal immigration officials instead of sheltering people who are in the country illegally. The House voted 99-75...

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

Mar. 29, 2024 05:40 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...