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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...

Judge forges ahead with pretrial motions in Georgia election interference case

Mar. 28, 2024 00:18 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, his lawyers argued in a court filing challenging the indictment. Fulton County...

An airstrip is being built on a Yemeni island during the ongoing war, with 'I LOVE UAE' next to it

Mar. 28, 2024 01:36 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to target ships in a Mideast waterway, satellite pictures analyzed by The Associated Press show what appears to be a new airstrip being built at an entrance to that crucial maritime route. No country has publicly...

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...

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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...

French lawmakers condemn 'bloody and murderous' 1961 massacre of Algerian protesters

Mar. 28, 2024 10:31 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers on Thursday condemned an infamous 1961 police crackdown on Algerian protesters in Paris as a “bloody and murderous repression,” marking another step in the country's recognition of the massacre that authorities sought to cover up for decades. The...

A mail carrier was among 4 people killed in northern Illinois stabbings

Mar. 28, 2024 10:30 AM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — A postal carrier was among four people killed when a man went on a stabbing rampage in a northern Illinois city, authorities said Thursday. The attacks in Rockford on Wednesday also left seven people injured, and a 22-year-old suspect is in custody. A...

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

Mar. 28, 2024 10:30 AM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia vetoes a UN resolution, effectively abolishing the monitoring of UN sanctions against North Korea by UN experts.

Republican-passed bill removes role of Democratic governor if Senate vacancy occurs in Kentucky

Mar. 28, 2024 10:29 AM EDT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The...

Putin says he won't start a war with NATO but Western bases hosting Ukraine F-16s would be targets

Mar. 28, 2024 10:25 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin scoffed at the possibility of his country launching an attack on a NATO member, calling it “sheer nonsense,” but warned that any Western air base hosting U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets that are slated for deployment in Ukraine would be a...

The White House expects about 40,000 participants at its 'egg-ucation'-themed annual Easter egg roll

Mar. 28, 2024 10:18 AM EDT

Some 40,000 people are expected to participate in Monday's “EGG-ucation”-themed White House Easter Egg Roll, about 10,000 more people than last year. A teacher for more than 30 years, Jill Biden is transforming an annual tradition first held in 1878 into an “EGG-ucational”...

China's latest EV is a 'connected' car from smart phone and electronics maker Xiaomi

Mar. 28, 2024 10:15 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country's booming but crowded market for electric cars with a sporty high-tech sedan. The tech company said it would begin accepting orders in China via an app on Thursday night, after...