News Highlights - The Associated Press
4 days ago · News Highlights. Latest news highlights, product updates, and invitations to your inbox. Parts of downed Shahed drones launched by Russia are piled in a storage room of a research laboratory in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 28, 2024. AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka.
Mbappé’s representatives dismiss Swedish reports of a rape claim
6 days ago · STOCKHOLM (AP) — French soccer star Kylian Mbappé’s representatives have rejected as “false and irresponsible” reports in Swedish media saying he is the subject of a rape investigation in the Nordic country. FILE – Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe tries to control the ball during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Las Palmas and ...
Private forums show Canadian doctors struggle with euthanizing ...
6 days ago · As Canada pushes to expand euthanasia and more countries move to legalize it, health care workers here are grappling with requests from people whose pain might be alleviated by money, adequate housing or social connections.And internal data obtained exclusively by AP from Canada’s most populous province suggest a significant number of people euthanized …
What’s behind the widening gender wage gap in the US?
6 days ago · For Black women and Asian women, the wage gap widened, and for white women, it stayed the same. Despite their wages rising slightly faster than for other women, however, Latinas remain among the lowest paid workers — with median full-time earnings of $43,880, compared with $50,470 for Black women, $60,450 for white women and $75,950 for white ...
Prison operator under federal scrutiny spent millions settling ...
4 days ago · By Jonathan Mattise, Travis Loller, Kristin M. Hall, George Walker and Erik Verduzco. Through public records, an AP team uncovers hidden details about settlements related to private Tennessee lockups.
AP team reports exclusively on failed river protection program in ...
4 days ago · In an exclusive report, an AP team showed that a program in northwestern Colombia that designated “guardians” to help protect the Atrato River, one of the country’s largest and the source of livelihood for Afro-Colombian residents, had largely failed. In April, the ombudsman for Colombia’s human rights office had warned that no progress ...
Many schools are still closed weeks after Hurricane Helene.
4 days ago · Tens of thousands of students in the Southeast are dealing with school disruptions after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc so severe — on homes, campuses and municipal power and water systems — that some districts have no idea when they will reopen. While virtual learning helped during the COVID-19 ...
AP’s presidential campaign tracker highlights ... - The Associated …
4 days ago · A distinctive AP tool tracking every presidential campaign event highlights how the Electoral College leaves most American voters out — a reality told from one overlooked city. By the first week in October, the presidential campaigns had made over 200 stops to try to woo voters ahead of November ...
In the heartland of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the old ways have …
6 days ago · Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and demand their phones. If they find a contact who’s a member of a rival faction, a chat with a wrong word or a photo with the wrong person, the phone owner is dead.
Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But ...
6 days ago · Nelly Shukuru, 51, hold the scarf she had planned on using to hang herself after spending three years displaced in the Lushagala camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024.