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

Mar. 28, 2024 06:03 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...

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...

Cargo ship had engine maintenance in port before it collided with Baltimore bridge, officials say

Mar. 28, 2024 01:47 AM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent “routine engine maintenance” in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water when it collapsed. The others...

Biden fundraiser with Obama and Clinton nets a record high $25 million, the campaign says

Mar. 28, 2024 10:32 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said. The eye-popping amount was a major...

Russia vetoes UN resolution, abolishing monitoring of UN sanctions against North Korea by UN experts

Mar. 28, 2024 10:47 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution on Thursday, effectively abolishing the monitoring of U.N. sanctions against North Korea by a panel of U.N. experts. The Security Council resolution sponsored by the United States would have extended the mandate of the panel for...

Trump will attend the wake of a slain New York police officer as he goes after Biden over crime

Mar. 28, 2024 07:58 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will attend Thursday's wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has made crime a focus of his third White House campaign and accused President Joe Biden of lacking toughness. ...

US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years

Mar. 28, 2024 08:48 AM EDT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage. ...

Schools in the path of April's total solar eclipse prepare for a natural teaching moment

Mar. 28, 2024 09:37 AM EDT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” playing in teacher Nancy Morris’ classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt. Henry and other classmates at...

It's a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but big brands see profits

Mar. 28, 2024 09:15 AM EDT

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year. Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farmers in West Africa. About three-quarters of the...

Rays' Wander Franco placed on administrative leave through June 1 as sexual abuse probe continues

Mar. 28, 2024 10:59 AM EDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay All-Star shortstop Wander Franco was placed on administrative leave through June 1 under an agreement between Major League Baseball and the players' association while the investigation continues in an alleged relationship with a minor. ...

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Rays' Wander Franco placed on administrative leave through June 1 as sexual abuse probe continues

Mar. 28, 2024 10:59 AM EDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay All-Star shortstop Wander Franco was placed on administrative leave through June 1 under an agreement between Major League Baseball and the players' association while the investigation continues in an alleged relationship with a minor. ...

A mom called 911 to get her son mental health help. He died after police responded with force

Mar. 28, 2024 10:56 AM EDT

Taylor Ware’s mom just wanted to get her son the help he needed. But her home was 400 miles away and Ware was deep into a manic episode at an interstate rest stop in rural southern Indiana. “I need someone to come, OK, so that he can get help at a mental hospital....

Barges are bringing cranes to Baltimore to help remove bridge wreckage and open shipping route

Mar. 28, 2024 10:55 AM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Massive barges carrying cranes streamed toward Baltimore on Thursday to begin the challenging work of removing twisted metal and concrete in an attempt to open a key shipping route blocked by the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. U.S. Coast Guard officials...

Correction: Nashville School Shooting-Anniversary story

Mar. 28, 2024 10:53 AM EDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a story originally published March 27, 2024, about a human chain commemorating one year since a Nashville school shooting at the Covenant School, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of a victim’s mom. She is Sarah Shoop Neumann, not Neuman.

Dethroned crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for defrauding FTX investors

Mar. 28, 2024 10:53 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge said Thursday that federal sentencing guidelines call for former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to spend the rest of his life in prison, but he'll order a sentence of less than life once he decides the penalty Bankman-Fried must pay for his role in the 2022 collapse of...

Algeria's government pushes staples to subsidized markets to stave off Ramadan shortages

Mar. 28, 2024 10:53 AM EDT

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria's government has flooded newly opened markets selling subsidized goods with pantry staples to stave off shortages during Islam's holy month of Ramadan, when demand typically increases in Muslim-majority countries and prices tend to rise. Authorities...

Poland and Ukraine leaders cite progress on regulating Ukrainian food imports to ease farmer anger

Mar. 28, 2024 10:50 AM EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime ministers of Ukraine and Poland said they made progress Thursday toward meeting demands of Polish and western European farmers who want restrictions on cheap Ukrainian food imports that they say undermine their livelihoods, but they announced no breakthrough. ...

Russia vetoes UN resolution, abolishing monitoring of UN sanctions against North Korea by UN experts

Mar. 28, 2024 10:47 AM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution on Thursday, effectively abolishing the monitoring of U.N. sanctions against North Korea by a panel of U.N. experts. The Security Council resolution sponsored by the United States would have extended the mandate of the panel for...

MLB, players association agree to place Wander Franco, accused of sexual abuse, on administrative leave through June 1

Mar. 28, 2024 10:43 AM EDT
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — MLB, players association agree to place Wander Franco, accused of sexual abuse, on administrative leave through June 1.

Biden fundraiser with Obama and Clinton nets a record high $25 million, the campaign says

Mar. 28, 2024 10:32 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said. The eye-popping amount was a major...