MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s most populous state said Monday it was stepping up health screening at schools and recommended the use of face masks for students and staff as the country confronts a growing measles outbreak.The decision by Mexico state followed similar measures announced last we...

TORONTO (AP) — Air Canada has suspended service to Cuba due to a aviation fuel shortage on the island.Canada's largest airline announced Monday that it made the decision after the Cuban government announced that there would be no aviation fuel available at Cuban airports starting Tuesday.Cub...

Suzannah Lessard, an author and writer for The New Yorker who examined the ways in which people are marked by place — and the ways in which they, in turn, mark the landscape — and whose best-selling memoir, “The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family,” explored the dark history of Mr. White, the Gilded...

As the athletes soared through the air and spun above the ice, New York Times photographers were there to capture the action in Italy.

United States President Donald Trump opposes Israel’s annexation of ⁠the occupied West Bank, a White House official has said.“A stable West Bank keeps ‌Israel secure, and is in ‌line ‌with this ⁠administration’s goal to achieve peace ‌in the region,” the official said on Monday, according to the Reuters news agency.The comment from...

HONG KONG (AP) — The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades last year left thousands of residents without some of their friends, family or the place they called home. More than two months later, the occupants of the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex are not only waiting for answers about what...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The general counsel for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday warned the attorney for an anonymous government employee not to directly share a top-secret complaint about Gabbard’s handling of classified material with members of Congress.The letter to att...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have begun tentative talks with the White House on their demands for “dramatic” new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, trading offers just days before funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire. Senate Democratic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer wants to convince commanders to use smaller, newer assets for missions instead of consistently turning to huge aircraft carriers — as seen now in the American military buildups off Venezuela and Iran.Adm. Daryl Caudle’s vision — what he...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing bestselling British fantasy author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children’s nanny in New Zealand four years ago.Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit against Gaiman and his wife, Amanda Palmer, in Wisconsin in F...

ATLANTA (AP) — Seven months after the collapse of an alleged $140 million Ponzi scheme that touched the top ranks of Republican politics in Georgia and Alabama, some investors are impatient to get their money back.“We feel like we’re never going to see it, as old as we are,” Thomas Todd, a 7...

The morning after the Seahawks became Super Bowl champions, people spent Monday trying to figure out who had won the other widely talked about competition of the night: Dueling halftime performances between Bad Bunny and conservative darling Kid Rock. Nielsen figures won’t be released until...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked a California law from going into effect that would ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces, but they will still be required to wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number.California became the first sta...

MILAN (AP) — Misidentifying Mariah Carey. Mistaking the Olympics’ top boss for the Italian president’s daughter. Confusing the location of the opening ceremony. These gaffes at the Milan Cortina Winter Games by a top Italian broadcaster’s commentator so thoroughly embarrassed its staff that...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office said Monday it will file corruption charges against the president of national oil company Ecopetrol that hearken back to his days as a campaign manager for President Gustavo Petro.Ecopetrol President Ricardo Roa managed the finance...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations said Monday it’s waiting to find out how much of the nearly $4 billion the United States owes the world organization the Trump administration intends to pay and when the money will arrive.U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned last week that t...

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — Two people were convicted of forgery and other crimes Monday in an election petition scandal that spoiled the candidacies of five Republicans who were running for Michigan governor in 2022.The petitions were rife with bogus signatures and, as a result, the candida...

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Expanding natural gas infrastructure is a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s agenda to lower energy costs and boost the fossil fuel industry. He has referred to Democrats opposed to such projects as “ anti-energy zealots.”But political support for gas pipelines has run into powerful loc...

The United States has issued new guidelines to US-flagged ships travelling through the Strait of Hormuz, calling on them to stay away from Iran’s territorial waters amid tensions between Washington and Tehran.The advisory, released by the US Maritime Administration on Monday, also urged the captains of American ships against granti...

The United Nations has asked the United States for clarity regarding unpaid budget dues, as declining US engagement puts the international organisation under growing strain.UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday that while the US ambassador, Mike Waltz, said last week that payments would begin within weeks, no further det...

Fatal drone strikes on civilians persist in Sudan’s Kordofan, as the central region has emerged as the latest front line in Sudan’s nearly three-year conflict, the United Nations has said.Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk painted a grim picture of the conflict...

David Geeslin can still remember what it felt like to start learning American Sign Language as a toddler.“My world became much clearer and more colorful,” Geeslin said through an ASL interpreter. “It wasn’t black and white anymore.”Sign language opened up opportunities for Geeslin. When he w...

At least four Palestinians have been killed, and several others injured, after an Israeli air attack targeted a residential building sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, a further violation of an October “ceasefire”.Emergency teams were seen rushing to transport injured people to nearby hospitals after Monday’s attack in the N...

Gov. Joe Lombardo’s 2025 campaign fundraising haul of $4.3 million relied heavily on so-called “bundling” arrangements, where donors are easily and legally able to skirt contribution limits by sending donations through different names.About $1.9 million of Lombardo’s fundraising total came f...

