Brazil top court’s ruling could free ex-President Da Silva
SAO PAULO — Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday reached a narrow decision that could release almost 5,000 inmates who are still appealing their convict...
Google digitizes artworks in Puerto Rico for 1st time
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufiño Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face an...
Cambodian rival stopped from going home to challenge Hun Sen
PARIS — Cambodia's most prominent opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, was stopped from boarding a flight in Paris on Thursday in his attempt to return home...
Colorado ex-Gov. Hickenlooper’s travel ethics probe released
DENVER — A report from the Colorado Ethics commission released Thursday came to no conclusion about whether former governor and current U.S. Senate ca...
California’s worst wildfire transforms city that didn’t burn
CHICO, Calif. — Amber Blood got to Chico on Nov. 8, 2018, wearing pink slacks and her favorite white peacoat. It was all she had left.
Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department is proposing to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural water distri...
Kanye West vows to move Yeezy manufacturing to the Americas
NEW YORK — A few fun facts about Kanye West: He's running for president in 2024, he recited color psychology to wife Kim Kardashian West as she sat in...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump assails a process he swore to uphold
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies are crying foul over an impeachment process firmly rooted in the Constitution they swore to uphold.
Hopes rise that lifting tariffs could allow US-China accord
BEIJING — Prospects appear to have brightened for a preliminary breakthrough in the U.S.-China trade war after the two sides agreed to reduce some pun...
Freshman ground gainers making impression in the Big 12
In a conference best known for producing Heisman-winning quarterbacks and Biletnikoff Award-winning receivers, Big 12 freshmen are making their names ...
Senate panel advances judicial nominee on party-line vote
WASHINGTON — A divided Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a top aide to President Donald Trump for a federal appeals court post Thursday, despite com...
Southern California hires Mike Bohn as athletic director
LOS ANGELES — Southern California hired Mike Bohn as its new athletic director on Thursday, breaking from recent tradition to turn over the program to...
Warren health plan departs from US ‘social insurance’ idea
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to pay for "Medicare for All" without raising taxes on the middle class departs from how the U.S. has tradit...
Stone cited Nixon as he urged witness to stonewall Congress
WASHINGTON — An ex-FBI agent is telling jurors that Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone quoted hero Richard Nixon as Stone urged an associate not to co...
Streep, Miranda and Stone are named as Met Gala co-chairs
NEW YORK — Next year's Met Gala may be the closest we'll ever come to getting a Miranda Priestly moment at the starry event.
Slayings of Americans show drug war worse this time around
MEXICO CITY — There was a time when the violence of Mexico's 2006-2012 drug war shocked Americans, but barely touched them. This time around — like ev...
Pence files Trump’s paperwork for the New Hampshire primary
CONCORD, N.H. — Vice President Mike Pence has added President Donald Trump's name to New Hampshire's Republican primary ballot.
Lincoln Center in New York City to honor Spike Lee in April
NEW YORK — Spike Lee will receive Film at Lincoln Center's 46th Chaplin Award.
Application of policy and state mode - when the tab is switched, the chart content changes (two to one)
Note: this blog does not talk about the principle. If you don't understand it, please supplement the relevant contents s...
As Buffett seeks big acquisition, Berkshire trails S&P
OMAHA, Neb. — Three-quarters of the way through 2019, Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway is trailing the renowned investor's favorite be...
Hungary expects gas from TurkStream pipeline by late 2021
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary's prime minister says his country plans to be able to get natural gas from the TurkStream pipeline by the end of 2021.
Iran alleges UN inspector tested positive for explosives
VIENNA — Iran alleged Thursday that the U.N. inspector it blocked from a nuclear site last week tested positive for suspected traces of explosive nitr...
Court sentences Congo warlord to 30 years for atrocities
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court passed its highest ever sentence Thursday, sending a Congolese warlord known as "The Termina...
Marie Kondo’s doing what she can to make your kids tidy
NEW YORK — Not even Marie Kondo can follow all her rules for tidying all the time.
Bank of England warns over global economic hit to UK
LONDON — The growth outlook for the British economy has deteriorated largely as a result of a gloomier global backdrop, the Bank of England said Thurs...
Immigration opens ideological fault lines for 2020 Democrats
WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders is adding his support to a call by some of his fellow presidential hopefuls for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, ...
Global stocks turn higher as China says tariff war may ease
BANGKOK — Global stocks are mostly higher after a Chinese Commerce Ministry official said Beijing and Washington had agreed to gradually ease tariffs ...
‘The problem is I’m Italian’: Balotelli spurs racism debate
ROME — The ball that Mario Balotelli angrily kicked high into the stands out of frustration because of racist chants is still traveling.
Carr, Garoppolo excel in prove-it years while some struggle
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Derek Carr has silenced the questions of his long-term viability as the starting quarterback for the Raiders by looking once again l...
Ginsburg, in book, questions confidential #MeToo agreements
PHILADELPHIA — A new book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg explores the Supreme Court justice's thoughts on the #MeToo movement and her hope that non-disclosure...