Authorities say two people are dead and another eight wounded following a shooting in Chicago. The shooting happened about 10:40 p.m. Thursday near a McDonald’s restaurant on the city’s Near …
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5/20/22
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An 11-year-old boy pushes his sister in a swing outside a hospital in Lviv, her dangling legs wrapped in bandages where they end. Their mother, too, has lost a leg and comforts the girl in her …
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5/20/22
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For comedians of a certain age, there was one album that was worn out on the turntable, dutifully memorized and acted out. That was George Carlin’s signature “Class Clown.” Judd Apatow and …
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By MARK KENNEDY
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5/20/22
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Georgia's senior congressman is facing his toughest challenge from Republicans in more than a decade. Rep. Sanford Bishop has represented southwest Georgia's 2nd Congressional District for three …
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By RUSS BYNUM
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5/20/22
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The screaming people, car tires screeching and an engine revving are sounds that still haunt them. Those recollections are central to victims' testimony at the ongoing trial of Richard Rojas, the man …
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By TOM HAYS
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5/20/22
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May 13-May 19, 2022
As Russian attacks continued across Ukraine this week, dominating the news, the 75th international film festival at Cannes began and Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest in …
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5/20/22
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Alabama’s Republican primary has become a race to the right, with candidates staking out extreme positions on abortion, immigration and LGBTQ issues. The race was supposed to be a cake walk for …
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By KIM CHANDLER
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5/19/22
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U.S. health advisers are urging a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will consider the advice. If the CDC agrees as …
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
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5/19/22
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After starting as a niche corner of the finance world, ESG investing has since exploded to become a major force on Wall Street _ and the latest front in the nation’s cultural schism. To use an ESG …
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By STAN CHOE
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5/19/22
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A new study says cancer deaths rates have steadily declined among Black people but remain higher than in other racial and ethnic groups. Cancer deaths have been dropping for all Americans for the …
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By LINDSEY TANNER
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5/19/22
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The man accused of opening fire on a Southern California church congregation because of his political hatred for Taiwan sent a newspaper a seven-volume diary before the attack. The Chinese-language …
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By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO
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5/19/22
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Officials in California's Orange County are still trying to determine why a gunman opened fire in a Taiwanese Presbyterian church in Laguna Woods. They say 68-year-old David Chou, who has links to …
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By DEEPA BHARATH
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5/19/22
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Prosecutors are calling the man charged in a deadly California church shooting a crafty monster but his Las Vegas roommate says he seemed to be kind and generous — if it wasn't all just an act. …
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By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO
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5/18/22
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Prosecutors say a tree trimmer in rural Northern California was found guilty in a series of throat-slashing attacks that left three people dead. The Tehama County District Attorney’s office said …
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5/18/22
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The bears are rumbling toward Wall Street. The stock market’s skid this year has pulled the S&P 500 close to what’s known as a bear market. Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in …
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By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA
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5/18/22
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Massachusetts has reported a case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada. Health officials said Wednesday they are looking into whether the case is connected to small outbreaks in …
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By MIKE STOBBE
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5/18/22
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Shortly before police say he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for …
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK
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5/18/22
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President Joe Biden’s top health official has tested positive for COVID-19, the latest member of his Cabinet to be infected with the virus. A spokeswoman for U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra …
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By FRANK JORDANS and TOM MURPHY
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5/18/22
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A judge has sentenced a white Milwaukee man to a decade in prison for throwing acid in a Latino man's face in a 2019 racist attack. A jury convicted Clifton Blackwell last month of first-degree …
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By TODD RICHMOND
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5/18/22
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