The Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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Depp sued Heard for libel over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
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Police say a gunman opened fire on an Independence Day parade, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds fleeing in terror.
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A deadly shooting at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rattled Monday’s celebrations across the U.S. and further rocked a country already awash in turmoil over high court rulings on abortion and guns as well as hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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Brittney Griner made an appeal to President Joe Biden in a letter passed on to the White House through her representatives saying she feared she may never return home and asking that he not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.”
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Monday also marked the contest’s return to its traditional location outside Nathan’s flagship shop in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood. The event was relocated in 2020 and last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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A member of the House Jan. 6 committee says more witnesses are coming forward with new details on the Capitol insurrection following former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s devastating testimony last week against former President Donald Trump.
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The conflict in Donbas has been “grinding and attritional” and is unlikely to change in the coming weeks, according to a British Defense Ministry briefing.
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Heavy rain was hampering the search in Italy for those unaccounted for — perhaps as many 15 — a day after an enormous chunk of an Alpine glacier broke off and slammed into hikers.
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U.S. officials say they have concluded that gunfire from Israeli positions likely killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh but that there was “no reason to believe” her shooting was intentional.
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Danish police say several people have been shot at a Copenhagen shopping mall. Copenhagen police said that one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at the Field’s shopping mall on Sunday.
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Cities burned to the ground and colleagues with severed limbs. Bombardments so relentless the only option is to lie in a trench, wait and pray.
It wasn't immediately clear what caused the section of ice to fall, but the intense heat wave gripping Italy loomed as a possible factor.
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Investigators have not determined how long the child was in the car.
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The Phillies won two of three games in the series.
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Texas’ public education system has become heavily politicized in recent years, with lawmakers passing legislation to dictate how race and slavery should be taught in schools.
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The last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.
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The incident is one of several recent instances in which law enforcement officers were fired upon while responding to calls.
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If confirmed, Russia’s complete seizure of Luhansk would provide its troops with a stronger base from which to press their advance in the Donbas region.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan is celebrating her 36th birthday on Saturday as a married woman.
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Suffolk County officials have temporarily closed a Long Island beach to swimming after what they described as an unprecedented shark attack that injured a lifeguard.
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Federal authorities are pushing back on claims that R. Kelly was placed on suicide watch as a form of punishment last week after a judge sentenced him to 30 years behind bars for using his fame to sexually abuse young girls.
A member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot says more evidence is emerging that lends support to recent testimony that President Donald Trump wanted to join an angry mob that marched to the Capitol and rioted.
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A letter written by founding father Alexander Hamilton in 1780 and believed stolen from the Massachusetts state archives decades ago is being displayed publicly for the first time since it was returned to the state after a lengthy court battle.
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President Joe Biden is set to mark his second Fourth of July since taking office.
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The lawsuit alleges the amusement park failed to properly maintain and repair its rides.
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The storm is expected to further weaken and dissipate completely by Sunday night or Monday morning.
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The Cardinals tied the MLB record for any inning with four in a row.
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Newly released numbers show 2.49 million passengers went through security checkpoints at U.S. airports Friday.
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A 3-year-old boy has died after falling from a 29th-floor balcony of a New York City apartment building in Harlem.
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The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had given some abortion clinics confidence to resume performing abortions.
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Chief Pete Arredondo resigned from Uvalde City Council amid criticism of the police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary.
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Meanwhile, the father of the children died at a different location hours earlier.
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The move is made as Google and other Big Tech companies face escalating pressure to safeguard the sensitive personal information collected through their products.
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COVID-19 is still killing hundreds of Americans each day, but for many people the virus is not nearly as dangerous as it was.
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A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying U.S. Defense Department satellites has been launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast.
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The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month.
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Arenado hit for the cycle for the second time in his career and 17th time in Cardinals history.
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President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the Alaska coast over the next five years — going against the Democrat’s climate promises but scaling back a Trump-era plan that called for dozens of offshore drilling opportunities including in undeveloped areas.
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Police said 22-year-old Isaac Argro was arrested Friday.
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New York’s legislature approved a sweeping overhaul Friday of the state’s handgun licensing rules, seeking to preserve some limits on firearms after the Supreme Court ruled that most people have a right to carry a handgun for personal protection.
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Donald Trump’s social media company and some of its employees received subpoenas from both a federal grand jury and securities regulators, according to a public disclosure Friday, possibly delaying or even killing a deal promising a cash infusion needed to take on Twitter.
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Politicians and state government attorneys are trying to sort out which laws and which provisions are in force.
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The U.S. announced on Friday that it will provide Ukraine with $820 million in new military aid, including new surface-to-air missile systems and counter-artillery radars to respond to Russia’s heavy reliance on long-range strikes in the war.
Travelers seemed to be experiencing fewer delays and canceled flights early Friday than they did earlier this week.
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J.D. Power estimates that the average sales price of a new vehicle for the first six months of the year hit nearly $45,000, a record that is 17.5% higher than a year ago.
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American basketball star Brittney Griner appeared in a Moscow-area court for trial Friday, about 4 1/2 months after she was arrested on cannabis possession charges at an airport.
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Pistorius, once a double-amputee track star who made history by running at the Olympics, became eligible for parole last year, eight years after killing his girlfriend in his home in the South African capital, Pretoria.
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Bachman said all guitars are special, but the orange 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins he bought as a teenager was exceptional.
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Julian Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse.
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Families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas were people seeking a better life.