One of California’s larger public employee unions is pushing legislation to make remote work a permanent option for state workers as the clock ticks down on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s July 1 mandate for most employees to be in the office four days a week. The measure, authored by Assemblymember Ale...

BOSTON (AP) — A supervisor and three instructors with a Massachusetts State Police tactical unit were indicted in connection with the death of a recruit following a boxing match during training, the official who led an independent investigation into the case said Monday.Enrique Delgado-Garci...

Law enforcement raided the illegal cannabis operation in Shasta-Trinity National Forest months before, but rotting potatoes still sat on the growers’ makeshift kitchen worktop, waiting to be cooked. Ecologist Greta Wengert stared down the pockmarked hillside at a pile of pesticide sprayers l...

HOUSTON (AP) — The final two of nearly 30 civil lawsuits that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson had faced from women accusing him of sexual misconduct have been dismissed, according to court records.The dismissal of these two lawsuits clears Watson of legal problems he had been fac...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A student was shot inside a high school in Maryland on Monday and another student was in custody, police said.One student was found with a gunshot wound in a hallway and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, the Rockville City Police Department said in a post on...

State officials are attempting to address voters’ worries about the rising cost of living, including housing and everyday items such as groceries, utilities and child care.As governors give their annual state of the state speeches, many of them are designing their messages to speak to consti...

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — On a frosty night in the Italian Alps, the queen of big air, Anna Gasser, bid adieu to her favorite Olympic event.She left without a medal, but that didn’t make it all bad. The snowboarders who won them — led by the new queen, Kokomo Murase of Japan — all knew they had...

Two inmates facing charges that include murder escaped from a Georgia jail Sunday night.Ricky Martin, 20, and Kentravious Holmes, 21, were detained at the Sumter County Jail in Americus, Georgia, approximately 139 miles (234 km) south of Atlanta. They were in custody for charges including mu...

For the third year in a row, the Department of Education has failed to provide lawmakers with clear records on how it spent almost $4 million on more than 8,000 trips in 2025. Last month, the department submitted more than 200 pages of travel records dating from January to November 2025. But...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Catherine O’Hara died from a pulmonary embolism, with cancer as the underlying cause. A Los Angeles County death certificate issued Monday lists the pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery in the lungs, as the immediate cause of the actor’s Jan....

New York (AP) — To better understand some of the significance of Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday night, start at the end. “God Bless America,” were the first and few English-language words uttered by the Spanish-language performer, who then proceeded to list co...

At a blessing to celebrate the opening of city-subsidized affordable housing, Mayor Rick Blangiardi stood behind a podium bedecked in lei to talk about the value of adding 29 new rental units to the city’s urban core. “This is exactly what we know we need to create,” he said last April in Ma...

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — As the Winter Olympics opened in Milan, Vice President JD Vance hailed the competition as “one of the few things that unites the entire country.”That unity didn’t last long.The early days of the Milan Cortina Games have been roiled by the tumultuous political debate in...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli military strikes on Monday killed three people west of Gaza City, according to the hospital where the casualties arrived. Shifa Hospital reported the deaths amid the months-old ceasefire that has seen continued fighting. The Israeli army said Monday i...

Thousands gathered in San Francisco in the days leading up to the most anticipated game on the NFL calendar. But before the Seahawks and Patriots took center stage in Super Bowl LX, it was the contactless version of the game that repeatedly found itself in the spotlight.Whether it was the NF...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin, the U.S. figure skater nicknamed the “Quad God,” became the first person to legally land a backflip on one skate in the Olympics — but he’s not the first to pull it off at the Winter Games.The 21-year-old from Virginia delivered a crucial free skate for the winning...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Korey Dropkin whooped and hollered and directed a string of fist pumps to a small pocket of American curling fans chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!” The U.S. is headed to the mixed doubles final at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — and has quashed the title hopes of t...

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn from crossing the Mexican border and wreaking havoc on the American cattle industry.U.S. Agric...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Canadian mining company said Monday that the families of some of the 10 employees missing since last month in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa have told company officials that their relatives have been found dead.Vancouver-based Vizsla Silver Corp. said in a sta...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities arrested a prominent journalist for criticizing the leader of neighboring Niger, a rights group said Monday, as the military regime in the West African country increasingly curtails freedom of expression during a security crisis.Youssouf Sissoko, editor...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Formula 1 team Cadillac is confident it can resolve a dispute with filmmaker Michael Bay, who is suing for $1.5 million for his ideas being used without permission in a Super Bowl commercial.In a 19-page lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court of California,...

BINNABARI, India (AP) — The beekeepers rise early. They’ve come a long way to spend the winter months in the electric yellow mustard fields of Assam, and they have to make the trip worth it.At dawn, they eat a simple breakfast and won’t eat again until dusk. They’ll spend all day checking th...

Amazon said on Thursday that it would spend $200 billion this year on data centers, satellites and other big-ticket items as it invests heavily in the race for artificial intelligence.The eye-popping dollar figure, which topped Wall Street’s predictions by $50 billion, was the latest in a series of announcements by big technology c...

Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will “support” UK police assessing reports that the former Prince Andrew gave confidential information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The statement on Monday came after police said they were examining reports that the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, sent tra...

The United States military has announced seizing a Venezuela-linked vessel in the Indian Ocean, a move that Washington said demonstrates its determination to enforce its oil blockade on the South American country even “halfway around the world”.The Pentagon said on Monday that it captured the tanker as part of a campaign by US Pres...

The associate and former girlfriend of convicted late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has declined to answer questions during a deposition before the United States Congress.Lawmakers expressed frustration after Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in helping Epstein abuse teenage girls, invoked h...

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

Two websites that distribute instructions for how to manufacture ghost guns are facing a new lawsuit from the state of California alleging that they provide access to illegal and untraceable firearms.The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu,...

It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who possesses a particular interest in shocking and riling her audience, was drawn to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” This is a novel that has vexed critics since the beginning, with one in 1848 decrying its “vulgar depravity and unn...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance translated into an immediate surge in global listening, with new data from Apple Music showing sharp gains across streaming charts, playlists and music discovery platforms in the hours following the show.Apple Music, a Super Bo...

On a recent weekday morning as Ashley Fairbanks sat in a salon chair getting her hair done, she put out a call to her 49,000 followers on BlueSky: Twelve families needed their rent paid, urgently.There was no time for fundraisers or applications for emergency rental assistance; they needed t...

Forklifts drove across the frozen campus of Pleasant River Lumber’s sawmill in Enfield on a bitter January morning with ease, preparing neatly wrapped stacks of softwood lumber for customers from Boston to Baltimore.Business was humming and has been for a while even as other forest products...

NEW YORK (AP) — One year after the Trump administration took control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog has largely retreated from enforcement and regulatory work, changes that consumer advocates and Democrats now estimate have cost Americans at least $19 bill...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn’s father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her leg in the downhill over the weekend.“She’s 41 years old and this...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Vladyslav Heraskevych showed up for the Milan Cortina Olympics with a new helmet, one featuring the images of about a half-dozen of his fellow Ukrainian athletes.They were all killed in Russian attacks.And Heraskevych wants to offer a tribute.The men’s skeleto...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen won the first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics over the weekend, and he added another on Day 3.It’s turning into quite the Olympic debut for von Allmen, who partnered with Tanguy Nef to win the team combined Monday...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan reversed its decision to boycott the T20 World Cup game against India and was directed to “take the field” in Colombo next Sunday.A weeklong impasse ended on Monday, a day after International Cricket Council director Imran Khawaja and Bangladesh Cricket Board presid...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The children of Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and China critic, said Monday that a possible visit by President Donald Trump to Beijing in April could be “crucial” in securing the release of their 78-year-old father.Lai’s son and daughter pleaded fo...

For his Super Bowl halftime show, Bad Bunny transported the field in Northern California around 3,500 miles, transforming it into the fields of Puerto Rico. Even before he launched into “Tití Me Preguntó,” the Puerto Rican superstar had suffused the set with symbols of the island — and a sen...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battle over his remains and then by concerns about how he handled clergy sexual misconduct cases....

Islamabad, Pakistan – A new survey indicates nearly three-quarters of Pakistanis support deploying troops to the Gaza Strip as part of an International Stabilisation Force (ISF).The findings of the poll by Gallup Pakistan come as media reports suggested Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will attend the first formal meeting of Uni...

Duke climbed up to No. 11 in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 poll on Monday thanks to a 15-game winning streak.The Blue Devils took over sole possession of first-place in the ACC last week with a one-point victory over then-No. 6 Louisville. Duke, which jumped six places...

The ties between disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein and Israel are becoming clearer after the release of millions of documents related to the convicted sex offender by the United States Department of Justice, following a years-long campaign.The documents have revealed more details of Epstein’s interactions with members of...

MILAN (AP) — Sidney Crosby is 16 years removed from his first Olympics, when he scored the golden goal to give Canada a much needed title on home ice at the 2010 Vancouver Games.“There’s some days that it feels like 12 years and other days where it feels like yesterday,” Crosby said.Rasmus D...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban aviation officials have warned airlines that there isn’t enough fuel for airplanes to refuel in the island, part of a critical energy rationing going into place as the Trump administration cuts the island off from its fuel resources, a commercial pilot confirmed on Monday...

Iran’s atomic energy chief says Tehran is open to diluting its highly enriched uranium if the United States ends sanctions, signalling flexibility on a key demand by the US.Mohammad Eslami made the comments to reporters on Monday, saying the prospects of Iran diluting its 60-percent-enriched uranium, a threshold close to weapons gr...

Arizona remained firmly atop The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for a ninth consecutive week Monday, while Houston jumped back into the top 5 and Kentucky returned to the rankings for the first time since December.Tommy Lloyd’s Wildcats (23-0) claimed all 59 first-plac...

Social media users incorrectly identified a small boy who was part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday as Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who, along with his father, was detained by immigration officials in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas.The boy was actually L...

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.